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Both investigations dealt with illegal prostitution and gambling aided by police corruption. [1] With Queensland's Premier of 18 years, Joh Bjelke-Petersen, out of the state, his deputy, Bill Gunn, ordered a commission of inquiry the day after the television report was broadcast. The allegations aired in the media were not new.
The Crime and Corruption Commission (CCC) is an independent [2] Queensland Government integrity agency created to combat and reduce the incidence of major crime and to continuously improve the integrity of, and to reduce the incidence of misconduct in, the Queensland public sector. [3] Formerly the Crime and Misconduct Commission (CMC) 2002–2014.
Terence Murray Lewis GM (29 February 1928 – 5 May 2023) was an Australian police officer who, as Commissioner of the Queensland Police Service, was convicted and jailed for corruption and forgery as a result of the Fitzgerald Inquiry. He was stripped of his knighthood and two other awards in consequence. [1]
Wilshire Boulevard was the precursor to L.A.'s highways — congestion nightmares. In the 1920s, it was so packed with traffic, city planners introduced traffic circles and then signals. It was ...
The California Department of Justice ends Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department's corruption probe into Sheila Kuehl, citing 'lack of evidence.' Ex-L.A. sheriff's corruption squad targeted Kuehl ...
From 1982 until 1990, Dickie was a journalist with The Courier-Mail and The Sunday Mail in Brisbane, during which time he uncovered high levels of corruption in the Queensland Police Force and the Queensland Government which led to the Fitzgerald Inquiry. [1] [5] [6] For this work, Dickie won the Gold Walkley in 1987. [7]
The judge said a substantial prison sentence would recognize the harm done by the former councilmember to his constituents, the city and democracy itself.
Map of Mid-Wilshire, Los Angeles. (as delineated by the Los Angeles Times). According to the Los Angeles Times Mapping L.A. project, Mid-Wilshire is bounded on the north by West Third Street, on the northeast by La Brea Avenue and Wilshire Boulevard, on the east by Crenshaw Boulevard, on the south by Pico Boulevard and on the west by Fairfax Avenue.