ICAC: Nathan Tinkler offered to use "employees as fronts" to back election campaigns

By Michelle Harris State
Updated April 28 2014 - 3:46pm, first published 11:04am

Former billionaire Nathan Tinkler offered to support the 2011 reelection campaign of then Newcastle Labor MP Jodi McKay, telling her he could get around laws banning developers from making political donations by using his employees as fronts, the Independent Commission Against Corruption has heard.

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