ForeverBlue_Since91 2,895 Posted February 20, 2012 Share Posted February 20, 2012 lol not a clue but his business's seem to make moneyThey seem to go and into liquidation aswell. infact when he owned weatherseal windows it went into liquidation 4 times. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
caseyjones 3,009 Posted February 20, 2012 Share Posted February 20, 2012 Here we go again! CON-MANLatterly - early in 2009 - he appointed two ex-Cheshire retired police officers to head up his brand new private investigation team, handily placed in Knutsford, Cheshire. This followed his disastrous appointment of controversial Spanish detective agency, Metodo 3, as the lead private investigators for the McCanns, at a cost of a reputed £½ million. It appears they achieved nothing. That was followed by the even more embarrassing choice by Brian Kennedy of Kevin Halligen to lead the private investigation. For Halligen turned out to be a hard-drinking con-man who was picked up by police, hiding in a 4-star Oxford Hotel, in October last year. He was wanted for extradition to the United States, where he faced allegations of a $2 million fraud. Since October he has languished in the high security Belmarsh Prison, south-east London. He cost the McCann investigation a further £½ million, again drawing a total blank so far as obtaining any information regarding Madeleine’s whereabouts was concerned.The two former Cheshire police officers he appointed, ex-Detective Inspector Dave Edgar and ex-Detective Sergeant Arthur Cowley, have been Kennedy’s chosen men for over a year.CHESHIRE POLICE RENTS ACCOMMODATION FROM BRIAN KENNEDYLess well-known is that a key department of Cheshire Police rents office space directly from one of Brian Kennedy’s many property companies.As was reported in 2007, one of Kennedy’s property interests, Patrick Properties, very possibly named after his son Patrick, obtained a £60 million funding boost to exapnd their property portfolio. The company was established in 2002 by Brian Kennedy himself and Managing Director Andrew Dickman The Patrick Properties empire, based in Wilmslow, included Premier Park, Winsford and Crewe Business Park. One of the tenants of Patrick Properties is a department of Cheshire Police, the so-called ‘Public Order Training Unit’. Perhaps Kennedy’s close contacts with Cheshire Police enabled him to make the decision to appoint two ex-Cheshire detectives to assist with his private investigations into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann. A £750,000 BRIBEBut our main interest in this article is to look at claims that Brian Kennedy was involved in the planned payment of £750,000 bribes to Rotherham Rugby Union Club (Rotherham RUC) Club back in 2002. On 19 December 2002, the Daily Telegraph published an article which began: “Sale Sharks owner Brian Kennedy stated yesterday that he would open every accounting book that he has in order to prove to a Rugby Football Union (RFU) enquiry that there was no slush fund set up to persude Rotherham RUC not to accedt promotion into the Premiership last season [= end of the 2001-2 season]. An article in May 2002 stated that Rotherham’s promotion to the Premiership had been rejected at the last minute due to inadequate paperwork.A week earlier, on 12 December 2002, the Telegraph had broken the story of how Worcester Rugby Union Club owner Cecil Duckworth had told the RFU how a special slush fund was set up to bribe Rotherham RUC into failing to meet the criteria for being promoted to the top flight the next season. In the event, they failed to be promoted on the grounds that they had ‘failed to provide the required documentation relating to ground-sharing with Rotherham United Football Club’. The Telegraph reported that Duckworth had met RFU officials at Twickenham to air his complaint. A three-man RFU delegation, Chief Executive Francis Baron, Chairman Graeme Cattermole and Disciplinary Officer Robert Horner were charged with pusuing an investigation into the alleged scandal. They later appointed an independent inquiry headed by Anthony Arlidge, QC, to investigate the whole matter.Duckworth’s allegation was that influential owners of several Premiership clubs considered a payment of £68,000 per club to encourage Rotherham not