Bruce Francis, an independent investigator, has sent the following email to many influential journalists following the recent success of his FOI appeal. He said he now has irrefutable proof that when quoting from Dank texts, Nick McKenzie (The Age) changed words, and ASADA used those corrupted articles to convince the ADRVP to find against the Essendon players. 

"Guys

This is just a taste. I haven’t dissected the articles yet.

This is what McKenzie said in his article:

In August that year, ASADA alleges that Dank told Robinson via a text message that TB4 would be the “cornerstone” of his work at the Bombers because it could accelerate player recovery .

This is what the text said:

23 August 2011

Dank sent Robinson a reminder by SMS:

‘Don’t forget how important Thymosin is. This is going to be our vital cornerstone next year. It is the ultimate assembly regulatory protein and biological modifier.

McKenzie changed Thymosin to TB-4; and added Bombers.

When the text was sent on 23 August 2011, Robinson hadn’t started at Essendon and Dank hadn’t even been interviewed. Until McKenzie inserted Bombers there was no evidence Dank and Robinson were talking about Essendon.

ASADA clearly knew that McKenzie had altered the text, which makes it guilty of corruption for tabling a false document with the ADRVP".

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