Gangland widow Roberta Williams ordered to pay $300,000
Gangland widow Roberta Williams faces an Australian Tax Office order to pay almost $300,000 after bankruptcy proceedings were filed against her.
The convicted drug dealer was the wife of murderer and drug kingpin Carl Williams, who was beaten to death while inside Melbourne’s Barwon Prison, in 2010.
She pleaded guilty in 2004 to trafficking a commercial quantity of ecstasy and was sentenced to one-and-a-half years in jail.
Documents were filed on June 9, with the ATO petitioning for $295,632 of Mrs Williams’ estate, based on the money she made from selling her story to the media, the Herald Sun reported.
Her agent Matt Ryan-Garnsey said Mrs Williams would dispute the amount, and claimed the figure owed from the media payments was more like $60,000.
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Three years ago, the Supreme Court reportedly ordered Mrs Williams to pay the ATO $230,623 but the debt has since grown a further $65,009 in interest which lead to the bankruptcy application against Mrs Williams' estate.
The case against Mrs Williams, 47, is expected to be heard in the Victorian Federal Court, on July 14.
Mrs Williams is also involved in a feud with Kathleen Bourke, the widow of Carl Williams’ late father George, over the patriarch’s estate.
George Williams died of a heart attack on May 11, and Mrs Williams and her daughter allegedly demanded a share of his Broadmeadows property, in Melbourne’s north, worth about $360,000.
