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Sign up for our Morning Edition newsletter Sam Einfeld smashed down his 83-year-old godmother\\u2019s garage door with his car became one of Australia\\u2019s youngest local government representatives in 1999 when he was elected to Waverley Council went \\u201Cdoctor-shopping\\u201D and bought extra medication on the street the widow\\u2019s life changed immeasurably when she was attacked in her own home by Einfeld Priday said she once celebrated all Einfeld\\u2019s birthdays and invited him to share her own family\\u2019s milestones That was until Einfeld committed a \\u201Cviolent senseless and unprovoked crime\\u201D in her own home filled with memories of Einfeld\\u2019s rage-filled face attacking her and wearing what she suspected were her late partner\\u2019s boots she had given to him as a gift \\u201C[I\\u2019m filled with] the memory and fear and sheer terror of wondering if I was about to die,\\u201D she said I wonder what would have happened if you hadn\\u2019t heard those [police] sirens \\u201CI am hollowed out by the betrayal: the betrayal of having this happen by someone I knew so well and trusted,\\u201D she said Einfeld broke down as he told the court he did a \\u201Chorrible thing\\u201D he will never get over \\u201CI can never forgive myself for what I did Polly,\\u201D Einfeld said through a crackling voice I can only begin to imagine what it must be like to be a victim.\\u201D Start the day with a summary of the day\\u2019s most important and interesting stories Please select what you would like included for printing: Copy the text below and then paste that into your favorite email application Chuck will be sadly missed by his wife Pauline; his sons Bradley (Janice) and Sheldon; son-in-law Ken; grandchildren Jared (Roksana) Bailey (Leon) and Riley; great grandchildren Ernest and Otto; brother Marinus; niece Nikki; as well as many other relatives and friends Simon & Jean Einfeld and his daughter Crystal Chuck was born in Winnipeg & grew up in Elmwood His summers were spent at the seasonal family run-bakery (Einfeld’s Bakery) in Victoria Beach which was taken over by his parents (Simon & Jean Einfeld) from Jean’s parents (Gus & Lillian Cox) He worked at the family bakery each summer learning the trade from his father Simon which made his bond with the community even stronger With his love for music & many years of taking accordion lessons he became a member of the band “The Chord-U-Roys” He played rhythm guitar as well as doing backup vocals They were quite popular in the early 60’s & were even showcased on Winnipeg’s own “Teen Dance Party” Chuck was also a member of the Victoria Beach Volunteer Fire Department He enjoyed curling at the local club in the weekly square draw & numerous bonspiels playing baseball with the “Victoria Beach All-Nighters” & snowmobiling He also raced snowmobiles for a while (Polaris & later Rupp) He loved to pick up his guitar & entertain sometimes till the wee hours of the morning This sometimes made it difficult to maintain his early morning bread-making duties Chuck took on various jobs in the off-season By the time his parents had acquired a bakery on Portage Avenue (Woodies Goodies) he continued gaining life experience working at Furnaceman in Winnipeg for a brief period as well as learning how to build houses in the northern communities but always returned to Victoria Beach in the summer months And eventually took over Einfeld’s bakery from his parents He enjoyed running the family business and liked to whistle while he worked Many of his young employees went on to continue in the Bakery industry as well As his children became proficient in the bakery he was able to acquire a year-round bakery in Pine Falls Having a few days off now in the summer meant he was able to enjoy one of his other passions-boating He would often take the staff members and some of their families out for a boat ride and in a few short years they were married This gave him a lifelong partner to work by his side As his son Brad took over the bakery in Victoria Beach they were able to concentrate on the year-round bakery in Pine Falls which let Einfeld’s Bakery products be shipped to northern fishing lodges it was found out that the pair had a green thumb and started planting a huge garden Having an acreage that large kept Chuck busy on his lawnmower The grandkids always loved eating veggies out of the garden at Grandpa & Pauline’s He always got a kick out of watching the grandkids scooting around the yard on mini quads & minibikes Chuck always maintained a good sense of humour which he passed down to all of his kids He rarely argued… unless you didn’t agree with him and he like nothing more than when an old friend would stop by for a visit He will be deeply missed by all his friends donations may be made to the Victoria Beach Sports Club with a Celebration of Life to follow at 1:00 p.m Offer Condolence for the family of Simon Charles Clarence Einfeld This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply Service map data © OpenStreetMap contributors CEO of Northwest Colorado Health Stephanie Einfeld has been chosen as one of 30 community leaders and business executives from across the state for the 2023-24 Colorado Governors Fellows program the program is a bipartisan leadership program that prepares private and nonprofit sector leaders with opportunities to deepen their understanding of Colorado state government and public policy issues by fostering connections with former and current administration officials The program is run by CiviCO, a nonprofit that cultivates civic-minded leaders to improve Colorado through positive actions. For more about Colorado Governors Fellows, LiveCivico.org/ Readers around Steamboat and Routt County make the Steamboat Pilot & Today’s work possible Your financial contribution supports our efforts to deliver quality your support is critical to help us keep our community informed about the evolving coronavirus pandemic and the impact it is having locally Each donation will be used exclusively for the development and creation of increased news coverage Former Einfeld staffer Rosette Laursen released emails where he told her to “sew her vagina shut” Talent manager Michael Einfeld is shuttering his Los Angeles office in the wake of the public disclosure of emails in which he called a female assistant an “uppity selfish c—,” TheWrap has learned Einfeld has let go his four staffers at ME Management an individual with knowledge of the situation told TheWrap He has also  parted ways with the vast majority of his roughly 50 clients The instant social media frenzy — and stream of death threats — have made it impossible for the company to continue operations At least one casting director from a major broadcast network informed ME Management clients that she would not submit them for auditions if they maintained Einfeld as a rep a second individual familiar with the company said Enfield has approached authorities about the death threats and steady flow of hate mail wishing sexual violence against him adding that the manager had ceased using his company emails Einfeld did not respond to requests for comment The abrupt turn of events comes one week after former assistant Rosette Laursen posted NSFW messages from her boss in response to her participation in “A Day Without Women” earlier this year Emails from Einfeld intended for Laursen’s colleagues were sent to his entire office when the manager hit “reply all” after Laursen informed the office she would not attend work on March 8 so she could observe the national women’s protest he recommended Laursen “sew her vagina shut.” Despite Laursen’s assertions that she had sought permission to take the day off of work to protest TheWrap has obtained her original email to colleagues which paints a slightly different picture — including the nature of her interactions with her boss “The following statement is going to make Michael [Enfield] hate vagina more than he already does,” she wrote (see screen grab below) “I’m staying home and striking today to protest for National Women’s Day If enough women don’t spend money today and don’t go to work today shit is going to get really fucked up and that’s going to make a point.” Reached for comment about her original email Laursen told TheWrap that it was “not the type of email I would send to a boss in any other scenario with these jokes “I became really quickly desensitized to the offensive language Micheal used and was just trying to fit in and keep things light,” she said “When I first talked to my lawyer about the emails I told him I didn’t feel like my initial email was extremely professional and without context people might hold that against me He assured me that nothing I said was comparable to the response I received I am very sorry if it was offensive to anyone reading.” Einfeld’s comments sparked a social media frenzy and was covered by dozens of media outlets followed up with this apology to Laursen: “I apologize for venting like a misogynistic faggot I was letting off steam I didn’t mean to hit reply all If you come back we can play Nazi death camp Or feed me cabbage and lock me in the shower Einfeld also sent a note to friends and clients apologizing for the scandal I believe deeply in workplace diversity regardless of race and I am mortified that the things I have said have worked against my commitment to inclusion.” “I will be undertaking some obviously needed introspection and want to thank those of you who have expressed a willingness to stand by me To those that feel they need space from me — I am heartbroken but understand I wouldn’t mind space from myself right now City Hub can reveal that a former local councillor who attacked an 81-year-old woman in her home recently tested positive to multiple substances and was immediately discharged from his rehabilitation centre Police have confirmed to City Hub that an investigation has commenced in relation to a possible breach of District Court bail If it is found that the assailant breached his bail conditions police will not be able to arrest him if he shows up at his court date attacked Margot Priday in her Surry Hills home in April 2022 He repeatedly rammed his car into her garage door until it buckled who knew the assailant since he was a baby and was a friend of his mother’s He kicked the elderly woman repeatedly while she was on the ground Priday’s smart watch automatically dialled triple-0 The attack reportedly stopped as police sirens approached Priday was left with cuts and bruises to her arms and legs Einfeld was taken to Surry Hills Police Station where it was noted that he was “affected by drugs” He remained in custody for eight months before he was granted bail by the District Court in December 2022 to seek treatment in a residential rehabilitation program at Odyssey House He pleaded guilty to aggravated breaking and entering to commit a serious indictable offence (the assault on Margot) as well as two separate counts of common assault against Margot’s daughter “We felt a lot more comfortable when he was in jail.” “Seven-and-a-half months in jail and just over a year in rehab seems a bit light for a person that broke into an elderly woman’s home and attacked her for no reason.” Einfeld came under the media spotlight after being accused of assaulting his father and causing actual bodily harm during an altercation in a Bondi Junction home He was elected as a Waverley Councillor in 1999 at age 18 becoming one of the country’s youngest local government representatives Einfeld went on to practice law with Minter Ellison before taking on a variety of consultancy roles Sam Einfeld is also the cousin of former federal court judge Marcus Einfeld who went to jail for two years for lying about a $77 speeding ticket Before he was convicted of perjury and perverting the course of justice Marcus Einfeld was the inaugural president of the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission and a director of the World Jewish Congress in London before becoming one of Sydney’s most prominent barristers was a local member of Parliament and a prominent Jewish community leader He is credited with transforming Australia’s immigration policy to offer refuge to Holocaust survivors Australia accepted more refugees per capita than any other country and took in more Jewish refugees than any nation except Israel He was also President of The Executive Council of Australia Jewry three times between 1953 and 1962 The overpass to Bondi Beach past Westfields was opened by him in 1979 and renamed Syd Einfeld Pass Einfeld was allegedly discharged from the rehabilitation centre after testing positive to multiple substances whose identity City Hub has promised to protect Einfeld allegedly had at least seven court appearances for bail variations Einfeld’s lawyer James Payton applied for a bail variation 19 days before the sentence date The application was to remove a requirement allowing his client to leave the rehabilitation centre According to a report by The Daily Telegraph Payton told the court that “the vectors toward the commission of this offence” were no longer present and that his client had “proved himself worthy of trust.” Judge Jane Culver acknowledged the “perfect storm” which led Einfeld to committing the offences – his poor mental health But there was an “unacceptable risk” to the victim’s safety it was potentially enough for another offence to occur Judge Culver rejected the application and Einfeld remained scheduled to be sentenced on November 27 and what bail variations he did succeed in securing It’s now been two years and two months since Einfeld assaulted Priday in her home When explaining why they are coming forward to media “I’m doing this because I know that woman and her granddaughter are scared of him And he’s not where police know him to be.” “I’m sure their daily habits would change a lot if they knew that he was back in the suburbs driving around.” Get unlimited access. 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By continuing, you agree to our Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy Get your intro offer.  It looks like your email isn't registered yet—let’s get you set up We've sent a code to the below email.  Empathy is a critical component of human interactions It is an innate skill that helps people connect and appreciate the feelings and experiences of others it helps establish trust and promote cooperative behaviour empathy is so natural that we may only reflect on it when it is absent Imagine telling a friend about our bad day at work and instead of the response being “That sounds awful The word ’empathy’ was adapted into the English language in the early 20th century by Edward B which means “feeling into.” Initially used to describe aesthetic appreciation of objects it gradually came to signify the recognition of other people’s emotions through The pursuit of understanding how humans ‘mirror’ the experiences of others predates Titchener’s interest in Einfühlung Thinkers of the calibre of David Hume and Adam Smith were interested in the importance of emotional resonance although Hume’s empathy as passive emotional contagion is distinct from Smith’s “fellow feeling” that he described as a proactive effort to understand the perspectives of others Whatever the perspective, modern conceptions of empathy by neuroscientists, psychologists, sociologists and economists recognise both its affective and cognitive nature — empathy happens naturally but requires a cognitive effort, and enables people to tap into the experiences of others thanks to “mirror neurons.” Evidence from neuroscience also suggests that empathy is both innate and malleable enough to be promoted and developed through experience and social interaction empathy translates into altruistic and compassionate behaviour Empathy’s critical interpersonal and societal role makes it highly relevant for public servants. Empathy research tends to focus on public-facing roles in the government for the empathic opportunities such roles enjoy Empathising with the customer can help put them at ease create a pleasant and stress-free experience and ultimately increase confidence and trust in the public service empathetic behaviours are better understood in the context of personal interactions — acknowledgement the friend is a staff member of a government agency Such unempathetic treatment by a public servant would be devastating for someone already in distress barely anything is known about empathy in public servants who do not interact with the public analysts and regulators rarely have personal encounters with the people they serve Does this mean non-public-facing mandarins do not need empathy Is empathy a liability when it comes to policymaking — widely regarded as a process driven by rationality and cost considerations Tensions between empathy for the public and neutral rationality and efficiency gains are difficult for public servants to manage Public service priorities do not fold neatly into a decision-ready pile and public servants are often faced with a choice between economy and engaging with the public and the policy problem with kindness and compassion Despite this apparent binary situation, empathy does not necessarily run counter to rational decision-making. Cartesian separation of rationality and emotion is flawed, argues Antonio Damasio as our brain uses feelings from past experiences to construct somatic markers which help it make decisions faster and more logically Unempathetic policies may not have the immediate jarring effect of an unkind personal interaction with a public servant, but their effects might result in a disproportionately bigger impact on people’s livelihoods and long-term adverse ramifications for public trust in government The existing scholarship on empathy in public service offers a glimpse of the government not driven by a pursuit of efficiency and KPIs alone but one striving to rehumanise policy. Individual public servants can be helped to get in touch with their empathetic abilities through training and development