NSW Police Minister David Elliott rents his $54,000-a-year electorate office from a criminal lawyer who defends bikies, Daily Mail Australia can reveal.
Mr Elliott's office in Baulkham Hills, north-west Sydney is owned by Mark Rumore, an experienced defence lawyer based in Liverpool in the city's south-west.
Mr Rumore's profile on legal directory FindLaw says he specialises in cases of assault, arson, murder, drug offences, sexual offences, and human trafficking.
NSW Police Minister David Elliott is pictured with former premier Gladys Berejiklian last year
David Elliott's office in Baulkham Hills, north-west Sydney is owned by Mark Rumore. Pictured: The building that contains the minister's office
Labor said the revelations were 'highly embarrassing' for the minister - who talks a tough game against bikie gangs - and questioned whether the office was a safe place for sensitive documents relating to the police.
In 2016 Mr Rumore defended Rebels bikie Chad Achurch, 31, who was jailed for live-baiting greyhounds and handed an extra year behind bars for bashing two men inside Goulburn prison in 2019.
This year he defended Ryan O'Hara - also known as Christian Nassar - who denies 205 charges over an alleged luxury car fraud syndicate and faces trial in 2022.
He also defended Kayley Lee Ketley who was accused of kidnapping a 24-year-old woman in Claymore, south-west Sydney and taking her to Ivan Milat's former makeshift burial ground last December.
The woman was allegedly stuffed into the boot of her own Holden Commodore and escaped by kicking out the brake light to catch the attention of a passing truckie who called the police.
Mr Rumore told Daily Mail Australia he has never met Mr Elliott or inspected the office because he leaves his business partner Garry Steinberg to manage the property.
Mark Rumore (right with friends at a Sydney restaurant) is an experienced defence lawyer based in Liverpool in the city's south west
The lawyer said he has represented Rebels members on 'very minor matters' but has
