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Simeon Brown: Mongrel Mob donations are unacceptable and outrageous
National's Simeon Brown is fuming over a Human Rights Commission donation to the Mongrel Mob.
Newstalk ZB has revealed the commission gave the Waikato chapter $200 as koha, after Chief Human Rights Commissioner Paul Hunt spoke at the Mob's hui in May.
Brown says its unacceptable any amount of taxpayer money is being donated to a gang.
"It's absolutely outrageous the Human Rights Commission is giving money to a criminal organisation. The Mongrel Mob were recently caught in a major transnational drug bust and gang bust. There's no way that any government department should be donating money to…
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