that focuses expressly on compassion and understanding of people’s needs Creating spaces and opportunities to practice empathy by modelling behaviour for employees can help re-centre the marginalised members of the public Empathy can be extended from an individual disposition to social empathy that permeates the policy process and outcomes Insights derived from empathising with people’s experiences can be used to understand broader social and political patterns in society and how they contribute to people’s structural contexts. This is something that the public will be demanding more actively in the face of health crises The rehumanisation of policy may begin with a conscious and effortful engagement with understanding the fundamental emotions policy decisions evoke in the public — like hopes and fears The practice of empathy is not without its caveats burnout and bias against members of the public perceived as undeserving of compassion can distort the positive impact of engaging with people’s perspectives This is why it is important to understand what empathetic practices behaviours and actions of public servants are useful We would like to hear and understand the experiences of empathy of Australian public servants from various departments we are designing a taxonomy of empathetic practices and behaviours that can help make empathy embedded rather than transient and inform government efforts to build a trusted public service If you would like to offer your own work experiences of using empathy at work, please contact Assel Mussagulova and Colette Einfeld Survey: Aussie workers plagued by stress, burnout and trust issues want bosses to show more empathy Already a subscriber? Log in Lisa Brown’s last day on the job as CEO of Northwest Colorado Health will be Feb Community members are invited to say farewell to Brown and welcome Einfeld at receptions in the following locations STEAMBOAT SPRINGS — The board of directors of Northwest Colorado Health announced Thursday hat it has promoted from within and selected Stephanie Einfeld to be the agency’s new chief executive officer replacing Lisa Brown who has served in that role for seven years and is moving to Denver Einfeld came to Northwest Colorado Health  as its revenue cycle manager and quickly moved up to join its leadership team as director of performance improvement She said her new role will require her to become more of a public person “My role with the agency has been very much internal working with different teams to maximize how effective we are working with patients,” she said I’ll be taking that to the next level and building connections being much more visible and listening to what’s needed in the community.” Northwest Colorado Health offers a variety of services in Routt, Moffat, Jackson and Grand counties president of the Northwest Colorado Health board of directors said Einfeld is highly competent with the systems that make the public health organization effective in delivering health care and also has the right personality for the public side of the job describing her as being very professional but also very personable and easy to connect with “She understands the nuances of the organization,” Good said it’s very important to have the financial acumen she has and be able to understand the tradeoffs you have to make to provide those services She’s on the forefront of the regulations and legislation (that have implications for public health agencies) and where they are going.” Einfeld earned a bachelor’s degree in statistical mathematics from Colorado State University in 2004 she received a professional certification in lean healthcare management — simplifying the healthcare process for patients — from the University of Michigan a master’s of business administration degree from Regis University Einfeld said addressing “health inequities” in the community is increasingly important “That’s really our goal to fill those gaps,” she said “I think we’re really trying to build those channels and make connections to reach people who can use our services We need to build unity amongst our community that’s going to be a pillar for us going forward.” To reach Tom Ross, call 970-871-4205, email tross@SteamboatToday.com or follow him on Twitter @ThomasSRoss1. Readers around Steamboat and Routt County make the Steamboat Pilot & Today’s work possible. Your financial contribution supports our efforts to deliver quality, locally relevant journalism. Now more than ever, your support is critical to help us keep our community informed about the evolving coronavirus pandemic and the impact it is having locally. Every contribution, however large or small, will make a difference. Each donation will be used exclusively for the development and creation of increased news coverage. Please enable JS and disable any ad blocker ABC News News HomeEinfeld freed from jailShare Einfeld freed from jailTopic:Law, Crime and Justice Former judge Marcus Einfeld was sentenced to three years' jail in 2009 (Lee Besford: AAP) Link copiedShareShare articleFormer Federal Court judge Marcus Einfeld has apologised for his crime and expressed relief after walking out of Sydney's Silverwater prison a free man. Dressed in a navy suit, Mr Einfeld looked pale and tired as he was released from the protective custody unit of the prison. The 72-year-old has served exactly two years in jail after admitting he concocted a series of lies to try to get out of a $77 speeding fine. He pleaded guilty in 2009 to providing false statements that named a dead woman as the driver of his car. "First of all I want to thank my family and many friends for supporting me during the worst period of my life," he said. "I'm desperately sorry for letting them and the community down so badly." Mr Einfeld says he was treated with respect by other inmates during his two years in prison. "I also want to express warm appreciation to the hundreds and hundreds of people, mostly complete strangers, who've sent me books and crossword puzzles and prayers and personal items during my incarceration," he said. "My thanks also go to many of my fellow prisoners and the prison staff who've shown me respect and kindness, not that I received any favoured treatment but they were all very kind." "Having now served the time ordered by the court I hope you will allow me to have some quiet personal time with my children and grandchildren," he said. "I also want to have a decent cup of tea and go to a few Roosters games. "My immediate priority is to hug my 98-year-old mother who is anxiously waiting to see me." Mr Enfield admitted two years in jail had taken its toll. "I'm not looking my most beautiful," he said. "I've certainly learned a very painful lesson." He says he is looking forward to regaining his health and resuming charity work, with a special focus on prison reform and male depression and suicide. He will now have to report to a parole officer for the next 12 months. AEST = Australian Eastern Standard Time which is 10 hours ahead of GMT (Greenwich Mean Time) ABC News News HomeJail term completes Einfeld's disgraceShare Jail term completes Einfeld's disgraceTopic:Courts Disgraced: Marcus Einfeld arriving at court this morning Link copiedShareShare articleFormer judge Marcus Einfeld has been led from a Sydney court after being given a jail sentence for lying to avoid a $77 speeding fine The 70-year-old stumbled and grabbed the rail of the dock in the New South Wales Supreme Court as he was sentenced to three years in jail with a non-parole period of two years for perjury and perverting the course of justice before he handed his wallet and mobile phone over to court officers His daughter cried as she embraced her father Justice Bruce James said Einfeld had engaged in "planned criminal activity" and "deliberate premeditated perjury" to avoid demerit points on his driver's licence Einfeld lied to avoid a $77 fine for driving 10 kilometres per hour over the speed limit had faced maximum penalties of 10 and 14 years in jail for each charge He had publicly declared he was not driving his car when he was fined for driving 60 kilometres per hour in a 50kph zone in the harbourside Sydney suburb of Mosman in January including American Professor Teresa Brennan but it was later discovered she had died three years earlier The high-profile former judge had told a court the Australian-born American academic had died in a hit-and-run accident after the car was clocked speeding Einfeld later claimed that he was out in a different car with Vivien Schenker an ex-journalist and media adviser to former Labor leader Mark Latham but CCTV footage showed that car was in a garage all day The ex-judge had vowed to fight the charges but he pleaded guilty in a surprise change of heart a week before his trial was due to start last October Five other charges had been dropped weeks earlier Sydney's Supreme Court was packed with supporters critics and reporters for the sentencing today some of them sitting on the floor and standing in the doorway Justice Bruce James said he had taken into account Einfeld's contributions to society the destruction of his reputation and his medical condition But the judge said he also had to consider that the 69-year-old's offences were extremely serious "Any lawyer and especially a lawyer who has been a barrister and a judge is to be sentence on the basis that he would have been fully aware of the gravity of his conduct," Justice James said Justice James said Einfeld only had four demerit points left on his driver's licence when he was caught speeding He said the 70-year-old would have been in the "perilous position" of only having one point left if he was convicted "The message this sends is that anyone who is thinking about engaging in this type of activity it's certainly not worth it," he said "For the sake of a small monetary penality people's lives can be absolutely ruined "We certainly didn't see the investigation as being that of a speeding fine," he added "It was the circumstances that followed it This matter was given the same priority as any investigation the Fraud Squad conducts It was conducted in the same manner." Einfeld's lawyers had called for a non-custodial sentence saying the ex-judge had prostate cancer and depression and his reputation had been destroyed He asked the judge to consider that Einfeld was a "beacon of light a living treasure and a man of honour" describing the offences as extremely premeditated and a complete rejection of law and order 56-year-old Angela Liati was last month found guilty for telling police she was the other woman in Einfeld's car when it was caught speeding Liati is due to be sentenced in May but has appealed against the guilty verdict Einfeld's high-profile career has included periods as a justice of the Federal Court and the Supreme Courts of NSW having served as president of Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission from 1986 to 1990 Einfeld talks exclusively with ABC1's Four Corners - The Dishonouring of Marcus Einfeld airs on Monday March 23 at 8.30pm. 1m 56sRelated topicsAustralia Watch The Dishonouring of Marcus Einfield (Sarah Ferguson) MARCUS EINFELD, FEDERAL COURT JUDGE 1986-2001: My name is Marcus Einfeld (applause). I am a justice of the Federal Court of Australia and of the Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory. (Excerpt of footage of Marcus Einfeld surrounded by reporters) REPORTER: All of this over lying about $77 Mr Einfeld? You must have something to say to us? SARAH FERGUSON: Last Friday Marcus Einfeld became the first Federal Court judge in Australian history to go to jail. MARCUS EINFELD, FEDERAL COURT JUDGE 1986-2001: I lied. I can't say it any simpler than that. Um I told a lie, which was a disgraceful thing to do and for which I have been paying ever since. And will pay I presume for the rest of my life. REPORTER 2: Do you wish you'd just paid the fine Mr Einfeld/ MARCUS EINFELD, FEDERAL COURT JUDGE 1986-2001: Oh dear, same old questions. SARAH FERGUSON: Tonight for the first time, Einfeld answers those questions. SARAH FERGUSON (to Marcus Einfeld): Why did you do it? Why did you lie? MARCUS EINFELD, FEDERAL COURT JUDGE 1986-2001: I don't really know. I've searched my conscience and my mind about this for a long time as you might imagine, I think of very little else. I got myself into a deep hole and I didn't know how to get out of it. SARAH FERGUSON: He was sentenced to two years in prison for perjury and perverting the course of justice. Once designated a living treasure by the National Trust, Einfeld was hunted, humiliated and exposed before the courts decided to make an example of him. CHRIS SIDOTI, DIR. HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION 1987-92: Arrogant, overbearing, a bully, demanding, cavalier. ROBERT GOOT, SC, PRESIDENT EXECUTIVE COUNCIL OF AUSTRALIAN JEWRY: There are some people who, were waiting for him to stumble and fall and seized on it. SARAH FERGUSON: Einfeld's attempt to evade a $75 speeding fine tied him up in a fatal web of lies and folly almost beyond comprehension. DAVID BITEL, FMR PRESIDENT REFUGEE COUNCIL OF AUSTRALIA: I guess it was hubris that he believed that he was above it, that it was something insignificant and that he would get away with it. REPORTER 3: Do you feel as though you should have just paid the fine Mr Einfeld? REPORTER 4: Are you embarrassed to be here today? REPORTER 5: Do you have any regrets about not just paying that initial fine? SARAH FERGUSON: Do you have a habit of dishonesty? MARCUS EINFELD, FEDERAL COURT JUDGE 1986-2001: No I'm not dishonest, no, no. I mean, I don't want to be offensive but that's a bit offensive and I don't think I'm in the slightest bit dishonest. I just made a mistake. SARAH FERGUSON: Tonight on Four Corners the Dishonouring Of Marcus Einfeld. (On Screen Text: The Dishonouring of Marcus Einfeld, Reporter: Sarah Ferguson) (Excerpt of footage of choir practice at the Great Synagogue, Sydney) SARAH FERGUSON: Choir practice at the Great Synagogue in Sydney. Seventy-year-old Marcus Einfeld sits behind his son Edward. It's a long tradition in the family, Einfeld's grandfather was the cantor here in the early 20th century. Marcus Einfeld let us follow him in the final weeks leading up to the sentencing. MARCUS EINFELD, FEDERAL COURT JUDGE 1986-2001: It's very uncertain what the result might be but I just have to grin and bear whatever is coming and that's what I'm trying to do, and stay strong, and these guys are very helpful in helping me stay strong. SARAH FERGUSON: Tonight the choir is singing a song for Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, according to the other choir members, with their friend very much in mind. SARAH FERGUSON: You were singing the song about atonement before. Do you ever think about that in relation to yourself? MARCUS EINFELD, FEDERAL COURT JUDGE 1986-2001: Of course, all the time, every day. I'm forever trying to atone for what I did. But, you know, whether God will hear me I don't know but I hope people will hear me. And I'm trying to atone for what I have done. SARAH FERGUSON: Some are listening and are prepared to argue his decades of public service outweigh his crimes. DAVID KNOLL, FMR PRESIDENT NSW JEWISH BOARD OF DEPUTIES: You don't abandon people who've done that much good in their lives. I use the word mensch because I knew Marcus as a mensch. A mensch is a person who is prepared to put out there for others and you can see that he is doing so for all the right and good reasons. SARAH FERGUSON: Would you have any hesitation about calling him a mensch now? DAVID KNOLL, FMR PRESIDENT NSW JEWISH BOARD OF DEPUTIES: No. SARAH FERGUSON: In the nervous days before he was sentenced, Einfeld agreed to an interview to answer the allegations against him. MARCUS EINFELD, FEDERAL COURT JUDGE 1986-2001: It's not an easy interview to undertake but I've agreed to it because that's what I have to do to win back any sort of support, understanding and reputation. SARAH FERGUSON: Does that depend on you making frank disclosures about what you did? Do you see a connection between the two? MARCUS EINFELD, FEDERAL COURT JUDGE 1986-2001: Well that's one of the reasons I'm doing this interview, I mean I'm being as frank as is humanly possible. I'm hoping that people will forgive me, I'm desperately sorry for what I did, I'm sorry for, to my family, to my elderly mother and my children. I'm certainly sorry to the public at large because they have been in effect my audience over the years, audiences over the years. SARAH FERGUSON: At the peak of his career Marcus Einfeld could command a large audience. At the Federation celebrations in 2001 he had star billing. He'd been a celebrity human rights activist for three decades. (Excerpt of footage of Marcus Einfeld at 2001 Federation Centenary Celebrations) MARCUS EINFELD, FEDERAL COURT JUDGE 1986-2001: I speak today as an Australian of European migrant heritage. SARAH FERGUSON: He said his inspiration came from his family, especially his father Syd, a prominent New South Wales politician. MARCUS EINFELD, FEDERAL COURT JUDGE 1986-2001: In my parents' modest home where leaders of thought and opinion from Australia and around the world were always gathered, I learnt what a social conscience was. (Excerpt of News footage of Sydney Einfeld) SYDNEY EINFELD, MARCUS EINFELD'S FATHER: We've had a very frank and open discussion between the- DAVID BITEL, FMR PRES REFUGEE COUNCIL OF AUSTRALIA: Syd was a very, very prominent politician in New South Wales. He was the consumer advocate. I think he was the first Minister for Consumer Affairs in the Wran Government, probably the public face of the Labor Party during the Wran years. SARAH FERGUSON: Young Marcus chose not to follow his father into politics, thinking his talents better suited to the law. ROBERT GOOT, SC, PRESIDENT EXECUTIVE COUNCIL OF AUSTRALIAN JEWRY: Hardworking, some might say flamboyant, but certainly a most impressive advocate. (Excerpt of television footage of Marcus Einfeld) MARCUS EINFELD, FEDERAL COURT JUDGE 1986-2001: The judge had to conduct an inquiry into doubts- SARAH FERGUSON: As a