Politics

There are many reasons why Shane Jones’ story on Bill Liu doesn’t stack up.

Liu claimed to be involved in ‘formalising’ agreements and good relations between NZ and China.  What agreements? Officials said they could not confirm this was true.  And how does a fugitive who supposedly faces torture and organ harvesting in China find himself helping develop good trade relations?

Of course, citizenship can be revoked if you tell porkies on your application, just like residency (and a fake name certainly qualifies) – extradition/deportation can then follow.

Jones knew this.

Furthermore - this advice to Jones (see the top of Page 7) explicitly rules out the humanitarian clause as a reason to grant citizenship.

“It is therefore considered that Mr Liu is not eligible for the grant of citizenship under the former section 9(1)(d) of the Citizenship Act 1977.”

Jones’ decision last night to parrot the claims made by Dover Samuels, made the whole thing look even more murky.

Time for David Shearer to show some leadership and demand a full independent inquiry into this cash for citizenship scandal.

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Andrew Little is upset because a process server shone a torch in his eyes:

Little last week invited Collins to send “thuggish characters” and last night a process serving agent was waiting for him when he got home.

“It was dark, the guy leapt up and shined a torch in my face and served me with the papers, so fair cop.”

There was an unwritten law that politicians didn’t bother each other’s families, he said.

“I was pleased they didn’t come inside the gate, they didn’t hassle my home, that’s what I was most worried about.

“I think Judith Collins came very close to the mark. As it was the guy was sitting just outside our place, and lying in wait for me to get home.”

God he is pathetic. He started the silly game by defaming Judith Collins, then by saying bring it on to her law suit, then by skulking like a coward.

Unbelievably he still thinks Judith Collins isn’t serious.

Little said he would be consulting with his lawyer today and be releasing details of the case to back up his and Mallard’s claim they had done nothing wrong.

They would show Collins had refused to answer questions in Parliament about the leaked letter and the MPs were doing their job by trying to hold her account.

“To the extent that her reputation is based on her being a straight shooter in Parliament, there is evidence to the contrary of that and I want to get that out sooner rather than later so people can see exactly what it is she is on about.”

Little said he was convinced Collins wouldn’t want the matter to go to trial she would be forced to defend her personal reputation.

Little has said to anyone who would listen around parliament that he has consulted 4 lawyers already…now he is off to a real one as it turns out that the advice of Charles Chauvel, David Parker, himself  and Lianne Dalziel didn’t amount to much.

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Emmerson is brilliant…Shane Jones movie viewing pleasures, carpet cleaners and dodgy behaviour…nice.

Mark Sainsbury had a real sook on Close-Up last night because Anne Tolley fronted, but wouldn’t debate with a so-called “expert” on drug and alcohol counselling.

What Sainsbury didn’t point out during his tears and whining was that this “expert” – Roger Brooking – is a grassroots Labour activist. True to form this tool hijacked the interview to push his ideological opposition to private prisons.

If Sainsbury had bothered to look at Brooking’s Twitter account, rather than repeat crap he heard on Moaning Report, he would also have seen personal attacks on Tolley.

No wonder Anne Tolley got demoted from Education. Now in charge of prisons and still can’t add up. infonews.co.nz/news.cfm?id=87…

— Roger Brooking (@RogerBrooking) March 23, 2012

Good on her for not treating this left-wing low-life as an equal.

Close Up looks like a lame horse waiting for the final shot. No wonder the pressure is getting to Sainsbury.

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Cactus compares Trevor Mallard to O.J. Simpson…and not in a good way:

Some people I know have played the game of dodging the civil serve. It can go on for months and you are well within your rights to do it and really there is no point other than adding to the psyche sport. Mallard I reckon is clever enough to drag it on for a month if he really wants to.

He is relying on the “OJ” effect, in so far that after a period of time you actually want OJ to escape as the whole process has become so hilarious.

But being neither an adored sports star or black, Mallard is probably not going to gain the same level of public sympathy.

Yes Trevor, we are laughing at you, not with you.

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Shane Jones says he granted citizenship to Bill Liu because he believed the poor guy was going to be shot and his organ’s harvested.

“I was told the execution of this man… that he would be executed… which is the reason the officials gave for him not wanting to go back to China.”

Mr Jones said declining it would have been like signing a death warrant.

Mr Jones says he was told that Mr Yan would be “jailed, executed and his organs harvested” if he was sent back to China.

“That to me comprised grounds for a humanitarian decision,” Mr Jones says.

Really?

How come Bill Liu was planning to take these Labour MPs to China?

“He said he had a lot of support from members of Parliament … he was going to take them to China,”

Surely if he was going to be shot in China that would be the last place he’d want to visit?

The excuse given by Jones holds as much water as a colander.

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The NZ Herald notes that David Shearer is applying an interesting test in his reasoning for not standing down Shane Jones:

Shearer has rejected Key’s claim he is being hypocritical and says he would stand his MP Shane Jones down if Mr Jones was under police investigation.

Interesting…using that test…why isn’t Charles Chauvel now warming the naughty chair, or Megan Woods? they are currently being investigated by Police.

Of course the Shane Jones case is much worse than the other two, and certainly worse than the manufactured allegations against John Banks who was a private citizen at the time.

Shane Jones in contrast was a minister, making a decision that benefited materially a donor to the Labour party and to several MPs.

