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Sean Quinn Jailed

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  • #302
    Brain Stroking
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,874 ✭✭✭Brain Stroking


    Dodge wrote: »
    And in my experience, the people who think Quinn should be prosecuted with the full force of the law, also think this should be applied to Ahern (and everyone else in the sorry saga)

    Of course - its a complete no brainer. I'm lost as to how those ignore Quinn's actions and want us to focus elsewhere. Hmmmm :rolleyes:


  • #303
    MadsL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,299 ✭✭✭✭MadsL


    Corrupt leaders create corrupt companies. I had some bones to pick with Quinn Direct several years ago about their astronomical loadings purely nationality grounds. They flat refused to make any changes other than changing their script to ask "Where were you born" rather than "What is your nationality"/How lng have you lived in Ireland.

    Not much has changed with the Liberty Mutual takeover, the arrogance remains. Whilst they have now accepted that asking questions about years of residence is a breach of the Data Protection Acts, they have indicated that the earliest they can change their scripts is Q1 2013. Even though they are in fact breaking the law every day until that change is made.


  • #304
    Run_to_da_hills
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,009 ✭✭✭✭Run_to_da_hills


    " They took all my money, they took my companies, they took my reputation and they put me in jail,” said Quinn

    http://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/ireland/quinn-they-took-my-reputation-572753.html


  • #305
    squod
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,702 ✭✭✭squod


    PaddyORuadhan wrote: »

    Might I add that I hope the lot of them go to prison not just 'poor naive little' Quinn

    +1


  • #306
    Brain Stroking
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,874 ✭✭✭Brain Stroking


    He will be the Cavan Joan of Arc. 9 weeks and out to a heroes welcome. Welcome to Ireland 2012. Looks the same as the Ireland of 1950 you say?
    True dat.


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  • #307
    latenia
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,996 ✭✭✭latenia


    If only Simon Adebissi was real and locked up The Joy...


  • #308
    HellFireClub
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,911 ✭✭✭HellFireClub


    LLU wrote: »
    Finished now?

    Btw, all nothing whatsoever to do with the fact that he committed contempt of court and has been jailed for it.

    Everything to do with what happened. Regrettably you lack the kind of retrospective understanding or analysis of the whole series of events that occurred, to be able to see the total wrong that occurred when the government of this state decided to drag the taxpayer into the losses that this private company and its partners in the bond market had exposed themselves to.

    That is where the wrong occurred, and had it not occurred, this money would never have been owed to the state in the first place, it would have been rightfully owed to the original creditors (who were jointly responsible for the rampant lending at Anglo), who were Anglo bondholders, who had every right to pursue the Quinn family for the loan if they so chose. But no, instead, our government decided to get involved in something that had sweet fúck all to do with them, exposing this country now to debts that simply can never be repaid, thereby compounding the original wrong, pacifying Irish people now by traipsing all over Europe kissing Angela Merkel in a pathetic and shameful attempt to paper over the crazy mistakes that were previously made by this state ever getting involved in Anglo.


  • #309
    mikom
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,391 ✭✭✭✭mikom


    Run_to_da_hills wrote: »
    " They took all my money, they took my companies, they took my reputation and they put me in jail,” said Quinn

    http://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/ireland/quinn-they-took-my-reputation-572753.html

    Would make a good country song.


  • #310
    SafeSurfer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,182 ✭✭✭SafeSurfer


    kunst nugget wrote: »
    He wasn't duped, that's total horse manure. They acted together to offload the bet Quinn had made creating a 25% stake in Anglo through CFDs. Anglo never asked him to build a 25% share of the company through such a risky practice. Anglo and Quinn both acted illegally to try and cover themselves. Just as Quinn has continued to act illegally by ignoring various regulations and court orders to wind up where he is now - being jailed for contempt of court.
    PaddyORuadhan wrote: »
    Of course he was :rolleyes:

    He got to be one of the most successful business men by taking things at face value. Don't try to convince me that he was that naive and the big mean Seannie Fitzpatrick played a trick on him.

    The fecking dog on the street knew that Anglo was based upon the property bubble. That it was giving returns massively higher than other banks. That there was something dodge with it. Sean Quinn in his reckless arrogance thought that he could get in make his money and get out before the bubble burst. Its a simple as that.

