From 2012 until 2020, police allege Shane Maree Hatton stole $818,642.80 from Owen, transferring his cash to herself in 334 transactions ranging from $27.65 to $4668.
Court documents have shown the extent of an alleged fraud waged over eight years by the bookkeeper of the famous Wright family, with Owen being stiffed for almost a million bucks as he struggled to overcome a mysterious brain injury.
From 2012 until 2020, police allege Shane Maree Hatton stole $818,642.80 from Owen, transferring his cash to herself in 334 transactions ranging from $27.65 to $4668.
Tyler was hit for $586,805.07, in 295 transactions ranging from $21 to $4675.
Mikey copped $151,201.23 in 63 transactions ranging from $40 to $3538.55.
Their mum and Dad, Rob and Fiona, lost $81,025.29.
Police claim Hatton, who was a family friend of the Wrights as well as bookkeeper for the dad’s plumbing biz and for the kids’ surf multi-million dollar sponsor gravy, has indicated she was responsible for the fraud.
“The defendant did make admissions to the offences,” police allege in the bail acknowledgment document tendered to the court. “Police have records of all transactions and the accused has shown remorse towards the victims after the commission of the (alleged) offences.”
The records were presented to the court in a swollen paper ream box containing more than fifteen hundred pages.
Police say there is little chance of the money being recovered, however.
Three quarters of the $1.6 mill was put into the pokies, although three hundred k of it, say the police, “was wasted.”
Back to court for Hatton on June 21.
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Like the Romans , Uranium decays and becomes lead ….that is not my Pb …..Ha ha
Hey Tyler , Accountants lives Matter too , drop your knee turn the other cheek its only money Wright ?
I really hope, for the attorneys sake, each and every of the several hundred counts was read in detail. What is the hourly rate for a good Aussie lawyer?
The Ancient Romans reportedly put lead in their Wine , which is possibly why they are not the force they used to be ?
But much better mileage for all of their roads that lead to wherever.
And no engine knock leading to Rome …. The silly bugger who worked out the benefits for lead in petrol was the same inventor who came up with CFCs for Refrigeration and has done even more damage to the environment than frequent flying smelly skater .
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When u just fade over a half million dollars, you should raise your fist and then hit yourself over and over. I dont care who answered the phone. You are the epidomy of what you pretend to stand against.
Oh my…
can somebody do the math on free cappuccinos?
Guy from work was a pretty shady bouncer from back in the day in Melbourne.
Guy was enormous, told me Chopper was a tosser.
Saw him and a friend put at least $2k into the pokies without batting an eye in about an hour.
Pretty sure it was my introduction to money laundering.
Chopper tried to steal
My brother in law’s shoes once
But walked off bare foot
Cash, there’s no cash here
Here there’s no cash alright? Cash
No Robbo? No Cash
Hilariously
They were purple platform shoes
Chopper’s a dandy!
I don’t judge a man
By the style of shoe he wears
Only when he pegs
Oh… Ow owed? Owwee!
How come the owners of Vincentia bowlo or wherever Ms Hatton blew it all on the pokies don’t have to appear in court as well fucking scumbags!
This story really is becoming a bit of a yawnfest.
When it comes down to it, who actually should give a fuck about these clownish pro surfers and their easy come easy go money.
Not I.
Nor should any of the general commentariat.
They’ve done bugger all but play in the waves for their whole lives.
(Though according to the daughter they were abused horribly by being forced to surf and not even allowed to go to school)
Oh how awful their life has been.
How bloody criminally awful.
And if these people and their parents were so foolish as to put their financial future in the hands of someone with (most probably) as little education, business sense and morals as themselves they deserve all the shit that rains upon them.
700 odd wrongs can’t make a Wright wrong right…
Owen has a wife no??????? just saying
No wonder Tylor always looks sad these days.
Owen too brain injured to care
Mikey, small potatoes
A Sheep Graziers and Accountants warning for the Shoalhaven ?
Happy Times from the South Coast News ….Dezmophilia ?
While Taj was making Bills at Bong , Owen was Ripped at Curl ?
May I suggest that The Wrights appoint Taj and his Globe of Knowledge as their next financial adviser …..How can you not trust the son of American jazz musicians , who managed to stay sponsored by a Skateboard Company at 40 …. even though he doesn’t skate ….. ?If only other former World No 2s , like Kong , Cheyne or Mick Campbell had used Taj’s financial services they might have ended up with their own Taj Mahal ?
More like Owe Wrong, am I Wright?
Haha good one
Friday arvo drinks at your primary residence?
Only if BG research and development section funds the creative piss up .
Oh yes and me too!
A bright and really crunchy
Yarra Valley Cab!
Eddy …hit ‘em for the rent !
…. and demand imported vintages from the squattocracy and landed gentry …. some wine may even “trickle down”into your cup under the new socialist Liberal Party Budget ….. Embrace the Deficit …..Fuck off Surplus you misery causing arsehole….. So long Thatcherism and Ronnie Raygun …. Spend Spend Spend !
Like your thinking but
I refuse to weaponise
The poor people’s drug
Eddy would Go ….. and turn the water into wine ?
And that Eddie would come back at Easter.
I am so happy we could resurrect Eddie as the Easter Bunny …
Could you hear the clinking of ice in my gin?
Heard your wallet fall on the floor.
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is this not surf adjacent amirite
You can always count
On an accountant to count
All the counting stuff
Oh Eddie Haiku!
So very true, ‘specially
All that counting stuff!
fuck boys yall on fire today…
…innit sandy? ah you also funny…
Is that the beachgrit commentor equivalent of a claim?
In particular the Gabby, (or was it Jordy?) ‘cashing cheques’ claim.
You guys know each other?
Owned Wright