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David Farrar raises some very good questions for Shane Jones to answer…if he can:

1. Who was this official who told him this? It wasn’t by some chance Daniel Phillips was it, the brother of Shane Te Pou – the Labour fundraiser who got paid $5,000 to help get Liu citizenship
2. Does having citizenship in any way impact whether or not one can be extradited to China over the fraud charges laid against him?
3. If one truly believes you face execution and persecution in your home country, don’t you apply for asylum not citizenship?
4. But if one applied for asylum, wouldn’t that actually require some substantiation of the claims that he was Falun Gong and fearing for his life, with adjudication by an independent tribunal, rather than Ministerial discretion as with citizenship?
5. Has Jones or Liu or anyone at all ever produced a shred of evidence that he actually faced anything in China except a fraud trial?
6. Does anyone seriously think Liu would have been granted citizenship if he had not donated to various Labour MPs, who advocated so strongly on his behalf?
7. Is anyone else curious about why Liu paid Labour Party fundraiser Shane Te Pou $5,000 to fill in a citizenship form for him? That’s a lot of money for filling in a form.
8. Is the more likely explanation that he paid Te Pou the $5,000, so Te Pou could use his political influence to get him citizenship.
9. Is it a coincidence that Te Pou immediately introduced him to then Internal Affairs Minister Rick Barker
10. Is it also a coincidence that a donation to Dover Samuels election campaign was made from an unknown Chinese entity using the address of Daniel Philips, who is Shane Te Pou’s brother and worked for Shane Jones

I agree with David, and since Shane Jones also welcomes and inquiry, let’s be having one then.

Yesterday I blogged a series of questions about the conflicted relationship between Matt Blomfield and his tame liquidator Garry Whimp [http://www.mvp.co.nz/profile/our-people/garry-whimp]. Note to readers the reason the link is displayed like that is McDonald Vague are actively bouncing links from this site and re-directing them to Google. Now why would they do that?

One of the questions I asked was:

What other liquidation work have you and Matt Blomfield worked on together and when?

I also published a letter dated 8 November 2011 where Garry Whimp states that Matt Blomfield has not worked for either McDonald Vague or Blacklock Rose:

However via the tipline I have obtained evidence that suggests that Garry Whimp was being extremely economical with the truth, at best. But more probably he was lying like a flatfish.

In a court affidavit filed for another liquidation by Garry Whimp it shows that Matt Blomfield met extensively with numerous people at McDonald Vague and was paid by them on 6 July 2011 the sums of $2303.45 and $2562.20.

This affidavit shows that once again Matt Blomfield actively worked with or for Garry Whimp on liquidations and was paid money, into the Blomfield Trust. Matt Blomfield is still an undischarged bankrupt, and yet he is working on liquidations.

It also shows that Garry Whimp is hopelessly conflicted in acting as Liquidator for any of Matt Blomfield’s companies, or any company associated with him, or with Rebecca Anderson/Blatchford/Blomfield, or with Yuta Iguchi. In particular Garry Whimp should not be acting for the liquidation of Vengeance Limited given the large amount of evidence I have presented.

The evidence above is just one more liquidation, yesterday I identified another, but my source has told me that in fact they have worked together on the liquidations of:

Flat Fee Management Limited
FFH Limited
FFNZ Limited
Flatfee Hamilton Limited Partnership
Flatfee NZ Limited Partnership.

According to my information, McDonald Vague described Matt Blomfield as a “contractor”. This again contradicts the letter that Garry Whimp wrote to a creditor. It would seem that in fact Garry Whimp and Matt Blomfield have an extensive working relationship un-fettered by pesky things such as conflicts of interest.

Exactly what Blomfield did is unclear for his two payments of $2303.45 and $2562.20  is unclear. But I do wonder if his Official Assignee is aware of these payments apparently being shuffled off to the Blomfield Trust?

It appears from court documents that the business was unlawfully taken over by an associate of Matt Blomfield’s called  John Kenel. Matt Blomfield turned up at the house of the business owner on the evening of 7 Feb 2011, with resolutions to sign placing his business in liquidation. The owners legal advice at the time was to sign these – He did not know at the time what the link between Kenel-Blomfield-Whimp was.

Note that John Kenel is now in business with one of Matt Blomfield’s chums, Ronald Bruce Johnson - Sebastian Black Limited. Bruce Johnson has featured extensively in the Blomfield Files.

It was later discovered that it was Matt Blomfield who had approached McDonald Vague, at Kenel’s behest, to see if they would take on the liquidation.  This was obviously because Blomfield had a “friendly” liquidator, and told Kenel that things would go his way if Whimp was appointed liquidator.

It turns out that Whimp had not prepared the resolutions correctly, which mucked up the liquidation somewhat – 2 of the entities that were supposed to be in liquidation were in fact not in liquidation.  In the end a complaint to the NZ Institute of Chartered Accountants was filed against Garry Whimp.  McDonald Vague had to apply to the High Court to place the 2 entities in liquidation.

From the affidavit it appears too that the business had approximately $74,000 in cash available. The records also show that creditors were owed around $92,000…a shortfall of about $18,000. The affidavit then shows that McDonald Vague billed $77,486…of which Matt Blomfield through his Blomfield Trust got $4865.65. It appears that the creditors got nothing.

A quick look at the Liquidators reports tells a different story again from the court filed affidavit…there is something not right about this liquidation. If it involves Matt Blomfield and Garry Whimp then there is definitely something seriously wrong with it.

Garry Whimp and McDonald Vague have much explaining to do considering it appears they have lied about their working or other relationship with Matt Blomfield. Considering they are the liquidators of his companies they have some serious explaining to do.

Today I think I need to go see the Official Assignee.