Sex Scandal in the Planning Department

25 February 2008 - 1:00pm

An Australian planner has confessed to having a series of affairs with prominent developers and subsequently approving their plans for major developments.

"Former Wollongong town planner Beth Morgan, 32, confessed she had affairs with three prominent property developers and received gifts and cash from two of them."

"Ms Morgan, sacked last year for 'serious misconduct', was involved between 2004 and 2007 in the assessment or approval of four big developments in Wollongong worth more than $135 million."

"Emails tendered to the commission showed Ms Morgan, who has a four-year-old daughter by her ex-husband, had a passionate three-year affair with wealthy, married property developer Frank Vellar, which he ended last week."

"It has also emerged she had a brief sexual relationship with married property developer Glen Tabak while his $31 million development application was before Wollongong council."

Source: The Age, February 22, 2008
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