{"id":372804,"date":"2025-11-12T01:23:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T01:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/372804\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T01:23:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T01:23:14","slug":"john-setka-disgraced-former-cfmeu-boss-arrested-and-charged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/372804\/","title":{"rendered":"John Setka, disgraced former CFMEU boss, arrested and charged"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former CFMEU boss John Setka has been charged with attempting to threaten or intimidate the union\u2019s government-appointed administrator.<\/p>\n<p>Victorian and federal police arrested Setka at a property in Victoria\u2019s inner west at 6.40am on Wednesday. He was later interviewed and charged.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Former CFMEU Victorian secretary John Setka.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/9e127e480cd22a697df9c94c7f445e675fb4dd65.jpeg\" height=\"390\" width=\"584\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Former CFMEU Victorian secretary John Setka.Credit: Chris Hopkins<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInvestigators will allege the Footscray man sent a number of allegedly threatening, offensive and abusive emails to a CFMEU administrator,\u201d police said.<\/p>\n<p>Detectives seized a mobile phone and iPad from the property.<\/p>\n<p>Setka was charged with seven counts of using a carriage service to menace, harass and offend the union\u2019s government-appointed administrator, Mark Irving, KC. He was bailed and will face Melbourne Magistrates\u2019 Court on January 30 next year.<\/p>\n<p>The construction union\u2019s former boss quit in 2024 after facing numerous allegations of misconduct tied to his activities within the CFMEU. He was elected to lead the Victorian branch in 2012.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"CFMEU administrator Mark Irving, KC.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/996ada730e53edc3634e9437f6c2025c83ee4d6d.jpeg\" height=\"390\" width=\"584\" \/><\/p>\n<p>CFMEU administrator Mark Irving, KC.Credit: Joe Armao<\/p>\n<p>The allegations, revealed in this masthead\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theage.com.au\/topic\/building-bad-6gug\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Building Bad\u00a0investigation<\/a> last year, prompted the federal government to appoint Irving as an independent administrator to overhaul the union.<\/p>\n<p>Using a carriage service to menace essentially means using any form of electronic communication service, like a phone, in a way that is threatening or intimidating to a person.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former CFMEU boss John Setka has been charged with attempting to threaten or intimidate the union\u2019s government-appointed administrator.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":372805,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4740,50],"class_list":{"0":"post-372804","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-australia","9":"tag-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115534116401609154","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=372804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372804\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}