to accept promotion. Brian Kennedy was named by Duckworth as one of the alleged co-conspirators. The background to this is that the 12 Premiership clubs had for years believed to have conspired to keep themselves as an ‘exclusive’ club of the top dozen clubs. The ‘relegation issue’ was a source of controversy for years, with concerns that the 12-strong Premiership was keeping out other clubs leading to an official Office of Fair Trading investigation being started in September 2001. In the event (see below), Rotherham also officially received an amount varioulsy said to be £740,000 or £720,000 as a ‘parachute payment’ designed to compensate for their failure to be promoted. KENNEDY REACTS ANGRILYKennedy reacted swiftly and angrily: “When someone makes such a high-profile accusation as this, on allegations that are unfounded, with evidence that is flawed, we have to go public in response. I want my part in this inquiry to be clear, overt and fair. If we turn our back on it, then the implication will be that there is something to hide. The truth is that there is nothing to hide. Come and see my books. These allegations are wrong. I for one will not be sneaky and underhand when it comes to giving my evidence. There are some daft notions flying about. One paper suggested yesterday that owners like me are in it for the money to be made. How ridiculous! If I'd invested in rugby in order to make money, then I would seriously question my commercial judgement. I came in to stop Sale from disappearing off the map, to try and give the North-West some top-class sport. That's all. All I'm interested in is driving this business towards break-even. I'll tell you now, if I ever did make a profit at Sale then I'd give it all to charity”. SECRET MEETINGSBut The Times unearthed evidence of secret meetings. They reported that: “Allegations that Premiership rugby union clubs considered bribing Rotherham not to take up their promotion place last season were given fresh impetus yesterday. The independent inquiry set up by the RFU has received information claiming that three leading club figures held a secret meeting at a Jersey bank last August, only a fortnight before the new season began. According to the information, the individuals, two from Premiership sides and one from a First Division club, met at a bank in St Helier on 16 August 2002. When contacted by The Times yesterday, one of the men, who cannot be named for legal reasons, denied ever having been to the Channel Islands. The other two did not return calls”.The Times repot continued: “If the meeting is substantiated, what they discussed could be of great importance to the inquiry investigating claims that Rotherham were to be paid £750,000 to turn down promotion last season, after winning the National League First Division title. The inquiry team has also been notified of details of a meeting allegedly held between two prominent rugby personalities on a yacht off Monte Carlo last May. The head of the inquiry team, Anthony Arlidge Q.C., had also been told of an England international from a Premiership club, involved in last season’s relegation battle, who claimed that he knew as early as last February that no club would go down because ‘a “deal had been struck’. The report went on: “Mike Yarlett, the Chief Executive of Rotherham RUC, denied receiving any payments, described the allegations as ‘mischief making’, but then refused to assist the enquiry in any way”.The £750,000 was alleged to be have been paid to Rotherham in addition to the ‘parachute payment’ to which the club was entitled. Half the £750,000 would, it is alleged, have come from central Premier Rugby funds and the other half from the 12 clubs themselves, who would each contribute £31,250. The Times continued: “According to information passed to The Times, this was agreed at a meeting at the Weston Manor Hotel, near Oxford, in October 2001 and rubber-stamped on 6 April last year. The allegations surrounding last season surfaced after claims were made about a similar payment this year for Rotherham, who are again favourites for promotion. This was allegedly discussed at a meeting at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, near Heathrow, on Monday, December 2”. RUGBY CHAIRMEN DISCIPLINEDAnthony Arlidge