declared in her apology she had only met him once, for less than five minutes. Foster later acknowledged that apart from one brief meeting, he had only spoken with her by phone three times and corresponded with her by email. He acknowledged Blair had not attempted to influence his deportation order from the UK. He was also covertly recorded by The Sun newspaper coaching his mother to speak to the media about a visit to 10 Downing Street on his birthday that never took place. Foster later claimed, on his 2004 ABC TV Enough Rope appearance, that he believed his partner was pregnant with Tony Blair's child, the product of a long-standing extramarital affair. However, The Times investigated the claims and found them "a catalogue of errors and inconsistencies" and an "elaborate hoax". Carole Caplin said about Foster's claims: "This is just a new way for Peter to get attention. He is just a fantasist and these absurd stories shouldn't be given any credibility." In a press statement during the scandal, Foster also claimed "no one has ever lost money through my enterprises," and asked, "could it be I had to be discredited by the establishment?" Journalist, Malcolm Brown disputed this, writing that thousands had lost money. Three years before, in 1999, former Consumer Affairs Commissioner, Jan Taylor, and Foster's former sales manager, James Small, described how many of Foster's victims were middle income earners who were left financially devastated by his scams. Foster dropped his plans to fight the deportation order in the weeks following the Blair scandal and moved to Ireland. Complaints to Press Complaints Commission Following a complaint to the Press Complaints Commission, The Sun newspaper was found guilty of "one of the most serious forms of physical intrusion into privacy" over taped telephone calls involving Foster during the Cheriegate scandal. The press complaints commission condemned the paper for having published transcripts of conversations between him and his mother. The Press Complaints Commission upheld Foster's case that there was no public interest in publishing the transcripts of the conversations, contrary to the argument of the former editor. The Sun admitted it had behaved "improperly" in covering the Press Complaints Commission findings and publishing the adjudication. The Press Complaints Commission rejected another complaint from Foster that articles of 13, 14 and 17 December 2002 were inaccurate. The complaints about these articles were: That the transcripts were edited to