The former managing director of The Market Herald has been accused of using company cards to fund luxury holidays and creating a flawed recruitment process to hire his ex-wife who charged thousands of dollars for work that was largely copied and pasted from the internet.
“The winning candidate for writing is err,, my wife. She is an education writer. We have looked for others’,” Mr Sanger wrote.Lawyers for the publisher allege no other candidates had been sought and no job advertisements had been published for the role that ultimately paid Mr Sanger’s wife more than $160,000.
In the defence, Mr Sanger denies the allegations and suggests that any of the charges relating to the company credit card were either made in error or as part of client entertainment that was arranged on an ad-hoc basis.