Kate McClymont is a Senior Reporter for The Sydney Morning Herald.
"One day when the records of this state are written, I'll be a part of it," Eddie Obeid proudly boasted to The Sydney Morning Herald upon his elevation to ministry of Bob Carr's Labor government in 1999.
Despite having no formal qualifications and a conviction for fraud, for years a former bankrupt who bought his PhD on the internet has been able to pass himself off as a psychologist in both Sydney and Melbourne.
For weeks now four vans bearing photographs of a Sydney businessman emblazoned with false accusations that he is a "corporate thief" and a "fraudster" have been turning up outside an office block in Bligh Street.
Edward Moses Obeid, 73, is a pillar of the Lebanese community and one who has suffered enough through unfair media scrutiny, according to many of the 55 character references submitted to the court.
Over the years I have covered more corruption inquiries than I care to remember – ranging from a prostitute, Tiffanie, complaining that former MP Ian Macdonald was a "wough kisser" and made her feel like "womiting" to the sex-for-favours scandal involving Wollongong council.
Megan Latham could not have foreseen the devastation that would flow from the arrival of a package of material from the Australian Crime Commission in July 2014.
It was a Saturday night in August at one of Sydney's most exclusive restaurants when two men from rival crime families came head-to-head.
Thirty years ago, solicitor Howard Hilton was jailed for bribing the NSW prisons minister to let his clients out of jail early.
A Sydney underworld figure with strong Mafia ties has been shot dead hours before phone intercepts in which he featured were about to be played at a trial for the murder of a rival.
A warrant has been issued for the arrest of serial fraudster Stephen Larkin after he failed to turn up to court to be sentenced over 62 charges of falsely nominating a man suffering dementia as the driver of the car when a string of traffic offences were committed.
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