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4 Of Anglo 'Golden Circle' Named

category national | crime and justice | other press author Sunday February 22, 2009 02:40author by Investigator Report this post to the editors

The London Times has named 4 of the Anglo 'Golden Circle'.

"Four of the 10-strong group of investors assembled by David Drumm, Anglo Irish’s former chief executive, are: Gerry Gannon, Joe O’Reilly, Seamus Ross and Jerry Conlan. Either they or some of their companies now owe several billion to Anglo. All four declined to comment last week"- London Times, 22/2/09
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/ireland/art...4.ece

author by corruption..publication date Mon Oct 04, 2010 13:40author address author phone Report this post to the editors

The great thing about irish politics is,that you can run for government whilst owning a bank,or a pub,so right there,you have conflict of interest,i can tell you this the government will not be chasing up these banksters,after cowen and ibec did their walk of shame,thats their dues paid as far as they are concerned,you know some politicians in office were actually involved in the construction industry,some in farming,and others in the banks.You can check this out .Having said that the most corrupt and not looked into are our very own county councillors,that is how this country was made on corruption and not much has changed..

author by macabeepublication date Sun Oct 03, 2010 17:17author address author phone Report this post to the editors

One of the great financial controversies of the 1990s was the purchase by Telecom
Eireann of the former Johnston Mooney & O'Brien, bakery site in Ballsbridge. Telecom
Eireann paid 9 million punts for the site that had several months previously, been
bought for half that price by a company linked to an adviser to Telecom Eireann.
Similarly, Is it possible that some of the Anglo Irish and Irish Nationwide mortgages
were based on over valued properties that had been bought and sold in short periods at
enormous profits by intricately linked companies? Is it possible that those companies
that benefited from these scams, especially those abroad, still have that money?
The Government might consider recouping some of the money by
employing an army of forensic accountants with CAB like powers, supported by Interpol,
to investigate Anglo Irish defaulters involved in suspected property fraud and
negligence, at home and abroad.

Incidentally, I note that it is the practice of banks to protect the anonymity of
companies involved in large scale defaults, perhaps they might advise the media to
extend that courtesy to people being evicted from their homes.

author by macavity - - the hidden pawpublication date Tue Mar 03, 2009 22:17author address author phone Report this post to the editors

& you correctly allude to in your metaphors and decent plea for a bit of justice & wake-up call on the amount & size of the money involved in the Anglo Irish Bank Golden Circle story and any other large amount of money or cash one of us can get into our imaginative narrative thence on I assure you it becomes a easier to understand wrong & every such slight in more prompt due course gets in come-uppance.

As we know the Gardai actually only recovered a little over a million euros from the theft of 7.6, which as we all know was an unauthorised withdrawl carried out by a coherced bank worker. You can't coherse anyone, even if you put a syringe of HIV laden blood complete with certificate to the nape of their neck,
to withdraw 7.6 million euros from a local branch & certainly not ( not to labour the point out of hole in the wall.

Q: How much volume does such an amount of money take up not only in your scale of fiddling or your spare bedroom?
A: piece of piss. One million dollars if counted in 100$ bills takes up 643 cubic inches (8" x 6" x 13") and is about the size of a 15" television. It weighs almost 20 pounds or 9 kilos . http://www.cockeyed.com/inside/million/million.html Even though the 500euro note takes up less space in some ways than a 100$ bill - you can divide the weight and space needed for 1 million in dollars and that in Euros especially considering that you'd have to count in 200euro notes as well.

Q: would that be one brief case or one backpack?
A: contrary to the media image of one million squid - you can't fit it in a brief case. It needs half a backpack.

Q: how many backpacks or space would you need to walk off with ten loans to blatently manipulate multiple markets ranging from bank shares to future trading, risk and hedge funds to currency speculation to let's be frank as sure as my name is Iosaf, here - national bonds, debt rating, health budgets, educational resources & overseas development funding?

( = meaning 450 million the Golden Circle potty you want only ten people named for?)

A. about dear Fred, whose comments demanding answers to this affair began on the email forms the day of the revelations in the Sunday Times, Tribune and Irish Times - the size needed to erect a good pagoda.

As you know the tents at the Galway races are somewhere between marquis and pagodas.

we'll keep this thread warm yet-.