    Might I add that I hope the lot of them go to prison not just 'poor naive little' Quinn

    He was duped into investing in Anglo. The accounts were falsified. The reality was hidden from him the same as it was hidden from every other investor. This was corporate fraud plain and simple.

    Multo autem ad rem magis pertinet quallis tibi vide aris quam allis



  • #311
    Headshot
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 56,089 ✭✭✭✭Headshot


    just looking at TV3 news there

    what ****ing idiots "sad day for ireland" I think I heard. Its a ****ing sad day he didnt get a few years along with his son


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  • #312
    uberalles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 836 ✭✭✭uberalles


    Heroditas wrote: »
    But he fixhed de road!

    Give us an auld you tube link to mac savage. I'm on a smart phone and it's too difficult.
    Classic clip that


  • #313
    bbam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,408 ✭✭✭bbam


    SafeSurfer wrote: »
    He was duped into investing in Anglo. The accounts were falsified. The reality was hidden from him the same as it was hidden from every other investor. This was corporate fraud plain and simple.


    Your stating as a fact that he was duped? In fairness you have no ones word except Quinn on this...

    Its as likely if not more likely he was implicit in the whole shenanigans and went along as he saw it as a chance to become uber-rich rather than mega-rich, chances are it was his greed that got him where he is... And of course his disregard for the law of the land..


  • #314
    Benji1974
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21 ✭Benji1974


    Just saw this story on breakingnews.ie covering Quinn’s court appearance today and thought I’d share.

    Not sure what to make of it, if it’s a piss take or supposed to be serious but it gave me a good laugh.

    http://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/quinn-they-took-my-reputation-572753.html



    Here are some of the weird and funny quotes from the untitled article:



    “A broken man, beaten and weathered, he sat down to his last supper and one final pint with his dutiful son”

    “They took all my money, they took my companies, they took my reputation and they put me in jail”

    “At one point during the hearing, all defiance seemed to have left Quinn’s stiff body and he bent onto himself, weight heaped on his elbows, resting on his aged knees”

    “the old man with the heart condition one last pint with his boy”


  • #315
    My name is URL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,626 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    SafeSurfer wrote: »
    He was duped into investing in Anglo. The accounts were falsified. The reality was hidden from him the same as it was hidden from every other investor. This was corporate fraud plain and simple.

    A self made billionaire doesn't get easily duped, greedy and willing to turn a blind eye to certain things perhaps.. but I don't buy for one second that he was led down the garden path.. he's not an idiot.


  • #316
    Praetorian Saighdiuir
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,968 ✭✭✭✭Praetorian Saighdiuir


    I have no sympathy for him or his family.


  • #317
    Frynge
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,667 ✭✭✭Frynge


    This tread took your reputation


  • #318
    hardCopy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,969 ✭✭✭hardCopy


    SafeSurfer wrote: »



    He was duped into investing in Anglo. The accounts were falsified. The reality was hidden from him the same as it was hidden from every other investor. This was corporate fraud plain and simple.

    He wasn't jailed for buying Anglo shares, he was jailed for a defying a court order.

    How he got involved with Anglo is totally irrelevant.


  • #319
    Grayson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,442 ✭✭✭✭Grayson


    I think he kinda handed his reputation over. But at least he can have the consolation that it wasn't cheap. My reputation cost the price of a bottle of Jack Daniels.


  • #320
    Scortho
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,871 ✭✭✭Scortho


    Fishooks12 wrote: »
    Now that he's jailed I presume all the people who ignorantly thought this fool was the single cause of the economic downturn will be satisfied?

    No i dont see him as a single cause of this economic downturn!

    However I am satisfied that he will be spending time in jail as I now have to pay an extra 2% insurance levy as a result of his reckless gambling! :mad:


  • #321
    Japer
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 792 ✭✭✭Japer


    Benji1974 wrote: »
    “A broken man, beaten and weathered, he sat down to his last supper and one final pint with his dutiful son”

    “They took all my money, they took my companies, they took my reputation and they put me in jail”

    “At one point during the hearing, all defiance seemed to have left Quinn’s stiff body and he bent onto himself, weight heaped on his elbows, resting on his aged knees”

    “the old man with the heart condition one last pint with his boy”

    It would not have happened if Ahern, the Irish Central Bank, Regulator and the dept of finance done their job properly ...instead these people are all getting huge pensions while the "fall guy" goes to jail.....courtesy of the taxpayer of course.


