Kiwiblog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Two interesting stories in the SST on Owen Glenn, but first a little mystery. A reliable source tells me that that a crew member on Glenn’s boat, Ubiquitous, told a family member that a recent guest on the boat, when in the Mediterranean, was Labour Party president Mike Williams. Mr Williams it is reported spent several [...]
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...
New Zealand Herald (Free subscription) | 09/04/2008
Clint Heine and Friends (Free subscription) | 09/04/2008
So Owen has sent another letter to the Privileges Committee... Good man. Lets see how Winston will slime his way out of this one. Read it here (pdf file)
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...
Kiwiblog (Free subscription) | 09/02/2008
The NZ Herald reports that more details tomorrow are likely from Owen Glenn. Good. Apart from the motivation issue (Glenn has no motivation to lie, while Peters/Henry have plenty) of who is telling the truth, there is also the timing issue. Glenn has not just suddenly stated that Peters solicited the money. He told the PM [...]
Kiwiblog (Free subscription) | 09/04/2008
Stuff has a copy of the second Glenn letter as a pdf. Helen is busy working on a defence for Winston for it. Some key extracts: I gave the authority for the payment instructions to be made on 20 December 2005 to Mr BP Henry’s account. Mr Henry supplied the ASB bank account details in an email [...]
New Zealand Herald (Free subscription) | 08/31/2008
Prime Minister Helen Clark could be called to appear before Parliament's privileges committee to discuss what she knew about a $100,000 donation to suspended Foreign Minister Winston Peters by expatriate billionaire Owen Glenn. In...
Kiwiblog (Free subscription) | 08/31/2008
The NZ Herald says this week will see a focus on the PM’s knowledge of the Owen Glenn donation. The more I think about it, the more appalling it is that she said or did nothing. Let us first dispose of her claims that she had no choice but to accept Peters’ word. The convention of accepting [...]
Kiwiblog (Free subscription) | 09/06/2008
Readers are aware than Helen keeps insisting that Winston Peters is an honest man, and that there is an “innocent explanation” to the fact Owen Glenn has said the opposite to Peters. Today’s Dom Post provides that innocent explanation: There is a very simple explanation for the disparity between Mr Peters’ and Mr Glenn’s version of [...]
Kiwiblog (Free subscription) | 09/01/2008
... would forget all about asking her questions about how she knew “No” meant “Yes” in reference to Owen Glenn’s donation, and instead focus on the SFO instead. I suspect No 2, as the media did all fall for it. Very little coverage on the Owen Glenn issue. But whether her allegations are desperate or calculating, they are extraordinary to tolerate from the country’s Prime...
New Zealand Herald (Free subscription) | 09/01/2008
Helen Clark says she has nothing to contribute to the privileges committee inquiry into the $100,000 Owen Glenn donation, despite confirming yesterday that Mr Glenn told her Winston Peters asked for the money. The Prime Minister...
Kiwiblog (Free subscription) | 09/02/2008
... come to that same conclusion (even if Helen had that conclusion forced upon her). Exactly. The Owen Glenn affair was proof enough. The Prime Minister just looks desperate, she is guessing (wildly and I believe wrongly), she has just slandered her own public service and she has implied that she is facing some kind of internal revolt by her own top public servants. For someone who has...
whoar.co.nz (Free subscription) | 09/02/2008
... many separate occasions did she discuss with Rt Hon Winston Peters the issue of a donation from Mr Owen Glenn, and what responses did she get from Mr Peters that gave her the confidence to retain him as a minister?key is ‘having a go at clark’..(let’s see how he goes..was that it..?..)brownlee is trying to close down a line of questioning..(i wonder how long it will be before key...
New Zealand Herald (Free subscription) | 09/01/2008
... startling admission last Thursday that she had been aware in February that wealthy expatriate Owen Glenn had donated money to Winston Peters but she had felt no need in subsequent months to inform the public or Parliament of that fact.That was despite Clark knowing that each time Peters denied receiving any donation, her Minister of Foreign Affairs was misinforming the public and...