How many men would it take on 2000 calories to carry such a large amount of cash away?

author by Fred Johnstonpublication date Tue Mar 03, 2009 12:26author address author phone Report this post to the editors

I'm afraid this thread has a risk of wandering. If I may get back to the essential point - there is no legal reason why the Anglo Irish 10 cannot be named, and Fianna Fáil's pathetic attempts to justify their not being named is merely old friends protecting old friends. And one may wonder too, as Fergus Finlay does in an excellent piece in today's Irish Examiner, why the banks do not foreclose immediately on defaulting developers. They could take their land-banks, for one thing. If you couldn't pay your mortgage, the bank would take your house: yet they won't move on developers. Why? The Fianna Fáil/developers/banks nexus is a very strong one: we cannot expect, sadly, that any action will be taken in any serious way against those the likes of whom have graced the grassy floor of the Galway Races Tent for years. That is our disgrace, and what makes us a Third World country in the eyes of the rest of the world.

author by macavity - the hidden pawpublication date Sat Feb 28, 2009 20:48author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Even allowing for the incorrect procedure mentioned by the minister of Justice yesterday it seems that 4 million squid has been recovered from yesterday's heist thanks to decent plod work and loose pube protection suit expertise which has offered you the media consumer and fan an aptly enough arrest on Dublin's Monk place.

Now you didn't have to wait long to see the people who terrified the employee of the Bank of Ireland and his family to rob the biggest amount of actualy hard cash ever felched in Ireland as opposed to electronic stuff which generally last longer and is inflation proof to boot did you?

& proper order too many of you might have thought on the edge of your sofas or bar stools - Ireland is a state of law and anyone who brings such manipulative horror to a family must be found sharpish & booked to rights.

Our sympathy is naturally with the kiddies whose parents were coherced so intensely in such a short time for such a little amount of money.

gougers & spides - psycopaths & no gooders are these professional criminals.

But our rage ought be with the families whose state's economic status and banking solvency was manipulated over a longer period of time.

Coz if you do the maths. soft math easy long division sums or hard math accrued interest and profit - you'll see the Anglo Irish Bank crew intended to make more money by the day and hour and are still putting families and kiddies right through it.

That is perhaps one of the important differences between robbing people wearing a balaclava or strutting in a designer suit. If I may pursue the observation I aired a few comments ago. Both are though to intimidate and indeed both offer as written before a certain anomynity. But somehow nightmares and trauma work better with balclavas whilst misery, that is to say, penury - exists outside of dreamtime in the drudge of everyday existence.

Try it out. Do a Robert De Niro taxidriver routine in front of your mirror wearing a balclava and then a designer suit - are you looking at me?

author by Anonymouspublication date Sat Feb 28, 2009 20:06author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Here are the steps they take ...

1) The "ring leading" bankers first create whatever amount of money they want "out of thin air" by simply entering figures in a ledger."

2) Then the governments do the "bailing out" of their local bankers with the newly created "money" they have received from the ringleaders: subject of course to crippling compound interest agreements ...

.... continued in e-mail of today to United States President Barack Obama at:

http://www.humanrightsireland.com/PresidentBarackObama/...l.htm

author by Taggerpublication date Sat Feb 28, 2009 15:26author address author phone Report this post to the editors

The great Hijacker Wee Bert has his sticky fingers in many pies.

Related Link: http://www.tribune.ie/news/article/2009/feb/22/former-taoiseachs-link-to-unpatriotic-shopping/
author by Kildare Manpublication date Sat Feb 28, 2009 02:14author address author phone Report this post to the editors

This chap bought most of the De Burgh estate along the grand canal in Naas which was then the only significant green lung left in the town enjoyed by young and old alike . With the help of the usual suspects on the local CC he got a huge section rezoned for high density housing, business parks etc. on the promise that up to 8000 permanent jobs would be created. Between 1999 - 2005 the buildings were thrown up and huge profits were made by Jerry and his friends. However suprise,suprise few if any of the 8000 jobs materialised, even at the height of the Celtic Tiger. Then Gerry MoneyBags got bored with his cash cow and flogged it all for more then a tidy profit leaving behind an unplanned mess of sprawling housing estates and near empty white elephant business parks. Jerry had something similar planned for the last bit of greenbelt between Kill and Johnstown, but having taking the mickey so much in his earlier shenanigans, even the FFailers on the CC baulked at this one. Still as has been mentioned earlier he's been embraced by Harney et al as one of the champions of private Health care so don't shed too many tears for this poster boy of the banana republic,

author by macavity - the hidden pawpublication date Fri Feb 27, 2009 22:26author address author phone Report this post to the editors

