Laudafinem has for a number of years been attempting to track down the illusive ex-cop; “detective James Kenneth Cunningham” police number: 7857. Ultimately, after many months we have been successful. It has been a very difficult task for one simple reason. ex-detective...
“The place to determine culpability is a court of law not the commissioners office!” Ex-cop Ross Muerant (13th Sept 2011) Source: MP Ross Meurant The credibility and honesty of the New Zealand civil service and police force has again, in the past twelve months, come under...
When transcribing taped evidence one should always listen very carefully to every word on the tape, every sentence, every paragraph, its context and meaning; which is often reinforced with later comments, that may well give some further insight.
Up date: Lauda Finem have learned that Paul Dimery had a serious disagreement with the Police Commissioner Peter Marshall, immediately prior to his sudden departure. Dimery, according to our source, had allegedly told Peter Marshall to “Fuck off back to the Islands” (Marshall...
As the New Zealand John Banks political corruption scandal deepens with revelations in parliament that Banks had been given a discounted rate, via his association with Dotcom at the Hyatt hotel in Hong Kong we thought about looking at this...
This morning on Television New Zealand’s (TVNZ) Breakfast show New Zealands Prime Minister, John Key, who is obviously caught between two rocks and two very hard corruption scandals (the Dotcom/John Banks and Bronwyn Pullar corruption scandals) resorted to using one of the National Party’s...
According to the New Zealand Herald Jenni McManus has left Fairfax, taking a big step down in a sudden, we would hold inevitable, career change. A one time associate at the Independent, Vincent Heeringa, is quoted by Stop Press NZ According to Heeringa, “I...
Laudafinem have managed to locate the dangerous and corrupt Detective Malcolm John Thomas, ex – Gisborne CIB – In a strange irony Thomas is not only fond of planting evidence he’s also fond of planting exotic flora. Thomas lives in...
Update 19/01/2012: Fairfax, New Zealand, bad apples and the race to the bottom of the barrel. Phil Kitchin likes the term investigative journalist and models himself on the likes of Warren Berryman, (may God rest his soul…although we seriously doubt it)....
A couple of weeks ago whilst trawling archived news items we came across a number of items penned by award winning journalist Phil Kitchen. Kitchen is obviously quite a duplicitous personality, the anomaly? On the one hand he has written an account...