QC he came to be involved in some of the biggest cases of the day. REPORTER: Since 1979 Alistair, Dunn and Anderson have appeared in 5 courts ending with their appeal finally dismissed in the High Court. Today they were pardoned by the New South Wales Government on the recommendation of a special inquiry. SARAH FERGUSON: The three men from the Ananda Marga sect had spent seven years in prison for conspiracy to murder. Einfeld led the defence team which proved their convictions were unsafe. JIM GLISSAN, QC, BARRISTER: He was passionate about the belief, I think as we all were, that these kids had been wrongly convicted and that there had been a real injustice committed. SARAH FERGUSON: In 1986 the Federal Labor Government elevated him to iconic status, promoting him to the joint position of judge of the Federal Court and the founding president of the Human Rights Commission. MARCUS EINFELD, FEDERAL COURT JUDGE 1986-2001: I am speaking to you from Chedrani (phonetic) refugee camp, Macedonia. We Australians have opened our hearts and our country to some of these refugees. SARAH FERGUSON: He was a campaigning judge, travelling the world in a self-propelled odyssey for social justice. (Excerpt of footage from '60 Minutes' April 1996) MARCUS EINFELD, FEDERAL COURT JUDGE 1986-2001: First delivery of legal books for you to use in your ministry. SARAH FERGUSON: He persuaded his colleagues to provide free legal advice and resources to developing countries. DAVID BITEL, FMR PRESIDENT REFUGEE COUNCIL OF AUSTRALIA: The man that I admired and that I still admire in Marcus is the man who was with few exceptions in Australia, a man who was prepared to speak out when he saw injustice. (Excerpt of footage of Marcus Einfeld at Amnesty protest) MARCUS EINFELD, FEDERAL COURT JUDGE 1986-2001: We charge them with nothing, we offer them no bail, there is no trial and there is no finding of any offence and we lock them up and throw the key away. SARAH FERGUSON: He attacked both coalition and Labor governments over their treatment of asylum seekers, and the failure to deal with child poverty. (Excerpt of footage of Marcus Einfeld giving a speech on child poverty) MARCUS EINFELD, FEDERAL COURT JUDGE 1986-2001: These children live in clothing bins, under bridges, alongside garbage cans, in open parks, and on the street fronts. They are our legacy, our scandal and our shame. SARAH FERGUSON: But he is best remembered for a single act as Human Rights Commission president in 1987, when he ordered an inquiry into the living conditions of indigenous people in the community of Toomelah, in northern NSW. (Excerpt of News footage of Marcus Einfeld speaking about Toomelah) MARCUS EINFELD, FEDERAL COURT JUDGE 1986-2001: We just can't tolerate a society which we call sophisticated and educated allowing our fellow citizens to live in these degrading circumstances, and I will not allow it to happen. JULIE WHITTON, TOOMELAH ELDER: This has been happening I can remember for the last 40 years, that people have been coming here making promises to us. You know, I've said I don't want to die without the promises being fulfilled. SARAH FERGUSON: Using the media to galvanize national outrage. (Excerpt of News footage of Marcus Einfeld) MARCUS EINFELD, FEDERAL COURT JUDGE 1986-2001: This buck passing cannot be done on the back so of the Aboriginal citizens of Toomelah. MARCUS EINFELD, FEDERAL COURT JUDGE 1986-2001: Well it should have been drawn to their attention more loudly and more often and you should have stood on the steps of the building until they provided the services. VIVIAN SCHENKER, REPORTER: The tour of Toomelah left Judge Einfeld angry and determined there would be no more unfulfilled promises. SARAH FERGUSON: By chance it was there he met reporter Vivian Schenker, his companion in the car on that fateful day 19 years later when he got his speeding fine. But not everyone was awestruck by his brilliance and crash or crash through style. CHRIS SIDOTI, DIR. HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION 1987-92: In a word, overbearing. Ah a very, very difficult person to work with. Demanding, arrogant, incapable of seeking and listening to advice. (Excerpt of footage of Marcus Einfeld returning to Toomelah) MARCUS EINFELD, FEDERAL COURT JUDGE 1986-2001: Here's my best girlfriend, how are you? MARCUS EINFELD, FEDERAL COURT JUDGE 1986-2001: How are you? MARCUS EINFELD, FEDERAL COURT JUDGE 1986-2001: Good to see you. How's everything? TOOMELAH WOMAN: Oh real good, can you see? MARCUS EINFELD, FEDERAL COURT JUDGE 1986-2001: Seems to be going pretty well, fantastic isn't it? SARAH FERGUSON: But Einfeld did get results in Toomelah. Housing sewerage, roads and water were all improved. And a bridge was built to enable the locals to get out when the river was high. MADELINE MCGRADY, TOOMELAH ELDER: It was just so overwhelming for us as Aboriginal people living in despair and poverty all our lives, and to suddenly have this man walk into our community. It was just unbelievable. Like I said, you know, to us at that time he was like, South Africa had a Mandela. We had Justice Einfeld come into our community. And that's exactly the way we felt about it. ROBERT GOOT, SC, PRESIDENT EXECUTIVE COUNCIL OF AUSTRALIAN JEWRY: It's one of the great tragedies of this whole episode. Not just the family name, but Marcus' own reputation and the concern that all of those great achievements, and there were many and they were great, will be forgotten over this most unfortunate, petty matter. When I say petty matter I don't mean the charge with which, to which he has pleaded guilty, but the circumstances that gave rise to it. SARAH FERGUSON: The unravelling of everything that Marcus Einfeld stood for began with a speed camera on a suburban street firing off a single shot at his passing car. It was just one of 600 speeding tickets issued in Sydney that day. Einfeld's troubles began when he tried to get out of paying it. SARAH FERGUSON (to Marcus Einfeld): Why didn't you just pay there and then? MARCUS EINFELD, FEDERAL COURT JUDGE 1986-2001: Ah that's a question I can't answer. I mean obviously this was not about $77 or whatever it was. MARCUS EINFELD, FEDERAL COURT JUDGE 1986-2001: And it wasn't the points which is the argument made by the prosecution I think, that you were afraid of losing your licence? MARCUS EINFELD, FEDERAL COURT JUDGE 1986-2001: No, because my, I didn't, first of all I had no idea how many points I'd lost. I didn't even know, this shows how silly I was, I didn't even know that you could find out how many points, apparently you can find out online, I didn't know that. SARAH FERGUSON: He says he sent off a statutory declaration stating he was out of town that day and that a friend from overseas had borrowed his car. SARAH FERGUSON (to Marcus Einfeld): It looks as though you set out to deceive pretty much from the beginning, that faced with the infringement notice your instinct was to try and get out of it, would that be fair? MARCUS EINFELD, FEDERAL COURT JUDGE 1986-2001: No I don't think so, I don't think that is fair. I don't think I set out to deceive at the beginning. I think I genuinely believed that I was not the driver of the car on the day. SARAH FERGUSON: You did add a detail straight away that was untrue, which was that you had lent your car to a friend from the US? MARCUS EINFELD, FEDERAL COURT JUDGE 1986-2001: Look I don't want to commit myself, to commit another crime by admitting to something here, but I'm trying to be as honest as I can be so, Let's put it this way, I, I, um, I must've had doubts about it. SARAH FERGUSON: The statutory declaration went missing. Einfeld received a notice to appear in court. He wrote a letter to the magistrate, pleading not guilty, with the same excuse about not being the driver. The detective who pursued Einfeld takes up the story. TONY STENBERG, DETECTIVE SERGEANT, NSW FRAUD SQUAD: On the sixth of May 2006, he wrote a letter and essentially he stated that on that day, my car was in the control of a visiting friend from the United States. And he goes on to say that, where, she was unfortunately involved in a motor vehicle accident and died. SARAH FERGUSON: On August the seventh 2006, Einfeld made the fateful decision that would lead to the charge of perjury. The former judge swore his statement before a local court magistrate. SARAH FERGUSON (to Marcus Einfeld): Do you remember taking the affirmation? MARCUS EINFELD, FEDERAL COURT JUDGE 1986-2001: Yes. SARAH FERGUSON: And you were intending to lie when you did that. MARCUS EINFELD, FEDERAL COURT JUDGE 1986-2001: Yes. I was intending to make the statements which I subsequently made, yes. I went into the witness box to do that. SARAH FERGUSON: Did you go to the court that day to do it? MARCUS EINFELD, FEDERAL COURT JUDGE 1986-2001: Er yes. SARAH FERGUSON: Did anything go through your mind when you took that affirmation. Given the fact that you were a judge, that you were breaking the fundamental taboo of the court? SARAH FERGUSON: Did you think about it at the time? MARCUS EINFELD, FEDERAL COURT JUDGE 1986-2001: Not more than I've already said. I can't add anything to what I've already said. The die was set by then, even though I hadn't actually uttered the words, but I knew what I was going to utter. (Excerpt of audio re-enactment of Marcus Einfeld in court on 7 August 2006) MAGISTRATE (ACTOR): Justice Einfeld, do you recall where you were on the eighth January 2006? MARCUS EINFELD (ACTOR): Yes, I was in Forster. MAGISTRATE (ACTOR): What did you do with your vehicle? MARCUS EINFELD (ACTOR): I lent it to an old friend of mine who was visiting from Florida. MAGISTRATE (ACTOR): I think that was Professor Teresa Brennan? SARAH FERGUSON: Einfeld says he lied in court to stick to his story he'd put in the missing statutory declaration. MARCUS EINFELD, FEDERAL COURT JUDGE 1986-2001: By the time I came to court I thought maybe they'll find the form one day and I should say, I should be consistent with it. That's what I mean by getting into a hole and not being able to get out of it. SARAH FERGUSON: Did you expect that you'd get away with it? MARCUS EINFELD, FEDERAL COURT JUDGE 1986-2001: I suppose I did. Ah I can't, I can't think that I had that as an intention, but of course I must've, otherwise why would you do it? SARAH FERGUSON: He nearly did get away with it. The magistrate accepted Einfeld's story and dismissed the speeding fine. It could all have ended there. MICHAEL BEACH, ASSISTANT EDITOR, DAILY TELEGRAPH: Quite a normal Monday evening in the newsroom. There was nothing remarkable really happening that day. SARAH FERGUSON: On the evening of the 7th August the assistant editor of the Daily Telegraph, Michael Beach, was putting the paper to bed. MICHAEL BEACH, ASSISTANT EDITOR, DAILY TELEGRAPH: We were just putting the paper out, it was about probably two hours before deadline. SARAH FERGUSON: A reporter had been in court and delivered a brief story with a reference to Einfeld's alibi about Teresa Brennan driving his car. MICHAEL BEACH, ASSISTANT EDITOR, DAILY TELEGRAPH: I thought I'd make a couple of quick checks and I was intrigued about who is Teresa Brennan? I think one of the first checks that came up was the International Association of Literature and it referred to her dying in February 2003. And remember Marcus Einfeld had said in the court case that she'd died in early 2006. SARAH FERGUSON: Australian Teresa Brennan was a senior university professor in Florida, her brother James Crosland. JAMES CROSLAND, TERESA BRENNAN'S BROTHER: She was called out of her flat by a phone call round about 2am, and was then crossing I-95 and was hit by a, an unmarked black SUV and hit and run, and they drove off. (Excerpt of photographs of Teresa Brennan) JAMES CROSLAND, TERESA BRENNAN'S BROTHER: Teresa's an extraordinary person, an abs- she was my hero as a when I was a child, and still is to this point. She, she was a force of nature. She really was extraordinary. SARAH FERGUSON: There can have been no doubt in your mind that you did not lend your car to Teresa Brennan and that is what you said? SARAH FERGUSON: Now that was just a straight out lie. MARCUS EINFELD, FEDERAL COURT JUDGE 1986-2001: It was. It was. And it's, probably more shameful in a way than the driving. Teresa Brennan was a friend of mine, I admired her work, she, we didn't see each other very often cause she lived in Miami. I mean I knew that she'd been involved in an accident, I actually tried to go to Miami at the time to see her, even though she was in a coma, I just couldn't get away in time. She died in the meantime. SARAH FERGUSON: If you had such admiration for her why did you do it, why would you do something so tawdry as to use her name in a perjury? MARCUS EINFELD, FEDERAL COURT JUDGE 1986-2001: I didn't do a tawdry act. I ah, did something that I can't explain. I just did it. I mean it's a mad, it was just a totally mad, outrageous thing to do, but I did it. SARAH FERGUSON: What I'm suggesting to you was that it wasn't mad nor outrageous but actually rather, just rather ordinary. It's a name that you knew well and you just decided to use that one. MARCUS EINFELD, FEDERAL COURT JUDGE 1986-2001: I, I don't think it was anything like that. I don't think it was anything like that. I don't know, I really don't know. SARAH FERGUSON: Michael Beach told his reporter to ring Einfeld and ask about Teresa Brennan and when she had died. MICHAEL BEACH, ASSISTANT EDITOR, DAILY TELEGRAPH: And he said yes I, I know her, I know that woman, she, she is an old friend of mine and yes she did die in a car accident in Florida and in fact I went to her funeral, but that's not the one I'm talking about. I'm talking about a different woman and her name is not Teresa Brennan, her name is Terese Brennan without an a. MARCUS EINFELD, FEDERAL COURT JUDGE 1986-2001: Ha. The joke about that is that I did know another person by the same name and I did meet her in Bangladesh, but she wasn't the person driving the car. That, that was a lie, but you know that was a lie to a journalist, I, I didn't quite feel the same obligation, if you don't mind my saying so. SARAH FERGUSON: The fact of the second Teresa Brennan existing doesn't make the lie any less- MARCUS EINFELD, FEDERAL COURT JUDGE 1986-2001: Oh no, of course not. SARAH FERGUSON: It's the facility with the lie that I'm asking you about. MARCUS EINFELD, FEDERAL COURT JUDGE 1986-2001: Yes, well I can't, it must've just come into my head. I mean I didn't pre-empt it because I had no idea what the journalist was going to ask, so. MARCUS EINFELD, FEDERAL COURT JUDGE 1986-2001: No, no. MARCUS EINFELD, FEDERAL COURT JUDGE 1986-2001: No, I'm not dishonest, no. No. I mean um, I don't want to be offensive but that's a bit offensive and I, I don't think I'm in the slightest bit dishonest. I, I just made a mistake and it was a fatal mistake. It was a very serious mistake. SARAH FERGUSON: What do you actually identify as the mistake? MARCUS EINFELD, FEDERAL COURT JUDGE 1986-2001: Telling a lie. MARCUS EINFELD, FEDERAL COURT JUDGE 1986-2001: Any of the lies which led me to where I am today. Obviously the lie on oath is the, is the critical one as far as the law is concerned. But I treat it all in the same category because I told a lie, I had opportunities to get out of it and I didn't take them. SARAH FERGUSON: The great unravelling of Einfeld's story began almost at once. CARL SCULLY, NSW POLICE MINISTER 2005-06: I think there are question marks about the evidence that need to be explored by police to determine if there is any basis in the suggestion that he may have been untruthful. SARAH FERGUSON: Why didn't you just own up there and then? MARCUS EINFELD, FEDERAL COURT JUDGE 1986-2001: I'd already dug a hole for myself and I couldn't see a way out of it. SARAH FERGUSON: Einfeld's notoriety and the strange novelty of the case quickly drew some odd characters into its orbit. RICHARD AUCKLAND, EDITOR, 'JUSTINIAN': Of course there was Angela Liati, a sort of glamorous Greek siren that you know, many ships have been dashed on her shores. She came out of the woodwork saying, you know, miraculously I was driving the car with someone I thought was Theresa Brennan, a slightly different spelling and we'd been shopping together in Mosman and this was, we were the ones that were in the car, and we were caught speeding. (Excerpt of footage of Marie Christos outside court) MARIE CHRISTOS: Oh my god. Is Brad here from the Daily Telegraph? SARAH FERGUSON: Liati wasn't the only woman on a mission to involve herself in the story. RICHARD AUCKLAND, EDITOR, 'JUSTINIAN': There was the magnificent Marie Christos that emerged into the open. I mean she was, she was you know just a sort of journalist's dream I suppose. MARIE CHRISTOS: I kept this story alive for 11 days in August when the Daily Telegraph had nothing further to print. SARAH FERGUSON: The former legal secretary Marie Christos became a prostitute because the pay was better. In 2006 Einfeld's solicitor Michael Ryan was her boyfriend. Suspecting he had been unfaithful to her, she went on a scavenging expedition in his garbage. MARIE CHRISTOS: Three o'clock in the morning I trundle down to Michael's house in my bin raiding clothes. I had to take all my hookering clothes off and put bin raiding clothes on. I was looking for infidelity in Michael Ryan's bin. I was looking for women and I came across a lying judge. SARAH FERGUSON: What she found amongst the chewing gum and used receipts, were torn up bits of paper in Einfeld's handwriting. MARIE CHRISTOS: It was his preliminary draft notes I suppose to preparing a press report. SARAH FERGUSON: She put the jigsaw back together and gave it the police and the press. MARIE CHRISTOS: Then there was Michael Ryan's handwriting correcting and altering what Marcus Einfeld was saying about who was driving the car. He had made it more vague because Marcus Einfeld said he lent it to a she-friend, a her, and Michael Ryan took the her out and said he lent it to a friend. RICHARD AUCKLAND, EDITOR, 'JUSTINIAN': It wasn't a story that just sort of died and he's been charged and