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David Drumm guilty

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,797 ✭✭✭✭hatrickpatrick


    https://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/courts/circuit-court/former-anglo-chief-david-drumm-found-guilty-in-fraud-trial-1.3520015
    A jury has found former Anglo Irish Bank chief executive David Drumm guilty on two counts of fraud.
    Mr Drumm (51) denied the two offences linked to his running of the failed Irish lender in 2008.
    The jurors returned to consider their verdicts at 10.05am on Wednesday at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court, and returned their verdicts on Wednesday afternoon shortly after 3 pm.
    The nine men and three women began considering a verdict last Tuesday, day 81 of proceedings, after one of the longest running trials in the history of the State. They have since deliberated for more than seven hours following the 16-week trial at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

    'Bout feckin' time someone faced justice. Hope spends the rest of his days in prison.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 927 ✭✭✭Icaras


    0 (I hope I'm wrong)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,689 ✭✭✭Signore Fancy Pants


    This post has been deleted.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,832 ✭✭✭✭Donald Trump


    Chewbacca wrote: »
    €150 donation to da poor box and a mandatory weekend in Leitrim.

    Poor dote.




    Ah heyor. Leave it bleedin' ouh


    Whatever he did, it doesn't deserve that.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,062 ✭✭✭✭TheValeyard


    At last!

    Hope he gets a custodial sentence and a roommate named big bubba who likes to spoon.

    All eyes on Kursk. Slava Ukraini.



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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,231 ✭✭✭Jim Bob Scratcher


    Just as well Martin Nolan wasn't the judge in this case :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,921 ✭✭✭Odelay


    Whoo hooooo! Fantastic news!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,349 ✭✭✭✭super_furry


    More than two, less than five and those in power will finally be able to point to someone who has actually paid for white collar crime. He’ll serve about a year though.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,166 ✭✭✭Are Am Eye


    i_am_a_thief_i_stole_from_walmart_shoplifting_sign.jpg


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,832 ✭✭✭✭Donald Trump


    Like feckin' buses.


    Wait years and then two threads all together.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,647 ✭✭✭✭El Weirdo


    More than two, less than five and those in power will finally be able to point to someone who has actually paid for white collar crime. He’ll serve about a year though.

    If he gets more than 2 years, he'll serve more than a year.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,008 ✭✭✭✭Zebra3


    More than two, less than five and those in power will finally be able to point to someone who has actually paid for white collar crime. He’ll serve about a year though.

    Somewhere cosy too. :(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,610 ✭✭✭shocksy


    Great news. Hopefully now he gets a nice long prison term.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,921 ✭✭✭Odelay


    Lets hope he has the garlic man judge:)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,480 ✭✭✭wexie


    At last!

    Hope he gets a custodial sentence and a roommate named big bubba who likes to spoon.

    I would contribute to a gofundme to make sure bubba is in the rightplace to be honest

    Justin-Bieber-Memes-41.jpg


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,743 ✭✭✭Wanderer2010


    Does anyone really think, based on our awful track record, that this banker is going to get a sentence? Its Ireland, where absolutely nobody is accountable and on the rare occasion a "higher-up" of society is arrested and charged, it will eventually come to nothing. He will get a little slap on the wrist, 5 years suspended and off he goes with his millions still stashed somewhere.

    Just like the smear test scandal, blood scandal etc. absolutely NOBODY gets jail and the lawyers fatten their nests on bloated public enquiries which have no teeth.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,593 ✭✭✭Wheeliebin30



    There is already people in jail facing justice.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,461 ✭✭✭✭The_Kew_Tour


    Nice long Jail term please.

    Not such bad day after all


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,593 ✭✭✭Wheeliebin30


    Does anyone really think, based on our awful track record, that this banker is going to get a sentence? Its Ireland, where absolutely nobody is accountable and on the rare occasion a "higher-up" of society is arrested and charged, it will eventually come to nothing. He will get a little slap on the wrist, 5 years suspended and off he goes with his millions still stashed somewhere.

    Just like the smear test scandal, blood scandal etc. absolutely NOBODY gets jail and the lawyers fatten their nests on bloated public enquiries which have no teeth.

    Yeah you’re quite wrong actually.



    https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.irishtimes.com/business/financial-services/anglo-trial-three-ex-bankers-jailed-over-7bn-fraud-1.2738637%3fmode=amp

    Anglo trial: Three ex-bankers jailed over €7bn fraud

    Former Anglo Irish Bank executive Willie McAteer has been sentenced to three and a half years in jail while his Anglo colleague John Bowe was given a two year term.

    Denis Casey, the former group chief executive of Irish Life and Permanent, has been jailed for two years and nine months.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,812 ✭✭✭✭evolving_doors


    If only his family had a few quid to throw his way...

    Watch till the end



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,166 ✭✭✭Are Am Eye


    Zebra3 wrote: »
    Somewhere cosy too. :(

    He won't be in the Joy playing pool with the lads, shooting up H. Shiving Fingleton or one of his gang members.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,616 ✭✭✭✭ArmaniJeanss


    Does his time on remand in the USA count as part of any sentence?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,246 ✭✭✭✭Dyr


    Did we ever actually pass and legislation with regards to attempting to bankrupt the state?

