Whistleblower Ashton Foley in court over '$43,000 extortion' PEEL SCANDAL: Discredited Peel Health whistleblower Ashton Foley faces a charge of trying to extort $43,000 from her former employer Peel Health Solutions. Picture: Stewart Allen Source: PerthNow DISCREDITED Peel Health campus whistleblower Ashton Foley has appeared in Perth Magistrates Court this morning to defend charges of extortion against her former employer. She was charged under the name Michelle Marie Foley and indicated she would fight the charge of trying to extort $43,000 from her former employer, Health Solutions, trading as Peel Health Campus, on October 2, 2012. When the magistrate read the charges, he also read out five aliases that Ms Foley has been known to use. She was not required to formally plead to the charge and was bailed to appear again on May 24, when the case will go to the District Court. Ms Foley was released on $10,000 personal bail, allowing her to return to country Victoria, where she has been living and is looking for work. Her release on bail included several conditions, including: She not apply for any passport or attempt to leave the country Not contact witnesses in the case Notify WA police if she returns to WA. Last week in a Victorian court WA Police failed in their bid to win her extradition to WA, but a Latrobe Valley Magistrates released her on bail and ordered she return to court in WA Ms Foley quit as PHC's chief operating officer last September because of her concerns about the way the privately run, publicly-funded Mandurah hospital was operating, and then testified to the Parliamentary committee, before leaving WA with her family to work in Victoria.