Corrupt Lawyer X | Australian Crime Stories | True Crime Central |

The 'Lawyer X' saga sparked a Royal Commission. Nicola Gobbo was the barrister who played on both sides of the law, two-timing the cops and the drug lords for fifteen years.
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[@BloomByCC]

Unbelievable! What a breach and corruption of Justice.

[@samuelrussell7003]

The fact that she and the police officers who did this shit aren't in jail just shows that the law only applies to normal people the police actually paid for her too leave the country so she couldn't be charged the amount of corruption surrounding the Victoria police is absolutely astonishing especially when they refuse to look into it and do anything about it

[@chellynn7052]

No she won't go to jail..not with her uncle judge in supreme court..shes still making money and suing people over HER illegal ways!!! This idiot is still making money off of the taxpayers there!! She's got millions ..take it away! Protest! Something!! What an injustice system..

[@samuelrussell7003]

@@chellynn7052 I'm not Australian so there's not much a protest in England will do about it 😂 I just find it disgusting how fucked up the Victoria police force is and has been for decades now I've seen a lot of documentaries about different officers and all the messed up shit they've done and the government refuses to step in and do anything about it and this was the only time they have stepped in and its been years now they've spent millions on the investigation and still no updates no charges against anyone involved it's a complete joke

[@chellynn7052]

@@samuelrussell7003 I'm not either ...but if I was in Australia I would be outraged my money is paying for these thieves to live in mansions while I can barely buy groceries! The corruption is just as bad as the US!!!! I can't stand it when these absolute piece's of dirt get away with almost murder..cuz of their families...when I would be in jail in 2 minutes.

[@unclequack5445]

She grassed up her clients then pretended to defend them as Barrister but re-grassed them up in a courtroom while wearing that stupid costume and wig she really was cop judge jury & executioner.

[@EnglishLawyer]

As a lawyer, I am TOTALLY disgusted a Lawyer would do what she did. She IS shameless and without contrition and should be put in jail and struck off for the rest of her life. She does NOT deserve Police protection. She is the WORST type of Lawyer imaginable. Words actually fail me as to the damage she has done to the legal profession and indeed clients who look to lawyers to represent their best interests and I am not just talking about low life crims. There are honest people who get falsely accused but now, even they can't trust a Lawyer. People like her make us honest lawyers look like criminals. How does the Legal Profession ever recover from this type of behaviour?

[@beaulieuc8910]

I agree, this affects other lawyers. ... it is hard to trust anyone

[@carnmarth334]

As a (self-proclaimed) lawyer, you should calm down with your hysterical ALL CAPS.

[@fabulouslyK10]

How on earth is she still free and under police protection paid for by our money!! She needs to be arrested???😵‍💫. And as an Australian I now have little faith in the police and justice system, especially when the former police commissioner says he didn’t know Gobo was informing on her clients!! Don’t believe that for 1 second he was head of the task force! Scary!!

[@Stonewall2]

I’m an American but how tf has every case she was on not thrown out immediately and all those convicted freed?

[@diturner7247]

Perhaps both sides are corrupted. Culture of their own making. Love of money power and control. "Cop and robbers" business model. Both sides are deplorable at times in certain cases. So in my brain, it often concludes both sides of this team network are Guilty of crimes against humanity and liberty. Synthetic fake world. Very unhealthy. This is possibly a theoretical comment. Need holistic organic healing for recovery and sustainability.

[@angiepie4436]

You should never free a guilty person, regardless of how you come to the information. Guilty is guilty.

[@borismcfinnigan3430]

most of them are dead anyway

[@Aggiemayson]

@@angiepie4436 "guilty" is NOT guilty when the information is acquired unlawfully. There are reasons why there are laws in regards to that. I would be very dismayed if I were arrested and charged with a crime that i did not commit and the evidence they're using against me was acquired dubiously. Even if they're like, *absolutely no doubt* guilty, every citizen has a RIGHT to a fair trial. We are not animals, we're not an angry mob, we're a society that uses reliable evidence based in integrity and science to ensure those convicted are *guilty* and those who are not are *not guilty*.

