If The Crime Fitz

at

anglothree

From left: Bernard Daly, Tiarnan O’Mahoney and Aoife Maguire

All sentences are to begin immediately. Judge McCartan said it was clear the accused engaged in a deliberate and ongoing fraud to stop the accounts of their employer, Anglo chairman Sean FitzPatrick, from being disclosed to Revenue.

The judge called Anglo a “very sick bank” which “took a very, very dishonest approach to Revenue.” He said the accused’s actions were “done out of misplaced loyalty but were still dishonest and were against all good banking principle and practices.”

Ex-Anglo officials jailed for between 3 years and 18 months (Paul Cullen, Irish Times)

Meanwhile..

Lawyers of Sean FitzPatrick want October trial postponed due to publicity from trial of Anglo officials (Newstalk)

Sponsored Link

44 thoughts on “If The Crime Fitz

  1. Drogg

    Ahh ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. Oh i love it. They will probably never see the inside of a cell but least somebody has finally acknowledged that the banks upped us.

  2. Waffles

    Irish Justice makes zero sense.

    Jailing non-violent crimes yet there’s people walking around with about 50 previous convictions with no bother.

    1. nogoodstarttgecans

      I disagree, respectfully; there needs to be a consequence for some laws to work. They will be sent to Arbor hill most likely, that place doesn’t house the type of criminal that Paul Williams generally makes a a living from writing about. So they’re not gonna come out worse than they went in, like most violent criminals tend to.

    2. mike

      you kidding me? . the suffering the bastards at anglo, and others besides, have inflicted on the whole population and the weakest especially is deplorable. longer sentences for more of the hoors

  3. Al

    18 months for doing what your boss tells you, yet rape your girlfriend and walk away scot free. strange system

    1. Joss

      Very odd alright.
      Seems easy to jail the lickspittles when the beneficiary doesn’t even get charged.

    2. gallantman

      The Nuremberg Defence- of doing what your boss said- doesn’t cut it, thankfully.

      1. classter

        Exactly – part of the point of such deterrents is so that when your boss tells you to do something, you’ll have an incentive to disregard him/her.

      2. Al

        Yeah because hiding accounts from revenue and murdering 6 million Jews is the same thing….

          1. Lilly

            Yes it is. ‘But I was only following orders’. Their cowardly actions were self-serving and now they’re paying the price. Enjoy your night in the Joy guys.

        1. gallantman

          It’s a very commonly cited legal concept. People usually manage to comprehend it’s analogous application to other contexts.

    3. B Bop

      Agree with Al…I would much rather bigger more violent & immoral scum be jailed…none of these 3 profited from Anglo’s ridiculous “banking system” the lady is a single mother in a junior office role…yet thieving murdering feral creatures walk around, collecting convictions & suspended sentences.

    4. Joe the Lion

      You raised an interesting legal question, what would be the appropriate sentence for raping your girlfriend if your boss told you to do it?

  4. 15 cents

    so do they thing sean fitz didnt know about this? he put thru the orders, why isnt he gettin done? theyre taking a (small) hit for him .. why isnt he bein held accountable too?

      1. Martina

        As far as I know he’s not charged with anything in connection with this case, yet His case relates to directors loans?

  5. realPolithicks

    Why wasn’t Fitzpatrick on trial? These three hardly just decided to delete his accounts by themselves.

    1. Ms Piggy

      My more optimistic self thinks there’s a long game being played here, and that securing these convictions allows them to move one or two steps closer to nabbing Seanie. Of course, experience has taught me that my more optimistic self is a fool :-)

  6. Daisy Chainsaw

    Smallfries thrown under a bus as a sop to the masses, while the head honchos play golf – without discussing banking, of course.

    Ireland. A dirty little country to do business in.

    1. Martina

      O’Mahoney wasn’t small fry. Was up for CEO job before Drumm got it and allegedly set up a DIBOR scam in Anglo. He deserves every minute of his jail time.

  7. ahjayzis

    Fitzy’s gone to the courts to get his own trial delayed because this one makes him look bad…

  8. Lilly

    I have not an ounce of sympathy for this trio without a backbone between them. Seanie is going down too, wait and see.

  9. Otis Blue

    It’s a start, I suppose.

    Also their conviction makes a nonsense of some of Drumm’s testimony to the Banking Inquiry.

  10. bobby

    big up to the judge for not allowing their senior counsel to pull off his stroke about the jury foremans wife being friendly with somebody, lets see if the boys in blue track down whoever supposedly made this call and if not then maybe ask the senior counsel some questions about it.

  11. Peter Dempsey

    I love the anger here. Non-violent crime and they didn’t benefit personally. Yet you’ll stay silent about violent criminals walking around with 50+ convictions. Or maybe you’ll make excuses for their behaviour. Typical.

    1. Peter dense, see?

      Non-violent crime – ahahahahahahaha
      didn’t benefit personally – ahahahahahahahahahaha

Comments are closed.

Sponsored Link
Broadsheet.ie