Free This Evening?

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Jonathan Sugarman

And in Cork?

Jonathan Sugarman will be giving a free lecture in the room 1.07, in the Western Gateway Building at University College Cork.

At 6.30pm.

A year before the bank guarantee, the former executive at Unicredit Bank Ireland resigned after giving the Central Bank a detailed account of enormous liquidity breaches at his bank.

Readers will recall his appearance before the Joint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach on April 13.

More details about tonight’s lecture here

Previously: Thank You, Mr Sugarman

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32 thoughts on “Free This Evening?

  1. perricrisptayto

    An honest broker ignored by the powers that be.
    In 10 years time people will say “and nobody listened to him?”

  2. Biggins

    Terrible that no one listened to him but it’s hardly news, the financial regulator and the central bank were completely asleep at the wheel in 2007, this is another example of that.

    Fair play to him for his integrity.

  3. realPolithicks

    “the financial regulator and the central bank were completely asleep at the wheel in 2007”

    It goes way beyond “being asleep at the wheel”, there was a willful disregard of the evidence which was presented to the regulators as is evidenced by the treatment of Mr Sugarman. The way this man has been treated is a disgrace and something ought to be done at an official level. I won’t hold my breath.

    1. Biggins

      How was he treated? He quit his job, understandably, but who mistreated him?

      The central bank did put out a statement on the Moncrieff show stating that they did investigate and that the liquidity breaches were overnight only. They used a third party to investigate also who found no major issues for the same reasons and also given that the bank is part of a wider group balance sheet exchanges would sometimes be delayed.

      And this particular firm is in no way systemic to Ireland so of lower risk in any case.

      That said a prompt rebuke from the regulator would have been desirable but this isn’t earth shattering news.

          1. Tony Groves

            Apart from losing his career, his home, his identity and being denied an opportunity to make these wrongs public for nearly a decade, he wasn’t wronged at all.

          2. Sheik Yahbouti

            Tony, don’t know about you but I’ve come to dislike posters who just say “LoL” all the time – mostly when nothing remotely amusing has been said.

  4. bisted

    …OK Jonathon…a paragon of virtue…motives above question…font of probity and integrety…now is your moment so lets hear you…

          1. benblack

            It’s all good, Mildred, but how does TG know that JS likes it? This isn’t Facebook, you know.

          2. Bertie Blenkinsop

            If we give you a list of other songs can you let us know if he likes them?

            Personally, I like the new Charlatans single and * whisper it * I was pleasantly surprised by the Harry Styles one.

  5. Percival

    It’s really incredible how people who are part of the system of fraud and deception in the banking industry will still come on here and try to undermine people like Sugarman who are clearly entirely innocent of any crime and simply tried to do the right thing.

    There is a streak of criminality running through the banking system which is like the endemic criminality of tax evasion among Irish business owners that’s been going on for decades.

    Nothing is ever done about it because they are all in the same bed with politicians, judges and solicitors.

    WE are the fools.

  6. Eoin

    What was it Andrew Jackson called bankers? A ‘nest of vipers’? He also said that if people knew what the banks were up to there’d be revolution by morning. So nothings changed with those scumbags. The people are STILL in the dark about the banks. The media is still complicit in covering for them as is the state. Well when the next crisis hits them there’ll be no bailouts and they’ll just steal the deposits. I think they just want ALL the money. Being able to print it out of thin air is not enough for these psychos.

  7. Lad

    People like Jonathan Sugarman are the only chance we have to prevent a repeat…but it’s like car crash TV, I can see it all spiralling out of control already. Regulators asleep at the wheel again too

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