Moe why doesn't the Criminal Assets Bureau in Ireland ever seem to target traveller families?
Many seem to live quite affluent lifestyles with no evidence of being employed or being tax payers. Another statistic from the CSO puts close to 90% of travelling families in receipt of some form of state welfare.
It's disgusting how nobody has the balls to tackle them, especially considering that good work has been done to tackle other criminal gangs and organisations in the Irish State.
Is it the fear of being branded as prejudiced or something? After all the likes of Pavee Point like to claim that travellers are an ethnic minority with no evidence in fact.
There are Irish travellers, Scottish travellers, English travellers, Romany gypsies....
It's very confusing.
But Irish travellers aren't the same as Roma.
I think the Roma trace their lineage/share the same bloodline as Romanians or Indians.
Hollander, did you know Rafael Van Der Vaart was brought up as a gypsy?
You can also classify the Gypsies into three groups:
"Roms" referring to Romani who come from eastern Europe "Manouches" also known as "Sinti," who arrived in Germany in the Late Middle Ages "Gitans" who trace their familial ties to Romani in Spain
"The king is dead, long live the king!"
Re: 22 Irish Travellers charged with racketeering
[Re: Moe_Tilden]
#892699 09/03/1610:14 AM09/03/1610:14 AM
I don't know how the Irish put up with this community. Look at the stats Moe posted. This community seems to think it has some kind of right to live in an anti social way.
There's tons of videos of them bare knuckle fighting.
Signs are pointing that progress on a racketeering case involving some residents of Murphy Village likely won't move forward until at least July.
Greenville attorney James Price, who's representing James Carroll, one of 20 co-defendants indicted last year in the racketeering probe, filed a motion seeking an extension to reply to a presentencing report.
The motion asks for the deadline to be rescheduled for July 10, court documents state.
U.S. Judge J. Michelle Childs approved the motion Monday.
Several other motions seeking protection from court appearances have been filed in May and June as well, court records state.
Two co-defendants through their attorneys have also filed motions seeking permission to travel out of state to be with their spouses while they work. Both motions were approved, though the defendants are on standby to return to South Carolina if requested.
Kim Mulholland's motion was approved in May. She was scheduled to be out of state from June 2 to Aug. 1, according to court records.
Mary Gorman Carroll's motion was granted June 14. She's scheduled to be out of state through Aug. 20, documents show.
According to the indictments, the suspects fraudulently obtained money through various schemes involving insurance, Medicaid and the SNAP food program.
According to the indictments, several of the programs are intended for people of limited means, yet the suspects lived in lavish houses and drove expensive cars.
All 22 defendants have entered guilty pleas, but sentencing hasn't been set.