{"id":568403,"date":"2026-03-27T19:18:39","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T19:18:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/568403\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T19:18:39","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T19:18:39","slug":"luke-sayers-wife-accuses-afl-of-a-cover-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/568403\/","title":{"rendered":"Luke Sayers\u2019 wife accuses AFL of a cover-up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Luke Sayers\u2019 estranged wife claims the AFL colluded with the businessman and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/link\/follow-20180101-p5o7wt\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Carlton Football Club<\/a> where he was president to exonerate him from allegations he posted a lewd photograph on social media.<\/p>\n<p>Cate Sayers also argues in documents newly filed in the Supreme Court of Victoria that the AFL did not bother to check any of the allegations her husband made in a statutory declaration provided to the investigation of the scandal, including his claim the photo was taken for medical reasons.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Luke Sayers\u2019 estranged wife claims the AFL colluded with the businessman and the Carlton Football Club where he&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":568404,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-568403","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\/568403","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=568403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568403\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/568404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=568403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=568403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=568403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}