Ex-agent still owes us for travel scam
CROOKED former Katherine travel agent Tennille Foley is second on the list no one wants to be on.
Foley agreed to pay $40,514 in restitution when she pleaded guilty to a single count of obtaining benefit by deception in 2016 for defrauding the pensioner travel concession scheme.
But she appears to have decided she has better things to do than pay her debt to the Northern Territory.
The NT’s name and shame list shows she now has $40,591 in unpaid fines.
Foley was one of five independent travel agents who have been investigated for separately overcharging the government travel scheme.
In sentencing last year, defence lawyer Peter Maley said Foley faced a grim financial future, had more than $80,000 in tax debt and had struggled to find work since being charged.
“She has had to sell her share portfolio to pay some of her more pressing debts,” Mr Maley said.
Also making the list is Brendan Ayling, whose address is listed as Innisfail in Queensland.
Ayling was 20 in 2007 when he was ordered to pay $25 a week restitution for Territory company Tropical Refrigeration, after torching the company’s ute with two co-offenders.
He has paid under $2,000 of the $25,000 owing in that time.