School building chief asked staff to lie about asbestos after deadly crash, inquiry hears

Two sackings in the spotlight in bombshell school corruption inquiry

Anthony Manning’s barrister hit out at the ICAC’s probe into his client’s time as School Infrastructure, saying his “reputation is on the line”.

In response to concerns about asbestos contamination at P.S. 176 in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, a spokesperson for the New York City School Construction Authority responded to The Epoch Times the next day, emphasizing that all projects followed health and safety regulations and that parents had been provided with official documents on asbestos removal work. District 20 Superintendent David Pretto said he had taken steps to address the relevant commun…

ICAC probes selection process of School Infrastructure chief

Former NSW education secretary and current University of Sydney Vice-Chancellor Mark Scott has defended spending millions of dollars on contractors to help build schools, amid a corruption inquiry into the man he helped hire to oversee their work. The NSW Independent Commission Against Corruption’s (ICAC) investigation into former School Infrastructure chief Anthony Manning has heard that one of the referees on Mr Manning’s job application was n…