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The Reporter podcast: When the whistleblower turned out to be the fugitive
Gary Adshead’s 40-year journalism career has been spent pursuing the truth, no matter how ugly, dangerous – or ridiculous. From crooks and crimes to state secrets and heroic rescues, we take you behind the headlines.
This week on The Reporter podcast, Michael Thomson and Gary Adshead discuss the case of Ashton Foley and Michelle Gonzales.
Foley was a $200,000-a-year chief operating officer at a major West Australian hospital, then chief executive of a rural Victorian hospital. Gonzalez was a two-bit fugitive fraudster wanted in the United States.
He’s still struggling to comprehend how – and why – they turned out to be one and the same.
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