| 词条 | Nicola Gobbo |
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| name = Nicola Gobbo | nickname = Lawyer X | image = | alt = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | nationality = Australian | other_names = | known_for = corruption cases | occupation = lawyer }}Nicola Gobbo is a prominent former criminal lawyer and former police informant in Melbourne, Australia.[1][1] 1996 Election ScandalGobbo first came to public attention during the 1996 Australian federal election. In the last week of the campaign, ALP Treasurer Ralph Willis used letters purportedly from Jeff Kennett, a Liberal, criticising Liberal leader John Howard, but the letters were quickly exposed as forgeries.[3] Gobbo, then a young ALP member, publicly claimed that the forger was then-Liberal staffer and current Senate president Scott Ryan, who had intended for the forgery to pass initial inspection then rebound on the ALP.[4][2] Despite Gobbo’s signed statutory declaration, Ryan denied this claim. WitnessGobbo was a witness against Paul Dale, a former policeman accused of corruption.[6][7][8][9] An eleven-page statement she drafted asserted she had clandestinely serving as a courier, passing messages between her clients and their confederates, when they were in jail. Her statement said that she passed messages between Hodson and Dale. She has asserted that Australian authorities have not fulfilled assurances made to her about protecting her safety. The Australian Broadcasting Corporation repeated that Gobbo asserted she had received death threats due to her planned testimony.[10] Lawyer X scandalBetween 1995 and 2009, Gobbo was a registered police informant, whilst also working as a defence lawyer for many of Melbourne's organised crime figures. She passed Victoria Police information about her clients whilst representing them, leading to the prospect of many convictions being overturned. During media coverage of the scandal in 2018 and 2019, Gobbo's identity was subject to a suppression order, and she was referred to in the media only as Lawyer X or Informer 3838.[3] PersonalWhen the hit TV show Desperate Housewives first premiered in Australia in 2004 Gobbo was one of the prominent Australian women from whom The Age sought a reaction.[1] She is the cousin of a Melbourne barrister, Jeremy Gobbo QC. She is also the niece of the former Governor of Victoria Sir James Gobbo. References 5 : Living people|Australian barristers|Australian women lawyers|21st-century Australian lawyers|Year of birth missing (living people) |
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