Notorious Labor powerbroker Eddie Obeid is jailed AGAIN for three years - and his son and a former NSW minister are locked up too - over mining conspiracy Former labor powerbroker Eddie Obeid sentenced to jail for 3 years & 10 months Moses Obeid, 52, was also sentenced to at least three years in jail on Thursday
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Eddie Obeid, his son Moses and former Labor minister Ian McDonald have each been jailed for conspiracy charges.
NSW Supreme Court judge Justice Elizabeth Fullerton took into account the men's age and media scrutiny when sentencing the three men on Thursday.
Former Labor powerbroker, Eddie Obeid, 77, was sentenced to at least three years and 10 months behind bars over a rigged tender for a coal exploration licence.
His former ministerial colleague Ian Macdonald, 72, was jailed for at least five years and three months, while his son Moses Obeid, 52, was jailed for three years.
The then resources minister was found to have breached his duties by providing confidential information to the Obeids over