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Former Waterford Cllr denies corruption charges

  • 08-05-2012 1:34pm
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    Registered Users Posts: 3,510 ✭✭✭


    From RTE.ie


    Fred Forsey Jnr, from Coolagh Road, Abbeyside, Dungarvan was a Fine Gael councillor on Dungarvan Town Council.
    Mr Forsey is charged with receiving three payments, one of €60,000 and two of €10,000 each, from a property developer in 2006.
    Waterford Circuit Court heard this morning the trial is expected to last at least three weeks and possibly up to six weeks.
    A jury has been sworn in and the trial is due to recommence this afternoon in Waterford.

    On a different note:
    Did anything happend with our own ex-mayor (Mary O Halloran) who had a nice 'Council work' trip to USA on us? The City manager was trying to get money returned. Oh, the above is not 100% accurate as Mary O Halloran took her husband along for the trip too.


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  • Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 9,081 Mod ✭✭✭✭ziedth


    Mod note:

    Please No discussion of the court case in accordance with site rules. When a verdict cones in we'll have a thread I'm sure. Cheers


  • Registered Users Posts: 773 ✭✭✭Woodgate


    Should be in Waterford County section anyway, not City.


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,510 ✭✭✭Max Powers


    Guilty! great news. I hope he gets the full 10 years.


  • Registered Users Posts: 464 ✭✭cassette50


    Max Powers wrote: »
    Guilty! great news. I hope he gets the full 10 years.

    Great news...now lets round up and prosecute the rest of them.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 88,978 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    Whats the story with the developer, having shown the councillor accepted a bribe shouldn't he be arrested now?


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  • Registered Users Posts: 725 ✭✭✭Funfair


    mike65 wrote: »
    Whats the story with the developer, having shown the councillor accepted a bribe shouldn't he be arrested now?

    Well if Foresy is guilty of accepting bribes as sure as night follows day the developer has to be charged with bribing an offical.

    I believe that's why he couldn't be named in court as he'll be on the stand next.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 88,978 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    I was just looking through some coverage and yes, I did spot the developer was just "the developer" never identified. He's probably in Spain by now!


  • Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 9,081 Mod ✭✭✭✭ziedth


    The story wouldn't happen in eastenders would it? The affair and his wife reporting him. If I'm honest I didn't believe a word of his version of it.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 723 ✭✭✭Black Suir


    mike65 wrote: »
    Whats the story with the developer, having shown the councillor accepted a bribe shouldn't he be arrested now?


    He was questioned some time back. So say some locals in the know.


  • Registered Users Posts: 725 ✭✭✭Funfair


    ziedth wrote: »
    The story wouldn't happen in eastenders would it? The affair and his wife reporting him. If I'm honest I didn't believe a word of his version of it.

    It's a typical story of life on Westenders with the wife and the 18 years younger girlfriend going bald headed for each other, him being threatened to be stabbed by the mother in law, calling his ex-wife a liar on the stand, the wife driving his car into a wall and putting all his belongings into a skip. That's the kinda stuff that goes on in the west of the County :D


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  • Registered Users Posts: 219 ✭✭Tangled


    mike65 wrote: »
    Whats the story with the developer, having shown the councillor accepted a bribe shouldn't he be arrested now?
    I believe they were both arrested at same time, his trial is still pending so he couldn't be named at any stage.

    And, shouldn't this be in County section?


  • Registered Users Posts: 100 ✭✭waterford


    All is very quite so in the town (CITY) happy days


  • Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 9,081 Mod ✭✭✭✭ziedth


    Tangled wrote: »
    I believe they were both arrested at same time, his trial is still pending so he couldn't be named at any stage.

    And, shouldn't this be in County section?

    Ah it's nation wide news about 40min from the city, I think exceptions can be made for such things if people want to discuss it.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,687 ✭✭✭Media999


    Gonna have a hard time convincing anybody it was a loan. Who borrows 60,000 from a developer and 10,000 from a couple of other people rather than a bank.

    Please god he gets banged up with the Junkies for a few years and the other 3 in the cell next door.

    All rat each other out for shorther sentences. Might start a chain reaction of other Bent scumbags being locked up.


  • Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 9,081 Mod ✭✭✭✭ziedth


    It didn't add up for me at all TBH, I only fully read up on it the other day and I really couldn't believe the simplicity of his defence. Seemingly he can get up to ten years, would I be right in saying he'd be the first person to be sent down for "getting into bed with" a developer?


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,687 ✭✭✭Media999


    This is the arrogance of these people to walk into a court and think people will believe his bull****. Being realistic hell probably get a couple of years and get out in one for good behaviour when people forget about him.

