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  • Irish ‘rage’ after bank cheated on multi-billion bailout

    06/25/2013 12:50:44 PM PDT · by Olog-hai · 5 replies
    EU Observer ^ | 25.06.13 @ 09:29 | Benjamin Fox
    Irish leader Enda Kenny has said he understands “the rage and the anger” of Irish people on Monday (24 June) following a leak of taped conversations by two Anglo-Irish Bank bosses which indicate the Irish government was conned into propping up the bankrupt lender. The taped conversations, obtained by the Irish Independent newspaper, between John Bowe and Peter Fitzgerald, who led Anglo-Irish’s capital markets and retail banking arms, respectively, indicate the Irish government was duped into pumping €7 billion ($9.2 billion) of emergency cash into the bank on the assumption that it would plug the lender’s funding crisis. But the...