Gold Coast developer mayor Tom Tate has brazenly lied about his longstanding business relationship with alleged fraudster Frank Kovacevic — and the local News Corp scandal sheet has let him get away with it.

News recently emerged that Kovacevic has been attempting to offload the Picasso sketch he, with the assistance of the colourful mayor, allegedly cheated from prominent Flamenco guitarist Fernando da Costa several years ago.

And while the Gold Coast Bulletin reported some of the details of this scam, this News Corp publication allowed Tate to claim in its pages this month, unchallenged, that Kovacevic had never  been his “business associate”.

IA HAS REPORTED THE TRUTH — AS DID THE GCB, ONCE!

As Independent Australia readers would be well aware from our meticulous investigations into the colourful exploits of Tom Tate and “Frankie Four-names” Kovacevic, this is an outright, brazen, lie.

Tate’s decades long business relationship with Kovacevic documented comprehensively in IA, but it has also been affirmed under oath by numerous parties, including Tate and Kovacevic, both inside and outside court.

via EDITORIAL: Sketchy GC Mayor Tom Tate lies — local Murdoch rag covers it up