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valiant1962 ◊ 2009-05-09 01:11	1977 update by the Ford blue oval badge on grille Ep 2.08 Ep 2.09 -- Last edit: 2009-05-09 01:13:35
jpts ◊ 2015-09-27 15:14	This scene was the reenactment of the murder of local furniture salesman, local MP and anti-drugs campaigner, Donald Mackay who was shot by contract killer, James Frederick Bazley in the carpark outside the Griffith Hotel at Griffith, NSW on the night of the 15th July 1977. During the 1979 Woodward Royal Commission on Drug Trafficking, it named Robert Trimbole and several other members of the Calabrian Mafia Griffith Branch, the Honored Society as the ones who ordered Mackay's murder. It was also revealed that Trimbole had paid Albert Grassby $40,000 to spread the rumor that Mackay's wife, Barbara and their son, Paul were the one behind the disappearance and murder of Mackay, not the Calabrian Mafia. Grassby was the former Immigration Minister and Member of Parliament in the Whitlam Labour Government for the Riverina Division who was also regarded as the "Father of Multiculturalism". During his time as Immigration Minister, Grassby went on a state visit to Calabria and went to the Calabrian 'Ndrangheta home base of Plati and offered the local town's people residential visas in Australia, including those who were previously banned from Australia due to their strong ties to the 'Ndrangheta. At the 18th May 1974 Australian Federal Election for New South Wales, Mackay ran as Liberal Candidate for the Riverina Division in the House of Representatives against Grassby but lost to the Country Party Candidate, John Sullivan (who served as the Riverina Division representative until the 10th December 1977). Among his associates within the 'Ndrangheta was the "godfather" of the 'Ndrangheta Griffith Branch, Peter Calipari. When Calipari was arrested for possession of an unlicensed firearm, Grassby had appeared at his trial and spoke in Calipari's defense. Grassby was charged with criminal defamation in 1980 after he allegedly asked the New South Wales Legislative representative for the Drummoyne District, Michael Maher to read a document that named Mackay's wife, Barbara and their son, Paul and their family solicitor as the ones behind Mackay's disappearance and murder. Grassby was later acquitted of the charges in August 1992 but lost a civil suit filed by Barbara Mackay. At his trial in 1986, Bazley named former corrupt NSW Police Detective Fred Krahe as Mackay's killer. Krahe was a known associate of another equally corrupt NSW Police Detective Sergeant Roger Rogerson and had been often hired as a standover man for various major criminal figures in Sydney during the 1970s. At the time of Mackay's murder, Krahe was working for the head of the Nugan Hand Bank Main Branch in Sydney, Frank Nugan whose bank was allegedly a front for drug money laundering with help of the US Central Intelligence Agency. Krahe was also the one who spread the rumor that Mackay wasn't murdered but had ran off with a woman. He has been named as a suspect in several murders, suspicious deaths and disappearances: Donald Fergusson - Detective Superintendent, Krahe's protégé and one-time partner and former head of NSW Police Main CIB Branch, found dead of a suspicious gunshot wound to the head in the bathroom of his office at the NSW Police Administration Building in Campbell Street, Sydney on the morning of the 15th February 1970, it was suspected that Fergusson was talking to detectives who were investigating Krahe and other corrupt detectives and their involvement in various criminal activities, leading to the theory that Krahe grabbed Fergusson's service revolver and killed Fergusson and then made it look that Fergusson committed suicide. Two years earlier, Fergusson was one of several detectives who had been negotiating a truce of surrender with ex-criminal and car thief, Wally Mellish during a siege at Mellish's home in Glenfield, NSW from the 2nd to the 9th July 1968. Alan Burton - Car thief and partner of the leader of the Burton-Varley car theft gang, Reginald "Reg" Varley, disappeared and presumed murdered on the 7th February 1972, Varley said that Krahe and his partner, Detective Sergeant Cyril Roy Edwards had gave Burton "a hiding" over an allegation that Burton had stole $20,000 from them. Edwards was later shot dead by a unknown gunman at Tamarama Beach, Sydney in 1986, at the time, Edwards was under investigation for drug corruption, while Varley committed suicide in August 1987. Shirley Brifman - Known as Marge; Brothel madam and former prostitute, found dead of a suspicious barbiturate overdose in the bedroom of her flat at Clayfield, Queensland on the afternoon of the 4th March 1972, Brifman ran a brothel at Potts Point in Sydney and had ties to detectives within both the New South Wales Police Service and the Queensland Police Service and had named Krahe along with 33 other officers from New South Wales and Queensland in a number of corruption cases, it was theorized that Krahe had came up to Brisbane and forced drugs down a tube into her throat with the assistance of a officer from the Queensland Police Service. In statements that Brifman had made with senior police detectives from New South Wales and Queensland from July to October 1971, she said that Krahe was involved in: . Collecting protection money from brothels and abortion clinics based in Sydney's Eastern Suburbs. . Exchanging criminals with a detective from the Queensland Police Service to allow the criminals to commit crimes in a state where they were not known to the local police. . Organizing bank robberies. . Setting up armed robber and escapist, Darcy Dugan. Brifman also said that Krahe had introduced her to the NSW Police commissioner, Norman "Bill" Allan who had allowed her to continue her work as a brothel madam and that she paid Krahe with weekly payments of $100 to protect her from rival standover men. Juanita Nielsen - Publisher and anti-development campaigner, disappeared and presumed murdered on the 4th July 1975, Nielsen was protesting against property developer, Frank Theeman and his plans to redevelop around Nielsen's home on Victoria Street in King Cross, Krahe and his gang of "heavies" were working for Theeman's associate, nightclub owner and the "Boss of the Cross", Abe Saffron and were occasionally hired by Theeman to intimidate the local residents and assault the protesters. According to Saffron's former chief enforcer and night club manager, James "Big Jim" Anderson, Theeman had asked Saffron to kill Nielsen, so Saffron had lured her to one of the clubs that he owned, the Carousel in Kings Cross where Saffron had Krahe kill her. Saffron's suspected involvement in Nielsen's disappearance and her suspected murder as well his involvement in the drug trade led to Saffron's downfall and his imprisonment at Long Bay Gaol for 17 months for tax evasion. Krahe's boss, Frank Nugan committed suicide behind the wheel of his Mercedes Benz at isolate dirt track outside Bowenfels near Lithgow, NSW on the night of the 27th January 1980, while Krahe himself died of natural causes on the 6th December 1981. Bazley was convicted of Mackay's murder along with the murders of Terry Clark's associates and drug couriers, Doug and Isabel Wilson and was sentenced to life imprisonment, he was released in 2001 and later died at a Melbourne nursing home on the 2nd November 2018, the suspected mastermind of Mackay's murder and leader of the 'Ndrangheta Griffith Branch, Tony Sergi died on his 82nd birthday in a Sydney hospital on the 29th October 2017. -- Last edit: 2024-03-12 03:09:01

