OPINION: McCully sacking critical to Key’s integrity
McCully's defence – which Key has parroted – is that the $11.5 million “facilitation payment” was necessary because Labour poisoned the relationship with Saudi Arabia, creating a $30m legal risk. Both claims are entirely false.
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It’s true there are differences between Taito Phillip Field’s Thai tiler affair and Murray McCully’s Saudi sheep scandal.
Field was corrupt for
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