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Four men including two former council chiefs and a county leader will appear in court in October after being charged in connection with a long-running ....
July court date for Joe Anderson legal fees row in council corruption probe A top barrister has been selected by Liverpool council to defend their decision not to fund the arrested former Mayor s legal costs Updated Former Liverpool Mayor Joe Anderson on the Liverpool waterfront (Image: Liverpool Echo) Sign up to the Merseyside Report, for our weekly inside track on what s happening in the corridors of powerInvalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Sign me up When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Your information will be used in accordance with ourPrivacy Notice. ....
Seven days that rocked Liverpool to its core The full story behind a week this city will never forget after Mayor s arrest Updated It was a day that will be remembered in Liverpool for a long time to come. An otherwise fairly quiet Friday spiralled into almighty chaos as news broke that the Mayor of Liverpool, Joe Anderson had been arrested by Merseyside Police as part of a corruption probe looking at building contracts in the city. Here political editor Liam Thorp looks at what came next in a week that shook the city to its core. In newsrooms - both real and virtual - Fridays can sometimes be a little quieter than the rest of the week. ....
All the investigations engulfing Liverpool Council and the city s development scene A number of probes, some criminal, have been launched into business activity in Liverpool over recent years Updated (Image: Colin Lane/Liverpool Echo) The arrest of Joe Anderson came as part of a long-running probe into building and development contracts in Liverpool. The city mayor was questioned on suspicion of conspiracy to commit bribery and witness intimidation in the third wave of arrests linked to Merseyside Police s Operation Aloft. The investigation is the latest to have been launched in response to allegations linked to either Liverpool Council s business activity or the city s development scene. ....