Criminal gets $60,000 bonus

[Finn]

And other case of only in NZ. What makes this even more disgusting is that Hulen stole this money from taxpayers in the first place to fund that fat bitches stomach operation and a few nice holidays so she could recover. I'm not sure if any of this money was used to whiten her though.

Now she gets $60,000. Still happy you voted for Labour?

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/st...ectID=10404257

[crashe]

Yeah she steals $82,409 off the kids from learning to read etc...
and the same Pipi Foundation she stole from decides to give her $60,000 back to her...

There is something so wrong here with the Pipi Foundation.

Pipi Foundation offers Huata $60,000 bonus

10.00am Wednesday October 4, 2006

The foundation Donna Awatere Huata defrauded of more than $80,000 has offered the disgraced former MP a $60,000 bonus, saying she should never have been prosecuted.

Despite being nearly bankrupted in the fallout over her offending, the Pipi Foundation has authorised the payment and is now awaiting an invoice from her before handing over the money, the Dominion Post reported today.

The $60,000 bonus was approved by foundation members seven days ago and is for work Mrs Huata did updating the four-minute reading programme two years ago.

The Pipi Foundation says she did not solicit the payment.

Revelations of the $60,000 bonus came yesterday after Mrs Huata and her husband Wi appealed against their conviction and sentence at the Court of Appeal in Wellington.

The Pipi Foundation supplied an affidavit to the court yesterday.

After the hearing spokesman Peter Nee Harland said Mrs Huata had earned the $60,000 -- and if it were up to the foundation, she would never have been prosecuted.

Whether she was guilty of the fraud charges was up to the court to decide, he said.

The foundation, a private trust with five trustees, had agreed on September 28 to the payment "for her input and expertise in improving and enhancing the so-called four-minute reading programme kindly settled by way of gift from her upon this organisation".

Mrs Huata had gifted the reading programme she devised to the foundation and she had estimated the cost of her and a colleague's services at $60,000.

"But the foundation never paid for it, so they felt they should," foundation lawyer David Porteous said.

Mrs Huata was jailed for two years and nine months for perverting the course of justice and defrauding the foundation of $82,409 -- spending some on a stomach-stapling operation and on boarding school fees for two of her children.

The former Act MP spent nine months in prison and less than three months on home detention. Wi Huata was sentenced to two years' jail but bailed to care for the couple's children, pending the outcome of the appeal.

- NZPA

[judecatmad]

Despite being nearly bankrupted in the fallout over her offending, the Pipi Foundation has authorised the payment and is now awaiting an invoice from her before handing over the money, the Dominion Post reported today.

The $60,000 bonus was approved by foundation members seven days ago and is for work Mrs Huata did updating the four-minute reading programme two years ago.

The Pipi Foundation says she did not solicit the payment

I don't get it - if it's a "bonus", why the need for an invoice? And if it wasn't solicited, why the need to deny that it was?

She's a dodgy one alright, and the Pipi foundation trustees need their heads reading....

[Grumpy Gnomb]

Who ever said being honest is the right thing to do

[Hitcher]

Donna Awatere Huata Not To Accept Money From Pipi Foundation

NewsRoom.co.nz Agency Story at 1:00 pm, 04 Oct 2006

Former Act MP Donna Awatere Huata will not accept a payment of up to $60,000 from the educational trust she defrauded.

She was jailed for two years and nine months for defrauding the Pipi Foundation of more than $82,000.

The foundation has offered her and an associate $60,000, for their work developing a four-minute reading programme for schools.

It says it is only fair to pay for the improvements to the programme over the past seven years.

But Mrs Awatere Huata's lawyer, Jeremy Bioletti, says while she appreciates the offer, she says she would never take the money.

(c) NewsRoom 2006

[Deano]

But Mrs Awatere Huata's lawyer, Jeremy Bioletti, says while she appreciates the offer, she says she would never take the money.

YEAH RIGHT !!!!!!

The Foundation will just buy her something worth that amount.....maybe a facelift she so dearly needs.

[MSTRS:Me]

... she says she would never take the money...

She would tho, wouldn't she? She should at least send an invoice marked 'paid' along with a thank you for the $22409 'bonus'

[judecatmad]

Former Act MP Donna Awatere Huata will not accept a payment of up to $60,000 from the educational trust she defrauded......while she appreciates the offer, she says she would never take the money.

I feel a Tui ad coming on.....

[slimjim]

And other case of only in NZ. What makes this even more disgusting is that Hulen stole this money from taxpayers in the first place to fund that fat bitches stomach operation and a few nice holidays so she could recover. I'm not sure if any of this money was used to whiten her though.

Now she gets $60,000. Still happy you voted for Labour?

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/st...ectID=10404257

bloody money could have been used on the drive by shooting's in pamly, may have given the shooters abit more sence ,

[Buster]

Sends a good message to the kids out there don't it?

[Brian d marge]

I have just read the newspaper, what the frigg am I doing wrong....

Maybe its this get up and go to work thing That I dont understand ... I mean I work , and get stuff all

She goes to pokey for 2 years and gets 60 000 ... ( unless its all talk to ..try and sweeten the media,,as in there was never any 60 000)

shit always floats to the top ,,,,,,,unless you is ill then it cannons to the bottom

Stephen

[paturoa]

.... she says she would never take the money....

I listened to an interview this arvo on the radio with the current chairman of the Pipi Foundation (I think) and WHAT A CROCK OF SHIT!

There are several really stinky things in here, didn't the Trust get its funding pulled, so where is the $60K coming from? (that would buy a shit load of books)

He also talked about this being a payment for some work that DA and and some other (un-named person) did. So has this other person been paid? How much?

I though this was a Gubbermint (oops thats ewenme!) funded trust, not a business.

Not happy

[MD]

Well I think she is sweet, attractive, hard working, charming and as honest as the day is long and she worked hard for all 4 minutes on that reading program, so she deserves the $60,000 bonus.
I'm so distressed she has been ripped off I am thinking of assigning my Superannuation over to her and her needy family.
Share the love people.
Hope she gets on to Dancing with Stars next season. She is so light fingered and quick on her feet at sidesteps.

[Swoop]

Now she gets $60,000. Still happy you voted for Labour?

Is that all???

[Colapop]

A question:

Why is it that the only people "stealing" from the Maori people are the Pakeha?