Qld: McArdle accuses govt of smear campaign

AAP General News (Australia)
02-27-2008
Qld: McArdle accuses govt of smear campaign

By Roberta Mancuso

BRISBANE, Feb 27 AAP - Queensland Liberal leader Mark McArdle has accused the state
government of a desperate smear campaign after it claimed he still had links to a disgraced
lawyer whose firm cost investors $30 million in failed mortgage schemes.

Mr McArdle was a partner in Sunshine Coast law firm Boyce Garrick lawyers when scores
of investors, mostly elderly retirees, lost money in the 1990s schemes.

Mr McArdle was named as a defendant in at least five class actions.

The scheme led to his partner, former Boyce …