Self-confessed counterfeiter Hugh Jordan is a very worried man this
weekend.
Legal sources in Belfast estimate that damages in developer Peter
Curistan's libel action against the Sunday World could top the
€900,000 the paper had to fork out to criminal and tax-dodger Martin
McDonagh.
Worst managing director Gerry Lennon was horrified when he discovered
that libel payouts for Hugh's fairytales have already cost the paper a
hefty seven-figure sum.
He was even more horrified however when paper owner Sir Anthony
O'Reilly called Dublin HQ from his holiday in France to find out 'what
the hell is going on with this man Jordan'.
Another mega libel payout and even Hugh's legendary brown-nosing of
Lennon and Worst editor Colm MacGinty won't save him.
So anxious is Hugh to avoid this unpleasant eventuality that he has
taken to pumping disgruntled former employees of Curistan's Sheridan
Group for non-existent 'dirt' on the developer.
Unwisely, though, Hugh chose to do so over lunch recently in full
earshot of diners at nearby tables. Walls have ears, Hugh!
Hugh, who has assets worth £1.5M (not bad for a guy on a salary of
£52K) should realise that he's wasting his time digging for dirt at
The Odyssey and The Tannery building and who bought apartments there
and for how much. The same goes for IIR agreements and all the rest.
For, as any fool knows, Curistan is squeaky clean - as PSNI deputy
chief constable Paul Leighton has acknowledged. Even Government
lawyers told a High Court judge that claims he was involved with Provo
"dirty money" were "baseless", "unfounded" and "ill-judged".
Hugh, of course, knows all about "dirty money" having admitted
counterfeiting American dollars for the Workers Party and acting as a
bagman for WP robbers, before reinventing himself as a scourge of
republicans in the now-notorious 'Jordan memo'.
Hugh (d.o.b 31/5/51) recently wrote in his paper: "Every criminal in
Northern Ireland reads the Sunday World."
It would appear that at least one of them works there, too.
The bean-counters at Talbot Towers HQ of the Sunday World should
prepare to write out another huge cheque in the not-too-distant future
. . .
It seems Hugh is finally finally finally running out of friends.
Isn't that right Sir Anthony?
weekend.
Legal sources in Belfast estimate that damages in developer Peter
Curistan's libel action against the Sunday World could top the
€900,000 the paper had to fork out to criminal and tax-dodger Martin
McDonagh.
Worst managing director Gerry Lennon was horrified when he discovered
that libel payouts for Hugh's fairytales have already cost the paper a
hefty seven-figure sum.
He was even more horrified however when paper owner Sir Anthony
O'Reilly called Dublin HQ from his holiday in France to find out 'what
the hell is going on with this man Jordan'.
Another mega libel payout and even Hugh's legendary brown-nosing of
Lennon and Worst editor Colm MacGinty won't save him.
So anxious is Hugh to avoid this unpleasant eventuality that he has
taken to pumping disgruntled former employees of Curistan's Sheridan
Group for non-existent 'dirt' on the developer.
Unwisely, though, Hugh chose to do so over lunch recently in full
earshot of diners at nearby tables. Walls have ears, Hugh!
Hugh, who has assets worth £1.5M (not bad for a guy on a salary of
£52K) should realise that he's wasting his time digging for dirt at
The Odyssey and The Tannery building and who bought apartments there
and for how much. The same goes for IIR agreements and all the rest.
For, as any fool knows, Curistan is squeaky clean - as PSNI deputy
chief constable Paul Leighton has acknowledged. Even Government
lawyers told a High Court judge that claims he was involved with Provo
"dirty money" were "baseless", "unfounded" and "ill-judged".
Hugh, of course, knows all about "dirty money" having admitted
counterfeiting American dollars for the Workers Party and acting as a
bagman for WP robbers, before reinventing himself as a scourge of
republicans in the now-notorious 'Jordan memo'.
Hugh (d.o.b 31/5/51) recently wrote in his paper: "Every criminal in
Northern Ireland reads the Sunday World."
It would appear that at least one of them works there, too.
The bean-counters at Talbot Towers HQ of the Sunday World should
prepare to write out another huge cheque in the not-too-distant future
. . .
It seems Hugh is finally finally finally running out of friends.
Isn't that right Sir Anthony?
