BDO probes Martin Pakula-led Crown casino
In a LinkedIn post celebrating the charitable Million Dollar Lunch (Melbourne's answer to the Sydney Children's Hospital's Gold Dinner), the minister reeled off the generosity of a number of Melbourne power players. All of which, funnily enough, he's worked for in the three brief years since he's resigned from parliament.
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