{"id":427465,"date":"2026-01-21T09:49:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T09:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/427465\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T09:49:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T09:49:10","slug":"afls-investigation-to-come-under-scrutiny-in-sayers-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/427465\/","title":{"rendered":"AFL\u2019s investigation to come under scrutiny in Sayers lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The AFL did not interview Cate Sayers while it investigated a lewd photo scandal involving ex-PwC boss Luke Sayers, a decision that is expected to come under scrutiny in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/companies\/sport\/luke-sayers-wife-sues-former-carlton-chairman-in-lewd-photo-fallout-20260120-p5nvf9\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a lawsuit filed against the former Carlton president.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>How long the AFL\u2019s integrity unit investigated the matter for, and whether it fact-checked statements made by Sayers, will also be addressed in the claim, which was filed in the Victorian Supreme Court by Cate Sayers on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The AFL did not interview Cate Sayers while it investigated a lewd photo scandal involving ex-PwC boss Luke&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":427466,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-427465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-afl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=427465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427465\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/427466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}