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Het-field
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Posted: 20 Jun 2018 at 9:54pm |
As far as I know nobody has ever been sent to jail for not paying their TV licence. Disregard of a court order in relation to a TV licence can result in jail time, but that is not about the TV licence itself.
As SD has said, the detail is very important in the garlic case. This was not about the reclassification, but the effect of it, which was a massive hole in the pockets of the public purse. It was a far more serious case than just about the reclassification of the item.
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horsebox
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In that one person that smuggles garlic in as onions gets a heavier sentence than somebody who bankrupts the country and is involved in collapsing a banking institute.
Or that rapists and child molesters gets suspended sentences, and that the courts see fit that over 500 people go to jail for not paying a TV license. The perspective is that there is too much inconsistency in sentencing and dishing out justice. |
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Het-field
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What perspective though?
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horsebox
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Perspective I would assume. |
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It was far across the sea,
When the devil got a hold of me, He wouldn't set me free, So he kept me soul for ransom. na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na. I'm a sailor man from Glasgow to |
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rossieman
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SuperDave84
Robbie Keane ooh Thomas, how could you do this to me! Joined: 26 Aug 2011 Location: Far Fungannon Status: Offline Points: 21384 |
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Oh yea, it was. Maybe he had to pay about €5m with all the interest and penalties.
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rossieman
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Was it not closer to 2m evaded? He ended up doing two years instead of 6 and paid all the sum due afaik. Not sure what people thought Drumm would get sentenced, they were hardly going to give him life sentence.
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SuperDave84
Robbie Keane ooh Thomas, how could you do this to me! Joined: 26 Aug 2011 Location: Far Fungannon Status: Offline Points: 21384 |
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Especially when it was reduced on appeal. It was €5m of tax evasion, ffs. That is very serious and, for an individual, a very high amount of tax to evade. I know there are cases where companies evade more but the garlic case was one of the highest ever in the state.
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Trap junior
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Because it has left a bad taste in peoples mouths
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Het-field
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Why are people always harping on about the garlic case?
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Trap junior
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He will get off on appeal because its making him depressed
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cardwizzard
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Its a truly shocking sentence IMO. Its the same amount of time as the lad who was caught declaring garlic as carrots or some spoof like that... this hure helped cripple the country which we'll still be paying back in 40yrs and then done a runner.
Typical shennanigans of the courts.
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Denis Irwin
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Don't see him getting anything off it on appeal IMO
6 years is what I was expecting him to get
Edited by Denis Irwin - 20 Jun 2018 at 4:45pm |
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Sham157
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Sentenced to 6 years......until his appeal comes through..
Edited by Sham157 - 20 Jun 2018 at 4:39pm |
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Bob Hoskins
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He was always going to be the fall guy as he left the country. Still a few years (probably months) in jail is better than nothing.
Seanie Fitz should be in there with him
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Romario 2016: And the ticket mafia gets caught! Well, four years ago I had already told the government.
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deise316
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David Drumm found guilty of conspiracy to defraud. Don't think tis time to celebrate yet before the inevitable appeal, then the collapse of the 2nd trial for, ah, reasons or whatever the usual is for these lads who seemingly can't get a fair trial in this country, but not a bad start all the same. Can't get a cent out of him of course, because as is also the norm, as he transferred most of his wealth to his wife, a resident of the USA, like he was himself for a while before he was extradited.
Any more of this carry on and we might become a properly functioning country, it's just not on. |
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Shedite
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Cha-ching for the legal firms
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SuperDave84
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Date fixed for the next trial, February 2nd, 2015.... mad delays in the Circuit Court at the minute with a few long trials in particular delaying things. It was originally fixed for October but has been pushed back. The next one is to do with the alleged failure to disclose loans from Irish Nationwide to him. From the Irish Times:
"He faces 12 counts of failing to disclose to auditors Ernst & Young the true value of loans worth at least €139 million given to him or people connected to him, by Irish Nationwide Building Society from 2002 to 2007 while he was an officer of the bank." Link: http://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/courts/se%C3%A1n-fitzpatrick-trial-over-139m-loans-put-back-1.1803755 |
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