Former NSW Labor minister Ian Macdonald jailed for up to 10 years over coal deal

By Michaela Whitbourn
Updated June 2 2017 - 1:38pm, first published 1:31pm
Photo: Daniel Munoz
Photo: Daniel Munoz

Former NSW Labor minister Ian Macdonald will join his one-time political ally Eddie Obeid in prison after the Supreme Court jailed him for a maximum of 10 years for criminal misconduct for giving a lucrative coal exploration licence to a former union boss.

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