Q.C. in his final report, made adverse comments on four individuals in particular: Premier Rugby Ltd (PRL) chairman Charles Jillings, Gloucester Rugby Union Club owner Tom Walkinshaw, Northampton Rugby Union Club owner Keith Barwell, and Rotherham chairman Mike Yarlett. Warning letters about their conduct in the ‘Rotherhamgate’ affair sent to Walkinshaw and Jillings “indicated the RFU's displeasure in the way, as successive chairmen of PRL they either encouraged or allowed discussions about improper payments to Rotherham RUFC”.Mike Yarlett of Rotherham RFC was rebuked for “his willingness to manipulate the facts to fit a required situation in relation to the date of signing a lease in relation to the use of Millmoor (Rotherham United FC Ground)”.Worcester Rugby Union Club chairman Cecil Duckworth was also reprimanded, for ‘airing dirty laundry in public rather than pursuing a complaint through official Rugby Football Union channels’.Whistle-blowers are rarely popular.Sources used in compiling this article:http://menmedia.co.uk/news/business/s/1007366_kennedy_property_arm_secures_60m_boosthttp://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/rugbyunion/club/3040008/Kennedy-quick-to-deny-claims-of-pay-off-conspiracy.html http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/article809450.ece http://www.thefreelibrary.com/RUGBY+UNION:+RFU+raps+Worcester+chief+in+club+row;+RUGBY+UNION.(Sport)-a0102944749 . 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RFC55 109,762 Posted February 20, 2012 Share Posted February 20, 2012 Casey that looks like its been lifted fron a certain bhloggers site Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
OneDavidCooper 2,505 Posted February 20, 2012 Share Posted February 20, 2012 More importantly, what school did he go to?And do we mind about his spurious religion? Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeBlue 136 Posted February 20, 2012 Share Posted February 20, 2012 Forget about all that - his son's called Patrick.What more do you need to know? Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
caseyjones 3,009 Posted February 20, 2012 Share Posted February 20, 2012 Casey that looks like its been lifted fron a certain bhloggers siteFrom one of the sites on the McCann's, and they are even more bonkers. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ledge 3 Posted February 20, 2012 Share Posted February 20, 2012 He speaks well, i like him and he aint bad looking either. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BearAbroad 42 Posted February 20, 2012 Share Posted February 20, 2012 Here is a list of Scotland's richest... Brian Kennedy is at #16 with 250m. Surprise, surprise... no sign of Mr. WhyteSomeone should get on the blower to that al-Tajir chap... 1.Mahdi al-Tajir – £1,550m2.Sir Ian Wood and family – £1,119m3.The Grant and Gordon family – £950m4.Alastair Salvesen and family – £840m5.Lord Laidlaw – £745m6.The Thomson family – £660m7.Brian Souter and Ann Gloag – £650m8.The Duke of Sutherland – £580m9.Jim McColl – £570m10.Joanne Rowling – £530m11= (12) Duncan Bannatyne £430m11= (10) Sir Arnold Clark and family £430m13 (11) Ian Suttie £340m14 (9) Keith Miller and family £335m15 (13) Philip Day £300m16 (14) Brian Kennedy £250m17 (16) James and Fitriani Hay £200m18 (17=) Harry Dobson £190m£10m Mining19 (new) Bill Paterson £181m20 (17=) The Duke of Buccleuch and family £180m21 (20) Graham Wylie £175m22 (29=) Sir Angus Grossart and family £158m23 (24) John Lynch and family £156m24= (new) Colin Cornes £150m24= (25=) Willie Haughey and family £150m24= (25=) Roger Jenkins £150m27 (25=) Walter Scott £149m28 (29=) Stewart Milne and family £140m29 (38) Sir Tom Farmer £136m30= (15) Robert Adair £135m30= (32=) Sir Richard George and family £135m30= (39=) Joe Walker and family £135m33= (31) Alasdair Locke £130m33= (36) Ian MacKechnie and family £130m33= (56) Derek Mickel and family £130m36 (44) Eric Herd and family £129m37 (23) Douglas Craig and family £124m38 (43) Lennie and Iain McGeoch £122m39= (37) Tom and Alan Fergusson £120m39= (new) Michael Freeman £120m39= (35) Hugh Irvine and family £120m39= (78=) John Ray £120m39= (32=) Alexander and Alan Turner £120m44 (45) Audrey Baxter and family £116m45 (62=) Norman Springford and family £114m46= (39=) The