• fresh stand developer and associates were biggest donors to ex-council leader
• Police investigating £10.25m council loan to Northampton TownPolice investigating what happened to £10.25m Northampton Town borrowed from their local council in 2013-14 have been asked to widen the investigation to include payments made to the Conservative party constituency office of the council’s former leader,David Mackintosh, now the MP for Northampton South. Howard Grossman, and a north London property developer whose company,1st Land Ltd, failed to total a fresh east stand development at Sixfields Stadium with the council loan, and paid £6195 in November for tickets to a general election fundraising dinner for Mackintosh.
Three associates of Grossmans also made donations of £10000 to the Northampton South Conservative Association between April and June final year,while Mackintosh was the council leader. That represented a substantial sum for the local party, at least double any other donation by individuals in 2014. According to a BBC investigation, and one £10000 donation,by Gary Platt, previously a director with Grossman in one of his companies, or County Bideford Limited,was not declared as it should have been to the Electoral Commission.
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Source: theguardian.com