MP Field granted temporary reprieve – 17 Oct 2007 – NZ Herald: New Zealand National news
A High Court Judge has granted an interim stay of proceedings against Taito Phillip Field while an appeal is heard against the decision that allows the police to lay bribery and corruption charges.
This means the coppers can’t lay charges until the appeal is heard.
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el Jefe has ensured that the ongoing damage to Labour from the affair continues on. Remember Labour only washed their hands of him when he made the unforgivable error of saying he may stand against them. Up until that point he was simply guilty of nothing more than being an enthusiastic MP working hard on behalf of his constituents……Yeah right, like we all believed that.
el Jefe will ensure that helen gets her come uppance if he goes down, there is plenty more to this story.
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Police given leave to prosecute Field – 05 Oct 2007 – NZ Herald: New Zealand National news
Oh I can’t wait for this to come to court. I just hope it is before the election. El Jefe will drip feed all of his evidence about vote rigging in South Auckland, scrutiny will be on Damien O’Connor, perhaps one of the more inept ministers in recent times and of course Clark and Cullen will have to revist history and their wonderful words of support for El Jefe when allegations first surfaced.
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MP regrets responses – Stuff.co.nz
el Jefe has admitted to Investigate magazine that he was economical with the truth but more revealing is the pressure from Labour that he was coming under because he was supposedly “homophobic” and “Christian”.
Quite right el Jefe told a cabinet minister to stick it up his arse when these accusations were broached. Actually I feel for el Jefe, he single handedly delivered a bought election to Labour through his organisation skills and his South Auckland workers delivering the votes in the south of Auckland. you would have thought Labour would have been a little bit more grateful.
The fun will begin in election year when el Jefe gets to spill the beans about the shenanigins behind the last election as pay back for Clark and her manipulations.
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Field confident judicial system will clear him – Independent MP Taito Phillip Field says he has confidence in the judicial system as he awaits a ruling which will lead to determining whether he will be charged over bribery and corruption allegations.Mr Field appeared in the… [NZ Politics]
Don't be too sure about that Thaito el Jefe. Remember you haven't got the legal cover you used to have when you were a member of the Labour Party. The fact that the Police have actually charged you should give you a little hint that things have changed.
el Jefe is also facing additional charges of perverting the course of justice it has been revealed in the Prime Minister's mouthpiece Sunday Star Times.
We have clearly come a long way from being "probably guilty of is trying to be helpful to someone." to charges of bribery and perverting the course of justice.
Oh, I can't wait for the trial when Field will let everyone know about how Labour gets such a high party vote in South Auckland and we see cabinet ministers on the stand.
Well the day has finally arrived that El Jefe will be charged and the police have decided that 14 counts of bribery will be the charges. Of course they are now able to charge him because he is no longer a Labour MP and clearly no longer above the law.
The Police have confirmed that they intend to charge former Labour Minister and MP Taito Phillip Field with 14 charges of bribery, relating to actions he took as a Labour MP.
At this point in time, we should remind ourselves of what our Prime Minister and Deputy Prime Minister said in defence of Mr Field. David farrar has kindly provided us with some quotes.
On the 14th of September 2005, in an attempt to bury the issue before the election, Clark said:
[quote]"I think the only thing he is probably guilty of is trying to be helpful to someone."[/quote]
Even worse is Michael Cullen. For at least Clark made her defence before the Ingram Report. But here is what Dr Cullen said *after* the Ingram Report came out, which was damning of Field:
[quote]So Mr Field has some matters to work through with the Labour leadership and the Labour whips. But he works incredibly hard on behalf of his constituents. He has people coming to him from all over Auckland for assistance, not just in immigration cases but in many other cases. He works harder on those matters than I suspect the entire National Party caucus does on constituency cases. If that is what he is guilty of, then I am sure he is happy to plead guilty to working hard on behalf of his constituents.[/quote]
And finally David also helpfully points out that El Jefe was kicked out of the Labour Party not because he had shamed the NZ Parliament, not because he exploited vulnerable workers, not because he lied to the Ingram Inquiry, not because he behaved disgracefully, and not because he may be corrupt. He was kicked out for musing openly on the possibility of not standing for Labour.
