article_snippet: Documents were used subject to legal professional privilege in issuing the multimillion-dollar bill to Mr Donoghue. '
article_snippet: Mr Donoghue, if you don't pay me and my family, I will have no hesitation in giving ATO ATO everything I have on Mr Donoghue.
article_snippet: You should be very worried,' Mr Donoghue legal adviser Simeon Moore told Mr Donoghue before leaking his legal adviser Simeon Moore  to the Australian Taxation Office, Court heard.
article_snippet: The Age reports that Mr Donoghue, 58, a former Queenslander who is now living in London, ran a string of telecommunications businesses, including as the former managing director of listed mobile-services provider Plus SMS.
article_snippet: He took the case to Court, arguing that Mr Moore, who was angry over alleged unpaid fees, passed on He file to the Australian Taxation Office.
article_snippet: Mr Moore, who at the time was not admitted as a legal practitioner but was a friend of Mr Donoghue's daughter, Alexandria, had issued Mr Donoghue's with a bill for legal services amounting to $753,174.
article_snippet: Mr Moore and Mr Donoghue's daughter, Alexandria were studying at Bond University in the Gold Coast together at the time.
article_snippet: Federal Court Justice Logan said this was 'outrageously extortionate' and a 'fantasy' amount given Mr Moore was an 'as-yet-not-admitted graduate undertaking post-graduate studies in law'.
article_snippet: It had shown 'reckless disregard' of a right for Mr Donoghue's to claim legal professional privilege.
highlights_snippet: Court heard that an Australian businessman's legal advisor leaked an Australian businessman's legal advisor information to ATO .
  