Fingers’ expense claims revealed

The extent to which Michael “Fingers” Fingleton claimed expenses from his former employer to fund a lavish outlay on designer goods, exclusive hotels, and extravagant entertainment of developers was laid bare in court yesterday.

Among the goodies it was claimed that the Irish Nationwide Building Society funded on foot of expense claims from their former CEO were:

*€3,255 for a present for Michael Smurfit from a liquor store in Saint Barthélemy in the Caribbean;