David Drumm’s wife said she was "imagining life without" the former Anglo Irish Bank chief executive when cash transfers began moving to her new bank accounts just as the financial meltdown of September 2008 was taking hold.

The lawyer for the state-owned Irish Bank Resolution Corporation threw the kitchen sink and $300,000 (€220,000) worth of other furniture at David Drumm yesterday in Boston.

US AUTHORITIES are looking to seize the American properties owned by the wife of ex-Anglo Irish Bank chief executive, David Drumm, claiming they were acquired fraudulently.

Anglo Irish Bank has asked a court in the US to deny its former chief executive discharge under bankruptcy laws.