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◊ 2015-09-27 15:14

This scene was the reenactment of the murder of local furniture salesman, local MP and anti-drugs campaigner, Donald Mackay who was shot by contract killer, James Frederick Bazley in the carpark outside the Griffith Hotel at Griffith, NSW on the night of the 15th July 1977.

During the 1979 Woodward Royal Commission on Drug Trafficking, it named Robert Trimbole and several other members of the Calabrian Mafia Griffith Branch, the Honored Society as the ones who ordered Mackay's murder.

It was also revealed that Trimbole had paid Albert Grassby $40,000 to spread the rumor that Mackay's wife, Barbara and their son, Paul were the one behind the disappearance and murder of Mackay, not the Calabrian Mafia.

Grassby was the former Immigration Minister and Member of Parliament in the Whitlam Labour Government for the Riverina Division who was also regarded as the "Father of Multiculturalism".

During his time as Immigration Minister, Grassby went on a state visit to Calabria and went to the Calabrian 'Ndrangheta home base of Plati and offered the local town's people residential visas in Australia, including those who were previously banned from Australia due to their strong ties to the 'Ndrangheta.

At the 18th May 1974 Australian Federal Election for New South Wales, Mackay ran as Liberal Candidate for the Riverina Division in the House of Representatives against Grassby but lost to the Country Party Candidate, John Sullivan (who served as the Riverina Division representative until the 10th December 1977).

Among his associates within the 'Ndrangheta was the "godfather" of the 'Ndrangheta Griffith Branch, Peter Calipari.

When Calipari was arrested for possession of an unlicensed firearm, Grassby had appeared at his trial and spoke in Calipari's defense.

Grassby was charged with criminal defamation in 1980 after he allegedly asked the New South Wales Legislative representative for the Drummoyne District, Michael Maher to read a document that named Mackay's wife, Barbara and their son, Paul and their family solicitor as the ones behind Mackay's disappearance and murder.

Grassby was later acquitted of the charges in August 1992 but lost a civil suit filed by Barbara Mackay.

At his trial in 1986, Bazley named former corrupt NSW Police Detective Fred Krahe as Mackay's killer.

Krahe was a known associate of another equally corrupt NSW Police Detective Sergeant Roger Rogerson and had been often hired as a standover man for various major criminal figures in Sydney during the 1970s.

