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Tue 02 Feb 2008FF was in the red but Ahern kept raiding its
finances
Does it not bother Fianna Fáil that when its activists were digging deep to pay off the party's debts, its treasurer Bertie Ahern was taking the party's money? Fintan O'Toolewrites.
EVERY STATEMENT of fact in what follows is based on Bertie Ahern's own statements in Dáil Éireann and at the Mahon tribunal. And all of it inevitably leads to two stark conclusions. One is that Bertie Ahern took money from Fianna Fáil at a time when the party was in financial crisis. The other is that the party trustees have a legal obligation to get that money back.
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