you know, pleading guilty, that's it. There was always this other circus act going on around it that kept everyone interested and transfixed. SARAH FERGUSON: Sixteen days after the Telegraph first threw doubt on his evidence, and with a police investigation under way, a haggard-looking Einfeld stuck to the story he had given under oath. (Excerpt of footage of Marcus Einfeld at press conference, 24 August 2006) MARCUS EINFELD, FEDERAL COURT JUDGE 1986-2001: This morning at about nine o'clock my lawyers delivered a comprehensive dossier to investigating police. This information establishes that I was not driving my car which was photographed by a speed camera on the day in question. I stand by that. SARAH FERGUSON: His dossier included false statements from Vivian Schenker and Angela Liati supporting his story that he wasn't driving his car. SARAH FERGUSON (to Marcus Einfeld): Was there a snowball effect to the lies that you'd told? MARCUS EINFELD, FEDERAL COURT JUDGE 1986-2001: If you mean that I told more lies, um I don't think so. Nothing of any significance anyway. I mean it would have only been follow up, the necessary follow up from what I'd said. But I don't think so. I'm not conscious of any right now, but all I did was um I probably, I possibly embellished the story with more detail but I, I don't really think I made any significant change, no. SARAH FERGUSON: By now police were piecing together their own version of Einfeld's movements, following a trail of electronic clues he'd left across the city. TONY STENBERG, DETECTIVE SERGEANT, NSW FRAUD SQUAD: This map here, wherein we've plotted a number of series of electronic data including financial records, telephone records. And it essentially illustrates a signature of movement of a person on a particular day. SARAH FERGUSON: The eighth of January 2006, a warm Sunday afternoon. Einfeld had booked a table for lunch with his old friend Vivian Schenker at Pilu restaurant, overlooking Freshwater beach in Sydney's north. TONY STENBERG, DETECTIVE SERGEANT, NSW FRAUD SQUAD: We were able to lock down a time or in fact the table where he was seated was opened. SARAH FERGUSON: They ordered T-bone steak, blue-eye cod, two glasses of white wine, mineral water and coffee. At 3:41pm their table was closed and the bill was paid for with Einfeld's credit card. TONY STENBERG, DETECTIVE SERGEANT, NSW FRAUD SQUAD: After that point he left the restaurant and drove south. SARAH FERGUSON: Over the Spit Bridge, across Middle Harbour. TONY STENBERG, DETECTIVE SERGEANT, NSW FRAUD SQUAD: He was in fact using mobile telephones. The call registers. It's attached to a tower and it is able to give us a general indicator of location. SARAH FERGUSON: So was he actually making a lot of phone calls after leaving the restaurant? TONY STENBERG, DETECTIVE SERGEANT, NSW FRAUD SQUAD: Well there's a number of phone calls, not many, but a number sufficient enough to, for us to allow us to get an indication of his southward journey. SARAH FERGUSON: Einfeld's car turned off the main road into the back streets of Mosman, towards Macpherson Street. TONY STENBERG, DETECTIVE SERGEANT, NSW FRAUD SQUAD: moving into the speed camera activation at 4:01 there. SARAH FERGUSON: So that's where the actual camera was? TONY STENBERG, DETECTIVE SERGEANT, NSW FRAUD SQUAD: That's where the black star is. In Macpherson Street, Mosman. SARAH FERGUSON: Einfeld dropped off Vivian Schenker and headed towards the Sydney Harbour Bridge. TONY STENBERG, DETECTIVE SERGEANT, NSW FRAUD SQUAD: The tripping of the e-tag here at lane 14, the toll booth on Sydney Harbour Bridge at 4:12 then moving into telephone usage in Pyrmont, bouncing off the Pyrmont cell site. SARAH FERGUSON: Einfeld evidently was hurrying to the Lyric Theatre to meet his wife, mother and stepdaughter. He'd bought them tickets to the matinee performance of Menopause: The Musical. Einfeld continued to dig himself deeper into a hole. In a 20 page statement to police he admitted he did drive across the city from the restaurant that day, but not in his silver Lexus. He was driving another car, a white Corolla borrowed from the garage of his mother's apartment. TONY STENBERG, DETECTIVE SERGEANT, NSW FRAUD SQUAD: Fortunately for the police there existed some 80 to 100 gigabytes of data, digital CCTV data. Enabling us to arrive at the conclusion that in fact on the eighth of January the vehicle was not in fact used and was always parked within the premises in direct contradiction to what Mr Einfeld claims. SARAH FERGUSON: It was enough to pressure key witness Vivian Schenker to change her statement and admit she and Einfeld were not in his mother's car that day. The game was up. (Excerpt of footage from press conference, 29 March 2007) COLIN DYSON, COMMANDER, NSW FRAUD SQUAD: Detectives from the State Crime Command Fraud Squad this afternoon arrested a 67-year-old man from Woollahra. They charged him with a total of 13 criminal offences including perjury, perverting the course of justice. (On Screen Text: 25 February 2009 - sentencing hearing day) MARCUS EINFELD, FEDERAL COURT JUDGE 1986-2001: Hello morning, how are you? MARCUS EINFELD, FEDERAL COURT JUDGE 1986-2001: I'm hardly at my best, I'm hardly at the top my life or my feelings. But it's a process and you have to go through it. SARAH FERGUSON: Today is Einfeld's sentencing hearing. Like many similar hearings he sat through as a judge, both sides now argue over his punishment. SARAH FERGUSON (to Marcus Einfeld): Do you think the prosecution is going to ask for a jail sentence for you? MARCUS EINFELD, FEDERAL COURT JUDGE 1986-2001: Possibly, I don't really know, I haven't see their submissions, but they'll certainly ask I would imagine for some form of detention, I don't know whether it will be permanent incarceration. But I'm hoping of course that won't happen. SARAH FERGUSON: Just one last thing, if you could go back any point in the last few years where would you go back to? Where would you like to wind back the clock to and start again? MARCUS EINFELD, FEDERAL COURT JUDGE 1986-2001: (Laughs) Well those sort of hypothetical questions are just, sort of are dreamland for me but obviously I would have not done what I did, and it was an aberration, completely mad. I don't have any idea how and why I did it now. I just lost my senses at the wrong moment. SARAH FERGUSON: Einfeld is hoping his character witnesses will be persuasive. MARCUS EINFELD, FEDERAL COURT JUDGE 1986-2001: They are going to prove that this matter, this, these offences of mine were, are out of character, that I'm a good person, a person of integrity and honour who's given his life to working for people who need help and who are less well off than the rest of us, the discriminated and dispossessed. SARAH FERGUSON: One of his old friends from Toomelah has come to court to be a referee. MARCUS EINFELD, FEDERAL COURT JUDGE 1986-2001: I've got a large number of character witnesses but the people giving oral evidence will include Auntie Madge from Toomelah, former Justice Madgwick from the Federal Court. I think Trevor Garland, the consul of the Solomon Islands. I'm not sure who the lawyers have decided to call and not call. But we're going past it now. (Drives past media waiting outside court). MARCUS EINFELD, FEDERAL COURT JUDGE 1986-2001: Not as many as I thought. SARAH FERGUSON: In one of his last confrontations outside court, Einfeld was visited by a vengeful ghost. (Excerpt of footage of Marcus Einfeld arriving at court, surrounded by reporters) FORMER LITIGANT: (shouting) You remember Mr Einfeld, Federal Court, 1993, Frank Nishan (phonetic). You bankrupted me, I begged you. Do you remember Marcus? This is the day you pay. This is the day you pay. SARAH FERGUSON: It was also one of the last public humiliations in the long pursuit of Marcus Einfeld. In the full glare of the media the police had raided his home. They'd also questioned his family and his friends, and produced possibly the most damaging allegation of all, that the events of 2006 were part of a pattern, that he had used the excuse of overseas drivers before. TONY STENBERG, DETECTIVE SERGEANT, NSW FRAUD SQUAD: Our inquiries sort of went back a number of years, in fact into the 90s when we started to reconstruct, certainly and detect a pattern of behaviour relating to the submission of statutory declarations by Mr Einfeld. SARAH FERGUSON: Is it a habit of yours to lie in statutory declarations to get out of minor traffic infringements? MARCUS EINFELD, FEDERAL COURT JUDGE 1986-2001: I never lie in statutory declarations if I can conceivably have any hope of it being true. I never tell untruths. There may be occasions when I've made mistakes in memory and things of this kind. And in details. I may have. I don't know. SARAH FERGUSON: The police discovered at least three traffic infringements received by Einfeld going back to 1999. For running a red light in northern Sydney, and speeding twice near his home in the eastern suburbs of Sydney. On each occasion in sworn statements he named friends of his from the US and the UK as the drivers, when records showed that none of them were in Australia at the time. SARAH FERGUSON (to Marcus Einfeld): The pattern put forward by the prosecution was that it is something that you do, that when faced with a traffic infringement you nominate an overseas driver and in the past you were successful. You did it again because you'd done it before? MARCUS EINFELD, FEDERAL COURT JUDGE 1986-2001: Yes but that's nonsense. Why would you name people who you, who actually existed? You can name people who don't exist. I could've named somebody from Kazakhstan. I could've named Borat as the driver or, or somebody else as the driver. SARAH FERGUSON: One of the incidents is particularly striking. Three years before he was finally caught out for naming Teresa Brennan as the driver of his car, Einfeld signed a sworn statement to evade a speeding fine in May 2003. The driver he named then was Teresa Brennan. DAVID BRENNAN, TERESA BRENNAN'S COUSIN: Early 2003 was when she died. He knew from mid-January 2003 that she was comatose in a hospital in Florida. I was asked to get in touch with some of Teresa's friends including Marcus Einfeld and let them know that this had happened. He sent me emails saying you know I'm very distressed, this is terrible news, can I do anything to help? SARAH FERGUSON: You used Teresa Brennan's name soon after her death in the hit and run accident? MARCUS EINFELD, FEDERAL COURT JUDGE 1986-2001: If I did that, then, and I don't remember, but if I did it, then it was wrong. It was terribly wrong. I can assure you that at that time, at the time of her death I was mourning Teresa Brennan. I was a frontline mourner, I was in my chambers crying about her death and I still do. And I am still saying that that was clearly a mistake, there could be no question about it. But it was not a deliberate mistake. SARAH FERGUSON: It looks like a lot of mistakes that's all. If those- SARAH FERGUSON: If the facts are correct and none of them were- MARCUS EINFELD, FEDERAL COURT JUDGE 1986-2001: no, it's- SARAH FERGUSON: behind the wheel of the car. MARCUS EINFELD, FEDERAL COURT JUDGE 1986-2001: No it's not a lot of mistakes, I'm sorry. There were three events plus this one. I've admitted to this one. If I'd been called upon to meet the others I might have admitted to one of those when I'd got the facts and I'd checked up on them. It might have been, it might have been possible. But so ah, and I might have not, I might have not admitted to two or one or something of the kind. So maybe there were two occasions let's say at the majority, at the maximum in the past which I might have admitted to if I'd been called upon to do so. I don't think you can accuse me of not being frank because I can't remember the details of some things that happened many, many years ago without having a document in front of me, or my diary or anything to help me remember. SARAH FERGUSON: No. All I'm asking you is whether you told deliberate lies in those cases? MARCUS EINFELD, FEDERAL COURT JUDGE 1986-2001: No. SARAH FERGUSON: And that you would remember? MARCUS EINFELD, FEDERAL COURT JUDGE 1986-2001: No. That I would remember and of course I didn't, definitely not. SARAH FERGUSON: If Einfeld's case had gone to trial, the evidence of a pattern of dishonest behaviour would have been aired in court. Before that could happen, he did a deal with the prosecutor and pleaded guilty to the events of 2006. SARAH FERGUSON (to Marcus Einfeld): Are you prepared for that? MARCUS EINFELD, FEDERAL COURT JUDGE 1986-2001: As prepared as I can be. I realise I have to take my punishment and if the Court holds that I have to, part of that punishment is, is going to prison, I'll have to go and I will. I mean, I don't know that anybody can be, anybody who's never done it before like me can be ready for it as in that sense of the word, but I'm as ready as anyone can be. SARAH FERGUSON: Do you have any sense of what it would be like for someone, someone like you, someone who's held the positions you've held? MARCUS EINFELD, FEDERAL COURT JUDGE 1986-2001: I've been told that you need to have ah special protection, people don't like judges much, especially judges who've presided over criminal cases. People don't like Jews very much sometimes and there would be that element in it, um as well. Ah so yes, I, I understand that it will not be a pleasant experience. SARAH FERGUSON: It was a career made in the name of justice. When people rise to such commanding heights, their fall echoes all the louder. FORMER LITIGANT: Finally after 10 years, Mr Einfeld by my judge, I was started to accept that the justice eventually will prevail. SARAH FERGUSON: Now he has the thing he feared most, time to contemplate the catastrophe he brought upon himself (Excerpt of footage of security van transporting Marcus Einfeld to prison) MARCUS EINFELD, FEDERAL COURT JUDGE 1986-2001: It's all criminal and it's wrong and ah, and it's not just morally wrong either by the way, it's communally wrong. And if people break those rules like I did, ah the society will collapse in anarchy, and it's as bad as that, because people could be lying every day. The courts are sitting right at this minute no doubt, there could be people there lying every day. SARAH FERGUSON: That sounds more like the Judge Marcus Einfeld. Where on earth was he in the dock? MARCUS EINFELD, FEDERAL COURT JUDGE 1986-2001: Yes, where was he? Good question. Gone. Gone. Disappeared. Einfeld talks exclusively to Four Corners and begs for forgiveness: "I'm desperately sorry for what I did. I'm sorry to my family, my elderly mother and my children. I'm sorry to the public at large because they have been my audience over the years." He was a lawyer, a Federal Court judge and a champion of human rights but a lie over a $75 speeding fine put him in jail. Throughout more than two years of media scrutiny and police investigation, Einfeld kept his silence. Now for the first time, he confronts the allegations against him: "I lied. I can't say it any simpler than that. I told a lie, which was a disgraceful thing to do and for which I have been paying ever since." On Friday, the 70 year old Einfeld was sentenced to two years in prison. In the interview recorded in the days before the sentencing, he confronted his fear of going to jail: "I don't know that anybody can be... anybody who's never done it before like me, can be ready for it but I'm as ready as anybody can be... I've been told you need to have special protection, people don't like judges much, especially judges who've presided over criminal cases..." On January 8th 2006, Einfeld's car was photographed by a speed camera travelling 10km above the speed limit. The former Federal Court Judge gave a sworn statement that his friend Teresa Brennan was driving his car, knowing she'd been dead for three years: "It's probably more shameful than the driving. Teresa Brennan was a friend of mine. She was a wonderful person and for me to use her name is more hurtful than anything else." Over four decades Marcus Einfeld made the law his life, devoting himself to the pursuit of justice. Now in this frank and revealing interview he says he wants to begin the process of restoring his reputation... "I'm being frank as is humanly possible. I think Australian people are pretty good at forgiving people who come clean." To understand how Marcus Einfeld was exposed Four Corners talks to the journalist who first cast doubt on his story, the colourful witnesses at his trial and the policeman who gathered the evidence that led to the charges of perjury and perverting the course of justice. Ultimately though, this story is told by the man at the centre of the controversy, Marcus Einfeld. He let Four Corners follow him in the nervous days leading up to sentencing. We travel with him to his sentencing hearing when he hoped the testimony of his supporters would persuade the judge against a prison term... "They are going to prove that this matter, these offences of mine are out of character that I'm a person of integrity." Is Marcus Einfeld an honest man? Were the events of 2006 an aberration, as he calls it, or part of a pattern? Einfeld confronts these questions from reporter Sarah Ferguson: "No, I'm not dishonest, no... I don't think I'm the slightest bit dishonest. I just made a mistake." See for yourself - "The Dishonouring of Marcus Einfeld", Four Corners at 8.30pm on Monday 23 March on ABC1 . Repeated at 11.35 pm on Tuesday 24 March on ABC1. Digital dabs: how Einfeld was tracked with a mobile, credit card and e-tag | SMH | 24 March 2009 It was the electronic trail left by Marcus Einfeld the day he was caught speeding that helped detectives unravel his web of deceit and ultimately stained his reputation, police have revealed. My lie was a fatal mistake, Einfeld admits | ABC News Online | 23 March 2009 Former Federal Court judge Marcus Einfeld has said his lie to the court to avoid a speeding fine was a "fatal mistake" . Disgraced Einfeld 'sorry' he told lies | The Canberra Times | 23 March 2009 Former judge Marcus Einfeld has broken