€100,000 wedding cake, billed to Quinn Company

smileyj1987

At €250 a slice it must have been one hell of a cake !!!!

But seriously they should lock him and his family up for crimes against the state with all their toxic debts .

Biggins

The Irish Times story I lined to above, tomorrow will include apparently (according to the TV3 Vincent Brown show) further detail about an email that was also sent by allegedly one of the Quinn's asking for documents to be backdated to before the orders given by the Irish courts.
More damming evidence that they without question possibly sought to filter more funds (totalling €250 Million) to themselves before it could be used to payback debts which they had run up.

Nice money if you can get away with it!

m5ex9oqjawdg2i

€100,000 on a cake... how can... I done even...

What???

Biggins

The documents include an email dated July 25th, 2011, from Stephen Kelly, husband of Aoife Quinn, asking that the documents be backdated. A copy of this email was sent to Mr Quinn jnr, according to the bank.

The bank claims it has also retrieved an email dated February 2012 from Mr Quinn jnr seeking confirmation that salaries were being processed for him, his wife, and other members of the Quinn family.

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2012/1003/breaking3.html

...But someone told more big porkies!

Mr Quinn told the contempt hearing that he had backed away from any involvement with the international property group once Mr Justice Frank Clarke made his orders in June 2011.

As Jonny Logan used to sing "Whats another year!"

Slurryface

Biggins wrote: »

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2012/1003/breaking3.html

What a shower of total and utter shíts!
The whole lot of them should be held in solitary confinement until they come clean.
They are like a swarm of locusts:mad:

gobnaitolunacy

€100,000 for a cake. Don't these people know you can shop around?

Biggins

McCarthy: So now we know that Quinn was stupid as well as greedy

What do you expect to get when you order a €100,000 wedding cake, as did Seán Quinn’s family? Marilyn Monroe leaping out of its snowy vastness in a slashed whiter-than-the-bride frock to huskily sing “I want to be loved by you”? Men in white coats, more like.

The Quinnasty had the cake flown in “fresh” from New York for daughter Ciara’s nuptials in 2007, and sent the tab to the Quinn Group for payment. According to the newly published property register, you could buy 12 houses in south Roscommon for the same price. I wonder were the 400 guests informed of the price of their gateau, and did they choke on it? Did Ireland’s patriots turn in their graves when Seán Quinn, that great Irishman who selflessly made himself the 164th richest human on earth so he could give his neighbours jobs, deemed Tea Time Express beneath him?

The revelation that the cake stood a towering six-feet tall, consisted of nutty meringue and was adorned with cascading flowers that each took an hour to sculpt cannot explain what the Quinnasty could have possibly thought justified the exorbitant price. Its creator, Sylvia Weinstock, has disclosed that she is in the habit of instructing airline pilots not to brake suddenly when she is escorting one of her cakes. That surely trumps all other metaphors for the prevailing cultural ethos.

...A story flourished on the grapevine back in the days of plenty that one multimillionaire couple instructed their household staff to keep the engines continually running in their garaged supercars so that the interiors would be balmy when they climbed in. You think that’s far-fetched? I recently read a review of a book about conspicuous consumption that recounted the daftness of one rich man’s ambition. So badly did he want to be known as the man who paid the highest price for a painting that he bid for it twice — against himself.

It’s tempting to scoff at the Quinnasty’s crassness. For all their wealth when they had it, they were pathologically lacking in self-esteem. Why else would they have bought a €100,000 cake other than to flaunt their capacity to spend money? These, after all, are people who pride themselves on knowing the prices of things, and bargaining them down. Stephen Kelly, one of Seán Quinn’s sons-in-law, once swapped a €380 laptop for a €9.8m building in Russia.

Justine McCarthy
Sunday Times
http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/news/ireland/article1142332.ece

girl2

I'd have done them a fabulous beautiful cake for less than €1000.

*must go and look for a pic of said cake*

Biggins

gobnaitolunacy wrote: »

€100,000 for a cake. Don't these people know you can shop around?

girl2 wrote: »

I'd have done them a fabulous beautiful cake for less than €1000.

*must go and look for a pic of said cake*

The actual cake: http://www.independent.ie/national-news/octogenarian-us-baker-crafted-100000-quinn-wedding-cake-3251579.html

jmayo

LenaClaire wrote: »

The cake was from a wedding in 2007. To my knowledge their business did not get taken over until 2009 or so...

How is this a taxpayer cake then?

I keep aksing this one point.
If the Quinn's company paid for their weddings, as in this cake, is that not benefit in kind and thus taxable ??

So far we have found how numerous examples of how their lifestyles were suplemented by the Quinn companies paying their bills.
If they did not pay tax on this then they owe tax to the exchequer.

Or are the quinns being cut a deal ala mr wallace.

hucklebuck

Can anyone explain to me how CAB haven't frozen all the assets of Quinn, Fingleton, Drumm and their associates as all they need is a suspicion of illegal activity. CAB can also link it with the Worldwide version and get foreign assets frozen. :mad:

girl2

Biggins wrote: »

The actual cake: http://www.independent.ie/national-news/octogenarian-us-baker-crafted-100000-quinn-wedding-cake-3251579.html

Aye, had a look at the cake. And to be fair, I tried to price it up a bit, from a realistic point if view. The level of intricate work involved in the sugarcraft flowers is colossal. There would have been hours and hours of work to put it together. Given that, and having to get it sent over from the USA.

However…nowhere near €100k…they were cleaned at that. The cake could have been made and shipped over for between €15-20k. That's given a rate of €100 per hour for 6 hours a day…with each tier taking 3-4 days work. I think given the amount of work involved, by someone as specialised in the trade, my own calculation is a fair assessment.

They were mugs - total mugs - to pay that sort of money.

gobnaitolunacy

Biggins wrote: »

The actual cake: http://www.independent.ie/national-news/octogenarian-us-baker-crafted-100000-quinn-wedding-cake-3251579.html[/QUOTE]

It's still just icing, marzipan, currants n sh*t, with the addition of a few RSJs for structural strength.

Sofiztikated

gobnaitolunacy wrote: »

Biggins wrote: »

The actual cake: http://www.independent.ie/national-news/octogenarian-us-baker-crafted-100000-quinn-wedding-cake-3251579.html[/QUOTE]

It's still just icing, marzipan, currants n sh*t, with the addition of a few RSJs for structural strength.

And a dash of Big Fat Gypsy Wedding for good measure.

Sappa

What a vile family.