Kiwiblog (Free subscription) | 09/05/2008
Whale Oil has found a third person who beleives Winston. They are: A toothless crone in Africa The Prime Minister A Dr Brian Edwards of Herne Bay Can they make five? Some people have suggested Peter Williams believes Winston. But as Matthew Hooton has pointed out, Williams is a very sucessful criminal defence lawyer. He may have got many [...]
Kiwiblog (Free subscription) | 09/05/2008
Matthew Hooton joins the blogosphere, and uses his first blog to respond to the attack on him by Peter Williams. It is a hilarious post as Matthew damns with his praise: It was my grandfather, the legendary Auckland criminal defence lawyer George Skelton, who gave Peter his first serious job in the law. He taught Peter to be [...]
New Zealand Herald (Free subscription) | 09/04/2008
Departing yesterday's meeting of Parliament's privileges committee, Peter Williams, QC, was unwilling to add anything further to what he had already told the hearing. "If I did, I would probably be jailed for contempt," Winston...
New Zealand Herald (Free subscription) | 09/04/2008
Businessman Owen Glenn remains so adamant that Winston Peters personally asked him for a donation to fund his legal fees that he is flying from Monaco to Wellington to tell the privileges committee about it next week. Mr Glenn...
Kiwiblog (Free subscription) | 09/04/2008
The NZ Herald has a story which reminds me of the Three Stooges, as NZ First officials have given four different reasons for their “administrative error” of not reporting a $50,000 donation in 2005: Auditor Nick Kosoof issued a letter saying “the office of New Zealand First made an administrative error MP Dail Jones, president when the [...]
New Zealand Herald (Free subscription) | 09/03/2008
Billionaire Owen Glenn has written a second letter to Parliament's privileges committee - released this morning - which says there was no doubt Winston Peters approached him for a donation. The letter said: "There is absolutely...
Ben Byerly's Blog (Free subscription) | 09/03/2008
Yesterday, I posted some brief reflections on a tea break conversation I had with Peter Williams, the warden here at Tyndale House - The LXX doesn’t exist. Let me begin by saying that I didn’t even begin to fairly represent Williams’s arguments; he had a few other points which I forgot, including linguistic arguments (you’ll have [...]
Kiwiblog (Free subscription) | 09/03/2008
There are more and more questions over NZ First and their accounts. Both NZPA and the Dominion Post have said that Nick Kosoof is both NZ First’s Auditor and their Accountant. Surely not? So can someone find out the following: Who was NZ First’s Auditor in 2005? Who was NZ First’s Accountant in 2005? Who was NZ First’s Treasurer [...]
whoar.co.nz (Free subscription) | 09/02/2008
“..Last Friday (29th August) I was seated in the Green Room at TVNZ, waiting to record the Eye-to-Eye programme.. ..when I was joined by Mr Peter Williams QC, Winston Peters’ lawyer, and Mr Frank Perry, a media consultant to NZ First. Not surprisingly (since Mr Peters’ temporary relinquishing of the Foreign Affairs portfolio was all over [...]
Business Spectator (Free subscription) | 09/02/2008
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New Zealand Herald (Free subscription) | 08/30/2008
New Zealand First leader Winston Peters is one of the great survivors of our political history. But the possibility that he might survive the storm now battering him does not alter the fact that he should not. It is possible that...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 08/30/2008
Wellington - Suspended New Zealand foreign minister Winston Peters' attorney said Saturday he was confident his client would be cleared of allegations of mishandling donations to his political party. I believe that eventually justice will triumph an...
New Zealand Herald (Free subscription) | 08/30/2008
Winston Peters' lawyer today had a "cordial" meeting with the Serious Fraud Office and left saying he had confidence in the top-level investigation into NZ First finances. Mr Peters yesterday stepped aside as Foreign...
Kiwiblog (Free subscription) | 08/29/2008
As I understand it, Helen Clark has suspended Winston Peters only from his portfolios, but not as a Minister. In other words he still gets his normal pay, his housing and transport allowances, his office, his ministerial funding and most importantly of all his staff, except the portfolio specific ones. This means he gets to run [...]
CNN (Free subscription) | 08/29/2008
Courtland Cox stood on a podium with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1963 and listened to a dreamer.