When I put up the last comment and its illustration you'd want either a crystal ball or eyes in the plug sockets of the underworld to know a bank robbery plan which included hostage taking had just begun in Ireland. The Irish minister of Justice insists proper procedure wasn't observed and normally in our society of the rule of law wonders - you oughtn't be able to walk off with 7 million quid so easily. The media far and wide describe the robbery of the Bank of Ireland as the largest bank heist in history.

only a week after the little matter of designer suits and the presumed theft of 450 million squid.

you see it really does matter if you're armed, doesn't it?

so the 450 million we believe was to be split ten ways after doing its interest accrueing, yields, hedge funds and algorhythm trades -

how many people are going to divvy up the seven million?

oh it makes you wonder.

Related Link: http://www.rte.ie/news/2009/0227/kilteel.html
author by macavity - the hidden pawpublication date Fri Feb 27, 2009 01:21author address author phone Report this post to the editors

i really have to ping this article and its ongoing story of corruption, insider trading, treason, greed, avarice, slick biz culture -

Coz I live very far away from Eire, the Dail Eireann speech lines & soundbytes which RTE kindly provide me through their online wireless broadcasts are a treat and a neccesity. & one cute phrase has ringed in my head all these last few days as obnoxiously as the theme tune from "Kill Bill". Yep. I just reminded you of it. You'll have "kill bill" in your brain for a day now.

Someone, forgive me for not remembering exactly who - could have been a taoiseach - could have been a minister - could have been a spokesperson of the loyal opposition - declared in the last week that Ireland is a state of law - the sort of place which holds itself together on the premise and applied practise that "all are equal before the law" - well they didn't get so intellectual and jurisprudence about it -

you can't do that in a soundbyte unless you're Obama on the election trail...



So if you rob the state wearing a balaclava and swaggering a sawn-off shot gun about
(((how passé the sawn off haven't we enough high quality arms now???)))

or if you rob the state wearing a suit...............

you'll face the law!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

quite...............

only DNA evidence will put you on the scene.....................


So one more thing I'd like to add to the list of stuff which we never saw being brought out of Anglo Irish banks - you know the hard disks, the shredded paper, the pen drives, the lever files, the ledgers of copperplate written double entry accounts, the syringes of smack, phials of coke, strips of viagra..............

a little curly hair of a smart bollox............... in plural.................. loads of bollox.................. having a field day....................organised crime indeed

that kind of pube which puts the "perps" on the scene. whether he wore the invisible balaclava or designer suit.

but you know you're the ones wearing the mickey mouse underwear on your heads now. Because not only will they not leak the names of the other 6 - as if there were only 10 in the golden circle.................. but they won't even show you photos of evidence coming out of the joint.....................or most importantly put a nice round figure on how many billions of dollars and euros have left Ireland and Irish investment in the last quarter. For the good reason that nobody on the capitalist good biz scene trust Ireland anymore. & for the good reason that the rest of them who never trusted Ireland anyway, have now run out of their tax breaks.

don't worry about it. It's only the price of an egg, litre of milk, used kidney or child's education. After all Ireland is a knowledge economy.

the glasses aren't really posh designer frames when you look carefully.
the glasses aren't really posh designer frames when you look carefully.

author by Saoirsí - Alliance of the Libertarian Left (Ireland)publication date Fri Feb 27, 2009 01:00author address author phone Report this post to the editors

First Four of the Golden Circle Named
Who are the Anglons amongst us? Who are the "First Four" of the "Aurum Cyclons" (Golden Circle)?
And why are they in a tent in Galway?

In case this hasn't already dropped into your inbox, here are the details doing the rounds, in handy PDF format.

Sharing is caring.

PDF Document Read All About It: 4 Golden Circle Banksters 1.3 Mb


author by pawnbrokerpublication date Wed Feb 25, 2009 14:13author address author phone Report this post to the editors

the following morning just after 9 of the clock which is as soon as possible and prompt striking whilst the iron is as hot as a wooden number 5 putter in the hands of a quaking moldovian caddie.

Has it occured to the bright and brighter amongst us that this scene of the drama puts the naming of only 4 of the ten in a slightly different light. After all, the English Times has never really been a newspaper that does much naming of dodgy Irish business types, has it? Could it be that already some deal, plea bargaining, facing music versus saving faces has gone down?