Marquess of Bute £110m46= (39=) Tommy Dreelan and family £110m48 (21) Alan Wiseman and family £109m49= (49=) Aaron and Tania Hillman and family £100m49= (49=) The Duke of Roxburghe £100m51 (new) Johannes de Gier £98m52 (46=) Alan and Ronnie Bartlett £97m53 (46=) Larry Kinch £96m54 (46=) Dick Watson and family £95m55 (62=) Sir John Mactaggart and family £88m56= (52=) The Macdonald family £85m56= (52=) Roy MacGregor and family £85m56= (52=) Malcolm Scott £85m59 (70=) Steven Ferguson £83m60 (61) John Muir and family £82m61= (57=) Sir Sean Connery £80m61= (57=) Bob Kidd £80m63= (52=) Sir Fraser and Gordon Morrison £78m63= (102=) Douglas Park and family £78m65 (51) Mike Walker and family £77m66= (new) Michel Chartron £75m66= (new) Mark Deere £75m66= (76=) Ian Grabiner £75m66= (new) Hamid Guedroudj £75m70 (62=) Alastair Wylie £70mRead more: http://www.therichest.org/celebnetworth/lists/rich/richest-people-in-scotland/#ixzz1mvXnLOLH Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ledge 3 Posted February 20, 2012 Share Posted February 20, 2012 I wonder how many of them are Rangers men, if any. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edmiston Drive 3,846 Posted February 20, 2012 Share Posted February 20, 2012 Fuck Jack Duggan...AND Ned Kelly...tarrier robbing bastards Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guardian 4,281 Posted February 20, 2012 Share Posted February 20, 2012 Here is a list of Scotland's richest... Brian Kennedy is at #16 with 250m. Surprise, surprise... no sign of Mr. WhyteSomeone should get on the blower to that al-Tajir chap... 1.Mahdi al-Tajir – £1,550m2.Sir Ian Wood and family – £1,119m3.The Grant and Gordon family – £950m4.Alastair Salvesen and family – £840m5.Lord Laidlaw – £745m6.The Thomson family – £660m7.Brian Souter and Ann Gloag – £650m8.The Duke of Sutherland – £580m9.Jim McColl – £570m10.Joanne Rowling – £530m11= (12) Duncan Bannatyne £430m11= (10) Sir Arnold Clark and family £430m13 (11) Ian Suttie £340m14 (9) Keith Miller and family £335m15 (13) Philip Day £300m16 (14) Brian Kennedy £250m17 (16) James and Fitriani Hay £200m18 (17=) Harry Dobson £190m£10m Mining19 (new) Bill Paterson £181m20 (17=) The Duke of Buccleuch and family £180m21 (20) Graham Wylie £175m22 (29=) Sir Angus Grossart and family £158m23 (24) John Lynch and family £156m24= (new) Colin Cornes £150m24= (25=) Willie Haughey and family £150m24= (25=) Roger Jenkins £150m27 (25=) Walter Scott £149m28 (29=) Stewart Milne and family £140m29 (38) Sir Tom Farmer £136m30= (15) Robert Adair £135m30= (32=) Sir Richard George and family £135m30= (39=) Joe Walker and family £135m33= (31) Alasdair Locke £130m33= (36) Ian MacKechnie and family £130m33= (56) Derek Mickel and family £130m36 (44) Eric Herd and family £129m37 (23) Douglas Craig and family £124m38 (43) Lennie and Iain McGeoch £122m39= (37) Tom and Alan Fergusson £120m39= (new) Michael Freeman £120m39= (35) Hugh Irvine and family £120m39= (78=) John Ray £120m39= (32=) Alexander and Alan Turner £120m44 (45) Audrey Baxter and family £116m45 (62=) Norman Springford and family £114m46= (39=) The Marquess of Bute £110m46= (39=) Tommy Dreelan and family £110m48 (21) Alan Wiseman and family £109m49= (49=) Aaron and Tania Hillman and family £100m49= (49=) The Duke of Roxburghe £100m51 (new) Johannes de Gier £98m52 (46=) Alan and Ronnie Bartlett £97m53 (46=) Larry Kinch £96m54 (46=) Dick Watson and family £95m55 (62=) Sir John Mactaggart and family £88m56= (52=) The Macdonald family £85m56= (52=) Roy MacGregor and family £85m56= (52=) Malcolm Scott £85m59 (70=) Steven Ferguson £83m60 (61) John Muir and family £82m61= (57=) Sir Sean Connery £80m61= (57=) Bob Kidd £80m63= (52=) Sir Fraser and Gordon Morrison £78m63= (102=) Douglas Park and family £78m65 (51) Mike Walker and family £77m66= (new) Michel Chartron £75m66= (new) Mark Deere £75m66= (76=) Ian Grabiner £75m66= (new) Hamid Guedroudj £75m70 (62=) Alastair Wylie £70mRead more: http://www.therichest.org/celebnetworth/lists/rich/richest-people-in-scotland/#ixzz1mvXnLOLHWouldn't be the first Tajir that has owned Rangers.If this Kennedy chap has the cash I'd welcome him to Ibrox. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turnberry18 3,204 Posted February 20, 2012 Share Posted February 20, 2012 Souness introducing a close friend to Rangers. Hmmmm.deja vu Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
