- Joseph Gutnick
Joseph Isaac Gutnick (sometimes referred to as Diamond Joe) is an
Australia n businessman. He is well known for his leadership ofGreat Central Mines and other resource andmining businesses. He is also an ordained Rabbi. He is the President and CEO of Legend International Holdings (OTCBB: LGDI) a mining company focused on Phosphate exploration in the North East of Australia.He is a former president of the
Melbourne Football Club . He is famous in legal circles for suing Dow Jones, in which a precedent was established that material published on the Internet is deemed to be published in the place that it is viewed, not the place of origin. Fact|date=August 2008He is an Orthodox Jew and a member of the
Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic movement. According to Gutnick, it wasRabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson who pointed out to him the precisegeological points on a map of Australia to commence mining for gold. He is also closely linked toBenjamin Netanyahu and was instrumental in his election as prime minister ofIsrael in 1996.Fact|date=March 2007Gutnick's link with Israel stems from his role as a member of the Lubavitch group, which has close ties to Israel's Likud Party and the political right. According to a report on the Australian Broadasting Corporation's "The World Today" in 2002, Mr. Gutnick spent millions of dollars in the 1990s campaigning for
Benjamin Netanyahu and against the Labor Party in Israel's elections. Mr Netanyahu was Prime Minister of Israel from 1996 to 1999. [ [http://www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/content/2003/s872995.htm The World Today - Profile of Joseph Gutnick ] ]In
1999 he along with partnerRobert Champion de Crespigny , were found to have illegally structured a takeover of a mining company and Gutnick was ordered to return $28.5 million to investors. The court found that their behaviour in jointly bidding $450 million earlier that year, for a company called Great Central Mines, was unlawful and deceptive [ [http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/stories/s29555.htm "Miners found to have illegally restructured company", ABC radio, June 16, 1999] ]ee also
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Gutnick v Dow Jones Citations
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* [http://leb.net/~ramzi/Forbes.html "Diamond Joe" Gutnick and the Rebbe's prophecy] , article appeared in
Forbes Magazine December 2, 1996. (Link testedDecember 25 ,2006 ).
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