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1 week ago | 
theage.com.au | Melissa Cunningham |Chris Vedelago
By Melissa Cunningham and Chris Vedelago May 5, 2025 — 6.11pm, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Save articles for laterAdd articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. A tradesman accused of shooting gangland lawyer Joseph “Pino” Acquaro outside a gelato shop has walked out of court a free man after a murder charge against him was dropped.
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3 weeks ago | 
theage.com.au | Chris Vedelago |Cameron Houston
Melbourne gangland’s relief as underworld figures dodge witness box on eve of Lawyer X trialBy Chris Vedelago and Cameron Houston April 24, 2025 — 3.48pm, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Save articles for laterAdd articles to your saved list and come back to them any time.
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3 weeks ago | 
theage.com.au | Erin Pearson |Chris Vedelago
By Erin Pearson and Chris Vedelago April 22, 2025 — 3.00pm, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Save articles for laterAdd articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Two veteran barristers have admitted to posting an offensive “joke” about the LGBTQ community in the elevators inside a Melbourne legal chambers building in 2022, which sparked an investigation and led to official disciplinary action. John F.
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3 weeks ago | 
watoday.com.au | Erin Pearson |Chris Vedelago
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1 month ago | 
theage.com.au | Chris Vedelago
, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Save articles for laterAdd articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Melbourne’s “tobacco war” could be coming to an uneasy truce after several of the most powerful remaining players united to form a new cartel controlled by exiled gangland boss Kazem “Kaz” Hamad.
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1 month ago | 
watoday.com.au | Chris Vedelago
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1 month ago | 
theage.com.au | Chris Vedelago
, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Save articles for laterAdd articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Underworld kingpin Kazem “Kaz” Hamad has allegedly more than doubled his extortion fee to $5000 a month for shops selling illegal tobacco, as he consolidates control of the black market after a two-year campaign of violence, according to underworld and police sources.
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1 month ago | 
theage.com.au | Chris Vedelago
Defence contractor under police investigation over threat to bomb Burgertory outlet, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Save articles for laterAdd articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Police are investigating an alleged threat by a defence contractor to bomb a Burgertory outlet owned by prominent Palestinian activist Hash Tayeh.
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1 month ago | 
watoday.com.au | Chris Vedelago
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1 month ago | 
theage.com.au | Chris Vedelago |Erin Pearson |Marta Pascual Juanola
‘Tony started the underworld’: The original gangland crime boss who survived and, eventually, beat the systemBy Chris Vedelago, Erin Pearson and Marta Pascual Juanola April 4, 2025 — 4.09pm, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Save articles for laterAdd articles to your saved list and come back to them any time.
