Mr Mitchell says he is investigating the commission of four types of offence in relation to Wilson and others - obtaining property by deception; receiving secret commissions; making and using false documents; and conspiracy to cheat and defraud. He now believes Wilson, Blewitt and others were involved in committing these offences.
Julia Gillard, one step closer to getting away with the AWU fraud and theft
That said, Ms Gillard should be happy because Chief Magistrate Lauritsen for whatever reason has made a finding of fact that Julia Gillard and her then boss, Bernard Murphy, did not know about a key element of the fraud that took place. This makes it rather hard to charge them with “conspiracy to cheat and defraud” which is one of the crimes that the Victoria police are investigating.
Others will argue that there is plenty of other evidence and other crimes that Julia Gillard can be charged with. And if they do that they will be right, but missing the whole point. This is a game of knocking one piece of evidence and one crime out at a time, piece by piece until there is no case against Gillard. And the piece knocked out by Lauritsen is a big piece which I disagree with.
