In short:
Ashlyn Nassif, the daughter of fugitive property developer Jean, has been sentenced to a six-month community corrections order without supervision.
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Ms Nassif pleaded guilty in June to publishing false misleading material to obtain advantage.
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In handing down his sentence, the judge described Ms Nassif as someone who "would do almost anything not to disappoint her demanding father".
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The daughter of "notorious" fugitive Sydney developer Jean Nassif has avoided jail for securing a $150 million loan from Westpac bank through a falsified document.
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Ashlyn Nassif has been sentenced to a six-month community corrections order with no supervision after pleading guilty in June to publishing false misleading material to obtain advantage.
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Nassif → sentence → advantage
Ms Nassif was a solicitor and an executive at Toplace, the construction company owned by her father.
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She sent a document falsifying the number of pre-sold units required to secure the loan and admitted to knowing some of the deposits were only 5 per cent of the value of the units.
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Her lawyer Warwick Korn told the court Mr Nassif's reputation should not be a factor in considering his daughter's crime.
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"He [Jean Nassif] has become notorious in this state,"he said.
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Ms Nassif provided a letter to the court which described how her relationship with her father influenced her decision.
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According to the letter, Mr Nassif was angry with his daughter when he found out she had not sent the letter as he had asked.
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According to Judge Christopher Halburd, Ms Nassif said: "I thought to myself, 'What if I continued to spiral?'
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I went back to the office and did what he asked, knowing that we didn't have the pre-sales required and some of the deposits were per cent."
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Judge Halburd said the 32-year-old was remorseful.
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"This defendant is not some sort of proxy for her father," he said.
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She's being sentenced not in relation to what he did.
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She's being sentenced for that one document that she didn't sign that she sent off under pressure from her father.
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"She accepts that it's a serious matter and that she breached her position of trust as a solicitor."
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Mr Korn told the court: "Her career's finished."
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After reviewing several testimonies, the judge described Mr Nassif as a "somewhat tyrannical father … who seems to have escaped justice".
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Former employees who witnessed her relationship with her father described him as "foul-mouth" and a "bully", who abused her almost daily.
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An affidavit provided by Ms Nassif's mother, now Mr Nassif's ex-wife, described a similar picture at home starting from a young age.
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Mr Korn referenced the mother's testimony which said her ex-husband would be "telling her [Ashlyn Nassif] to lose weight, telling her to get cosmetic surgery so he could show her off".
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Judge Halburd described it as a "complex matter" and a "difficult sentencing exercise", describing Ms Nassif as "a successful hard-working young woman, who would do almost anything not to disappoint her demanding father".
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A psychologist's report provided to the court detailed the effects of Mr Nassif on his daughter's mental health, which the judge said was relevant to his sentencing.
"I accept that there was a life-long pattern established well before adulthood to comply with her father … and I do accept it's relevant," he said.
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According to the report, abusive pressure from her father contributed to Ms Nassif's depression at the time of committing the offence and created a dynamic where she felt compelled "to placate with his demands to submit the fraudulent documents".
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The judge said if the matter was concluded years earlier it would have been dealt with by way of a lengthy community corrections order.
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He added there was "no point in having supervision" with her community corrections order.
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