My read on it would have been 'don't take money from property developers'," Mr Assaf told counsel assisting Peggy Dwyer. "We just didn't think the law applied to us ... because it was an electoral law and we're not campaigning in elections in that sense," Mr Assaf said. "We're (focused on) internal Liberal Party machinations." Mr Assaf knew Jean-Claude Perrottet through an Opus Dei-run study centre at Redfield College in northwest Sydney. "I want to shake down Angus for 10K," Mr McInerney wrote to Mr Assaf in a message aired at the inquiry on Tuesday.