The Icac spotlight has shone on Dominic Perrottet’s brother – and it won’t be the last we hear from his family

Jean-Claude Perrottet was questioned at the Operation Rosny hearings about the actions of the NSW Liberals’ hard-right Reformers faction Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast It’s perhaps inevitable that in a large family there might be one member who is a bit of a wild card. It’s more problematic when that family has a distinctive surname and one is a public figure. Dominic Perrottet has 11 siblings – and his younger brother Jean-Claude Perrottet has an uncanny ability to attract headlines. On Wednesday, Jean-Claude was the star witness at the Independent Commission against Corruption. It is investigating allegations that illegal donations were used to fund branch stacking within the NSW Liberal party by a shadowy organisation known as the Reformers, of which Jean-Claude was a key figure. It’s not his first stint in the spotlight. In 2017 Jean-Claude, then aged 20, was found not guilty of rape in the NSW district court. The charges stemmed from an alcohol-charged incident with a 19-year-old woman following an end-of-year formal at St John’s College, Sydney University, in 2015. The jury took le