“’Devil’s Advocate’ Rejects Fraud Allegations”
11:04am UK, Wednesday February 16, 2011
Gary Mitchell, Sky News Online
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http://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/ireland/di-stefano-held-on-british-warrant-493625.html
“Di Stefano held on British warrant”
Tuesday, February 15, 2011 - 04:05 PM
SNIPPET: “High-profile lawyer Giovanni di Stefano, who once acted as a consultant to Saddam Hussein’s defence team, has been arrested on suspicion of fraud on a British warrant in Spain.”
SNIPPET: “He also defended former Iraqi Foreign Minister Tarik Aziz, the international face of the Saddam regime, and convicted drug dealer Patrick ‘Dutchy’ Holland, who was named during his 1997 trial by a garda as the man who shot journalist Veronica Guerin.”
http://www.herald.ie/national-news/city-news/gangsters-to-bid-farewell-to-kirkwood-2546625.html
“Gangsters to bid farewell to Kirkwood”
By Cormac Byrne
Friday February 18 2011
SNIPPET: “ONE of Dublin’s best-known ‘old school’ criminals was due to be cremated today.
A number of the capital’s longest-standing gangsters were expected to attend the funeral of Charlie Kirkwood, a fraudster and ‘safe man’ from the south inner city.”
SNIPPET: “A well-known criminal in the capital since the 1960s, Kirkwood was pals with Sean ‘The Fixer’ Fitzgerald, Martin ‘Viper’ Foley and Veronica Guerin murder suspect John ‘The Coach’ Traynor.”