The Sydney Morning Herald and the Age’s publisher,James Chessell, has told staff at the Nine newspapers that he was not contacted by the Nine chairman, Peter Costello, in relation to the group’s award-winning coverage of money laundering at Crown casino.
Until recently, Packer was the major shareholder in Crown, which was at the centre of allegations of money laundering and ties with junkets associated with organised crime which were the subject of a series of articles and a 60 Minutes program, Crown Unmasked, by Age investigative reporter Nick McKenzie. The revelations prompted three separate inquiries in New South Wales, Victoria and Western Australia into Crown’s licensing and operations.
A spokesperson for Nine said Costello had been a financial adviser to Consolidated Press Holdings, Packer’s private company, for a year in 2011, before he became a director of Nine and was not involved in lobbying. Crown had its own lobbyist, she said. O’Brien told the Australian he was not lobbied by Costello.During his appearance at the Bergin Inquiry into Crown in 2020,He has also spent time in a mental health clinic in Boston and over recent years has largely withdrawn from business life.
Chessell told staff: “I’ve received a blizzard of correspondence from Packer since he took exception to something we published in late June. After trying to engage with him at first – which clearly didn’t work – I’ve ignored almost all of it.
Well he would say that, wouldn’t he?
Still waiting for the call, Peter!
Well that’s because any executive knows what their CEO expects of them... he wouldn’t need to be contacted to know what was expected.
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