his silence to apologise for lying but says he ''made a mistake'' and is not a dishonest man. R v Einfeld [2009] | Judgement Date: 20 March 2009 Read the full judgement made by Justice Bruce James in the New South Wales Supreme Court. Jail term completes Einfeld's disgrace | ABC News Online | 20 March 2009 Former judge Marcus Einfeld has been led from a Sydney court after being given a jail sentence for lying to avoid a $77 speeding fine. The 70-year-old stumbled and grabbed the rail of the dock in the New South Wales Supreme Court as he was sentenced to three years in jail with a non-parole period of two years for perjury and perverting the course of justice. Jail completes Marcus Einfeld's fall | The Australian | 20 March 2009 The jailing of Marcus Einfeld over a $77 speeding fine completes a spectacular fall from grace for the man once hailed a national "living treasure" . Analysis from Michael Pelly of The Australian. Einfeld drove his fate and reputation over a cliff | SMH | 20 March 2009 Read an analysis Richard Ackland from the Sydney Morning Herald. Einfeld faces jail over $77 ticket | Sydney Morning Herald |30 March 2007 The former Federal Court judge Marcus Einfeld faces the prospect of a long jail term after being charged yesterday with 13 offences relating to giving false evidence to avoid speeding fines. In theory, the charges attract a total of 154 years' jail. First Einfeld episode features an all-female cast | Sydney Morning Herald | 11 December 2007 The former judge Marcus Einfeld was juggling two mobile phones, several women and a complicated social life on the day he claimed he was in Forster and not behind the wheel of his silver Lexus when it was photographed speeding in Mosman, prosecutors say. Woman guilty of lying for Einfeld | ABC News | 12 February 2009 A Sydney woman has been found guilty of lying to help former Federal Court judge Marcus Einfield avoid a speeding fine. Angela Liati represented herself at her District Court trial after pleading not guilty to making a false statement about her use of Einfeld's car when it was booked speeding. Einfeld faces sentencing hearing | ABC PM | 25 February 2009 The Supreme Court in Sydney has heard that the former Federal Court Judge Marcus Einfeld misled his psychiatrist about who was driving his car when it clocked up a speeding fine in 2006. Prosecution uses Einfeld's own words against him | ABC News |26 February 2009 Former Federal Court judge Marcus Einfeld has endured the humiliation of hearing his own words of condemnation read back to him in court. Marcus Einfeld's supporters have launched a campaign to keep the disgraced former judge out of prison | The Australian | 6 March 2009 An email, which has been supplied to The Australian without the author's name, says a prison sentence for Einfeld would be obscene. It calls for recipients to deluge the press with letters supporting the former judge. Bryce shows no haste in stripping Einfeld of his gong | The Australian | 13 March 2009 Governor-General Quentin Bryce is at risk of becoming embroiled in the downfall of disgraced former judge Marcus Einfeld. Justice Marcus Einfeld - The New International Order: The Human Dimension | Background Briefing | 12 October 1997 Edited version of a speech by Justice Einfeld for the 6th National Guardianship and Administration Conference, 16 September 1997. Human rights campaigner and judge retires | 7.30 Report | 12 April 2001 Kerry O'Brien interviewed Marcus Einfeld following his retirement in 2001. Marcus Einfeld: The Great Australian Brain Robbery | 19 September 2002 "The hijacking of the Australian conscience." Transcript of a talk given by Marcus Einfeld at the University of Newcastle in 2002. War Crimes: Calling Australia Home | 28 February 2000 Marcus Einfeld was interviewed for this Four Corners episode in 2000 which looked at suspected war criminal who were residing in Australia. CNN and the BBC World Service which is copyright and cannot be reproduced .st1{fill-rule:evenodd;clip-rule:evenodd;fill:#2a2a2a}By Jan Holst | jholst@mlive.comJan HolstKevin Einfeld shows off one of the newest Grand Rapids Township housing developments.Developers at least some of those working in Grand Rapids Township say they are increasingly optimistic about the market for new home construction which is celebrating 25 years in residential construction has recently begun work on one of its latest ventures -- Waterleaf which is expected to build out with 52 new homes on 54 acres near Knapp Court and Maguire Avenue While currently only one home is under construction there are eight lots spoken for and waiting for closing the phone would not be ringing," Einfeld said "There is a consistent very steady level of interest." While "residential has taken a beating in the last few years," Einfeld said he has seen the business cycle before and this is great area," he said of the Grand Rapids Township development Waterleaf is one of what was originally put together as a two-part housing development worked together to buy up property near Knapp Court and Maguire Land that was mostly single-family homes and some "gentleman farms" was purchased parcel by parcel Some of the plats were  purchased years and years ago the failing housing market stopped progress on the developers' plan purchased 19 acres of the property earmarked for single-family homes and subsequently the developers again approached township planners – this time with a proposal for two developments one by Einfeld and the other by Rottschafer which together would only have about 100 homes Although the latest project went though a name change (originally called The Lakes at Knapp The development to the south of Waterleaf is Balsam Waters It has three lots sold with custom homes planned and "it is looking like a couple more," said Rottschafer Mosaic Builders plans to put in "two to three spec houses at a time," until the development is sold out "We feel the market is prime for specs right now," he said "with inventory low and our ability to build highly valued specs Observers of new home construction in the area also have seen that the last segment of Arbor Hills is not only well under way Houses on the street are in all stages of construction from digging for foundations to finishing touches Arbor Hills was first developed over six years ago by Eastbrook Builders but the final phase was put on hold until this year That development calls for 24 single-family homes Grand Ventures LLC is also in on the Grand Rapids Township housing boom It recently approached township planners for approval to begin building 20 homes adjacent to the new 200-acre park land between Leonard and Knapp "We have put in about 22 units each year since 2006 and are about 65 percent of the way through and expect to be 90 percent by the end of the year 2013," said Rottschafer The continued steady development as well as  a renewed vigor for new homes has not gone unnoticed by the township "It is great to see all of this activity with recent construction grabbing up remaining lots," said Supervisor Michael DeVries which up until a year ago "had lots available." "There is a lot of activity and significant interest in new house construction," said Einfeld whose company is also involved with lot sales in redevelopment of the former West Shore golf course in the village of Douglas "There is great indication that things are starting to turn." Use of and/or registration on any portion of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement, (updated 8/1/2024) and acknowledgement of our Privacy Policy, and Your Privacy Choices and Rights (updated 1/1/2025) © 2025 Advance Local Media LLC. All rights reserved (About Us) The material on this site may not be reproduced except with the prior written permission of Advance Local Community Rules apply to all content you upload or otherwise submit to this site YouTube's privacy policy is available here and YouTube's terms of service is available here Ad Choices On Monday night’s Four Corners program on Marcus Einfeld, he appeared to be asking the public for forgiveness, while at the same time saying: “I lied, but I’m basically honest”. You can watch the program here I take an interest because I believe that the Marcus Einfeld Story is the Human Story Einfeld is a former justice of the Federal Court of Australia; a president of the Human Rights & Equal Opportunity Commission; a 'national living treasure'; a pillar of society. You might even say ‘an older brother’ in Jesus’ Parable of the Prodigal Son I think that the Marcus Einfeld story is the human story An honourable me; an employable me; a proud me A ‘me’ that struggles with pride; and various other stumbling and bumbling acts A ‘me’ that my wife can tell you about The 'me' that I present is not the complete picture Now think about Marcus Einfeld and the Parable of the Prodigal Son a honourable man who's served his country well Or a scoundrel who has deserves his pigsty My take: He is an older brother who has now been given the opportunity to perhaps realise that he has been a younger brother all along That is: he sped a little; and told a few fibs about it Because his lie was declared in the one place that lies can't abide: the court To let go of his crime is to say that justice never matters; that telling lies in the court is fine He struck at the very fabric of civil society Ben Aveling from Alexandria wrote a letter in the Herald: “Bruce Hulbert writes that Marcus Einfeld is not a threat to society In what way is actively and repeatedly seeking to undermine the rule of law not a threat to society?” You may be 'good'; you may have been honourable. 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You can unsubscribe in one click, and we will never share your email address. We’re sorry, this feature is currently unavailable. We’re working to restore it. Please try again later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. JAIL caused the former Federal Court judge Marcus Einfeld to lose his faith in God, but his experiences have inspired him. ''It was a real test. I lost God somewhere and I'm trying to find him again,'' Einfeld said of his days in Silverwater jail. Turning his life around ... former judge Marcus Einfeld on the streets of Woolloomooloo, where he works for charity.Credit: Jacky Ghossein ''I grew up believing I had some capacity to communicate and I lost it. I felt bereaved about that for quite a while. I felt that at the time I needed Him, He wasn't there.'' In August 2006, Einfeld contested a $77 speeding ticket, claiming he had lent his car to an old friend, Professor Teresa Brennan, who had been dead for three years. He was convicted for knowingly making a false statement under oath and pleaded guilty to perjury and perverting the course of justice. Einfeld, who was released in March after serving two years of a three-year sentence, plans to set up a foundation for mental health in prisons and will campaign for prison reform. He also believes fellow inmate and Scrabble partner Mark Standen, a former Crime Commission assistant director convicted last month of drug importation, is a victim of injustice. Einfeld, 72, said the crime that wrought his downfall was a ''silly snap moment''. ''I realise that I haven't been a perfect role model, but I'm pretty determined to be a good role model from here on in,'' he said. ''I realise that I had a weak moment and I did something stupid. OK. I did it, but people are flawed and we're all flawed and I was more flawed than most.'' He says his sentence was ''unbalanced' and that ''everybody knew what I got was more political than anything else''. Being struck off the legal roll, losing Queen's counsel status and having his Order of Australia revoked weren't what devastated Einfeld. Nor was it the ''appalling'' free-to-air television he endured (''I ended up watching The Footy Show but Kerri-Anne Kennerley and daytime television were beyond me unless it was Judge Judy'') or the endless hours of Scrabble. ''Being separated from my kids was the hardest thing,'' the father of four children from two marriages said. ''We could only hug on Saturdays or Sundays. That was hard.'' He is thankful he saw his mother, Billie, again. She died at 99, soon after he left jail. ''It was almost as if she hung on for me to come out,'' Einfeld said. He hopes his experience will help him show what a ''futile'' and ''crass'' system jail is and that ''most of the people in there shouldn't be''. ''Look, whatever I have learned from the experience it has taught me a lot, that I would like to impart as much as I can to the legal community and other people because the people of NSW have to know we have a 74 per cent recidivism rate and in Victoria it's 25 per cent,'' he said. ''There are 10,000 people in the system but only 1000 should be there. They are not dangerous to the public. They are young people who get into drugs or they have driving offences.'' During his stint in jail - which he describes as ''the Hilton Hotel wing'' - Einfeld had a private room, a bathroom and television and was able to use a fully equipped kitchen. He also had a 24-hour open door policy, whereby prisoners and officers would come to him for advice, legal and otherwise. Einfeld has stayed in contact with inmates, who he says only had goodwill once they got to know him. ''They'd say 'have a nice visit' and at first I thought it was like saying 'have a nice day' but I learnt later it was because they never got a visitor. They just wanted to get some reflected pleasure out of me having a visit from my family,'' he said. ''These guys had nothing. They'd go weeks and weeks and months and never have a visitor or have anything to look forward to. They'd want to know how my grandson went in football. ''They had no parents, no role models. Many can't read or write English, so I offered to teach them. When I left, they formed a line-up like the end of a footy match. The officials thought it was wonderful. ''Walking around a yard day after day drinking coffee and smoking cigarettes - both of which are bad for them - they come out vengeful because they have nothing to do.'' Einfeld is working on setting up the foundation. ''One bloke who is coming up for parole next week, he's got a job. He's so happy. He lives in Wollongong. ''His father was shot when he was 11 and his mother lost a leg in a car accident and lives alone. ''They didn't know, for example, that she can get a rebate on the telephone, and she can get Meals on Wheels and there is a local leagues club that will pick her up on a bus to play bingo a few times a week. There are all these services they don't know about.'' Einfeld wants to write a book that he says will not be autobiographical. ''I've spoken to Greg Smith, the Attorney-General, about my ideas … it would be interesting to think about other ways to help improve the situation and I want to publish some material and start stimulating thought.'' The son of the former NSW Labor cabinet minister Syd Einfeld, the one-time president of the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission remains passionately opposed to the detention of refugees. ''It's a wicked thing, locking people up and throwing away the key. It's a real disgrace,'' he said. Einfeld wants to stay involved in charity work, which has included the Salvation Army (''I was their only Jewish Santa for years'') The Exodus Foundation, Matthew Talbot and the St Vinnies night patrol. As for driving, he now takes it very slowly. ''I'm very cautious, where I live in Bondi it's a killer. It will be 40km/h everywhere and then suddenly will change to 50km/h then back to 40km/h - it's a nightmare.'' ''It was a real test. I lost God somewhere and I'm trying to find him again,'' Einfeld said of his days in Silverwater jail. ''I grew up believing I had some capacity to communicate and I lost it. I felt bereaved about that for quite a while. I felt that at the time I needed Him, He wasn't there.'' Einfeld, 72, said the crime that wrought his downfall was a ''silly snap moment''. ''I realise that I haven't been a perfect role model, but I'm pretty determined to be a good role model from here on in,'' he said. ''I realise that I had a weak moment and I did something stupid. OK. I did it, but people are flawed and we're all flawed and I was more flawed than most.'' He says his sentence was ''unbalanced' and that ''everybody knew what I got was more political than anything else''. Being struck off the legal roll, losing Queen's counsel status and having his Order of Australia revoked weren't what devastated Einfeld. Nor was it the ''appalling'' free-to-air television he endured (''I ended up watching The Footy Show but Kerri-Anne Kennerley and daytime television were beyond me unless it was Judge Judy'') or the endless hours of Scrabble. ''Being separated from my kids was the hardest thing,'' the father of four children from two marriages said. ''We could only hug on Saturdays or Sundays. That was hard.'' He is thankful he saw his mother, Billie, again. She died at 99, soon after he left jail. ''It was almost as if she hung on for me to come out,'' Einfeld said. He hopes his experience will help him show what a ''futile'' and ''crass'' system jail is and that ''most of the people in there shouldn't be''. ''Look, whatever I have learned from the experience it has taught me a lot, that I would like to impart as much as I can to the legal community and other people because the people of NSW have to know we have a 74 per cent recidivism rate and in Victoria it's 25 per cent,'' he said. ''There are 10,000 people in the system but only 1000 should be there. They are not dangerous to the public. They are young people who get into drugs or they have driving offences.'' During his stint in jail - which he describes as ''the Hilton Hotel wing'' - Einfeld had a private room, a bathroom and television and was able to use a fully equipped kitchen. He also had a 24-hour open door policy, whereby prisoners and officers would come to him for advice, legal and otherwise. ''They'd say 'have a nice visit' and at first I thought it was like saying 'have a nice day' but I learnt