That's 12 Liberal scumbags that should be thrown in jail.
Liberal MP becomes the latest scalp September 13, 2014
Michaela Whitbourn and Kate McClymont
A sensational corruption inquiry has concluded by claiming a 10th NSW Liberal scalp, with Port Stephens MP Craig Baumann sent to the crossbench amid allegations he took secret developer donations.
This brings to 12 the number of state and federal Liberal politicians who have resigned or stood aside after corruption inquiries this year.
One, Senator Arthur Sinodinos, told the Independent Commission Against Corruption on Friday he did not accept ''any responsibility'' for the NSW Liberal Party accepting donations from prohibited donors during the past state election campaign.
Operation Spicer, which concluded nine weeks of public hearings on Friday, investigated allegations that the NSW Liberals accepted money from banned sources before the 2011 election.
Senator Sinodinos was then the chairman of the party's finance committee. He gave evidence he was unaware property developers, who have been prohibited from making political donations in NSW since January 2010, were donating to the campaign.
''Property developers as defined by whom?'' he asked.
''What's your problem? Don't you know what a property developer is?'' counsel assisting the inquiry, Geoffrey Watson, SC, asked.
The biggest donor, a shadowy Canberra-based organisation called the Free Enterprise Foundation, allegedly ''washed'' almost $700,000 in illicit donations, channelling the money to the NSW Liberal Party.
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