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...And LA-based “romantic surrealist” Rachel Quinn’s pearl-and-gemstone pendants, bracelets and earrings are themed around Rainy, Stormy or Cloudy Days....
...Hubert Fitzpatrick, director of housing and planning at the Construction Industry Federation, says developers now find it unprofitable to build apartments in Dublin....
...“He’s Mr Owl,” John W Fitzpatrick, director of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, the world’s leading bird research institute, told me before the trip....
...In April last year, Sean FitzPatrick, the bank’s former chairman, was acquitted of all charges of making illegal loans in 2008 to a group of Anglo’s wealthy customers in a failed attempt to unwind Mr Quinn...
...Sean Quinn using a complex derivatives instrument known as contracts for difference....
...loans of hundreds of millions of euros that Anglo had made to a group of high net worth Irish individuals, known as the Maple 10, to help unwind a big stake in the bank built up by the businessman Sean Quinn...
...It comes a few weeks after Mr FitzPatrick was acquitted on charges of making illegal loans to prop up Anglo’s share price in 2008....
...Along with two other defendants, he had been accused of breaking Irish company law by lending to the Maple 10 and the Quinn family to help businessman Sean Quinn unwind a big stake in Anglo Irish that he...
...The former Anglo Irish Bank chairman Sean Fitzpatrick has been found not guilty of some charges related to loans the lender made to members of the family of businessman Sean Quinn, once Ireland’s richest...
...The guilty verdicts against the two executives, who were closely involved (unlike Mr FitzPatrick) in the attempts to unwind the stake, appear to be a setback for the Quinn family, which has taken separate...
...Judge Martin Nolan said on Wednesday he had entered not guilty verdicts on six charges against Mr Fitzpatrick relating to loans made to members of the Quinn family, reports the FT’s Vincent Boland....
...On Wednesday, the same jury had acquitted former Anglo chairman Sean Fitzpatrick of all charges related to the loans to the Maple 10. The three men had denied all the charges against them....
...Sean Fitzpatrick, Anglo’s former chairman, William McAteer, former group finance director, and Pat Whelan, former head of lending for Ireland, deny the charges....
...worth individuals to buy shares in Anglo held by Mr Quinn....
...Sean Fitzpatrick, Anglo’s former chairman, William McAteer, the bank’s former finance director, and Pat Whelan, its former head of lending for Ireland, are accused of illegally providing loans to members...
...The jury on Wednesday acquitted former Anglo chairman Sean Fitzpatrick of all charges related to the loans to the Maple 10. The three men had denied all the charges against them....
...Sean FitzPatrick, Anglo’s former chairman, was acquitted of all charges related to the loans at the same trial....
...Mr Fitzpatrick, 65, was chief executive of Anglo until 2004 when he stepped up to be chairman....
...Ireland’s financial collapse is associated with men such as Sean Quinn, a one-time billionaire who lost his fortune in the slump, or Sean FitzPatrick, of the preposterous Anglo Irish Bank, or the property...
...Five years since the financial crisis began, for example, no banker, politician or civil servant has stood trial, although Sean FitzPatrick, former chairman of Anglo Irish, is due in court next month....
...He was later elevated to director of corporate development and was involved in Anglo’s efforts to collect debts owed by the family of Sean Quinn, formerly Ireland’s richest man....
...Five years after the crisis began, three Anglo Irish executives – including former chairman Sean Fitzpatrick – have been charged with financial irregularities....
...The tough action prompted protests and acts of vigilantism against the new owners of the Quinn Group of companies....
...This led to the downfall of Sean Quinn, Ireland’s richest man, who owned Quinn Insurance and employed several thousand people. “I got strong support from the government,” Mr Elderfield says....
...Mr Quinn notes three former Anglo Irish executives, including Sean FitzPatrick, former chairman, were charged in relation to the share support scheme but are free on bail pending trial while his son, also...
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