[@angiepie4436]

@@Aggiemayson tell that to the innocent people in jail for 30 yrs plus.

[@emusaurus]

So at Barwon prison, you spend 23 hours a day alone and limited family visitors? Sounds like how I live my weekends.

[@vcom2327]

And how I lived during Covid everyday!

[@beaulieuc8910]

haha agree

[@Beatslager]

[@lourias]

I am surprised that anybody can "testify" without showing their face! Just how do we know it was that person speaking and not a recording of someone else!?!

[@ruprect8858]

That is a very good point, but the fact is you don’t even have to prove your identity to sit in a court room. So I guess that they just don’t care.

[@sarahberry3819]

True transparency in Australian courts….We just get the ‘true Crime’ coverage after most court cases. Why we cant get real transparency with televised courts in Australia is a big question. America needs to hold on tight to its constitution that requires transparency in its courts with the public being able to witness cases in court and or televised courts. The best way to keep witnesses, judges & legal professionals up front & honest.

[@catherinegallagher1101]

Those poor children finding parents dead is horrible and the fact she had changed things up to set people up at all times to keep herself out of all these criminal activities ..I have heard of this lady few times but didn’t know the full story and it is very shocking 😢

[@ladyj9343]

This should have been considered a conflict of interest . This lawyer played both sides of the fence. The clients she betrayed should've had thier cases thrown out and she convicted for her own crimes against the Australian Justice system The information received from criminal to lawyer is considered privileged information and should've been treated as such ❗

[@angiepie4436]

Guilty is guilty thou.. would you be happy with a series murderer to be freed..because evidence wasn't sourced the right way and then they went on to kill your family member. Gobbo was very brave and called Madame X. Why discard her like that and put her and her family in danger.

[@ladyj9343]

She did it to herself her GREED got the best as did the POWER she felt as plotted against the ones she took an oath to follow the laws and defend her clients since when is ratting on your clients defending them that's straight up betraying her oath to defend them. Plain & simple

[@cathybassett6432]

@@angiepie4436 How could you know the serial murderer was the right guy when the information was tainted? The system only works if it works for everyone.

[@thearmchairjournalist566]

She represented my husband in the supreme but fortunately we only used her once and never again!

[@beaulieuc8910]

oh nooo

[@justanotherperson584]

Corruption with a lifetime pass. She knew exactly, what she was doing.

[@loritracy1385]

Ah...back in the old days when a million was a fortune.

[@monicamontego1637]

Lol, yup

[@gusman37]

What is Justice ? ... The whole show is corrupt ...

[@rollyherrera623]

Corruption, Power, Greed, and death; A scintillating tale, of a game, with consequences..Historically, it never ends well, and tends to repeat itself!

[@samanthalandry2296]

5:22 I spent 13 years and four months in prison for a crime I didn’t commit - on that occasion, yes lol so there were other occasions lol

[@mandyellis876]

Is it just me or does anyone else think that Nicola Gobbo couldn’t have been any more aptly named, given her predilection? Her name is an absolute gift! It’s inconceivable that she’s still alive!

[@Lisa1111]

It brings me some comfort knowing that Americans aren't the only ones with these "winners". 😝

[@coolinmac]

Yeah you’re up there with the best in the last few years

[@Lisa1111]

Good Lord yes! Send the Mothership! 😉

[@shanafehr]

"for a crime I didn't commit,. In that occasion, yes", LOL.. Well, we'd be dammed!!! 😅😅😅😂😂😂 The GAUL!

