A small victory - FAS manager jailed

mike65

FAS Executive charged with fraud(2009)

A Fas executive was yesterday charged with defrauding more than €600,000 from the scandal-hit state training agency.

James Brooke-Tyrell, from Greystones, Co Wicklow, faced 47 charges of deception and attempted deception after billing the beleaguered organisation for films.

The 53-year-old was remanded on bail after a brief hearing in Dublin District Court.

Mr Brooke-Tyrell, a video production manager, was a grade seven Fas employee tasked with film-making to promote and market the agency at home and abroad and recording its work. He was charged at the Bridewell garda station with billing Fas head office on Dublin's Baggot Street with false invoices for films which never existed.

FAS executive jailed (2011)

A former assistant manager at FÁS has been sentenced to four years in prison, with the last two suspended for defrauding the agency of over €600,000 between 2003 and 2008.

James Brooke Tyrrell, 54, of Church Road, Greystones, Co Wicklow, had pleaded guilty to nine sample counts.

Judge Pat McCartan suspended the final two years of the sentence, but said the court must send out a message to others in a position of trust that if they breach that trust, they must expect the full rigour of the law to be brought to bear on them.

Chaotic_Forces

Score one for the bums on the dole!

Captain Darling

Who is this a small victory for? The tax payer has to put this toss pot up now because he was pissing the tax payers money away for years due to FAS being a farce.

Everybody's a loser in my opinion.

jackiebaron

C'mon let's write to him and give him the slags, the stupid bastard.

jackiebaron

Captain Darling wrote: »

Who is this a small victory for? The tax payer has to put this toss pot up now because he was pissing the tax payers money away for years due to FAS being a farce.

Everybody's a loser in my opinion.

You're right....just let him go.

ejmaztec

No doubt he handed all of the money back.:pac:

thebigbiffo

i know this from experience: from the very top down, FAS employs some of the most corrupt people you are ever likely to meet outside of the Dail. money f'ucking mad the whole lot of them.

Captain Darling

jackiebaron wrote: »

You're right....just let him go.

No, its just pathetic that it ever happened in the first place.

chin_grin

Dey dook der FÁS.

Chaotic_Forces

thebigbiffo wrote: »

i know this from experience: from the very top down, FAS employs some of the most corrupt people you are ever likely to meet outside of the Dail. money f'ucking mad the whole lot of them.

Your name and your post go well together.

Now, how about getting me a job in FÁS? :P

Enigma IE

Captain Darling wrote: »

Who is this a small victory for? The tax payer has to put this toss pot up now because he was pissing the tax payers money away for years due to FAS being a farce.

Everybody's a loser in my opinion.

No winners as such, but maybe this will act as a deterrant for others!!

humanji

Is any of it being reclaimed? Or does he get to go back to it all when he's out in 4 years?

JonathanAnon

Is any of it being reclaimed? Or does he get to go back to it all when he's out in 4 years?

They said on the news that he had spent ALL of it.. He had been earning 50k a year, but was living the high life on the money he had defrauded from Fás..

orourkeda

chin_grin wrote: »

Dey dook der FÁS.

They didnt give us ur jobs.

humanji

JonathanAnon wrote: »

They said on the news that he had spent ALL of it.. He had been earning 50k a year, but was living the high life on the money he had defrauded from Fás..

I'm sure he's got a house and car that would cover it.

Chaotic_Forces

humanji wrote: »

I'm sure he's got a house and car that would cover it.

Or enough life in him to torture him.

ilovesleep

The prisons need reforming. You know - like into prisons - a place of punishment. They are like holiday camps now

So much more people belong in Jail too especially porkie pig ahern

Morlar

2 years suspended and 2 years in prison for stealing €600,000.00 is a joke. No mention of him paying the money back.

http://www.rte.ie/news/2011/0330/fas.html

If I read it right he still has a Fas pension.

Nodin

Morlar wrote: »

2 years suspended and 2 years in prison for stealing €600,000.00 is a joke. No mention of him paying the money back.

http://www.rte.ie/news/2011/0330/fas.html

If I read it right he still has a Fas pension.

...which they're trying to get off him, though whether thats possible or not, I wouldn't know.

starbelgrade

Chaotic_Forces wrote: »

Score one for the bums on the dole!

That makes zero sense.

Morlar

Nodin wrote: »

...which they're trying to get off him, though whether thats possible or not, I wouldn't know.

He owes the state 600k yet apparently is in receipt of funds from the state at the same time. If it is difficult to remedy this then whatever is preventing it from being remedied is what needs to be changed. CAB should be taking a look at his affairs in my view.

Biggins

He got Jail while John O'Donaghue ran away with himself and state money!
He got another job, another pension, more perks and a lump sum for having the indignity to have to move jobs.

There's no equal fcukin' justice in this country.

Chaotic_Forces

starbelgrade wrote: »

That makes zero sense.

FÁS use those idiotic slave labour schemes, we kill one of theirs, I'm a happy man.

ejmaztec

Had he done the same thing in China, his organs would have been harvested, and then he would have been strung up.

It must be time to do a bit of out-sourcing.

Royal Irish

Captain Darling wrote: »

Who is this a small victory for? The tax payer has to put this toss pot up now because he was pissing the tax payers money away for years due to FAS being a farce.

Everybody's a loser in my opinion.

You might be one of those people who think Irish prisons are a walk in the park. For some hardened scumbags maybe they are, but a soft touch like this guy the next 2 years of his life will be hell and I think it will be money well spent on the tax payers part.

Royal Irish

Biggins wrote: »

He got Jail while John O'Donaghue ran away with himself and state money!
He got another job, another pension, more perks and a lump sum for having the indignity to have to move jobs.

There's no equal fcukin' justice in this country.

I agree 100%

Its not what you know, its who you know in this country.

senorwipesalot

He"ll be out in 6 months and most likely straight on to a fas scheme.