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  • #322
    SafeSurfer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,182 ✭✭✭SafeSurfer


    hardCopy wrote: »
    He wasn't jailed for buying Anglo shares, he was jailed for a defying a court order.

    How he got involved with Anglo is totally irrelevant.

    How can it be totally irrelevant when the reason he is in jail stems from his debt to Anglo?

    Multo autem ad rem magis pertinet quallis tibi vide aris quam allis



  • #323
    Spindle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 500 ✭✭✭Spindle


    hardCopy wrote: »
    He wasn't jailed for buying Anglo shares, he was jailed for a defying a court order.

    How he got involved with Anglo is totally irrelevant.

    He was jailed because he hid his assets from the the court by doing some dodgy dealings in the Ukraine.

    He is rotten like the rest his mates, his nephew shows so much contempt to law in Ireland that he fled the country. Why defend anybody who goes against the rule of the court.

    Hopefully they will be able to get the money back, and I hope they get all the rest of his mates from Anglo.

    He is a tool, plain and simple.

    He was in CONTEMPT OF COURT anybody in contempt of court should be punished, otherwise nobody would answer to the court on foot of court orders. He is not in prison for anything other than disobeying the court.


  • #324
    Lapin
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,183 ✭✭✭✭Lapin


    The biggest surprise I got from all this was finding out there is a bar in the Four Courts. :eek:


  • #325
    Heroditas
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,353 ✭✭✭✭Heroditas


    Benji1974 wrote: »
    Just saw this story on breakingnews.ie covering Quinn’s court appearance today and thought I’d share.

    Not sure what to make of it, if it’s a piss take or supposed to be serious but it gave me a good laugh.

    http://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/quinn-they-took-my-reputation-572753.html



    Here are some of the weird and funny quotes from the untitled article:



    “A broken man, beaten and weathered, he sat down to his last supper and one final pint with his dutiful son”

    “They took all my money, they took my companies, they took my reputation and they put me in jail”

    “At one point during the hearing, all defiance seemed to have left Quinn’s stiff body and he bent onto himself, weight heaped on his elbows, resting on his aged knees”

    “the old man with the heart condition one last pint with his boy”


    It's the sort of garbage that Niamh Horan or Alison O'Riordan are famous for churning out, isn't it?


  • #326
    charlemont
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,725 ✭✭✭charlemont


    WileyCoyote wrote: »
    Hopefully they will senf the old scumbag to the base in the Joy, maybe he will pick up aids!

    Ha I was a cleaner there for under two weeks ,What a kip I was in a 4 man sleeping on a mattress but it was better than sleeping in the reception or the committal holding cell.

    If he ends up on the base he will be put in a single cell and he will only be out of his cell when the rest of the prisoners are in theirs. Don't think he will end up in the 1st holding cell on the right.


  • #327
    SafeSurfer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,182 ✭✭✭SafeSurfer


    Lapin wrote: »
    The biggest surprise I got from all this was finding out there is a bar in the Four Courts. :eek:

    No doubt the Four Courts Bar and the two in the Dail will be closed as part of the governments alcohol strategy. Surely it wont just be a cynical move to increase excise on booze.

    Multo autem ad rem magis pertinet quallis tibi vide aris quam allis



  • #328
    666irishguy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 469 ✭✭666irishguy


    So much for his tough talk. Pathetic was the only word that came to mind when I heard about his apology and his requests to the judge.


  • #329
    Bullseye1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,730 ✭✭✭Bullseye1


    When will Cowen and the senior civil servants who decided to nationalise the banks and in turn Quinn Insurance also be jailed?


  • #330
    Heroditas
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,353 ✭✭✭✭Heroditas


    uberalles wrote: »
    Give us an auld you tube link to mac savage. I'm on a smart phone and it's too difficult.
    Classic clip that

    HE FIXHED DE ROAD

    There you go!


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  • #331
    thebaz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,227 ✭✭✭✭thebaz


    I take no pleasure in the jailing of Quinn , more angry about the 650,000 yearly pension paid to Brian Goggin , (the chief of Bank of Ireland when they collapsed) - thats 650,000 the citizens of Ireland are paying in these times of austerity , caused by the greed of a select few untouchable bankers such as Mr. Goggin himself


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