    Wouldnt surprise me if hes the first anyway.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 579 ✭✭✭cartell_best


    Media999 wrote: »
    This is the arrogance of these people to walk into a court and think people will believe his bull****. Being realistic hell probably get a couple of years and get out in one for good behaviour when people forget about him.

    Wouldnt surprise me if hes the first anyway.

    People will forget about him but now there's going to be a doubt.... a Doubt thats been hiding away....jesus, would ya do it to yourself? a pre-existence of madness but a condemned lifetime of criminality? I hope this isn't the tip of the icebegr?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 902 ✭✭✭scholar007


    I feel kinda sorry for the guy to be honest.

    OK - He's been found guility of taking a bung but to be honest, he brought the wife and kids to Rome and did a bit of work on the family home.

    He seems to be a victim of circumstances, self-employed (never easy) earnings dropped and debts mounted and then he succumbed to temptation... in more ways than one.

    Would it have ever come out if he didn't leave the wife I wonder and will his "young lover" as the tabloids referred to her be there for him when he gets out?


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,191 ✭✭✭CardBordWindow


    I wonder if this verdict is making many 'officials' sweat? I'm sure there was more than just one who did it. He's the only one to get caught so far though.


  • Registered Users Posts: 725 ✭✭✭Funfair


    scholar007 wrote: »
    I feel kinda sorry for the guy to be honest.

    OK - He's been found guility of taking a bung but to be honest, he brought the wife and kids to Rome and did a bit of work on the family home.

    He seems to be a victim of circumstances, self-employed (never easy) earnings dropped and debts mounted and then he succumbed to temptation... in more ways than one.

    Would it have ever come out if he didn't leave the wife I wonder and will his "young lover" as the tabloids referred to her be there for him when he gets out?

    Totaly agree with you..

    The more I read about him the more you realize the guy is a fool of a character who's biggest claim to fame was getting on sky news when the glass factory closed down in Dungarvan.

    He told the girlfriend he's after hitting the big time :)

    The reality of the whole thing is the only one he fooled was the 200 million developer out of €80,000 as he hadn't the power to do any rezoning of the land involved.

    He claimed in his defense he wanted to create jobs by rezoning the land
    The irony of it was he contributed to jobs, if unintentionally, by spending the money in the local economy as soon as he was getting it.
    He hadn't even the money to defend himself as he was on free legal aid and unfortunately for him he'll be used as a scapegoat for the real corrupt politicians to carry on their dirty deals


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  • Registered Users Posts: 5,147 ✭✭✭hardybuck


    Think of the amount of sites around the country that strike you as unsuitable.

    I was at a funeral recently outside Waterford, but the graveyard was next to an industrial estate. There was this constant banging noise which was starting to drown out the priest, it started to become embarassing.

    That graveyard was there an awful lot longer than the industrial estate - whoever decided it was a suitable location for industrial activity was either corrupt or totally incompetant.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 902 ✭✭✭scholar007


    Ye heard it here first - There is definitely a good film in this.

    Freddie boy will make big bucks when he sells the film rights.

    It has everything - greed, corruption, incompetence, sex, passion, jealousy, betrayal, woman standing by her man.

    It can't fail to be a hit.

    Im really looking forward to the scene where the wife and girlfriend go at it - Miaow!


  • Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 9,081 Mod ✭✭✭✭ziedth


    What would you call it? And more importantly what would the porn version of this film be called?


  • Registered Users Posts: 269 ✭✭Jarjohn


    Freddie got fingered
    freddies nightmare
    Right said fred :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 902 ✭✭✭scholar007


    ziedth wrote: »
    What would you call it? And more importantly what would the porn version of this film be called?


    Confessions of a Driving Instructor 2

    Adventures of a Driving Instructor 2

    :)


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,191 ✭✭✭CardBordWindow


    ziedth wrote: »
    What would you call it? And more importantly what would the porn version of this film be called?
    Money man gets F*cked


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,326 ✭✭✭Jason Todd


    Father of the Bribe :p


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,588 ✭✭✭STIG83


    The girl he shacked up comes from my area, think my sister was in school with her.


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,219 ✭✭✭tipptom


    I feel a little sorry for him to as he seemed in a desperate situation and did not have a penny left so he was open to what happened where as a lot of the others seemed to think it was an extra on top of their big salarys and pensions.If he gets more than 3 years it will be a disgrace considering the facts and the sentances handed down to murderers.He was probably the soft target as the develepor will use expensive lawyers to evade the same fate.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 902 ✭✭✭scholar007


    You know how Bobbit came to be in the English language, I wonder will the phrase Forseyed become mainstream as in "he left her for a young wan and the wife did a Forsey on him"????


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