later it was because they never got a visitor. They just wanted to get some reflected pleasure out of me having a visit from my family,'' he said. ''These guys had nothing. They'd go weeks and weeks and months and never have a visitor or have anything to look forward to. They'd want to know how my grandson went in football. ''They had no parents, no role models. Many can't read or write English, so I offered to teach them. When I left, they formed a line-up like the end of a footy match. The officials thought it was wonderful. ''Walking around a yard day after day drinking coffee and smoking cigarettes - both of which are bad for them - they come out vengeful because they have nothing to do.'' Einfeld is working on setting up the foundation. ''One bloke who is coming up for parole next week, he's got a job. He's so happy. He lives in Wollongong. ''His father was shot when he was 11 and his mother lost a leg in a car accident and lives alone. ''They didn't know, for example, that she can get a rebate on the telephone, and she can get Meals on Wheels and there is a local leagues club that will pick her up on a bus to play bingo a few times a week. There are all these services they don't know about.'' ''I've spoken to Greg Smith, the Attorney-General, about my ideas \\u2026 it would be interesting to think about other ways to help improve the situation and I want to publish some material and start stimulating thought.'' ''It's a wicked thing, locking people up and throwing away the key. It's a real disgrace,'' he said. Einfeld wants to stay involved in charity work, which has included the Salvation Army (''I was their only Jewish Santa for years'') The Exodus Foundation, Matthew Talbot and the St Vinnies night patrol. As for driving, he now takes it very slowly. ''I'm very cautious, where I live in Bondi it's a killer. It will be 40km/h everywhere and then suddenly will change to 50km/h then back to 40km/h - it's a nightmare.'' Play Duration: 52 minutes 48 seconds52m Presented by In early 2006 Justice Marcus Einfeld received a $75 speeding ticket. He contested the fine and later told a magistrate's court that he hadn't been driving; that he'd lent the car to his old friend Professor Teresa Brennan, who had since died. But an inquisitive court reporter decided to follow up on the story - and the life of this proud and distinguished man began to unravel, until every honour was stripped from him and he was eventually sent to prison. When journalist Fiona Harari decided to write her book on the fall of Marcus Einfeld, she had no idea just how strange a story it really was. A Tragedy in Two Acts: Marcus Einfeld and Teresa Brennan published by MUP. Published: YesterdayMon 5 May 2025 at 1:00am Download the ABC listen app to hear more of your favourite podcasts ABC News News HomeWoman guilty of lying for EinfeldShare Woman guilty of lying for EinfeldTopic:Courts Guilty: Angela Liati (Paul Miller, file photo: AAP) Link copiedShareShare articleA Sydney woman has been found guilty of lying to help former Federal Court judge Marcus Einfield avoid a speeding fine. Angela Liati represented herself at her District Court trial after pleading not guilty to making a false statement about her use of Einfeld's car when it was booked speeding. Einfeld told police he had lent the car to American academic Theresa Brennan that day, but they later discovered she had died three years earlier. During her two-week trial, Liati said she realised she was with the academic in the car on the day in question when she saw the high-profile former judge being interview by a media scrum on TV. The 56-year-old said she gave a statement to his lawyers claiming she was in the car with Professor Brennan after meeting her at a meditation retreat. She said she came forward because she wanted to meet Einfeld and help him in his case. But Liati admitted on Tuesday she never attended the retreat, saying she met Professor Brennan at a cafe. She said lawyers manipulated her to allow her statement to be released to police. Liati told the court she made a second, more accurate statement but police and lawyers chose to ignore it. She accused the media of prejudicing police investigations into the matter. The jury took less than three hours to reach its verdict. Liati sat quietly as it was read out and later told judge Michael Finnane she would appeal against it. The 56-year-old has been released on conditional bail and is yet to be sentenced. Einfeld pleaded guilty to perjury and perverting the course of justice last October. He is due to be sentenced next month, when he could face maximum penalties of 10 and 14 years in jail for trying to avoid a $77 fine. His sentences are expected to be reduced due to his guilty pleas. Former Federal Court judge Marcus Einfeld has been sentenced to at least two years in jail for lying to evade a speeding fine three years ago. In a packed hearing room at the NSW Supreme Court, Justice Bruce James imposed a maximum three-year sentence on the 70-year-old for offences that struck "at the heart of the administration of justice". Marcus Einfeld arrives at court for sentencing.Credit: Jon Reid "Any lawyer, and especially a lawyer who has been a barrister and a judge, who commits such an offence is to be sentenced on the basis that he would have been fully aware of the gravity of his conduct," he said. His lawyer, Ian Barker, QC, said Einfeld's tireless work for the disadvantaged and other mitigating factors justified the imposition of a non-custodial term. But Wayne Roser, SC, for the Crown argued Einfeld should be jailed full time, saying the counts were "in the worst case category" of such offences. Justice James said the retired judge engaged in "deliberate, premeditated perjury" in order to avoid incurring demerit points on his driver's licence. He concluded Einfeld had engaged in "planned criminal activity", detailing the numerous lies in his police statement when he asserted he was not driving his car when it was clocked going 10kmh over the speed limit in the Sydney suburb of Mosman. Justice James referred to the offences as striking "at the heart of the administration of justice". Justice James set a non-parole period of two years. After the sentence was imposed, well wishers went over to the dock where Einfeld embraced and kissed many of them. At the suggestion of corrective services officers, he handed over his valuables, including his mobile phone. In reply to a comment from one supporter, Einfeld said, "Oh, the bag is packed," and he was then escorted out of the dock. Outside court, Detective Superintendent Colin Dyson said there had been "no winners here today, but justice has been served". The head of the fraud squad and commander of Strike Force Canter said the investigation was lengthy and "very intricate". The jail term imposed on Einfeld sent out a message that for "anybody who is thinking about engaging in this type of activity, it is not worth it". "For the sake of a small monetary penalty, people's lives can be absolutely ruined," Detective Superintendent Dyson told journalists. He said Einfeld was the only person who knew why he did what he did. In January 2006, Einfeld's car was caught by a speed camera doing 60kmh in a 50kmh zone. Rather than accept the $77 fine at his court hearing in August 2006, Einfeld said a friend of his, American college professor Teresa Brennan, had been driving the car. It later emerged that Ms Brennan had died three years before the speeding offence took place. Einfeld continued to deny any wrongdoing until his hearing, when he pleaded guilty to both charges. Einfeld's psychiatrist, Dr Jonathon Phillips, told the sentencing hearing that his patient had been treated for depression in 1996 and 2006, and had been diagnosed with prostate cancer. An Aboriginal elder, Madeline McGrady, praised Einfeld's work with indigenous communities when he was Human Rights Commissioner in the 1980s. In a separate hearing, Angela Liati was found guilty last month of making a false police statement by saying that she had been using Einfeld's car at the time of the speeding offence. Liati is on bail awaiting sentence. In a packed hearing room at the NSW Supreme Court, Justice Bruce James imposed a maximum three-year sentence on the 70-year-old for offences that struck \\\"at the heart of the administration of justice\\\". \\\"Any lawyer, and especially a lawyer who has been a barrister and a judge, who commits such an offence is to be sentenced on the basis that he would have been fully aware of the gravity of his conduct,\\\" he said. His lawyer, Ian Barker, QC, said Einfeld's tireless work for the disadvantaged and other mitigating factors justified the imposition of a non-custodial term. But Wayne Roser, SC, for the Crown argued Einfeld should be jailed full time, saying the counts were \\\"in the worst case category\\\" of such offences. Justice James said the retired judge engaged in \\\"deliberate, premeditated perjury\\\" in order to avoid incurring demerit points on his driver's licence. He concluded Einfeld had engaged in \\\"planned criminal activity\\\", detailing the numerous lies in his police statement when he asserted he was not driving his car when it was clocked going 10kmh over the speed limit in the Sydney suburb of Mosman. Justice James referred to the offences as striking \\\"at the heart of the administration of justice\\\". In reply to a comment from one supporter, Einfeld said, \\\"Oh, the bag is packed,\\\" and he was then escorted out of the dock. Outside court, Detective Superintendent Colin Dyson said there had been \\\"no winners here today, but justice has been served\\\". The head of the fraud squad and commander of Strike Force Canter said the investigation was lengthy and \\\"very intricate\\\". The jail term imposed on Einfeld sent out a message that for \\\"anybody who is thinking about engaging in this type of activity, it is not worth it\\\". \\\"For the sake of a small monetary penalty, people's lives can be absolutely ruined,\\\" Detective Superintendent Dyson told journalists. In January 2006, Einfeld's car was caught by a speed camera doing 60kmh in a 50kmh zone. Rather than accept the $77 fine at his court hearing in August 2006, Einfeld said a friend of his, American college professor Teresa Brennan, had been driving the car. Einfeld continued to deny any wrongdoing until his hearing, when he pleaded guilty to both charges. Einfeld's psychiatrist, Dr Jonathon Phillips, told the sentencing hearing that his patient had been treated for depression in 1996 and 2006, and had been diagnosed with prostate cancer. An Aboriginal elder, Madeline McGrady, praised Einfeld's work with indigenous communities when he was Human Rights Commissioner in the 1980s. In a separate hearing, Angela Liati was found guilty last month of making a false police statement by saying that she had been using Einfeld's car at the time of the speeding offence. Liati is on bail awaiting sentence. ABC News News HomeProsecutor calls for jail for 'prisoner' EinfeldShare Prosecutor calls for jail for 'prisoner' EinfeldTopic:Courts A man holds up a sign as former Federal Court judge Marcus Einfeld, left, arrived at the Supreme Court yesterday. (Paul Miller: AAP) Link copiedShareShare articleSupporters of former Federal Court judge Marcus Einfeld have packed a Sydney court for the second day of his sentencing hearing. The prosecutor, Wayne Roser, referred to Marcus Einfeld as "the prisoner" as he continued his argument for him to be given a custodial sentence. Mr Roser said the offences involved planning for personal gain and Marcus Einfeld was not a person unfamiliar with the law. The prosecutor also said the offences strike at the heart of the justice system, the integrity of the law and the integrity of its practitioners. The court also heard that Einfeld used the media, and hired a public relations company to circulate a false statement to avoid a speeding fine. The former judge has pleaded guilty last year to making a false statement under oath and trying to pervert the course of justice to avoid a speeding fine. The trial resulted from a speeding charge against Marcus Einfeld, which was dismissed in 2006 after he claimed his car was being driven by a friend, Teresa Brennan. However, it later emerged that she had died in 2003. As Marcus Einfeld entered the court today, he acknowledged his supporters; some standing, some sitting on the floor in a crowded public gallery. 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Readers can also interact with The Globe on Facebook and Twitter Welcome to The Globe and Mail’s comment community This is a space where subscribers can engage with each other and Globe staff We aim to create a safe and valuable space for discussion and debate If you do not see your comment posted immediately it is being reviewed by the moderation team and may appear shortly We aim to have all comments reviewed in a timely manner Comments that violate our community guidelines will not be posted UPDATED: Read our community guidelines here We have closed comments on this story for legal reasons or for abuse. For more information on our commenting policies and how our community-based moderation works, please read our Community Guidelines and our Terms and Conditions THE former Federal Court judge Marcus Einfeld is preparing for his release from prison and a new career as a charity worker. Einfeld, 72, will walk free from Silverwater prison on March 19 after serving two years of a three-year sentence for perjury and perverting the course of justice by lying to avoid a $77 speeding ticket. An associate of Einfeld's said he would turn to charity work to redeem himself in the eyes of the public. Einfeld is a former UNICEF ambassador and is a spokesman for Israeli and Jewish causes. During his incarceration, he relinquished his Order of Australia and his commission as a Queen's counsel and stepped down from the NSW Bar Association. Einfeld is understood to have been a co-operative prisoner and has put on weight from prison food and inactivity. He was imprisoned at Long Bay before being moved to Silverwater. Einfield has received regular visits from family and friends. The Justinian law website reports that one of his visitors has been former High Court judge Michael Kirby. In August 2007, Einfeld contested the speeding ticket, claiming his car had been driven by a friend, Professor Teresa Brennan. He gave evidence under oath and signed a declaration. Einfeld pleaded guilty to the perjury and attempting to pervert the course of justice in 2008. He was sentenced to three years' jail with a non-parole period of two years. Einfeld will report to a parole officer for the next 12 months. An associate of Einfeld's said he would turn to charity work to redeem himself in the eyes of the public. Einfeld is a former UNICEF ambassador and is a spokesman for Israeli and Jewish causes. During his incarceration, he relinquished his Order of Australia and his commission as a Queen's counsel and stepped down from the NSW Bar Association. Einfeld pleaded guilty to the perjury and attempting to pervert the course of justice in 2008. He was sentenced to three years' jail with a non-parole period of two years. It took a former prostitute just a few days to pilfer sensitive computer files and find what she wanted: the nine-page police interview of the disgraced former judge Marcus Einfeld. The breach of security by Marie Christos, who was linked to the Einfeld court case, occurred while she worked as a typist at APT Transcriptions, a company with lucrative contracts with the police and justice departments and the Independent Commission Against Corruption. Marie Christos ... on a mission to find the interview.Credit: Peter Rae Ms Christos became embroiled in the Einfeld case after she found documents in the bin of her former lover and Einfeld's then solicitor, Michael Ryan. A Herald investigation recently revealed that APT Transcriptions was awarded these contracts despite the owner's father, Paul Devine, being a former detective who the ICAC had found guilty of corruption over a huge racket in confidential personal records 18 years ago. Ms Christos said she worked for APT for three months in 2007. ''[APT owner] Renee Quinn interviewed and hired me. There was no police check done and she boasted that they typed the Marcus Einfeld interview,'' Ms Christos told the Herald. ''I made it my mission to find it and I was surprised that it was still on the system because it was typed two months earlier.'' Ms Christos also accessed the 22-page interview of Angela Liati, who was convicted of lying over the Einfeld speeding affair that landed the former Federal Court judge in jail last year. APT has a three-year contract with the ICAC. It also has a contract with the Department of Justice and Attorney-General and is under contract with the NSW Police Force until April.. NSW police and the Justice Department require police checks of employees but the ICAC would not say whether it does. Another former APT employee, who did not want to be named, said she never had a check and had a criminal record for drug use. Ms Christos said typists would call out about ''interesting'' interviews with suspects - which ranged from break and enter to child sex assaults to Police Integrity Commission matters - and everyone would listen. ''My very first interview [that I typed] was of Scott Orrock and another bikie gang member. I thought it was hilarious because Orrock was shot in the knee and the police arrested him because he refused to tell them who shot him,'' she said. Ms Christos is the fifth former employee, but the only one to go on record, to say that Mrs Quinn's father, Paul Devine, was regularly at the APT offices and her mother, Janet Devine, prepared the weekly pay slips, contrary to what the company told the ICAC during probity. ''Her father came in at other odd times, too, with other men who also looked like detectives,'' Ms Christos said. Yesterday, Mrs Quinn again denied her parents had any involvement in APT. She said ''police record checks are conducted on employees''. Asked to explain how Ms