#NSWICAC Robertson refers to her statement the weekend after Maguire's 2018 ICAC evidence, that he had "let down" his constituents, state and party. Robertson asks if by then she suspected he had engaged in corrupt conduct. She says no.
#NSWICAC She is asked how that can possibly been the case, she says "because that wasn't the person I knew ... "
#NSWICAC Berejiklian insists that if she had any specific concerns about Maguire, she would have reported them. Robertson asks about *everything* that has come to light this morning and Friday. Berejiklian restates that she simply trusted that Maguire had done nothing wrong.
#NSWICAC Robertson asks what shocked Berejiklian about Maguire's evidence at ICAC on the 13th. She says it was his "associations" with people accused of wrongdoing. Robertson: "But he had told about those on the 5th?" Berejiklian: "But he said he'd done nothing wrong ..."
#NSWICAC Berejiklian "I don't know what I would have reported. He told me had done nothing wrong, and I believed him."
Robertson "So you understand your duty is only to report potential wrongdoing is when you personally believe that wrongdoing has definitely taken place?"
Robertson "So you understand your duty is only to report potential wrongdoing is when you personally believe that wrongdoing has definitely taken place?"
#NSWICAC Berejiklian: "I knew in my heart I had done nothing wrong. Anyone who knows me knows I'm not capable of that ... "
#NSWICAC Berejiklian says she wouldn't have "retained" details of conversations with Maguire. Says she concluded that she didn't know anything that could have helped the the commission.
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