An emotional Eman Sharobeem has shouted at her interrogators from the witness stand on the last day of a Sydney corruption inquiry.
The inquiry investigated allegedly dodgy dealings at charities she once ran but she accused them of trying to ruin her reputation.
The former Australian of the Year state finalist is accused of rorting more than $600,000 in public funds from the Immigrant Women's Health Service and the Non-English Speaking Housing Women's Scheme.
The inquiry wrapped up on Thursday the way it started - with Ms Sharobeem vehemently denying any involvement.
"My work is known, my work is shown, you cannot take that away from me until the grave," the 54-year-old shouted on Thursday when pressed as to why her organisation had paid her personal bills.
"You can try and tarnish my reputation ... do not come now for me and try to take that away from me.
"You can try to accuse me, abuse me, bully me, harass me, terrorise me but you cannot take away the fact that in my life I only raised two sons and worked for women migrants and refugees and helped and saved many, many lives."
It's alleged Ms Sharobeem submitted invoices for reimbursement for goods and services to which she was not entitled and used an organisation credit card to pay for personal expenses.
She allegedly spent charity funds on everything from personal water bills to her son's liposuction.
Instead, she's pointed the finger at ex-colleagues, blaming them for the money ending up in her account.
Ms Sharobeem last month told the inquiry her colleagues may have taken receipts off her desk and reimbursed the money into her accounts. A former staff member categorically denied this.
The inquiry has heard the former charity boss also faked her resume and falsely claimed to be a psychologist.
Details of the inner workings of Ms Sharobeem's organisations came to light during the inquiry, including the way her family members benefited.
One of Ms Sharobeem's sons, Richard, was parachuted into a job at the Non-English Speaking Women's Housing Scheme, the inquiry heard.
Ms Sharobeem's other son, Charlie, was paid more than $7000 for various IT and photography jobs he had undertaken, despite his only background in that area of work being "playing with computers ever since I was a little kid".
The commission will likely hand down its finding by early 2018.
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