#endhorseracing — Public Fediverse posts

Examples of LECC's failure to address serious matters abound.

For instance, #LECC knew for at least a year that a group of very senior officers (including the then NSW Police Commissioner Mick Fuller and three of his Assistant Commissioners) co-owned a bunch of racehorse with business figures in the gambling and gaming industries, some of them under criminal investigation. The senior police figures had not disclosed this obvious conflict of interest as required (connections between police and the gambling and gaming industries having been specifically labelled high risk by the Woods Royal Commission). And yet LECC did nothing.

Then, in 2022 after Commissioner Fuller had resigned and was about to be appointed as head of Racing NSW (peak horse racing body), investigation by #ABC journalists revealed these undisclosed links and LECC was forced to address them. However, LECC's initial response completely cleared Fuller and rubbished the ABC reporting. Months later, a subsequent LECC examination of its own earlier response resulted in a complete 180º-turn: a ban on such business arrangements and an exoneration of the #InvestigativeJournalism that had revealed them.

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