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Luke Costin

THE TRUTH ABOUT: Ex labor minister again found corrupt - The Untold Story

John Maitland has been acquitted over the grant of a coal exploration licence. (Bianca De Marchi/AAP PHOTOS) (AAP)

Former NSW mineral resources minister Ian Macdonald faces more time in jail after a court found he corruptly handed a coal exploration licence to a company linked to an ally.

But former CFMEU national secretary John Maitland, who chaired the company awarded the mining deal, has been acquitted following the pair's NSW Supreme Court retrial.

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