The Reporter podcast:When the whistleblower turned out to be the fugitive

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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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