Its no wonder labor a running from NSW with this scandal ready to blow up in there face.
SOME of Australia's wealthiest coal barons and two of its most high-profile stockbrokers are being sued in the Federal Court for ''misleading and deceptive conduct'' over millions of dollars secretly funnelled to the family of the ALP powerbroker Eddie Obeid. Multi-millionaires Denis O'Neil and Neville Crichton have filed a writ in the Federal Court in Sydney alleging that $13 million they paid for shares in Cascade Coal - the coalmining company now at the heart of the most explosive corruption inquiry in decades - was instead directed elsewhere.