Murphy 'shocked' over gangster at fundraiser - Scotsman.com News: "Scottish Secretary was forced to deny a gangster had contributed to his election campaign after a notorious underworld figure was spotted at a Labour Party event.Jim Murphy said he was 'shocked' that Lewis Rodden – who is known as 'Scooby' and was jailed in 2005 for extortion – had been seen at the fundraising dinner in the Thistle Hotel in Glasgow last month.He was compelled to deny that Mr Rodden, who was shot in the chest in Amsterdam in an attempted gangland hit in 2001, had contributed to Labour Party coffers at the event, which was organised to boost Mr Murphy's local campaign in East Renfrewshire"
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