Lobbying firm created fake admin 'Jessica' in alleged donation scheme, ICAC hears

In a Sydney anti-corruption hearing, the fiction of a fake administrative assistant named 'Jessica' became the thread that unraveled a broader inquiry into how money, loyalty, and political ambition were quietly laundered through a lobbying firm. Operation Rosny examines whether Beckington — a firm founded by Jeremy Greenwood and Christian Ellis — served as a conduit for prohibited donations funding factional recruitment within the Liberal Party's conservative Reformers group. What began as a joke, it seems, was also a method: the oldest human instinct to obscure what one would rather not name