The more Mirvac knew about City Tatts the more they worried about the type of people they were dealing with. The Johny Bineham case was one more warning about dealing with City Tatts.
Johny Bineham was suspended from City Tattersalls Club one Thursday afternoon – to prevent him speaking at a “Members Briefing” about the property development held that evening. He was suspended, over the phone, by Jan Ellks (Guilfoyle’s $140,000 secretary) without a hearing.
Mirvac were not responsible for this. But it was an blatant attempt to silence a member who had started to ask difficult questions about the property development – a high profile property development to be built by Mirvac.
Mirvac simply couldn’t predict what might result from this. The potential for adverse publicity was very real. This is a man who fought for his country. He even fought in the Korean War!! (Yes, the Korean war that ended in 1953) Now, when he should be enjoying his retirement, he’s suspended from his own club for speaking out against Tweedledum and Tweedledee’s insane property plan. If the media, or public opinion, picked up on this and got behind him who knows where it might lead. Apart from that, he had clear grounds to challenge his illegal suspension in the Supreme Court, which was exactly the kind of exposure Mirvac didn’t want.
He remains suspended today, despite never being brought before the Committee – as required by the rules. There have been other cases where members banned from City Tatts for physical assaults were allowed back within 6 months. But of course Bineham’s crime is far more serious to Tweedledum and Tweedledee – he helped derail their pet project and expose it for the fraud it was.
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