Whistleblower Ashton Foley in court over $43k 'extortion' PEEL SCANDAL: Disgraced Peel Health whistleblower Ashton Foley has pleaded not guilty to trying to extort $43,000 from her former employer. Source: The Sunday Times TROUBLED: Peel Health Campus, where the saga began. DISGRACED Peel Health campus whistleblower Ashton Foley has appeared in Perth Magistrates Court this morning to defend charges of extorition against her former employer. She appeared under the name Michelle Marie Foley and pleaded not guilty to trying to extort $43,000 from her former employer, Health Solutions, trading as Peel Health Campus, on October 2, 2012. The matter will have to go the the District Court. Her next appearance will be on May 24 and she has been granted bail to return to country Victoria. Further charges Last week in Victoria WA Police failed in their bid to win her extradition to WA. Ms Foley appeared in Latrobe Valley Magistrates' Court in Victoria but was granted bail without surety and ordered to return to court in WA Ms Foley, who has been in the public spotlight since testifying last October to a WA Parliamentary committee about allegations of misconduct at Peel Health Campus, was fined $1000 last Wednesday in a Victorian court after pleading guilty to breaching a community based order in that state by leaving for WA in 2011. That matter dated back to April 7, 2011, when she was put on the order for dishonesty offences, which her lawyer said in court had gained her a total of $4400. A WA Police spokesman also said last week that WA Police was investigating "an alleged fraud by Foley to gain employment" at Peel and inquiries were continuing with other jurisdictions about "several matters." 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.