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Winneke: You were aware he was entitled to an independent legal representation? Gobbo: "Yep" Winneke: And you were aware turning up would have a tendency to pervert the course of justice? Gobbo: "Potentially"
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We can't name or say what this client did, but after Gobbo secretly helped police nab him in the act, she rocked up at the police station represent him. Gobbo accepts she had acted as an agent of the police
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Has there ever been a more heavily redacted Royal Commission?
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If drugs were decriminalized we wouldn't be enduring this farce of a lawyer enrichment process.
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"When I first started (informing) it was information I'd learned from reading so much material and doing so many drug cases, "As time went on I was encouraged to make myself even more available (to criminal associates)"
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Gobbo asked if she understood her police handlers were prepared to receive information that was "obviously" subject to client / lawyer privilege. "Yes."
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Gobbo said now recognises her handlers were pushing to get the best out of her, but at the time she was "petrified". "I walked away scared or scared of what might happen if I didn't meet their expectations."
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We're back after a short lunch break and Gobbo is giving her police handlers a serve. Of a first meeting with two of them (we're calling them White and Smith) Gobbo said: "it wasn't a good cop, bad cop routine - it was bad cop and worse bad cop."
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Gobbo said she "wanted to be hit by a tram" on her way to court one morning after becoming an informer because she couldn't work out how to please everyone
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When Nicola Gobbo had a stroke in July 2004 she had plenty of visitors in hospital. "Every criminal in Melbourne came, including Tony [Mokbel]. I can remember on one occasion having to move out to some area outside the room I was in because there was so many people."
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Asked why she didn't simply refuse to represent Solicitor 2, Gobbo said she could have, "if I had not been so weak and pathetic in relation to my own self-esteem."
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Gobbo is asked if maybe she is jealous of Solicitor 2? "Looking back I did derive some self-importance .. by reason of being wanted by Tony" but said she didn't want to be in Solicitor 2's position
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Gobbo said she believed Solicitor 2 and Mokbel were having an "intimate relationship" and she struggled to reason with Mokbel because of it. "Once she became involved some of his instructions became quite insane."
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It's early 2005 and Gobbo has started providing informal info to detectives (she'd be officially registered later that year) She said around this time she'd developed a reputation among police for asking them the tough questions in bail apps for her clients
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Winneke: "And those feelings were stronger to your obligations to the courts and those people you were representing?" Gobbo: "Well, they were obviously compromised."
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Now we're getting to the heart of Gobbo's motivation to continue representing gangland figures despite major conflicts and threats to her life: "I wanted to belong." "It was my inability to say no and need to be wanted and feel valued."
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Gobbo asked about convo with Purana Detective Stuart Bateson where she complained about high profile clients not paying bills. Gobbo tells the RC: "Well that was a constant issue with Tony (Mokbel)
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Gobbo said she was aware she was being watched closely by major drug squad detectives because of her associations with the Mokbels but had no idea they had drawn up a formal profile on her
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Gobbo admits her conduct in representing both men was "improper". "The reality is that I got myself in to a very intractable position, that if said to (one man) I can't act for you because I have a conflict that would have identified what I'd done."
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