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Jason Koutsoukis and Andrew Clenell RAY YOUNAN, the absent witness in the Wollongong sex-and-bribes scandal, has something of the Arnold Schwarzenegger about him. "I'll be back!" a defiant Younan told the Herald this week from his mountain retreatin Lebanon's Valley of theSaints. Younan is the convicted conman who, with Gerald Carroll, is accused of impersonating an Independent Commission Against Corruption officer to solicit bribes of up to $500,000 from former Wollongong Council officers scheduled to give evidence. Offended by the decision of the commissioner, Jerrold Cripps, to issue a warrant for his arrest after he failed to appear before the inquiry in February, Younan said the obstacle to his return had been a dicky left knee. "Look at it!" said Younan, clutching the offending joint. "I can't hardly walk on it." He... [read full story]
