‘They just wanted to talk to me,’ Matthew Guy says of group conversation about Melbourne’s marketsThe Victorian opposition leader, Matthew Guy, has said if he had his time again he would not have gone to a lobster dinner attended by a man alleged in court papers to be the head of Melbourne’s mafia. Guy met Tony Madafferi and other Liberal party figures over several bottles of Penfolds Grange at the Lobster Cave in Beaumaris in May, according to a joint Fairfax Media-Four Corners investigation. Once you're there, you're there Matthew GuyHe said he spoke to Madafferi, a fruit and vegetable seller, as part of a group discussion about Melbourne markets. “They didn’t want anything, they just wanted to talk to me about the operation,” Guy told reporters on Tuesday. “I went there, I met someone associated with the party for 50 years.”

Source: The Guardian August 08, 2017 00:11 UTC