A jury has been told former New South Wales Labor minister Milton Orkopoulos allegedly plied boys with drugs and alcohol at his 1999 ALP election party.
Mr Orkopoulos, 65, has pleaded not guilty in the NSW District Court to 28 charges which include child sex abuse and drug supply offences in relation to four boys between 1993 and 2003.
The court heard the alleged offences happened in the areas of Lake Macquarie and on the NSW Mid-North Coast when the boys were aged 11 to 14.
ALP party claims
A friend of one of the four alleged victims gave evidence on Monday.
He told the court he and his friend would meet up with Mr Orkopoulos "two or three times a week to smoke pot".
"We would be smoking pot in the back of the car with him, in the Swansea carpark at the back of his [electorate] office and in the Swansea electorate office," he said.
Mr Orkopoulos was elected as the Labor state member for Swansea in the 1999 election.
He was the former electorate officer of his predecessor Jill Hall, who quit state politics to become Labor's federal Member for Shortland.
On Monday the alleged victim's friend told the court about Mr Orkopoulos allegedly plying him and his friend with drugs and alcohol at an election party in 1999.
"It was an ALP party and [my friend] and I had a couple of drinks in the car and then we smoked a couple of joints."
Crown prosecutor Cate Dodds then asked the witness a series of questions.
"Why was there a party," she asked.
"I think because Milton got a promotion for her [Jill's] job and she got a higher job," he said.
"Who supplied the alcohol and who supplied cannabis," Ms Dodds asked.
"Milton," he said.
Defence barrister Paul Johnson, turned to the friend and rejected that.
"There was no pot smoking on the night he was elected to parliament, he did not smoke pot or provide you with alcohol that night, did he," he asked.
"Yes he did," the friend replied.
The barrister pressed him for details of the night.
"If it was the night of Milton's election in 1999, do you remember there being TV cameras and things like that," Mr Johnson asked.
"Honestly I don't know," the witness replied.
The trial before judge Jane Culver continues.
