{"id":680697,"date":"2026-05-19T11:37:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T11:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/680697\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T11:37:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T11:37:13","slug":"the-integrity-unit-vodcast-power-politics-behind-afl-with-costello-and-warner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/680697\/","title":{"rendered":"The Integrity Unit vodcast: Power, politics behind AFL with Costello and Warner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"story-body_first_par\">Welcome to <a class=\"body-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.codesports.com.au\/sport\/afl\/the-integrity-unit-episode-1-leaked-email-links-cats-coaches-hotel-stay-with-accused-fraudster\/news-story\/ba2c9fe65753146e36573cf4e21d5b83\" data-tgev=\"event119\" data-tgev-container=\"bodylink\" data-tgev-order=\"ba2c9fe65753146e36573cf4e21d5b83\" data-tgev-label=\"sport\" data-tgev-metric=\"ev\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Integrity Unit<\/a>, a vodcast hosted by experienced football reporters Seb Costello and Michael Warner.<\/p>\n<p>This series is about holding power to account, bringing you the real story and calling out the BS!<\/p>\n<p>Keep up with all the latest content below. <\/p>\n<p>EPISODE 1 <\/p>\n<p>VIDEO: WATCH EPISODE ONE IN THE PLAYER BELOW<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"poster-img\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/050815dedf38bec4737550d3d38a6a76.jpeg\" data-sctrack=\"op-poster-img\" alt=\"The Integrity Unit | Episode 1\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>PODCAST:<a class=\"body-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.codesports.com.au\/sport\/afl\/the-integrity-unit-episode-1-the-power-and-politics-behind-the-afl-with-seb-costello-and-michael-warner\/news-story\/619ec80f0f93e1185b93b389dd1e88e3\" data-tgev=\"event119\" data-tgev-container=\"bodylink\" data-tgev-order=\"619ec80f0f93e1185b93b389dd1e88e3\" data-tgev-label=\"sport\" data-tgev-metric=\"ev\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">LISTEN TO EPISODE ONE HERE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>FEATURE READ: <\/p>\n<p>Leaked email links Cats coaches\u2019 hotel stay to accused $14.5m fraudster <\/p>\n<p class=\"standfirst-content\">An email has exposed how Geelong\u2019s top officials received boutique hotel upgrades \u2014 from an ex-Crown Towers chief \u2014 alongside a club sponsor now accused of masterminding a massive disability charity fraud. <a class=\"body-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.codesports.com.au\/sport\/afl\/the-integrity-unit-episode-1-leaked-email-links-cats-coaches-hotel-stay-with-accused-fraudster\/news-story\/ba2c9fe65753146e36573cf4e21d5b83\" data-tgev=\"event119\" data-tgev-container=\"bodylink\" data-tgev-order=\"ba2c9fe65753146e36573cf4e21d5b83\" data-tgev-label=\"sport\" data-tgev-metric=\"ev\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">READ IT HERE. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Welcome to The Integrity Unit, a vodcast hosted by experienced football reporters Seb Costello and Michael Warner. This&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":680698,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85,161823,328269],"class_list":["post-680697","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","tag-td_colorschemedark","tag-td_headerpositionstandard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680697","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=680697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/680698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=680697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=680697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=680697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}