Jean-Claude Perrottet - brother of former NSW premier Dominic Perrottet - helped recruit conservative-minded members to the Liberal Party to exert control over certain branches. “I was pretty frustrated with Christian, so he might have paid me,” Jean-Claude Perrottet told the inquiry. Earlier on Thursday, the inquiry was Mr Assaf started working for Catholic Schools NSW in September 2019, earning $135,000 a year. Ms Curtin suggested Jean-Claude Perrottet clearly knew Mr Assaf was doing factional work while employed at Catholic Schools NSW. I’m sure sometimes he might have done that,” Mr Perrottet said.