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Apr 9, 2021 · Then came the most sensational claim: “According to a reliable source very high in the old Galea empire” — the network of illegal casinos run by Sydney gambling figure Perce Galea — “Askin and [police commissioner] Hanson were paid approximately $100,000 each in bribes a year from the end of the Sydney gang wars in 1967–68 until ...
May 2, 2017 · In Sydney Noir: The Golden Years, Michael Duffy and I do not argue that Askin was innocent of receiving bribes; that remains an open question. Rather, our purpose is (among other things) to...
In 1981 journalist David Hickie wrote that Sir Robert Askin, Liberal premier from 1965 to 1975, had received $100,000 a year in bribes for much of that period (the equivalent of some $1 million a year today) from gambling casinos run by Perce Galea and Joe Taylor. Moreover, he had played…
The allegations of corruption against Askin were revived in 2008 when Alan Saffron, the son of the late Sydney crime boss Abe Saffron, published a biography of his father in which he alleged that Saffron had paid bribes to major public officials including Askin, former police commissioner Norman Allan, and other leading figures whom he claimed ...
May 7, 2009 · New South Wales. Askin era in NSW wasn’t only about corruption. It is fraudulent of the NSW Labor Party to insist repeatedly that the late NSW Premier Sir Robert Askin led a government that did nothing more than shuffle brown paper bags full of SP money. Alex Mitchell. May 07, 2009.
Published in 1985, its claim that Premier Robert Askin was corrupt, coming after Hickie’s article to that effect in the David Marr-edited National Times in 1981, had an enormous impact and has been believed ever since. The evidence for this is circumstantial.
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Mar 30, 2021 · The major allegation against Askin is the claim he received regular annual payments from Perce Galea, a major illegal casino operator, “to allow [his] illegal casino to operate uninterrupted”. It has never been clear whether this payment was for the purpose of preventing police action to close the casinos or a bribe to legalise them.
