Gobbo in a sentence

Mr Nettle was appointed in 2021 to see if criminal cases could be made against Nicola Gobbo and Victoria Police officers following a royal commission into the gang wars using her as an informer on her clients.

When the bank was shut down, federal bank examiners discovered that Gobbo and his immediate family owed more than $3.8 million on 27 residential loans, some of them years overdue, court records show.

Mokbel said he trusted Gobbo fully, describing her as 'the engine' to his legal defences.

When back in Australia he would communicate with Gobbo on a 'burner phone' inside Barwon prison, which he had smuggled to him in a boxing bag by Williams.

For the commission to have credibility with the Victorian community, the full truth behind Nicola Gobbo's time as a police informer must be revealed, and time is running out.

In a public statement police conceded that using Ms Gobbo to inform against clients was "profoundly wrong" and was an "indefensible interference in the lawyer/client relationship".

In her first lawsuit against the state in 2010, Ms Gobbo had sought compensation of $20 million.

In these grim economic times, Gobbo has become a cottage industry.

It is difficult to know what was running through Gobbo’s head as she said this.

Mr Iddles is expected to continue giving evidence to the commission on Friday, looking at how Ms Gobbo came to inform on her own gangland clients.

Ms Gobbo gave an unsigned statement in 2009 saying Mark Perry - who was later acquitted over the 2003 killing of Shane Chartres-Abbott - had confessed to the Melbourne slaying.

The prosecution case against Mr Dale collapsed in 2010 after Ms Gobbo refused to testify and the star witness, drug kingpin Carl Williams, was murdered in prison.

The royal commission heard that Ms Gobbo's informing was focused on clients or associates involved in organised criminal activity such as drug trafficking, money laundering and underworld shootings or murders-for-hire.

Throughout the story of Informer 3838, a scandal that has exposed the true underbelly of our criminal justice system, Nicola Gobbo has clung fiercely to the notion that it was someone else’s fault.

A person is both incredibly vulnerable and perceived as a threat when going through a mental health crisis, according to Gobbo.

Faruk Orman was released from jail on Friday because of a ‘substantial miscarriage of justice’ caused by his double-agent lawyer Nicola Gobbo.

Media reports about the mysterious "Lawyer X" began in 2014, before Ms Gobbo's identity was revealed in December last year.

Mr Orman hired Ms Gobbo - now infamous as 'Lawyer X' - after he was charged with Pierce's murder in June 2007, but four days later she told police she could only "work in the background" for him because of a conflict of interest.

Ms Gobbo is due to give evidence by phone to the royal commission from January 29.

Ms Gobbo told her police handlers and then insisted on representing the cook after his arrest, encouraging him to roll on Mokbel and his syndicate, and furnishing police with information on how best to get him to cooperate.