But of course only bank directors have keys to their offices at night along with the security guards who sit on the premises 24/7 so it stands to reason that the warrant was acted on so immediately without hint of delay or worse good few days warning.

author by pat cpublication date Wed Feb 25, 2009 10:13author address author phone Report this post to the editors

The Raid was discussed on the Vincent Brown show last night. Various points made: Irish Nationwide and Irish Life Permanent should have been raided at the same time to prevent documents being destroyed. Some went further: the offices of the Gallant Ten should also have been raided simultaneously. Not very many people seem to trust bankers or businesspeople.

Looks as if there wouldn't have been enough Gardai in the Country to raid all of the relevant offices! Thats how rotten things are.

A woman on the show, a former central baner from Australia, 5 years in Ireland now put things in perspective though. The crimes took place a while ago and the crooks will have disposed of most if not all of the evidence.

author by Shop stewardpublication date Tue Feb 24, 2009 19:43author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Ho hum indeed, I suppose it must be welcomed that the boys in blue are on the job at last. I mean it's not like we've known for ages that anything illegal was going on or anything.

Still.

The lack of video footage on the RTE 1pm news was, well, a bit odd. Casting around the usual news sites all I can find is shots of reporters gathered outside. Where are the Garda vans? The burly slightly-shifty looking lads looking like fish out of water? Supplies of pizza and jumbo breakfast rolls? Not to mention the EVIDENCE being removed.

And why no arrests? Presumably "reasonable suspicion" must have been established to get a warrant. Why not arrests on the same reasonable suspicion of committing an arrestable offence?

And are the CAB waiting in the wings? For what?

Or could this simply be a fluff exercise to persuade the rest of us that the "big boys" will be getting their fair share of pain? What with ICTU's executive meeting today and all.

So namy questions, so little answers.

Rodents and odours abouind.

author by breathlesspublication date Tue Feb 24, 2009 16:39author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Whole bunch of them reported to go in with warrents looking for the books & diaries which will help put people behind bars in due course. Indeed that might sound very old-fashioned to you, so perhaps you could imagine them finding syringes of smack, phials of cocaine & strips of viagra in the safe, instead.

There has as of yet been no decent photos of garda carrying boxloads of evidence out of the shop or even the mere brandishing of a transparent evidence bag holding a pendrive or hard disk. Nor for that matter has been photos of executive types with pillowcases over their heads being led cuffed and manacled to waiting vans hence whisked off to holding cells. Despite all the aforementioned one can't stop to wonder why there still hasn't been a little photographic image from a passerby's mobile phone of sackloads of shredded paper on the way to being painstakingly reconstituted in the offices of whoever does that kind of thing for the Gardai.

don't hold your breath.

author by cheebapublication date Mon Feb 23, 2009 19:19author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Originally Posted by Pride Fighter (on Board.ie)
It gets intersting..

This Jerry Conlon is involved in private hospitals being co-located. What slime, Harney should resign ASAP

One of the first things I noticed too.

If they get away with this, I'll be so fooking mad I may kill one of the fookers.

Quote:
24. Gannon Homes
Location: Dublin
Turnover: €107.9 million (Dec 31, 2004)
Profit: €6.38 million
Last year’s position: 34 Gannon Homes was founded in 1984 by owner and current managing director Gerry Gannon, who is one of the biggest landowners in Dublin.
Gannon paid €105million for a 208 acre Belcamp College site in Dublin in 2004 and is planning a major development on the site. The company is building several major residential schemes in north Dublin, including the Robswall development in Malahide and the Capital North project in Dublin 13. These projects have a combined end value of more than €1 billion

Quote:
1. John Sisk & Sons
Location: Dublin
Turnover: €799.34 million (Dec 31, 2004)
Profit: €38.68 million
Last year’s position: 1
Sisk’s turnover of almost €800 million is more than double that of its nearest competitor and the company’s profit's are among the highest of any construction firm. The company built the Dundrum Town Centre for Castlethorn Construction and also built Croke Park for the GAA. It is expected to win the contract to build the next phase of The Square shopping centre in Tallaght, Dublin.

first two from this link, article entitled:
Property boom fuels €7bn turnover for Top 50
http://businesspro.ie/pressreleases/press_2006_02.htm

Quote:
LONGFORD-BORN builder Seamus Ross and his wife Moira own Menolly Homes, the country's largest housebuilding firm. Their son Seamus Ross Jnr is also involved in the firm which specialises in developing large housing sites in Dublin's suburbs.

