Morton heard about the case because she was present when former Minister Anne Tolley told her ministerial colleague Paula Bennett about it—not outside by the lifts, but in a ministerial office. Ms Morton then, thinking it would be kept in confidence, told ACT Party leader David Seymour, but, desperate for any sort of attention, Mr Seymour contacted Jordan Williams of the wage subsidy - receiving Taxpayers' Union fame. Williams—no stranger to dirty politics—told John Bishop, father of National MP Chris Bishop, and the details were then leaked to Newsroom's Tim Murphy. 