Some ABC staff recalled they had seen the artist’s face before. He is also alleged to have featured as a bug sweeper for another crime figure during Cocaine Nation, Four Corners staff said in the internal correspondence. Questions remain unanswered as to why the details of the Four Corners staff email were not escalated until more than six months later. “In keeping with the ABC’s editorial guidelines, I would’ve expected an appropriately senior person to have satisfied themselves with those anonymous sources before it went to air,” said Alan Sunderland, a former ABC editorial director. The findings are likely to inflict further damage onto the ABC, staff say.