Not a good look. I wonder did he go because this was going to come to light?
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It depends if the Gardaí stated that no law was broken based on what they were being fed by RTÉ, or after carrying out an investigation themselves. As far as I know, there has been no criminal investigation.
Maybe there should be. I agree that the committee meetings are now going round in circles, with the key witnesses just blaming whoever is not in the room at the time.
It seems like misuse of public money, potential fraud, tax evasion if no VAT was paid, and several other charges that those more skilled in accountancy could comment upon. The country spent €250m on the Mahon tribunal, and after all that, no charges were filed and the star witness thinks he has a right to be President, god help us.
Surely there should be an investigation conducted by Revenue, and charges made if the evidence is there. The people asking the questions are not skilled enough in this area.
Are these tweets by Dave Fanning late at night??
Too little too late. Fanning knew what he was doing. Operation Firefight RTE is on full swing.
Fanning looks like a windbag apologising. He said it, he meant it. And his apology is not sincere.
Ha, Dave is late to the party and shutting the door after the horse has bolted.
What did he say originally?
Eh......does anyone give a monkeys what Dave Fanning says ?
Did they deny that BOK was there when the agreement was given to underwrite the sponsorship?
Well, he is a member of the Talent Stable 🐺
how dare that little bollix bring the late great Rory Gallagher into this..
Deliberately falsifying the descriptions of invoices is definitely a breach of the Companies Acts.
The ODCE is the relevant authority, not the Gardai.
I believe it was a comment live on air, about the Committee being like the Nuremberg Trials.
Essentially if the label of the request /invoice is dodgy then the whole transaction has to be assumed to be suspect- any fool can see that and revenue are no fools.
See post #15458
Found it: https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120845359/#Comment_120845359
Fanning seems to have trivialised the Holocaust as well. He doesn't appear to have apologised for that either.
In a way. They were called on emails from early 2020 which included BOK that confirmed the final agreement with Tubridy and which included the grubby little stroke. But RTE tried to claim that it wasn't actually a final agreement, and that that only happened with Dee Forbes after BOK had left.
Nobody believed a word of it.
Bakhurst confirms he's looking at moving RTE from Montrose.
Not to mention he doesn't know the difference between a trail and a public accounts committee.
Withholding tax is a red herring - it's just a means of collecting tax in advance, pay before you earn if you like. Even if Tubridy wasn't levied withholding tax, assuming he declared all income, then he would have paid/ pay eventually.
The evidence from the head of legal at RTE is damning of Noel Kelly. At least Ryan and Noel wasted their own money with their sham Father Ted type defense. Kevin Bakhurst has to cut Ryan and Noel loose now if he wants to be taken seriously. I can imagine there has been a few sacre bleus issued over at Renault HQ this week. Noel won't be working with Renault for a while! That might be the least of his concerns yet
Note the Coca Cola product placement :)
Verona really is off the reservation
I suspect we'll hear Jewish condemnation of Dave Fanning's tweet and lame apology.
Verona wouldnt do well in the 60 second quiz with Larry
The old saying
'Oh what a tangled web we weave, when at first we try to deceive'
seems appropriate in all this.
I do like Alan Dillon
No Jellybeans for Tubs until Burt Bacharach starts paying him again!
Tubridy will negotiate sending good vibes and kindness back as opposed to money.
And up against such a canny bunch of negotiators, he'd probably succeed.
Fanning clearly been told to STFU by the shysters he's supporting.
Totally suits the shysters to be investigated solely by the PAC.
Won't suit them if some other arm of the state starts doing so.
Like Revenue.
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