[@catherinegallagher1101]

Too me this lady has a heart like a swinging brick .she don’t care for nobody just to get what she wants like a lot of power and deceit over people very dangerous woman I say 😮

[@chrisbgoodv2178]

Most female lawyers would be like Nicola Gobbo in Australia. In fact, I doubt very much that any person in the Australian Judicial system isn't irredeemably corrupt. Australia has become a corporate oligarchy more akin to a third world nation.

[@chrisbgoodv2178]

I said I doubt very much "any person" in the Australian Judicial system isn't irredeemably corrupt. Read and comprehend.

[@chrisbgoodv2178]

@@user-kd1ek4pl8i you're an absolute fucking moron. You are deliberately ignoring the totality of the statement. You are absolute garbage.

[@meredithisme3752]

Yes there is another one in Melbourne married to a convicted criminal she still practicing, unbelievable

[@brendancronin3796]

@Calvin Gatford it's bad here but not to that extent..I always thought that if your willing to risk releasing child abusers cos your good at lying and convinces judges and jurors then there's something fundamental wrong .A lawyer will get a nonce out of jail and that same nonce will hurt another child and these lawyer's don't give it another thought .Their jobs done but you've just taken part in the release of evil people so I couldn't do that job. I accept that somebody has to do it cos of the way the justice system is designed .Lastly in this so called 'woke ' world we live in why do we still release violent child abusers who have plenty of previous but if you don't agree to call some crank ' sexually non binary then you get turned on by these ridiculous groups .If someone wants to identity as a basket ball I don't give a shit cos if there adults then that's their business but why does this generation get so self involved moaning about how offended they are but they can't see or dont care what's happening to young vulnerable kids ...maybe that should offend them ffs

[@veronicamoody3981]

@@chrisbgoodv2178 Maybe you should write more clearly because you did say "most female lawyers," which a person could possibly take to mean that it doesn't apply to male lawyers despite your including the words "any person."

[@Replicatedrecipes]

We have a constitutional right to proper representation; how in the hell weren't these all overturned the moment she was found out about???? And I'm assuming she wanted to talk in public places because I believe she had the idea up her sleeve to blame it on hearsay from ear hustlers😒

[@Theresa89]

These people don’t work alone other law enforcement agencies are always behind it .

[@ruprect8858]

Not always the law enforcement ones :)

[@leemarsh6887]

To think that some of them slept with her 🤯🤮🤮🤮

[@franceshaypenny8481]

A goblin pig.

[@jstone247]

A face you could strike a match on. From a famous legal family, and she was rough as guts.

[@drivingintothedesertuntilt3202]

a real shazza

[@jeffcampbell2710]

Make a Freight train take a dirt road

[@asahel980]

corrupt lawyer? isnt that redundant.

[@samanthalandry2296]

I think that’s the most honest thing she’s said, about getting the relevance and the emotional effect of being relevant to certain people and that’s why she did it continuously. Selfish

[@constitutionalli7522]

If you look up Black's Law definition of gangs, I swear to Santa it specifically describes the police 🦅🇺🇲

[@SR-pr2xz]

considering some of the crook lovers had heaps of money, they sure as hell had bad taste in women

[@denisegore1884]

Should change her name to Gobby.

[@rhondasisco-cleveland2665]

The look on her face creeps me out. It’s like her face is divided into two halves, like she’s two people. Cover each half of her face and check it out.

[@joannasliwa8147]

I agree and with all the money she was earning she could have afforded to improve her looks ( especially her hair 😯)

[@monicamontego1637]

Don't 'they say' we all have that?

[@beaulieuc8910]

@@joannasliwa8147 lookism.. women love to judge women for their looks

[@Stonewall2]

Adam can you upload the Carl Williams interview??

[@angiepie4436]

I saw Carl walking in the street (very fast) whilst he was meant to be in jail. About 3 mths before his murder.

[@Stonewall2]

@@angiepie4436 was this around the time Benji was murdered? Benji died in April 04, Carl got arrested for good in June 04? BTW, Gatto didn’t shoot Benji, Orman did as Gatto walked him into an ambush.