    It's pretty much the kind of stuff that the offences against the state act was designed


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,280 ✭✭✭twin_beacon


    Zebra3 wrote: »


    Not a chance of him getting a suspended sentence
    Denis Casey, William McAteer and John Bowe got 2-3 years.

    https://www.rte.ie/news/2016/0729/805610-bank-executives/


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,817 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    A cute hoor and a coward. What a combination.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,458 ✭✭✭✭gandalf




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,231 ✭✭✭Odhinn


    What kind of sentences are we looking at? Whats the maximum?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 325 ✭✭M.Cribben


    Did his lawyer not go for the "difficult upbringing, no father, alcoholic mother, failed by the education system but now enrolled in forklift operator fas course and has brought 200 euro to Court for the poor box" defence? That usually gets the perpetrator off with a suspended sentence.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,301 ✭✭✭Snickers Man


    This sort of thing is unconstitutional here, but this is how they dealt with miscreants in Portugal 260 years ago. (Dramatisation based on true events)

    He should look at this and think "Phew! Thank God we've got a Pro-Life Constitution after all!"



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 172 ✭✭crashplan


    Remanded on bail till the 20th of June. Loads of time for him to flee again!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,166 ✭✭✭Are Am Eye


    Odhinn wrote: »
    What kind of sentences are we looking at? Whats the maximum?

    One of the charges against him is False Accounting which carries a maximum jail term of 10 years and/or Fine.

    There's also a Fraud charge. That's either 5 or 10 years, not sure. Not that we use consecutive sentencing in this country.

    The custody he did in US while awaiting trial will probably be taken in to consideration. Which will give the Judge a good out to throw a lenient sentence at him.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,977 ✭✭✭HandsomeBob


    M.Cribben wrote: »
    Did his lawyer not go for the "difficult upbringing, no father, alcoholic mother, failed by the education system but now enrolled in forklift operator fas course and has brought 200 euro to Court for the poor box" defence? That usually gets the perpetrator off with a suspended sentence.

    I thought it was the "posh good boy does something bad in a moment of madness" defence that usually wields dividends.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,414 ✭✭✭✭flazio


    I'll only support a suspended sentence if it means suspended from his gonads.

    This too shall pass.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,174 ✭✭✭benny79


    2 years isnt a sentence! They defaulted our country of billions you think the normal joe soap would get 2 years!!! Joke of a country.. we'd be doing life! I easily go to jail for 2 years if at the end of it, I come out with millions I'll even take my chances in the Joy for that!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 671 ✭✭✭Benteke


    In the US he would get pretty much a life sentence, over here he will get 4 and he will be out in 1-2 years


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,817 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    M.Cribben wrote: »
    Did his lawyer not go for the "difficult upbringing, no father, alcoholic mother, failed by the education system but now enrolled in forklift operator fas course and has brought 200 euro to Court for the poor box" defence? That usually gets the perpetrator off with a suspended sentence.

    Try 'well-respected family' and 'not likely to re-offend'.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,647 ✭✭✭✭El Weirdo


    Benteke wrote: »
    In the US he would get pretty much a life sentence, over here he will get 4 and he will be out in 1-2 years

    If he gets 4, he won't be out until he's done 3.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,935 ✭✭✭TallGlass


    Sentence will be a joke as usual.

    With the monetary figures involved, he and his kind have directly affected the population. People killed themselves directly over people like him and their actions, that financially pushed people over the edge.

    To this day, I still have 'USC' on my payslip. He should get a starting sentence of minimum how long that has been in operation, following onto till it's removed from existence.

    Imagine that, the USC tax itself, directly as a result of this misconduct and criminality has been in existence longer than the prison sentences the people who caused this mess got.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,224 ✭✭✭DellyBelly


    I'd be hoping he'd get at least 2 years or at worst 18 months. That will soften his cough. But knowing this country he'll only get a suspended sentence


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,540 ✭✭✭✭2smiggy


    how much jail time is he looking at. difficult to prove, but how many suicides could be directly attributed to his fraud !! must be a fair few.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,687 ✭✭✭eigrod


    Presumably he can (and will) appeal to a higher court ? This could drag on for decades.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,534 ✭✭✭fliball123


    2smiggy wrote: »
    how much jail time is he looking at. difficult to prove, but how many suicides could be directly attributed to his fraud !! must be a fair few.




    Will his misses have to give the money back that he transferred into her account?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,540 ✭✭✭✭2smiggy


    fliball123 wrote: »
    Will his misses have to give the money back that he transferred into her account?

    ya just heard on newstalk his son is graduating over in leafy Connecticut, and the wife and kids are still there. Should be going after that dosh too


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,378 ✭✭✭mojesius


    Deutschland, Deutschland Uber allies


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,797 ✭✭✭✭hatrickpatrick


    There is already people in jail facing justice.

    Weren't several of them subsequently let off, leaving only those who took instruction rather than those who gave it actually behind bars, in typical Irish fashion?

    I could have sworn that there was a successful appeal in the previous Anglo case.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,671 ✭✭✭jay0109


    He's done 5 months in prison in the US already which the Judge here will factor in. He might also factor in that US prisons are much tougher than ours and allow for that too.
    So my guess is a 3 year sentence with 12 months off for time served and 12 months suspended. 1 year in Castlerea, out for Valentine's day 2019, maybe even for xmas if there's pressure on spaces.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,709 ✭✭✭c68zapdsm5i1ru


    With Ireland seeming prepared to head back down the same road that led to the Celtic Tiger they should make an example out of David Drumm and give him a decent sentence that might scare the life out of any other corrupt bankers etc tempted to go down the same route. They're not likely to learn from others mistakes, or to have an attack of conscience, but they might just be put off by the thought of many years in prison.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 671 ✭✭✭Benteke


    El Weirdo wrote: »
    If he gets 4, he won't be out until he's done 3.

    Time already served will come into it I would imagine


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,329 ✭✭✭jetsonx


    Aside from the massive fraud, cocky demeanor and those infamous tapes, I think Drumm showed his true colours in this video:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlmjcW1O2YE

    I wonder if he'll be as insolent to his prison mates as he was to Charlie Bird...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,028 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989




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