Qld: Barbagallo fined $1000 over electoral rort
BRISBANE, April 24 AAP - Former Queensland government adviser David Barbagallo wasfined $1,000 today after pleading guilty to electoral rorting.
Brisbane District Court Judge Julie Dick ordered that no conviction be recorded after44-year-old Barbagallo admitted that he procured a false enrolment in January 1986 inthe state seat of South Brisbane.
Eight other charges against him including four similar counts of procuring false enrolmentsand four of forgery were dropped by the Department of Public Prosecutions.
The charge Barbagallo pleaded guilty to today carried a maximum sentence of three years'jail but Judge Dick said that was inappropriate in this case given the time passed sincethe offence and his good character since.
"You have been involved in a long and distinguished career. I can easily come to theview that you have rehabilitated and that your life has taken a different direction,"
she told Barbagallo, who's soon to take up a position as the executive vice-presidentof a computer technology firm.
"You are unlikely to reoffend."
Barbagallo was the sole person to be charged out of the Shepherdson inquiry into electoralrorts in the ALP.
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