In 2003, Mr Ross made the headlines when he told the Planning Tribunal that he paid former Fianna Fail TD Liam Lawlor €40,000 in 1996 to get the postal address of a housing site changed from Clondalkin to Lucan. The change enhanced the value of his homes by up to €5,000 per house.

http://www.independent.ie/national-n...y-1341281.html

Quote:
* The Mount Carmel Group, formerly the Harlequin Healthcare Group, is headed by Jerry Conlan from Kildare.

He set up Harlequin in 2003 and it owns St Joseph's in Sligo, Aut Even in Kilkenny and Mount Carmel in Dublin. The group also includes businessman Philip Lynch, who is the chairman of the development board for the new national children's hospital to be built on the Mater site.

http://www.independent.ie/national-n...ts-993535.html

Quote:
Under the Finance Act 2001, substantial tax exemptions are allowed for the building and refurbishment of buildings used as private hospitals. In practice, this means a top-rate taxpayer investing 1m qualifies for a tax break of 410,000 over seven years.

"There's a number of schemes marketing these investments in private hospitals to highincome individuals like lawyers and consultants, " says Labour Party spokeswoman on finance Joan Burton. "Potentially, we are building up to 30 hospitals with a hundred beds or less in each of them. If you take it that they cost 30bn, the tax write-off, at 40%, comes to more than 1.2bn. A lot of the very rich people who benefited from the car-park tax reliefs are going to benefit from this too.

http://www.tribune.ie/archive/articl...mes-dependent/

Just some quick quotes from google searches for these peoples names with the appropriate links to the sites I got the quotes from. I think these people would have got on fine without average Joe public bailing them out TBH but hey I'm not friends with them, maybe there is something I don't know about them.

author by Shop stewardpublication date Mon Feb 23, 2009 19:05author address author phone Report this post to the editors

They should of course be named. But let it not stop there. They and the people that loaned them the money have breached the Companies Act [Section 60(1) at the very least if you're interested and probably many other sections ] and as all this was deceitfully hidden, then they're guilty of the crime of Making a Gain by Deception [Criminal Justice (Fraud and Theft Offences) Act.] Therefore at least €30 million of each of their assets are the proceeds of crime. And these boys have lots and lots of assets. Just send in the CAB and seize their money, land, houses, whatever. It was done for Jackson Way, a company controlled by Liam Lawlor and friends that had land rezoned corruptly so why not use it for these boys?

author by Fred Johnstonpublication date Mon Feb 23, 2009 12:47author address author phone Report this post to the editors

An e-mail, which appears to be well-informed, is doing the rounds and linking the Heroic Four to Fianna Fáil. One shouldn't be surprised; the FF-banker-builder liaison has been a constant for decades. There is absolutely no barrier to naming the remaining Heroes. Since there is no ongoing criminal case, the sub judice rule does not apply. And it would seem to me that FF spoutings about prejudicing future cases etc. is pure hypothetical smoke-screening. FF know even as they speak that we do not live in the sort of society where influential people appear in courts. It would be natural, of course, for FF, the Builders' Party, to set up all sorts of barriers to having their close associates named. It is up to the ordinary people, and writers, artists, academics, to come out and sign a letter to the media calling for the immediate naming of these people. I would ask Aosdána and the Irish Writers' Union (an affiliate of SIPTU) to declare themselves in a letter to newspapers with regard to the necessity of naming the remaining bank-buddies. If not, let's organise another demo calling for just this; it's time this country regained its moral and ethical backbone.

author by Alanapublication date Sun Feb 22, 2009 15:22author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Information relating to these matters (which appear to be highly criminal) has been sent this afternoon by e-mail to Garda Commissioner Fachtna Murphy (Chief Commissioner of Police, Republic of Ireland) at Commissioner@garda.ie

Copy of e-mail can be viewed at: http://www.humanrightsireland.com/GardaCommissionerFach...l.htm

Related Link: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Garda+Confidential...o&oq=

author by Peaderpublication date Sun Feb 22, 2009 13:54author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Jail em

author by Terrypublication date Sun Feb 22, 2009 13:49author address author phone Report this post to the editors

The Directors of the failed (corrupt) India's Satyam Computer Services Outsourcing company etc. could face life imprisonment if found guilt.

There's no room for the Directors in Irish prisons. Why, because there are simple loan defaulters in there instead. Ah, sure we'll write those loans off lads and you can come back and do it again.

