Frank Zumbo avoids jail for indecent assaults that involved ‘cynical abuse’ of his position of power

Magistrate finds the former chief of staff to federal MP Craig Kelly ‘deliberately manipulated’ young women and took advantage of their vulnerability

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Frank Zumbo, the former chief of staff to federal MP Craig Kelly, has avoided jail on a string of aggravated indecent assault convictions, despite a magistrate finding he had not displayed “any remorse or contrition” for his “pattern of ongoing criminal conduct”.

Francesco Zumbo, 56, was sentenced to a two-year intensive corrections order by magistrate Gareth Christofi in Sydney’s Downing Centre court on Friday. The order is a custodial sentence but served in the community.

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