BREAKING NEWS: Horse trainer backs Glenn's version in donations row

Owen Glenn fronted the Privileges Committee to defend his reputation over the NZ First donations scandal. Photo / Mark Mitchell

Updated 4:06PM Tuesday September 09, 2008
By Patrick Gower and Claire Trevett

• Peters rails against 'prejudiced' Privileges Committee

Peters donation row

• Peters knew about secret trust - sources
• Owen Glenn: I'm here to clear my name

Melbourne Cup winning horse trainer Paul Moroney has backed up Owen Glenn's version of events in the New Zealand First donations row.

Mr Moroney said in an affidavit to Parliament's Privileges Committee today that he was at a lunch at Karaka in 2006 at which Winston Peters thanked Mr Glenn for his help.

continued at NZ Herald

BREAKING NEWS: NZ First office boy makes "mistake"

A press release from NZ First have just blamed "office staff" for "making a mistake" over failing to declare $50000.00 donated to the party in 2005.

Peter Brown declared that is appeared to be a "genuine mistake".

I'm not sure if it was Brown or Winnie who concocted this latest whopper but surely it would have been easy to blame the office boy immediately there were questions over the 50K months ago.

Not as bad as Helen Clark's omission of knowledge that she knew about Winston Peters funding irregularities 6 months ago but surely given several weeks the Brown/Peters concoction could have been cooked a bit longer before serving?

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