Christos was able to access the Einfeld interview, she said: ''Interviews are not deleted but archived after a period of time where access is not available to all staff.'' Ms Christos became embroiled in the Einfeld case after she found documents in the bin of her former lover and Einfeld's then solicitor, Michael Ryan. A Herald investigation recently revealed that APT Transcriptions was awarded these contracts despite the owner's father, Paul Devine, being a former detective who the ICAC had found guilty of corruption over a huge racket in confidential personal records 18 years ago. ''[APT owner] Renee Quinn interviewed and hired me. There was no police check done and she boasted that they typed the Marcus Einfeld interview,'' Ms Christos told the Herald. ''I made it my mission to find it and I was surprised that it was still on the system because it was typed two months earlier.'' Ms Christos said typists would call out about ''interesting'' interviews with suspects - which ranged from break and enter to child sex assaults to Police Integrity Commission matters - and everyone would listen. ''My very first interview [that I typed] was of Scott Orrock and another bikie gang member. I thought it was hilarious because Orrock was shot in the knee and the police arrested him because he refused to tell them who shot him,'' she said. Ms Christos is the fifth former employee, but the only one to go on record, to say that Mrs Quinn's father, Paul Devine, was regularly at the APT offices and her mother, Janet Devine, prepared the weekly pay slips, contrary to what the company told the ICAC during probity. ''Her father came in at other odd times, too, with other men who also looked like detectives,'' Ms Christos said. She said ''police record checks are conducted on employees''. Asked to explain how Ms Christos was able to access the Einfeld interview, she said: ''Interviews are not deleted but archived after a period of time where access is not available to all staff.'' The former Federal Court judge Marcus Einfeld has been sentenced to at least two years in jail for lying to evade a speeding fine three years ago. In a packed hearing room at the NSW Supreme Court, Justice Bruce James imposed a maximum three-year sentence on the 70-year-old. His lawyer, Ian Barker QC, said Einfeld's tireless work for the disadvantaged and other mitigating factors justified the imposition of a non-custodial term. But Wayne Roser, SC, for the crown argued Einfeld should be jailed full time, saying the counts were "in the worst case category'' of such offences. Justice James said the retired judge engaged in "deliberate, premeditated perjury'' in order to avoid incurring demerit points on his driver's licence. He also concluded Einfeld had engaged in "planned criminal activity'', detailing the numerous lies in his police statement when he asserted he was not driving his car when it was clocked going 10kmh over the speed limit in the Sydney suburb of Mosman. In reply to a comment from one supporter, Einfeld said, "Oh, the bag is packed,'' and he was then escorted out of the dock. In January 2006, Mr Einfeld's car was caught by a speed camera clocking 60kmh in a 50kmh zone. Rather than accept the $77 fine at his court hearing in August 2006, Mr Einfeld said a friend of his, American college professor Teresa Brennan, had been driving the car. Mr Einfeld continued to deny any wrongdoing until his hearing before Supreme Court justice Bruce James, when he pleaded guilty to both charges.Mr Einfeld's psychiatrist, Dr Jonathon Phillips, told the sentencing hearing that his patient had been treated for depression in 1996 and 2006, and had been diagnosed with prostate cancer. An Aboriginal elder, Madeline McGrady, praised Mr Einfeld's work with indigenous communities when he was Human Rights Commissioner in the 1980s. In a separate hearing, Ms Angela Liati was found guilty last month of making a false police statement by saying that she had been using Mr Einfeld's car at the time of the speeding offence. Ms Liati is currently on bail awaiting sentence. His lawyer, Ian Barker QC, said Einfeld's tireless work for the disadvantaged and other mitigating factors justified the imposition of a non-custodial term. But Wayne Roser, SC, for the crown argued Einfeld should be jailed full time, saying the counts were \\\"in the worst case category'' of such offences. Justice James said the retired judge engaged in \\\"deliberate, premeditated perjury'' in order to avoid incurring demerit points on his driver's licence. He also concluded Einfeld had engaged in \\\"planned criminal activity'', detailing the numerous lies in his police statement when he asserted he was not driving his car when it was clocked going 10kmh over the speed limit in the Sydney suburb of Mosman. In reply to a comment from one supporter, Einfeld said, \\\"Oh, the bag is packed,'' and he was then escorted out of the dock. In January 2006, Mr Einfeld's car was caught by a speed camera clocking 60kmh in a 50kmh zone. Rather than accept the $77 fine at his court hearing in August 2006, Mr Einfeld said a friend of his, American college professor Teresa Brennan, had been driving the car. Mr Einfeld continued to deny any wrongdoing until his hearing before Supreme Court justice Bruce James, when he pleaded guilty to both charges.Mr Einfeld's psychiatrist, Dr Jonathon Phillips, told the sentencing hearing that his patient had been treated for depression in 1996 and 2006, and had been diagnosed with prostate cancer. An Aboriginal elder, Madeline McGrady, praised Mr Einfeld's work with indigenous communities when he was Human Rights Commissioner in the 1980s. In a separate hearing, Ms Angela Liati was found guilty last month of making a false police statement by saying that she had been using Mr Einfeld's car at the time of the speeding offence. Ms Liati is currently on bail awaiting sentence. ABC News News HomeEinfeld to stand trial for perjuryShare Einfeld to stand trial for perjuryTopic:Courts Ordered to stand trial: Disgraced former judge Marcus Einfeld (Tracey Nearmy: AAP) Link copiedShareShare articleFormer Federal Court judge Marcus Einfeld has been ordered to stand trial on 13 charges, accused of lying to avoid penalties for four traffic offences dating back to 1999, when he was still a judge. Einfeld faces charges including perjury and perverting the cause of justice for allegedly making false statutory declarations and lying under oath. The 69-year-old said other people - including a friend he knew was dead - were driving his car at the times of the traffic offences. But deputy chief magistrate Helen Syme said there appeared to be a good prosecution case that he was driving or at least in the car. The magistrate dismissed one charge but said she was satisfied there was enough evidence for a jury to convict him on the remaining 13 charges. Einfeld showed no emotion as he was committed for trial and did not say anything to the awaiting media as he left the court. He will go before the District Court in February. Earlier today, Ms Syme also ordered 55-year-old Angela Liati to stand trial for allegedly making a false statement to protect Einfeld. Liati said she was in Einfeld's car with the dead woman, Professor Teresa Brennan, when it was photographed speeding in Sydney last year, but the Professor had died three years earlier. ABC News News HomeProsecutor recommends jail for ex-judge EinfeldShare Prosecutor recommends jail for ex-judge EinfeldTopic:Courts Marcus Einfeld enters court to face his sentencing hearing. (Paul Miller: AAP) Link copiedShareShare articleA court has heard former judge Marcus Einfeld should be given a custodial sentence for perjury and trying to pervert the course of justice. Prosecutor Wayne Roser said Marcus Einfeld's perjury evidence was pre-meditated, and that he influenced a witness. He said Einfeld had referred to an electronic diary when giving evidence. Mr Roser called for a custodial sentence and opposed Einfeld's bail being continued. However, Aboriginal elder Madeline McGrady from the Boggabilla community in regional New South Wales told the court that Marcus Einfeld had improved housing and other services for the community when he was the Human Rights Commissioner in the 1980s. She said he showed that he cared and helped bring a number of problems to light. The perjury charges relate to a speeding offence against Marcus Einfeld, which was dismissed in 2006 after he claimed his car was being driven by a friend, Teresa Brennan. It later emerged that she had died in 2003. In 2008, Marcus Einfeld pleaded guilty to making a false statement under oath and trying to pervert the course of justice. Earlier at the sentencing hearing in the New South Wales Supreme Court, the former judge sat with his lawyers who asked if he could stay with them and not sit in the dock. Justice James replied, "Mr Einfeld I think it's a good idea if you move into the dock." ABC News News HomeChance of fair trial for Einfeld 'remote'Share Chance of fair trial for Einfeld 'remote'Topic:Courts 'Inflammatory': Former judge Marcus Einfeld is accused of lying to avoid speeding fines over eight years. (Tracey Nearmy: AAP) Link copiedShareShare articleLawyers for former Federal Court judge Marcus Einfeld have told a Sydney court the Crown's opening in the case is an unjustified attack on his character. Prosecutors yesterday said they would allege Einfeld lied under oath to avoid penalties for four traffic offences between 1999 and January last year, when he said other people were driving his car at the time. The 68-year-old is facing a committal hearing at the Downing Centre Local Court on 14 charges, including perjury and perverting the course of justice. In August last year, the former judge gave evidence he was in Forster, on the New South Wales mid-North Coast, the day his car was photographed speeding on Sydney's North Shore in January 2006. He said he had lent the car to his friend, Professor Teresa Brennan, but it was later revealed she had died three years earlier. At a committal hearing for co-accused Angela Liati yesterday, the Crown said it had mobile phone records and credit card receipts to prove Einfeld was in Sydney at the time of the speeding offence. The prosecution alleges Einfeld has lied on a number of occasions to avoid traffic offences and that he even signed a false statutory declaration while serving as a Federal Court judge. Einfeld denies the charges. His barrister, Ian Barker QC, has told the magistrate he is disgusted by the Crown's opening address, which he says make the prospect of a fair trial a remote possibility. Mr Barker says the address was handed to the press before he could consider it and contained inflammatory material that was not necessary for a balanced statement of fact. Liati is also accused of perverting the course of justice. She allegedly told police she had been a passenger in Einfeld's car they day of the speeding offence and he was not the driver. His friend, media personality Vivian Schenker, also told police the day his car was photographed speeding at Mosman that he had driven her from her Cremorne home to a restaurant in Harbord in his mother's car. But when confronted with footage, which the Crown says shows his mother's car was not driven that day, Ms Shenker told police Einfeld was driving his own car. Under cross-examination today, she told the court she did not have a perfect memory of that day and it was fair to say she could not picture the car she was in. Marcus Einfeld is not well and will slide deeper into depression if he is handed a full-time jail term for perjury Jonathon Phillips also raised the prospect of the former Federal Court judge becoming a suicide risk saying at the very least he would "begin to think in a very negative" way about his life He was giving evidence in the NSW Supreme Court today at the sentencing hearing of the retired 69-year-old judge Einfeld has pleaded guilty to knowingly making a false statement on oath in Sydney's Downing Centre Local Court on August 7 He has also admitted making a false statement in Sydney on August 23 with intent to pervert the course of justice The offences relate to claims he was not behind the wheel of his car on January 8 when a speed camera recorded his silver Lexus travelling 60kmh in a 50kmh zone at Mosman Dr Phillips said he first saw Einfeld in relation to the matters now before the court in November 2006 He said the former judge was on medication as well as undergoing psychotherapy for depression Einfeld was also diagnosed with prostate cancer in April last year and received radiotherapy which resulted in a number of side effects If Einfeld received a full-time custodial sentence Dr Phillips said he believed the former judge's depression would worsen particularly as the required psychotherapy treatment was unlikely to be available in jail but could not be said to be well," he told the sentencing hearing He said Einfeld's general state of health was "far from perfect" and he anticipated his physical and psychological wellbeing would deteriorate if he was in jail on a full-time basis when he said Einfeld was despondent and feared for his future "He also has felt humiliated over the lack of control over his bladder and bowel," he said The sentencing hearing is continuing before Justice Bruce James saying at the very least he would \\\"begin to think in a very negative\\\" way about his life Einfeld has pleaded guilty to knowingly making a false statement on oath in Sydney's Downing Centre Local Court on August 7 Dr Phillips said he believed the former judge's depression would worsen but could not be said to be well,\\\" he told the sentencing hearing He said Einfeld's general state of health was \\\"far from perfect\\\" and he anticipated his physical and psychological wellbeing would deteriorate if he was in jail on a full-time basis \\\"He also has felt humiliated over the lack of control over his bladder and bowel,\\\" he said Marcus Einfeld could have caught a taxi home to Woollahra from his fateful lunch at Freshwater in January 2006 That unpaid $75 speeding fine has cost him his title as Queen's Counsel his reputation and at least two years in jail It has cost him everything but his $200,000 annual retired judge's pension Once a national treasure...Marcus Einfeld was cheerful when he arrived at court surrounded by family and friends.Credit: Jon Reid But as the Supreme Court judge Bruce James stressed yesterday in sentencing Einfeld Nor was it about the three demerit points Einfeld would have picked up for the offence in Macpherson Street as he drove his friend Vivian Schenker to her Cremorne Point home The extent of Einfeld's "deliberate premeditated perjury" and "planned criminal activity" was all the more astounding for the triviality of the initial offence In a courtroom shocked into silence and tears for perjury and attempting to pervert the course of justice National Trust living treasure and president of the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission that fall was reflected in microcosm yesterday: between Einfeld's robust cheerful arrival at court and his sombre departure between two Corrective Services officers; between the ebullience of his big entourage of family and supporters at the start of the hearing and their tearful silence when his sentence was announced; and between the eminence of his achievements and the pointless deviousness of his crimes Einfeld had pleaded guilty to two offences relating to his car being clocked 10 kmh over the speed limit at 4.01pm on January 8 lying under oath to the Local Court in August 2006 when he said he was not driving the car but had lent it to an American friend he was sentenced to one year and nine months On this excuse he was acquitted in August 2006 but it was later discovered that Professor Brennan had died three years earlier of wilfully trying to pervert the course of justice It was for this that Einfeld received the heavier sentence of two years and three months The latter crime "aggravated the seriousness" of the first when police investigated the Brennan revelations Einfeld wrote a 20-page statement that would have done Colleen McCullough proud It was an elaborate fiction about how Einfeld lent his car to a woman named Brennan whom he had met in Bangladesh His 82-paragraph description of this Brennan's appearance The intelligence and imagination Einfeld brought to that statement his history in the law and standing in the community only made things worse for him A son of the former Labor minister Syd Einfeld Einfeld was a pillar of the Jewish and eastern suburbs establishment Einfeld's position aggravated his crimes "He knew the high importance of telling the truth," Justice James said and his crimes "strike at the heart of the administration of justice" He had no excuses for attacking the rule of law itself On Einfeld's sentencing submissions that his physical and mental health would make jail too onerous Justice James said his various symptoms would probably worsen but not to the extent that he could avoid full-time jail Einfeld was mobbed by weeping family and friends They would be heading in opposite directions: his family eastwards along Syd Einfeld Drive; and he westwards he murmured: "I have my bags packed" That unpaid $75 speeding fine has cost him his title as Queen's Counsel It has cost him everything but his $200,000 annual retired judge's pension The extent of Einfeld's \\\"deliberate premeditated perjury\\\" and \\\"planned criminal activity\\\" that fall was reflected in microcosm yesterday: between Einfeld's robust The latter crime \\\"aggravated the seriousness\\\" of the first His 82-paragraph description of this Brennan's appearance \\\"He knew the high importance of telling the truth,\\\" Justice James said and his crimes \\\"strike at the heart of the administration of justice\\\" On Einfeld's sentencing submissions that his physical and mental health would make jail too onerous he murmured: \\\"I have my bags packed\\\" For decades The Hon Marcus Einfeld has worked tirelessly for human rights and justice in Australia and around the world at a