How gullible do you have to be?

The Herald reports:

A former Sergeant of Arms of the Waikato Mongrel Mob has been jailed for 10 years for spearheading a commercial drug operation that saw methamphetamine distributed around the country.

Mark Griffiths, 53, will have to serve a minimum of five years in jail before qualifying for parole after being arrested as part of Operation Oakville, the police sting on Griffiths’ group of dealers selling class A and B drugs in Waikato, Auckland, and Wellington.

And while Griffiths’ lawyer Scott Mills told Justice Andru Isac in the High Court at Hamilton today that his client’s association with the gang was now over, Waikato Mongrel Mob president Sonny Fatupaito told NZME the door was still open for him on his release.

Griffiths and Fatupaito, who is known as Fatu, have been vocal about their opposition to drug and alcohol abuse and spoken at several events, or hui, that have also included MPs.

So how sincere do we think they were? How gullible are the MPs who may have believed them?