Nuttall gets extra five years jail
Former Queensland government minister Gordon Nuttall has been sentenced to an extra five years in jail
for official corruption and perjury.
Nuttall was sentenced on Thursday after a Brisbane District Court jury found him guilty in October of five perjury charges and five counts of official corruption.
Nuttall was already serving a seven-year sentence for 36 prior counts of corruption.
Thursday's sentence means the 57-year-old won't be eligible for parole until January 2, 2014.
Nuttall was sentenced to five years' jail for each of the new corruption convictions, and two years for each of the perjury charges, to be served concurrently.
During the trial, the court was told that between October 1998 and April 2006, while minister for industrial relations and minister for health, Nuttall corruptly received $150,000 in payments from his friend, businessman and former plumber Brendan McKennariey.
In return, Nuttall used his ministerial influence to help Mr McKennariey win government contracts.
The perjury charges related to testimony given to the Crime and Misconduct Commission in September 2006.
