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<text id=91TT2339>
<title>
Oct. 21, 1991: Business Notes:Scandals
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
Oct. 21, 1991 Sex, Lies & Politics
</history>
<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
BUSINESS, Page 78
Business Notes
SCANDALS
Fiddling Up A Fine Mess
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<p> The talk these days among the Irish is of "fiddles." Not the
kind that make music but the ones that make money. Fiddle is a
coy Celtic epithet for the sort of financial finaglings
plaguing the Irish republic even as scandalmongers have their
eyes on Tokyo and Manhattan:
</p>
<p>-- Tycoon Michael Smurfit, chairman of the state-owned
phone company Telecom Eireann, resigned after disclosures that
he owned an interest in the company that sold land to Telecom
for its new headquarters.
</p>
<p>-- The head of Greencore, formerly the state-owned Irish
Sugar Co., resigned after it was learned that he and other
investors had borrowed $1.7 million from Irish Sugar to buy
shares of a company later bought, in turn, by Greencore. The
arrangement earned them a handsome profit on their stake.
</p>
<p>-- Goodman International, Europe's biggest beef processor,
is being investigated for possible fraud, including the export
of 13-year-old meat. The firm rejects the charges.
</p>
<p> Modest by Wall Street standards, these scandals are no
small potatoes in Ireland. Prime Minister Charles Haughey is
sufficiently close to some fiddle figures to be suffering a
drastic drop in popularity.
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