special meeting in Woollahra of divulging international truth and lies Einfeld shared many controversial situations Marcus Einfeld was appointed to the Federal Court in 1986 He was also a Justice of the Australian Capital Territory Einfeld was the founding president of the Australian Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission Firstly Marcus focussed on the new Italian government which is opposed to mass immigration despite almost 70,000 refugees from Tunisia and Libya having Italy currently in their sights “I shudder to think what their future might be,” said Einfeld He then said that the Polish government is sacking judges who do not implement its policies Meanwhile Britain has decided to deport asylum seekers to the African country of Rwanda despite the current unrest in neighbouring Burundi Einfeld pointed out that Germany is an exception to this ill-treatment of refugees where the previous Chancellor Angela Merkel allowed almost a million refugees to settle In the United States former President Donald Trump still advocates that the previous election was illegal and stolen from him He still has many congress members who agree with his stance Meanwhile large numbers of Mexican children who supposedly never had the correct paperwork have been kept apart from their parents for several years there are about 150 people incarcerated in Guantanamo despite never having been given the chance to defend themselves in court In looking at the Russian invasion of Ukraine “It is actually a breach of human rights law to attack such places,” he stated He pointed out that there are many other countries in the world where human rights do not exist Nicaragua and Myanmar (Burma) where some of the elected government members have been sentenced to 60 years imprisonment Then it was Australia’s turn: Einfeld pointed out that 70% of inmates in our prisons are indigenous people many of whom were incarcerated because of minor offences and should not be there They now have a prison record which becomes detrimental for any future employment being untrained and unable to find employment would resort to crime resulting in recidivism “If we can’t improve this situation then perhaps we should give up calling ourselves a fair just and benevolent democracy,” added Einfeld He covered various other poor situations about Aboriginal people including the fact that most of them had never seen a dentist “Australia is the only country in the world that practices permanent detention of asylum seekers who come here by boat.” And we lock many of them up in far-away places like Nauru In a Melbourne hotel there are currently 70 asylum seekers locked up these people have no right to go to court to state their case Many people are currently incarcerated in our various detention facilities They could be used to fill these vacancies Many of them are qualified in various fields and could become assets to Australia but our past and present governments do not see this This consistently growing group meet regularly on the 2nd Sunday of the month (even on Zoom during COVID) all the while presenting high profile interesting speakers – topics included so far have been drug & alcohol issues and website in this browser for the next time I comment Australasian Muslim Times, AMUST is a community newspaper for all presenting news and views using multimedia technologies. Read more Designed by Elegant Themes | Powered by WordPress ABC News News HomeThe dishonouring of Marcus EinfeldShare The dishonouring of Marcus EinfeldSarah Ferguson for Four CornersTopic:Legal Profession Marcus Einfeld talks exclusively to Four Corners about the decision that destroyed his reputation and career. (ABC) Link copiedShareShare articleIn the making of this story, Four Corners followed Marcus Einfeld in the weeks leading up to his sentencing. As much as wanting to know why he lied, Four Corners wanted to see up close the experience of living through those nervous days. On his way to court for his sentencing hearing three weeks ago, Marcus Einfeld turned away from the camera to stare out of the car window. "They'll ask for some sort of detention; I don't know whether it will be permanent incarceration, I'm hoping that won't happen," he said. The former Federal Court judge and president of the Human Rights Commission was sentenced to three years in prison, with a two-year non-parole period, for perjury and perverting the course of justice. In court room 13a of the NSW Supreme Court, in the same building where he had sat as a judge, Einfeld said goodbye to his family and friends while the media looked on, silenced by the gravity of moment. It was this outcome he had feared. In the days before his last court appearances, Four Corners filmed him at choir practice at the Great Synagogue in Sydney, one of the activities he said that took his mind off the impending sentence. "These guys are very helpful at helping me stay strong. I focus on the music, one of the things I do every day is to try and occupy myself so I don't think about it too much," he said. The choir was rehearsing a song for the Yom Kippur day of atonement, Einfeld says he thinks about it every day. "I'm forever trying to atone for what I did. But whether God will hear me I don't know but I hope the people will hear me." As the sentencing approached, Einfeld said he felt like withdrawing completely from public view. On an early morning walk through the streets of Sydney's eastern suburbs, he said: "I usually make appointments early in the morning because the easiest thing in the world would be to stay in bed and feel sorry for myself." Einfeld described the experience of living through more than two years of intense media coverage. "I would say that much of it has been in witch hunt territory. Of course the basic matters are reasonable to be covered, but the vitriol and the hatred and the invasion of my life and my family's life and so on, have been just outrageous really. "It's sort of taken the tall poppy syndrome to a whole new level." It's one of the reasons Einfeld said he decided to give the interview to Four Corners, in the hope eventually of restoring his reputation. "It's not an easy interview to undertake but I've agreed to it because that's what I have to do to win back any sort of support, understanding and reputation," he said. So why did he lie, risking a 40-year career in the law and as a human rights campaigner for a $75 speeding fine? On the way to court, seated in the back of the car, chewing gum and trying to maintain his composure, he said. "It was an aberration, completely mad. I don't have any idea how and why I did it now, I just lost my senses at the wrong moment," he said. He was nervous about agreeing to an extended interview; some of his supporters had advised him not to do it. The interview gave us time to explore the question, was this an aberration as he claimed, a mistake deserving of forgiveness or something more serious, more ingrained as the prosecution had argued, a pattern of dishonesty? Confronted with the allegation that he had submitted false statutory declarations in the past, naming overseas drivers on receiving speeding and other traffic fines, he said these too were mistakes, never deliberate lies. Four Corners asked him if he had a habit of dishonesty. "No I'm not dishonest. I mean I don't want to be offensive but that's a bit offensive and I don't think I'm the slightest bit dishonest. I just made a mistake," he said. Along with Einfeld's contradictions about his honesty and his now public disgrace, this Four Corners program looks at his achievements in the field of human rights, his advocacy for refugees and indigenous people. Recalling the commanding heights he reached, reminds us powerfully how great is the fall from grace of Marcus Einfeld. Watch the full Four Corners program on ABC1 Monday 23 March at 8.30pm ABC News News HomeEinfeld accused gets community serviceShare Einfeld accused gets community serviceTopic:Courts Angela Liati was told she has wasted other people's time. (Paul Miller, file photo: AAP) Link copiedShareShare articleA woman who lied to police to help the fomer Federal Court judge Marcus Einfeld avoid a speeding fine has been sentenced to 200 hours community service. Angela Liati has been sentenced in the New South Wales District Court, after a jury took less than three hours to find her guilty of perverting the course of justice by falsely claiming she was with another woman in Einfeld's car when it was booked speeding. Einfeld pleaded guilty to perjury and perverting the course of justice last year, and has since been sentenced to a minimum of two years behind bars. Today, District Court judge Michael Finnane said Liati would not be given a jail sentence, but rejected her solicitor's application to adjourn the matter. The solicitor argued Liati was on the verge of suicide and said he wanted a psychologist's report. But Judge Finnane said it was in Liati's best interests to be sentenced today. He said in terms of sentencing, it was not the world's biggest case, even though Liati might want to make it that way. He told the 56-year-old that she has wasted other people's time. Outside court Angela Liati said she thought Einfield should not be in jail. "I think he could be helping other...people, doing some sort of community work rather than sitting in a jail cell. I thought that jail was for people who were a threat to society," she said. ABC News News HomeEinfeld fails in legal bid over storyShare Einfeld fails in legal bid over storyTopic:Law, Crime and Justice Former Federal Court judge Marcus Einfeld is currently being investigated (file photo). (ABC TV) Link copiedShareShare articleThe New South Wales Supreme Court has dismissed an application by the former Federal Court judge Marcus Einfeld to stop a Sydney newspaper from publishing new details about his alleged driving offences. Mr Einfeld is being investigated over claims that he gave false evidence to a New South Wales local court when he successfully challenged a speeding ticket. The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) is currently considering the matter. It has now been revealed that the former Federal Court judge sought an injunction in the Supreme Court at 12:30am AEDT yesterday to stop the Daily Telegraph from publishing further details about his alleged offences. The injunction was granted but the paper had already gone to print with the front page story. Late yesterday Supreme Court Justice Megan Latham dismissed the injunction and the order suppressing it, finding the publication of the material does not interfere in the administration of justice. ABC News News HomeEinfeld loses appeal against jail sentenceShare Einfeld loses appeal against jail sentencecourt reporter Jamelle WellsTopic:Courts Marcus Einfeld lied about a speeding fine. (Tracey Nearmy: AAP) Link copiedShareShare articleDisgraced former federal court judge Marcus Einfeld has lost an appeal against the jail sentence he is serving for lying to avoid a speeding fine. In March 2009, Einfeld was jailed for a minimum of two years and a maximum of three after he admitted lying under oath and trying to pervert the course of justice to avoid the $77 fine. He had claimed his car was being driven by American academic Teresa Brennan when it was clocked speeding in August 2006. She had died in 2003. Part of Einfeld's grounds for appeal were that he has long term bipolar disorder that was undiagnosed and untreated at the time of his sentencing. The full bench of the Supreme Court in Sydney granted him leave to appeal The court heard one of the judges on the bench would have reduced his sentence by six months but the other two would not, so the appeal was dismissed. Their judgement rejected some of the evidence presented by a psychiatrist at Einfeld's appeal. It upheld an assessment of the seriousness of his offence based on his status as a barrister and former judge of a superior court. "The ability of such conduct to strike at public confidence in the integrity of the system of justice was properly given significant weight," the judgement said. Marcus Einfeld was not in court. He will be eligible for parole in March 2011. Since his conviction the 71-year-old has been struck off the roll of legal practitioners, lost his Queen's Counsel Commission and had his Order Of Australia award rescinded. ABC News News HomeEinfeld pleads not guiltyShare Einfeld pleads not guiltyTopic:Courts Marcus Einfeld has pleaded not guilty to a range of charges (Torsten Blackwood: AFP) Link copiedShareShare articleFormer federal court judge Marcus Einfeld has faced a Sydney court over an alleged attempt to avoid paying a $77 speeding ticket. Einfeld has been charged with 13 offences including perjury and perverting the course of justice. He was arrested after a police investigation into allegations that he gave false evidence to a court to avoid the speeding fine. The former judge did not answer questions from the media when he arrived at the Downing Centre Local Court in Sydney this morning. His lawyer told the court Einfeld was pleading not guilty to each charge. He will not be required to appear when his case returns to court in June. ABC News News HomeEinfeld 'lied to court'Share Einfeld 'lied to court'Topic:Courts Accused of lie: Disgraced former judge Marcus Einfeld leaves court (Tracey Nearmy: AAP) Link copiedShareShare articleFormer Federal Court judge Marcus Einfeld lied under oath about a speeding ticket because he did not want to lose his licence or be placed on a good-behaviour bond, prosecutors have told a Sydney court. Einfeld appeared in the Downing Centre Local Court today but his committal hearing was adjourned until tomorrow. The 68-year-old is facing 14 charges, including perjury and perverting the course of justice. In documents tendered to the court, the Crown alleged Einfeld lied when he gave evidence that he was not driving his car when it was caught speeding at Mosman. Prosecutors will allege mobile phone records show he was making calls in the area when his car was caught speeding. His friend, media personality Vivian Schenker, has made a statement that Einfeld picked her up in his car for lunch that day and not in his mother's car as he later stated. Einfeld's co-accused, Angela Liati, who is charged with making a false statement to support him, is facing a committal hearing today. ABC News News HomeMarcus Einfeld arrestedShare Marcus Einfeld arrestedTopic:Crime Police have arrested former Federal Court judge Marcus Einfeld (file photo). (ABC TV) Link copiedShareShare articlePolice have arrested former Federal Court judge Marcus Einfeld. The 67-year-old from Woollahra in Sydney's east was arrested by police who were investigating allegations that false evidence was given to a local court about a speeding fine. It is understood Einfeld was arrested within the last hour. Fraud Squad Commander Col Dyson is expected to brief the media shortly. ABC News News HomeEinfeld sends dossier to policeShare Einfeld sends dossier to policeTopic:Legal Profession Marcus Einfeld says dossier establishes he was not driving the car. (File photo) (Lateline) Link copiedShareShare articleFormer Federal Court judge Marcus Einfeld says he is confident he will clear his name of claims arising from his conduct when charged with traffic offences. It has been claimed Mr Einfeld has given false evidence to a court about the identity of the car's driver, to avoid conviction. In a brief statement this afternoon, Mr Einfeld says his lawyers have this morning provided a dossier to investigating police that establishes he was not driving his car when it was photographed by a speed camera. "People would understand that I must now step back and let the police do their work," Mr Einfeld said. He says he is confident a police investigation will clear his name of any wrongdoing in connection with that case, and other court matters. "Rest assured there are many things that I would like to say but I simply cannot do so at this point in time," he said. "As for the report in this morning's Daily Telegraph, I can only say that I reject any inference of wrongdoing. "People would also understand that I cannot go into details with the media while the investigation is proceeding." Attempts by the NSW Bar Council to remove former Federal Court judge Marcus Einfeld from the roll of legal practitioners have hit a snag In the Supreme Court this morning lawyers for the NSW Bar Council said they were still waiting to hear from Einfeld's lawyers about whether a set of facts in relation to whether Einfeld's name should remain on the roll could be agreed upon The court heard the NSW Bar Council could not "even get their attention" It was not surprising considering Einfeld will be sentenced in less than two weeks Einfeld is facing up to 14 years in jail after he pleaded guilty to making a false statement on oath and making a false statement with intent to pervert the course of justice when he lied to avoid a $77 speeding fine He had falsely claimed in 2006 that a friend had been driving his car when it was caught speeding in Mosman It was later revealed that his friend had died three years earlier Einfeld has since had his title of Queen's Counsel revoked but will keep his annual $184,000 taxpayer funded pension for life The Governor-General Quentin Bryce will have the final say on whether Einfeld should be stripped of his Order of Australia once he is sentenced The case to have Einfeld struck off the legal roll of practitioners has been adjourned until March 30 by which time a response is expected from Einfeld's camp In the Supreme Court this morning lawyers for the NSW Bar Council said they were still waiting to hear from Einfeld's lawyers about whether a set of facts in relation to whether Einfeld's name should remain on the roll could be agreed upon The court heard the NSW Bar Council could not \\\"even get their attention\\\" Einfeld has since had his title of Queen's Counsel revoked The case to have Einfeld struck off the legal roll of practitioners has been adjourned until March 30 by which time a response is expected from Einfeld's camp.