At the time of Mackay's murder, Krahe was working for the head of the Nugan Hand Bank Main Branch in Sydney, Frank Nugan whose bank was allegedly a front for drug money laundering with help of the US Central Intelligence Agency.

Krahe was also the one who spread the rumor that Mackay wasn't murdered but had ran off with a woman.

He has been named as a suspect in several murders, suspicious deaths and disappearances:

Donald Fergusson - Detective Superintendent, Krahe's protégé and one-time partner and former head of NSW Police Main CIB Branch, found dead of a suspicious gunshot wound to the head in the bathroom of his office at the NSW Police Administration Building in Campbell Street, Sydney on the morning of the 15th February 1970, it was suspected that Fergusson was talking to detectives who were investigating Krahe and other corrupt detectives and their involvement in various criminal activities, leading to the theory that Krahe grabbed Fergusson's service revolver and killed Fergusson and then made it look that Fergusson committed suicide.

Two years earlier, Fergusson was one of several detectives who had been negotiating a truce of surrender with ex-criminal and car thief, Wally Mellish during a siege at Mellish's home in Glenfield, NSW from the 2nd to the 9th July 1968.

Alan Burton - Car thief and partner of the leader of the Burton-Varley car theft gang, Reginald "Reg" Varley, disappeared and presumed murdered on the 7th February 1972, Varley said that Krahe and his partner, Detective Sergeant Cyril Roy Edwards had gave Burton "a hiding" over an allegation that Burton had stole $20,000 from them.

Edwards was later shot dead by a unknown gunman at Tamarama Beach, Sydney in 1986, at the time, Edwards was under investigation for drug corruption, while Varley committed suicide in August 1987.

Shirley Brifman - Known as Marge; Brothel madam and former prostitute, found dead of a suspicious barbiturate overdose in the bedroom of her flat at Clayfield, Queensland on the afternoon of the 4th March 1972, Brifman ran a brothel at Potts Point in Sydney and had ties to detectives within both the New South Wales Police Service and the Queensland Police Service and had named Krahe along with 33 other officers from New South Wales and Queensland in a number of corruption cases, it was theorized that Krahe had came up to Brisbane and forced drugs down a tube into her throat with the assistance of a officer from the Queensland Police Service.

In statements that Brifman had made with senior police detectives from New South Wales and Queensland from July to October 1971, she said that Krahe was involved in:

. Collecting protection money from brothels and abortion clinics based in Sydney's Eastern Suburbs.

. Exchanging criminals with a detective from the Queensland Police Service to allow the criminals to commit crimes in a state where they were not known to the local police.

. Organizing bank robberies.

. Setting up armed robber and escapist, Darcy Dugan.

Brifman also said that Krahe had introduced her to the NSW Police commissioner, Norman "Bill" Allan who had allowed her to continue her work as a brothel madam and that she paid Krahe with weekly payments of $100 to protect her from rival standover men.

Juanita Nielsen - Publisher and anti-development campaigner, disappeared and presumed murdered on the 4th July 1975, Nielsen was protesting against property developer, Frank Theeman and his plans to redevelop around Nielsen's home on Victoria Street in King Cross, Krahe and his gang of "heavies" were working for Theeman's associate, nightclub owner and the "Boss of the Cross", Abe Saffron and were occasionally hired by Theeman to intimidate the local residents and assault the protesters.

According to Saffron's former chief enforcer and night club manager, James "Big Jim" Anderson, Theeman had asked Saffron to kill Nielsen, so Saffron had lured her to one of the clubs that he owned, the Carousel in Kings Cross where Saffron had Krahe kill her.

Saffron's suspected involvement in Nielsen's disappearance and her suspected murder as well his involvement in the drug trade led to Saffron's downfall and his imprisonment at Long Bay Gaol for 17 months for tax evasion.

Krahe's boss, Frank Nugan committed suicide behind the wheel of his Mercedes Benz at isolate dirt track outside Bowenfels near Lithgow, NSW on the night of the 27th January 1980, while Krahe himself died of natural causes on the 6th December 1981.

Bazley was convicted of Mackay's murder along with the murders of Terry Clark's associates and drug couriers, Doug and Isabel Wilson and was sentenced to life imprisonment, he was released in 2001 and later died at a Melbourne nursing home on the 2nd November 2018, the suspected mastermind of Mackay's murder and leader of the 'Ndrangheta Griffith Branch, Tony Sergi died on his 82nd birthday in a Sydney hospital on the 29th October 2017.

-- Last edit: 2024-03-12 03:09:01

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