Ex-Hamilton finance broker Miles John McKelvy (48) the king pin in New Zealand’s biggest mortgage fraud racket, was jailed for eight years after admitting swindling more than $1 million from mainly low-income homeowners and lending institutions.
A Companies Office prosecution of high profile people continues to creep its way through the court system, although nothing appears to have been heard of it publicly since last October.
At 6 pm on Monday April 10 I picked up the phone at my Waiheke Island home. It was National Business Review managing editor Brett Thompson, and he fired me.