Anglo seeks jailing of Quinn for contempt

[DCon]

Fintan has some conditions before meeting the poor kids

I’ve made this point here in a number of columns. Last week, I was contacted by a representative of the family to say that this claim (which is the High Court’s, not mine) is “fundamentally incorrect” and offering that “in order for the family to set the record straight and put their side of the story to you, members of the family would like the opportunity to discuss these issues with you on an ‘off the record’ basis.”

My response was, and is, that I’m very happy to meet any members of the Quinn family – on two conditions. One is that the meeting should not be “off the record” – since vast sums of public money are involved here, the public has a right to know any relevant information.

The second is that in advance of such a meeting all documents relevant to the transactions at issue in Miss Justice Dunne’s ruling should be provided to me and/or any other journalist from The Irish Times. This would allow me to formulate informed questions. It seems obvious that, if the family really is concerned to correct alleged misunderstandings of what Mr Justice Peter Kelly has called its “mesmerisingly complex” schemes, it would be anxious to allow access to all the documentation.

In any case, even with what we do know, it is obvious that some of what the family is claiming is simply untrue. Its document claims, for example, in relation to Quinn Properties Ukraine that “No action was taken by the Quinn family in relation to this asset” – in other words that the family has not tried to siphon money from this particular company. But the High Court ruling details the siphoning off of $500,000 from this company via a bogus contract. Even within the family’s own carefully selective briefings, therefore, there are obvious untruths.

Under these circumstances, it is important that any journalist offered private briefings by the Quinns should insist that meetings be public and that all documents be disclosed. I’ve never met any victim of an injustice who would not agree enthusiastically to those conditions.

If, as they purport to believe, the Quinns have been monstrously traduced by the courts, why would they not do the same? But the Quinn family has rejected my offer of an on-the-record meeting preceded by full disclosure of documents. That offer stands.

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/...322585970.html

[Kev Bar]

Fintan has some conditions before meeting the poor kids





http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/...322585970.html

Sure why would any journalist want to spend days upon days wading though documents of 'mesmerising complexity' to try and grasp at an informed opinion when you can make much more noise be it elegant like Harding's paean to bog superiority or ludicrous like the pernicious ravings of Gombeen Goebbels Waters

"Work like an SC? Have you seen what they pay us?"

[DCon]

The poor old innocent Quinn family have no idea what is going on

THE family of bankrupt businessman Sean Quinn say they are "at a complete loss" to explain how the signature of a former Quinn Group aide was used to transfer a $90m (€72m) office block in India to a secretive offshore company.

The Quinn family have backed claims by former group finance director Dara O'Reilly that he had no involvement in a scheme to put up to €500m worth of foreign properties beyond the reach of the former Anglo Irish Bank.

Yesterday, the Irish Independent revealed that Mr O'Reilly's digital signature was used on a series of documents that effectively transferred the second- most valuable asset in the family's International Property Group (IPG) to a Dubai-registered company whose ownership is unknown.

http://www.independent.ie/business/i...l-3208980.html

[Baron von Biffo]

The poor old innocent Quinn family have no idea what is going on



http://www.independent.ie/business/i...l-3208980.html

Which of us hasn't had to deal with banks stuffing hundreds on millions into our bank accounts against our will? We should be glad we were able to fight them off unlike the poor vulnerable Quinns.

[DCon]

Even the grandkids were used

I wonder which manager of which bank chose to ignore the massice cash transactions in teh bank accounts of kids

THE family of Sean Quinn moved millions from Irish and Northern Irish companies under their control into the bank accounts of two of his grandchildren in April 2011.

The Quinns have told Farrell Grant Sparks (FGS) that they used the money placed in the two grandchildren's accounts to fund general expenses and corporate transactions. FGS is now examining all of these transactions and seeking explanations for each transaction.

http://www.independent.ie/business/i...e-3210181.html

[Stanley 2]

Even the grandkids were used

I wonder which manager of which bank chose to ignore the massice cash transactions in teh bank accounts of kids



http://www.independent.ie/business/i...e-3210181.html

http://www.politics.ie/forum/culture...s-books-6.html
Link below to Bertie using daughter's a/c to launder sterling
http://www.independent.ie/national-n...l-3059073.html

below link to Bertie's artist exemption which he got for himself
http://www.independent.ie/national-n...l-3059073.html



[edit Mod SL]

[PaddyJoe]

Quinn says his phones are tapped:

With just hours to go before he must disclose steps his family took to remove assets from the reach of the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation, former Fermanagh businessman Sean Quinn has claimed the authorities in the Republic are tapping his family's phones.

The ex-billionaire's dramatic allegation shows there is no love lost between him and the state-owned bank following months of claims, counter-claims and legal disputes.

http://www.impartialreporter.com/new...-being-tapped/

[Captain Con O'Sullivan]

He should consider himself lucky. Under my system he'd be having his head and his family's heads tapped repeatedly in a cellar under the Bridewell until I had the information I wanted.

[Baron von Biffo]

Quinn says his phones are tapped:

http://www.impartialreporter.com/new...-being-tapped/

If he can afford a phone we're giving him too much of our money.

[Kev Bar]

http://www.politics.ie/forum/culture...s-books-6.html
Link below to Bertie using daughter's a/c to launder sterling
http://www.independent.ie/national-n...l-3059073.html

below link to Bertie's artist exemption which he got for himself
http://www.independent.ie/national-n...l-3059073.html



[edit Mod SL]

That's a great thread on Bertie cooking the books.
Missed it at the time.
It's hard to do a honest day's dishonesty with you lot looking on.

[Baron von Biffo]

Daddy can't afford to keep his legal team.

http://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/q...ns-565181.html

[Captain Con O'Sullivan]

Wasn't he representing himself at one stage or was that in Northern Ireland when he was tugging the forelock at the judge, scuffing his wellies against the trouser leg and claiming he was jist a simple and innocent Irishman that leaned up against the biggest one-armed bandit in Vegas 'by mishtake, yer honner'?

[PaddyJoe]

Words fail me when I see something like this.

THE FORMER Anglo Irish Bank has agreed that freezing orders on the accounts of members of the family of bankrupt businessman Seán Quinn can be varied to allow €430,000 be paid to meet the family’s legal fees for the period May to July.

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/...319600590.html
Four hundred and thirty thousand euro.
For three months legal work

[Baron von Biffo]

Words fail me when I see something like this.

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/...319600590.html
Four hundred and thirty thousand euro.
For three months legal work

You could get two secretaries general for a year for that and have a few quid over for a week in Salthill.

[Kev Bar]

Interesting to see Daddy try defend himself and keep up the poor duped culchie act