Below is a smoking gun document that is bound to receive substantial attention at the up and coming Royal Commission into unions because it nails Maurice and Blackburn Lawyers and their then CEO John Cain Jnr. for their role in covering-up the Julia Gillard – Bruce Wilson AWU fraud.

The document is authored by John Cain and was signed by him on the 17th of August 1995. It is direct evidence and Mr Cain will find it hard to blame others. It is one very powerful prima facie case against Mr Cain when the document is put together with the evidence in the affidavit signed on the 19th September 1996 by Ian Cambridge. (Click here to read the Ian Cambridge affidavit)

With the Royal Commission into Unions being formally signed off on Friday (14/3/14) and announcing it will hold its first hearing on the 9th of April (Click here to read) it is worth looking at one of many side players who has a lot to worry about.

Much has been written about the main players in the AWU fraud such as Julia Gillard and Bruce Wilson etc but very little focus has been about the dozens of people involved in covering up the corruption.

So let’s have a look at John Cain and the evidence that should have him charged or at the very least have him turning on others to protect himself. As we know concealing a crime is a crime in itself. (See the Crimes Act 1914 sections 42. Conspiracy to defeat justice and 43. Attempting to pervert justice)

Background Regular followers of this site will know most of the background so I will keep it brief. New readers can get further backgrounding by reading the Julia Gillard / Bruce Wilson AWU Fraud Page (Click here to read)

Former Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard helped her former boyfriend Bruce Wilson rip off the Australian Workers Union (AWU) in the early 1990’s. Bruce Wilson worked at the AWU and set up many different bank accounts to steal money from the AWU. One of those accounts is listed on the document below and was called the “Australian Workers Union Welfare Account” which was held at the Commonwealth Bank.

Bruce Wilson and others were resigning (being sacked for fraud and theft) from the AWU on the 18th of August 1995 and the document below relates to what happened on the day before on the 17th of August 1995. There was a meeting at the Commonwealth Bank to split up the stolen funds and return some of the money to the companies where the money was stolen from.

At the meeting were John Cain, the bank manager Peter McCarthy and representing the AWU were Bruce Wilson and Bob Smith. The name Jim Collins from the AWU also shows up on Cambridge’s affidavit as having some involvement.

I copied the document from the Federal Court of Australia in December 2012 when I inspected the files in relation to the Gillard / AWU fraud. It shows money which was fraudulently gained from companies by Bruce Wilson being returned to those same companies. The document also shows John Cain, who was the CEO of Maurice Blackburn Lawyers from 1991 to 2002, instructing the bank a manager at the Commonwealth Bank what cheques needed to be written to cover-up the fraud and theft.

John Cain had to know exactly what was happening and why the money was being returned to the companies. He also had to have known that Ian Cambridge was investigating fraud at the AWU.

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In Ian Cambridge’s affidavit John Cain and Maurice Blackburn lawyers get a regular workout from start to finish and he raises the above issue a number of times. Two of those being page 24 and paragraph 58 on page 40 which are below.

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Given what Ian Cambridge says at paragraph 58 I am sure that the Royal Commission will get hold of the Maurice and Blackburn file and we will see what is in it. I wrote in a post last year about John Cain and Maurice Blackburn refusing to give Ian Cambridge a copy of their AWU file in 1995/1996 and Cambridge’s attempts to get the file. (Click here to read the post)

The obvious question that has been on my mind for a long time is: Why are the Victoria Police not in possession of a copy of the Maurice and Blackburn file given the great lengths they went to get a copy of the Slater and Gordon file? Have the Victoria Police been playing favourites and trying to protect the likes of John Cain? In Victorian Labor Party politics John Cain is royalty given his father and grandfather were both Victorian Premiers. And they would have plenty of connections to call in favours to save themselves and their reputations.     

John Cain will have to sing like a Canary at the Royal Commission as it is my understanding there is no attorney-client privilege at Royal Commissions. Even if there was attorney-client privilege at the RC then the crime-fraud exception rule would apply as John Cain was helping his clients commit the crime of fraud and theft from the AWU so there would still be no attorney-client privilege.

The above is only a very small amount of evidence, although very powerful evidence, focused on one person. So if the Royal Commission does it’s job properly the Australian public are about to get a very powerful show.

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