New York billionaire confirms Indiana governor as vice-presidential candidate on Twitter

Republican has tender ego, whereas Democrat is so tough she is known as ‘the Warrior’

No one is more shocked at how far Donald Trump has come than Donald Trump

US investor Cerberus’s winning bid for agency’s loans is now the subject of inquiries

Inquiry told no detail on meeting between former finance minister and American law firm Brown Rudnick

Money discovered by Belfast law firm was apparently fees from US firm Cerberus

New York investment firm that bought Nama portfolio in North met Peter Robinson and Simon Hamilton among others

DUP leader says there was no ‘vulgar’ talk of fees at meetings involving Ministers on deal

Everyone is on the hunt for the secret of the £7m found resting in an Isle of Man account after Nama’s sale of its Northern porfolio

At stake in the North were loans with a nominal value of approximately €5.7 billion

US investment house insists meeting was ‘official’ but Sinn Féin say failure to get McGuinness authorisation means this cannot be so

Agency ‘very confident . . . we achieved the maximum value for the Irish taxpayer’

Ann Sullivan: August 12th, 1938 - September 30th, 2014

Portfolio sale agency’s largest to date

Agency disposes of Northern Irish portfolio

Largest single transaction by the bad bank since it was set up to clear development loans

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