[@angiepie4436]

@@Stonewall2 I don't remember the year..what year was he murdered.. it was months before then.

[@christianerramos2250]

Too many scammers in the comments!!!!!!

[@angiepie4436]

Gobbo did a fantastic job for the police and they revealed who she was, putting her life in danger..shame shame shame on the police.

[@NovemberSky3]

In a comment you made, you said guilty is guilty and they shouldn’t be released regardless of how the evidence was obtained. What about the 1200 people who have potentially had their lives ruined for crimes that they didn’t commit? What about the man released after his wrongful charges of murder were quashed, because his own lawyer, Gobbo, breached her duty of care and confidentiality by actively conspiring witnesses to give evidence against her own client? Hypocrite.

[@angiepie4436]

@@NovemberSky3 that's if we know they are guilty..not maybe guilty. We knew Carl Williams was guilty we had previous history.

[@beaulieuc8910]

Just here for the narcissists v narcisissts

[@peterkavanagh64]

He she is was will be wrong Unable to kead the taxes. Be unhappy due yo food pain sets your ruhht weight girvheight. No femakes soeaking another hell. The mirrir . Well not walking check made. Only this

[@hughgordon6435]

Sort of scarey???? The informant that started this was "the author"! Yet you ( the oroducers) name chip as author??? Mmmhmmm? Just what are they trying to do???

[@2KMMC2]

you’re an American other countries are not like “US” Reagan was famously said this is the last stop on earth. We don’t know our lucky we are

[@johnodonohoe7602]

wow its different in Australia lawyer"s snitching on Clients. where is the Bar Association in this wacky world Down under!

[@MandatoryReporter2015]

She was a criminal who became apolice informant in return for immunity from prosecution. It was only later that she became an attorney.

[@katherinecollins4685]

Very interesting

[@freemind279]

Shocking, what for police is paid by tax payers?

[@freemind279]

Shocking, what for police is paid by tax payers?

[@ruprect8858]

Who did she use all her favours on, that is what I wonder.

[@jeffcampbell2710]

I hope she gets underworld justice

[@birdyelke775]

Wow!! She looks Gobbo, Poor the Aborigine, being ridicule in the country, belittle and pour aside, to heard all these thugs that have took over their lands, causing all type of continue distress towards them. I had no more words.... O

[@abubibs]

"For a crime i didn't commit on that occasion" 🤣

[@adeola08]

Why isn’t she in jail? And wtf are they spending 30 mil to solve a prostitute’s murder? What the hell is going on in Australia???

[@thatomofolo452]

😲

[@mandystinson4925]

How is this woman still alive !

[@007drworm]

Wrong Title. This is Gobbo, Lawyer X. Not Florence.

[@TrueCrimeCentral]

Ahh thank you - has been fixed now!

[@Imasheep_baa_baaa_baaaa]

2023 and it's still going on

[@cm1642]

She looks corrupt.

[@atuchukwuazubike5672]

This is ROTTEN ...

[@antonglas7488]

Once Nicola Gobbo bled those who trusted her dry she discarded them. Sounds like most women I know.

[@cathybassett6432]

Wow -

[@gabegood8989]

I hope they get to her.. she need to go!!

[@stevemartin6144]

What's with the silly hat?

[@emusaurus]

Lol it literally came up on screen while I was reading your comment and I laughed so hard

[@stevemartin6144]

@@emusaurus I too laughed the first time I saw it. One wonders. Terrible taste in hats/fashion? Fashion statement? Does he truly believe that he looks trendy? Suits him? Trying to get the audience to crack up? "I look like Humphrey Bogart? Watch out, I'm a tough guy?

[@beaulieuc8910]

In Australia lots of people get skin cancer... protection is helpful

[@Pettynicolla-HD-N.Ayeshamedina]

My name also Nicolla

[@melissawarner6528]

With a lawyer like that who needs enemies