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Sydney Morning Herald
8 hours ago
- Sydney Morning Herald
Genius Childcare boss fined for handling proceeds of crime as investigators chase missing millions
The boss of the collapsed Genius childcare group has escaped conviction after admitting to handling $120,000 six years ago that was the proceeds of a fraud. Melbourne Magistrates' Court fined Darren Misquitta $4000 and recorded no conviction after the 41-year-old businessman pleaded guilty to one count of dealing in the proceeds of crime. Two charges of using a false document were dropped. But the Gold Coast-based entrepreneur's legal woes may be just beginning. Administrators of companies in his failed business empire – whose known debts now top $115 million – allege various breaches of corporation laws by Misquitta when he was running Genius and other enterprises. Corporate investigators are still trying to trace the whereabouts of tens of millions of dollars moved out of one of the companies before it went broke. The court accepted on Thursday that no evidence of deliberate fraudulent activity had been found against Misquitta after he took receipt of $120,000 from a client of his business consultancy in 2019. The money had turned out to be the proceeds of a fraudulently obtained bank loan. Before releasing him without conviction and imposing the fine, Magistrate Patrick Allen also took into account that Misquitta had no criminal record. Loading The businessman's chain of 39 Genius childcare centres around the country collapsed in June, leaving workers, creditors and tax authorities chasing unpaid wages, super and business debts. He was declared bankrupt last month. The administration processes of the various companies behind the group are still playing out, but two of the insolvency practitioners handling the wind-ups say they have forwarded allegations of potentially criminal conduct by Misquitta in his business dealings to corporate regulator ASIC.
The Age
8 hours ago
- The Age
Genius Childcare boss fined for handling proceeds of crime as investigators chase missing millions
The boss of the collapsed Genius childcare group has escaped conviction after admitting to handling $120,000 six years ago that was the proceeds of a fraud. Melbourne Magistrates' Court fined Darren Misquitta $4000 and recorded no conviction after the 41-year-old businessman pleaded guilty to one count of dealing in the proceeds of crime. Two charges of using a false document were dropped. But the Gold Coast-based entrepreneur's legal woes may be just beginning. Administrators of companies in his failed business empire – whose known debts now top $115 million – allege various breaches of corporation laws by Misquitta when he was running Genius and other enterprises. Corporate investigators are still trying to trace the whereabouts of tens of millions of dollars moved out of one of the companies before it went broke. The court accepted on Thursday that no evidence of deliberate fraudulent activity had been found against Misquitta after he took receipt of $120,000 from a client of his business consultancy in 2019. The money had turned out to be the proceeds of a fraudulently obtained bank loan. Before releasing him without conviction and imposing the fine, Magistrate Patrick Allen also took into account that Misquitta had no criminal record. Loading The businessman's chain of 39 Genius childcare centres around the country collapsed in June, leaving workers, creditors and tax authorities chasing unpaid wages, super and business debts. He was declared bankrupt last month. The administration processes of the various companies behind the group are still playing out, but two of the insolvency practitioners handling the wind-ups say they have forwarded allegations of potentially criminal conduct by Misquitta in his business dealings to corporate regulator ASIC.
9 News
10 hours ago
- 9 News
Melania Trump threatens to sue Hunter Biden over Epstein claim
Your web browser is no longer supported. To improve your experience update it here Melania and Donald Trump have long said they were introduced by Paolo Zampolli. First lady Melania Trump demanded that Hunter Biden retract comments linking her to sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein and threatened to sue for US$1billion if he does not. Trump takes issue with two comments Biden, son of former President Joe Biden, made in an interview this month with British journalist Andrew Callaghan. He alleged that Epstein introduced the first lady to now-President Donald Trump . The statements are false, defamatory and "extremely salacious," Melania Trump's lawyer, Alejandro Brito, wrote in a letter to Biden. Biden's remarks were widely disseminated on social media and reported by media outlets around the world, causing the first lady "to suffer overwhelming financial and reputational harm," he wrote. Hunter Biden is the son of former President Joe Biden. (AP) Biden made the Epstein comments during a sprawling interview in which he lashed out at "elites" and others in the Democratic Party he says undermined his father before he dropped out of last year's presidential campaign. "Epstein introduced Melania to Trump. The connections are, like, so wide and deep," Biden said in one of the comments Trump disputes. Biden attributed the claim to author Michael Wolff, whom Trump disparaged in June as a "Third Rate Reporter." He has accused Wolff of making up stories to sell books. The first lady's threats echo a favoured strategy of her husband, who has aggressively used litigation to go after critics. Public figures like the Trumps face a high bar to succeed in a defamation lawsuit. Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein at a Victoria's Secret Angels event in 1997. (Getty) The president and first lady have long said they were introduced by Paolo Zampolli, a modeling agent, at a New York Fashion Week party in 1998. The letter is dated August 6 and was first reported Wednesday by Fox News Digital. Abbe Lowell, a lawyer who has represented Biden in his criminal cases and to whom Brito's letter is addressed, did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Jeffrey Epstein Donald Trump Melania Trump CONTACT US