thebooler 4,509 Posted February 20, 2012 Share Posted February 20, 2012 Excuse my colonial ignorance here, but who the fuck are Kate & Gerry,when they're at home? They own the Ice Cream shops in America. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
harlands plater 17,015 Posted February 20, 2012 Share Posted February 20, 2012 I see the Thomson family are at number 6 with £660 million. Old Arthur left them well set up, who said crime doesn't pay? Might be worth a call to The Ponderosa... Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teddy bear 1873 57 Posted February 20, 2012 Share Posted February 20, 2012 another quote shows that its not a typoThe constant in all of this is capacity to build and invest in businesses and, as he is fond of saying, he's in it to win. He now has an empire that spans 13 companies with a combined turnover of £3600m. He runs each one as a separate entity, not as a group with calls on working capital. "It makes the chief executives impotent," he says with typical steel. "Really we're hands-on investors, rather than operators. That's how we can afford to run businesses that span retail to manufacturing and direct sales. It doesn't matter what the market is, but I do have the know-how to motivate.Any more on this guy Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimfanciesthedude 24,779 Posted February 20, 2012 Share Posted February 20, 2012 I see the Thomson family are at number 6 with £660 million. Old Arthur left them well set up, who said crime doesn't pay? Might be worth a call to The Ponderosa...surely thats not the crime family Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
disgruntled_bear 157 Posted February 20, 2012 Share Posted February 20, 2012 Is the Thomson family not something to do with comic book characters like Oor Wullie etc? Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guardian 4,281 Posted February 20, 2012 Share Posted February 20, 2012 No It's the DC Thomson family. The publishers who do the sunday post, Dandy, Beano, Broons, oor Willie, peoples friend and weekly news.I used to do some work with them and every penny's a prisoner with that lot.Went to meetings for years, some that lasted 5 hours or more, never a cuppa or so much as a biscuit. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
caseyjones 3,009 Posted February 20, 2012 Share Posted February 20, 2012 No It's the DC Thomson family. The publishers who do the sunday post, Dandy, Beano, Broons, oor Willie, peoples friend and weekly news.I used to do some work with them and every penny's a prisoner with that lot.Went to meetings for years, some that lasted 5 hours or more, never a cuppa or so much as a biscuit.Some don't believe in companies paying for beverages! Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
adam2102 579 Posted February 20, 2012 Share Posted February 20, 2012 attempted to buy hibscount me out. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimfanciesthedude 24,779 Posted February 20, 2012 Share Posted February 20, 2012 Some don't believe in companies paying for beverages! if i was the greatest oor wullie fan in the world i certainly wouldnt expect them to pay for my ginger if i worked for them Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
caseyjones 3,009 Posted February 20, 2012 Share Posted February 20, 2012 if i was the greatest oor wullie fan in the world i certainly wouldnt expect them to pay for my ginger if i worked for them Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimfanciesthedude 24,779 Posted February 20, 2012 Share Posted February 20, 2012 its been a tough 7 days aint it Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
davie_bluenose 20 Posted February 20, 2012 Share Posted February 20, 2012 Souness introducing a close friend to Rangers. Hmmmm.As the story goes, that was to make sure Robert Maxwell didnt get his hands on the club Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
caseyjones 3,009 Posted February 20, 2012 Share Posted February 20, 2012 its been a tough 7 days aint it It sure has. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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