While the Financial Review was following James Mawhinney’s investment schemes, it turns out he was trying to follow us.

These text messages apparently detailed how in the early months of 2020 I’d travelled to the Gold Coast to meet a source, and how my wife had befriended another woman at a yoga studio and confided about my money troubles and desperation to solve them.

Clarification

Mr Mawhinney was informed by a source that Mr Shapiro would stop targeting him and his business with adverse media coverage if a payment of $20,000 was made to Mr Shapiro's nominated bank account in South Africa. Mr Mawhinney did not agree to making the payment.

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James Mawhinney’s surveillance game of cat and mouse

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