Ms Glass responded, saying she was accustomed to the abuse as part of her role. The release of the report has devolved into mudslinging, with Mr Somyurek referring to the Ombudsman as a dog and as "Deborah Glass Jaw" in a tweet. The latest report follows a damning a joint investigation by the ombudsman and IBAC last week, which found "extensive misconduct" and widespread misuse of public funds by the Labor Party. The ombudsman found there was no evidence to justify further investigation by Victoria Police, or a referral to IBAC. "I refrain from comment and allow the evidence, presented in its entirety, to speak for itself." He provided several different accounts," she said. However, she confirmed no new evidence had been presented to her and that Mr Somyurek gave conflicting testimony. "It would be a breach of the parliamentary privilege of freedom of speech for me to question Mr Somyurek's motives or credibility," Ms Glass said.
Mr Somyurek also refused to provide the evidence he gave publicly to police, when he was contacted by a detective in November 2021, according to the report.
"I concluded very clearly. I said it was wrong, I said it was an artifice, I said 21 members of parliament breached the members guide," Ms Glass told ABC Melbourne radio. Ms Glass said she did not find any significant differences in this investigation compared to the 2018 investigation. The party repaid the money and police did not lay charges. In 2018, Ms Glass found Labor had misused $388,000 of public money through the red shirts rorts to campaign at the 2014 election. "I cannot, of course, rule out that further evidence may yet come to light, but with the passage of time and difficulty in proof I am not prepared to spend further public resources on these matters." "It is time to end this debate," Ms Glass said. The Victorian Parliament asked the ombudsman to consider referring the red shirts scandal to IBAC in February, after sacked Minister Adem Somyurek claimed Mr Andrews knew about the scheme in the lead-up to the 2014 election. But Deborah Glass has criticised Victoria Police's handling of its 2018 investigation and said it should apologise to the 17 former Labor staff it arrested in dramatic pre-dawn raids.
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