Remember AIB and the ICI debacle, sure they (AIB) came back for more... no worries lads.

Saw this funny blog the other day, well maybe it's not so funny after all..

http://jobs2ireland.com/jobs2ireland-blog/ilp-ceo-to-re...sign/

P.S. isn't Hibernian outsouring Irish Jobs to India... better cancel your policies before Hibernian goes next. Funny tried to save them money on one of their systems once... answer was we are happy with what we have.... i.e wasting policyholders money. If one of my managers said that I'd get rid of him/her. There's always something else worth looking at if it is going to save you money instead of losing jobs!

Related Link: http://jobs2ireland.com/jobs2ireland-blog/ilp-ceo-to-resign/
author by Squire Charlatan Haughty - the Vampire C(o)unt of Kinsaley publication date Sun Feb 22, 2009 12:02author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Dream on you fools, you little people ..... the Courts, the Garda Siochana all that elaborate panoply of state does not exist and never has existed to protect YOUR interests but rather those of the pluto-kleptocracy .... whether in the good old days of the British Empire or in the latter days of the Free State Banana Republic .....

Ye'll be waiting a long time before ye see any of the golden handshakes gang in handcuffs ... no matter what laws they may have broken or what damage they may have inflicted on others.

Yeer state is a pathetic little banana republic and it will never purge itself of the cankers with which it is ridden ...

If ye need any further proof just consider the fact that ye have to consult the UK press to discover the names of the alleged members of the "golden circle" .....

Neither yeer own Free State Guff-erment nor its compliant parrot-like media was prepared to name names ..... all no doubt due to "legal considerations" ...... ah yes the law is a damn fine thing especially when it protects the legitimate interests of the "men of property" .....

author by denis guerinpublication date Sun Feb 22, 2009 11:31author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Leaving aside the issue of Anglo financing the purchase of its own shares, and that the Financial Regulator (a civil servant) may have been a party to setting up this deal, there is one wonderful side to all of this. It appears that the golden 10 pledged their own personal assets as security against 25% of the value of their loans.

The shares now being absolutely worthless, and the entire transaction having vanished up its own rear end (so to speak), the only consequence in the real world is not for the taxpayer, but for the not-so-golden 10. We now have a right to go after their personal assets for the 25%. Yippee!

It will be wonderful to see the brass 10 waiting in Court 8 with the other debt defaulters being asked to explain how they intend paying back the money.

author by Brianpublication date Sun Feb 22, 2009 11:05author address author phone Report this post to the editors

"In its two later assessments, PwC found that Anglo Irish had a heavy concentration of its development loans among a small number of borrowers – the bank has a number of 'very large exposures' with about 15 customers EACH owing more than €500 million."

From: http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/finance/2009/0221/1....html

That's 7,500,000,000 Euros these 15 (or so) people have borrowed.

Where has it all gone to I wonder?

Why should tax payers -- without being given any proper explanation -- have to pick up the bill for the losses involved?

And where will the money to pay off these debts be coming from?: and at what additional costs to the nation?

According to today's Sunday Times ( http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/ireland/art...4.ece ), "Gerry Gannon, Joe O’Reilly, Seamus Ross and Jerry Conlan are four of the businessmen who secretly bought 10% of Anglo Irish Bank with the bank’s own cash."

If true, this is a very interesting way to buy 10% of a bank?

Surly it must be fraudulent? -- and if so it must involve crime of some kind which the Republic of Ireland police (Garda Siochana) should be vigorously investigating?

author by Justice and Truthpublication date Sun Feb 22, 2009 04:18author address author phone Report this post to the editors

You can bet the members of the Golden Circle have lots of connections with those in Government.

That is why they want to hide their identify so they are not rumbled.

This present Government are well and truly finished and they know it. They have brought the country to its knees.

Unfortunately for us there are no others in the country who are much use either.

It will be a case of when they go being replaced by others who are all equally corrupt in their own way.

Why do they want to be in politics and Government? Because it is the place to be to award yourself with huge salary, expenses, drivers, all the perks and travel of the job.

The country is going down the tubes and already we have seen well over €550k earmarked for travel to take these wasters off on their St. Patrick's Day jaunts.

Why dont they stay at home and try to sort out the woes of the country. Can any of their citizens afford such jaunts? I don't think so.

author by Basil Langthornepublication date Sun Feb 22, 2009 02:44author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Do any of these entrepreneurs have any liaisons with the Fianna Fail party?

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