A tech graduate with no previous convictions, who was caught with 35,000 of cocaine which he claimed he was storing in order to pay off a gambling debt has been jailed for three years.
Garda seized over 35,000 worth of cocaine at Popes Quay in Cork on the 21st of December 2018.
Detective Garda Robert Kennedy told Cork Circuit Criminal Court that garda had received confidential information in relation to Paul Bourke.
They observed Mr Bourke (37) leaving his apartment in Coppinger’s Quay, Cork and spotted him exiting a van with a parcel.
The package contained cocaine with a street value of 32,515. Cannabis valued at 814 was also recovered.
Mr Bourke was arrested and detained at Mayfield Garda Station in Cork. He readily admitted his inv…
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NORWALK, Conn.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Frontier Communications Corporation (OTC: FTRCQ) (Frontier Communications) announced today that it has secured approval from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for its Chapter 11 restructuring. Frontier now has regulatory approvals, or favorable determinations, for its required change-in-control applications related to its court-supervised restructuring from the FCC and 13 states: Arizona, Georgia, Illinois, Minnesota, Mississippi, Nebraska, Nevada, New York, Ohio, South Carolina, Texas, Utah and Virginia.
Frontier expects to promptly consummate the transactions contemplated under its previously confirmed Plan of Reorganization and emerge from Chapter 11 in early 2021. Upon emergence, Frontie…
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I get calls almost every other day, according to another in April. I consider this harassment.
I am reporting a potentially fraudulent credit collection and reporting issue, said a third.
The firm, Capio Asset Servicing, came under investigation last year as part of Operation Corrupt Collector, an enforcement sweep of the debt-collection industry by federal and state officials. In a September lawsuit, New Mexico Attorney General Hector Balderas (D) alleged that the company was seeking to collect debts that were not owed and causing emotional and physical stress when they threaten and intimidate consumers.
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Yet the federal governments Paycheck Protection Program last year also gave the company a helping hand: It provided $2….
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It was a dramatic end for government super-contractor Carillion when it crashed into insolvent liquidation in January 2018. Part-completed road projects, unfinished hospital buildings and disruption to hospital cleaning and catering heralded the end of this self-styled integrated support services business.
Carillion owed its creditors over 1.5 billion, and when matters came to a head on the back of asset write-downs and a plummeting share price, the government refused to mount a rescue. In the end over 3,000 employees lost their jobs and many supplier firms lost contracts, with domino insolvencies spreading from the rotten core of Carillion.
Now comes the possibility of a regulatory reckoning, at least for eight directors of the public …
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