In a report tabled in NSW parliament on Tuesday, the Law Enforcement Conduct Commission (LECC) outlined how Mr Fuller breached conflict of interest rules, and reversed its earlier decision to clear him of any wrongdoing.
It also called on the new commissioner Karen Webb to clamp down on officer involvement in the corruption-plagued racing industry.
The supplementary LECC report also raised questions about whether NSW Police have for years underplayed the seriousness of allowing officers to be associated with the corruption-plagued gaming and racing industries.
This reporting is simply outrageous.
It is lies, lies, lies.
And they are going to get you.
The LECC report DID NOT say that racing was corruption plagued.
It DID NOT call on Commissioner Karen Webb to clamp down on officer involvement in the ‘corruption plagues racing industry’.
The report DID NOT raise questions about whether NSW Police had for years underplayed the seriousness of allowing officers to be associated with the ‘corruption plagued gaming and racing industries’.
These statements are mere figments of the ABC reporters Dylan Welch and Sean-Rubinsztein-Dunlop’s imagination, or perhaps better put a fabrication designed to give a boost to government funded employer’s neo-extremist anti-racing ideology.
Here are the facts.
The word ‘corruption’ appears just once in the entire LECC Supplementary Report.
That reference is in a footnote, and refers to a court case in which the parties were the Independent Broad-based Anti-Corruption Commission and the newspaper The Age.
It had nothing whatsoever to do with racing.
Taking it a step further, the word ‘corrupt’ appears just 4 times in the report.
One of the four appearances relates to the court case above.
Another is a reference to a section of the LECC Act relating to police corruption.
A third is a discussion about Officer Maladministration, which concludes that such behaviour does not constitute corrupt conduct.
Only the fourth refers to racing, and it does nothing but the long held obvious, that being that are bad eggs in every basket (see below for further information).
There is not a single reference to racing being corruption plagued, not one.
The ABC is lying.
Don’t believe me?
Then try it yourself.
The report is at this link https://www.lecc.nsw.gov.au/news-and-publications/publications/operation-kurumba-supplementary-report.pdf
Click on it and bring it up, and then go to ‘FIND’ and put the word corrupt in the search year.
You will see in an instant that I – unlike the ABC duo – am telling the truth.
The sensationalist tabloid style reporting continues.
“There are enormous sums of money being wagered on the outcome of horse races,” the LECC stated in its new report.
Of course there are, you can see that in a million different publicly available documents, including the Racing NSW Annual report and a myriad of government produced reports.
So what?
Enormous amounts of money are being spent on welfare payments, cancelled contracts for French submarines, useless COVID-19 vaccines and a whole lot of other things too.
And?
“It is a matter of record that corrupt practices, including race fixing and betting offences, have occurred in the horse racing industry. Criminal activities of various types have been associated with the horse racing industry.”
Really?
It is a matter of record that a multitude of politicians have been caught doing the wrong thing too.
So have police officers, priests, public servants, bank officers, stockbrokers, real estate agents, unemployed people, restaurateurs, butchers, publicans, crypto kings, doctors, teachers, accountants, newspaper barons, AFL clubs, mums, dads, grandpas, princes, movie moguls, cricket players and punters in just about every other field of life too.
What are we supposed to do? Ban them all?
C’mon ABC, give us a break.
I think that if you have a quick look you might find that a few of your own people have done the wrong thing over the years too.
Does the name Peter Lloyd mean anything to you?
This whole thing is a joke.
A bloke who was earning circa $650 000 a year bought shares in a couple of racehorses.
One of the people in the syndicate with him won a police tender for contracting work.
Big deal.
What the hell does that have to do with racing, any more than it might if Fuller and the contract winner played for the same cricket club once?
It’s just a gee up.
The ABC hate horse racing and want to end it, it’s as simple as that.
They will take all and any opportunity to inch closer to achieving that goal.
Sadly they are prepared to smash their ethical obligations into small little pieces to do.
It says more about sportsfans than it does about us.