Busted banker gets a rise

If banker David Kiely is sacked for looking at near-nude snaps of model Miranda Kerr the system sucks.

The red-blooded Aussie bloke was found checking out chick pics in an email while one of his colleagues did a live cross to Seven News on the subject of interest rates in the background.

Cool and calm, Kiely managed a conversation with a camera-hogging workmate while considering Kerr’s considerable assets.

He hasn’t done anything wrong.

It wasn’t like he was surfing an X-rated porn site.

Someone sent him an email of classy shots from GQ (sample below) and he was inspecting the content before deleting it. Read more »

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