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Revealed: Dirty Larry, the multi-millionaire behind firm sneaking horsemeat into your supermarket
Larry Goodman, 76, is a director of the ABP Food Group
He was revealed to have had business links with Saddam Hussein
His companies have deals with Tesco, Sainsbury, Asda and Burger King
By Keith Gladdis
A multi-millionaire beef supplier dubbed ‘Dirty Larry’ is behind the company that supplied British supermarkets with horse meat contaminated burgers.
Larry Goodman, 76, is a director of the ABP Food Group which owns the meat processors Silvercrest Foods in Dublin and Dalepak Foods in Hambleton, North Yorkshire.
His family owns a sprawling country home on a 700-acre estate in County Louth, Ireland and property around Europe including a share in the London headquarters of Goldman Sachs.
But in Ireland, the Goodman name is synonymous with financial malpractice after he dragged the country’s beef industry through the dirt in the 1990s after details of his business links with Saddam Hussein’s Iraq were exposed.
Bentley-driving Mr Goodman, an intensely private man, started out as a 15-year-old school drop-out selling sheep guts to butchers in Dundalk, Ireland for use as sausage skin.
He made his first fortune after he founded Anglo Irish Beef Processors in 1962 and started selling beef to Muslim countries including Saddam Hussein’s Iraq.
But United Nations sanctions imposed on Iraq after Saddam invaded Kuwait in 1990 led Iraq to default on millions of pounds of payments to Goodman’s company.
By August 1990 Goodman had accumulated almost £550million in debts and an emergency session of Ireland’s parliament the Dail was called with politicians thinking one of the country’s most successful businessmen was in crisis.
Eventually the banks took a 60 per cent stake in the business and Goodman – a lifetime teetotaller – was allowed to cling on to the rest. But an investigation by Granada TV journalist Susan O’Keefe, now an Irish Labour senator, subsequently revealed serious financial malpractice involving the Goodman International group.
That then led to a judicial tribunal in Ireland, known as the Beef Tribunal, which shone a light on the relationship between Goodman and Ireland’s then Taoiseach Charles Haughey.
It was during this hearing that Goodman – one of Ireland’s richest men with a fortune believed to be worth around £600million – became dubbed ‘Dirty Larry’ by the Irish media.
It emerged that after winning an election in 1987 Haughey had agreed to underwrite a multi-million pound beef contract Goodman had secured with Iraq.
The agreement meant the Irish government had effectively provided Goodman with an insurance that meant the taxpayer would foot the bill if Iraq reneged on its payments.
At the time Iraq was embroiled in a bitter war with its neighbour Iran. The policy was later cancelled. Despite the findings of the tribunal Goodman was never charged with any wrongdoing.
Less than five years after he was bailed out Goodman was able to buy his business back from the banks for £30million.
The beef baron’s processing company, Irish Food Processors, has not published accounts since 2001 when it recorded a turnover of £720million. His companies now have contracts with fast food chains and supermarkets including Tesco, Burger King, Asda and Sainsbury’s.
Now the company is under investigation again by the Food Safety Authority of Ireland amid suspicions that it may have received contaminated meat from unchecked sources.
Silvercrest Foods yesterday said it was withdrawing 10million beef patties from stores across Ireland and the United Kingdom.
The ABP Food Group yesterday said it had despatched its own auditors to two of its suppliers to conduct spot checks on their products.
In a statement it said: ‘We take this matter extremely seriously and apologise for the understandable concern this issue has caused.
‘ABP Food Group companies have never knowingly bought, handled or supplied equine meat products and we acknowledge the understandable concern created as a result of the Food Safety Authority of Ireland’s DNA frozen beef burger test results.’
It also said it was introducing a new testing regime for its meat products which will include DNA analysis.
In the Irish parliament yesterday Sinn Féin agriculture spokesman Martin Ferris demanded to know the names of the companies in Spain and the Netherlands which are believed to have supplied contaminated products.
The Irish minister for agriculture Simon Coveney said any companies involved in the production of beef burgers containing horse meat would be named.
He said: ‘If there are inappropriate linkages here, we will highlight those.’
A spokesman for Mr Goodman said he would not be making a personal statement on the horse meat issue
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2263628/Revealed-Dirty-Larry-multi-millionaire-firm-sneaking-horsemeat-supermarket.html#ixzz2IBaWKP9z
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Larry Goodman, 76, is a director of the ABP Food Group
He was revealed to have had business links with Saddam Hussein
His companies have deals with Tesco, Sainsbury, Asda and Burger King
By Keith Gladdis
A multi-millionaire beef supplier dubbed ‘Dirty Larry’ is behind the company that supplied British supermarkets with horse meat contaminated burgers.
Larry Goodman, 76, is a director of the ABP Food Group which owns the meat processors Silvercrest Foods in Dublin and Dalepak Foods in Hambleton, North Yorkshire.
His family owns a sprawling country home on a 700-acre estate in County Louth, Ireland and property around Europe including a share in the London headquarters of Goldman Sachs.
But in Ireland, the Goodman name is synonymous with financial malpractice after he dragged the country’s beef industry through the dirt in the 1990s after details of his business links with Saddam Hussein’s Iraq were exposed.
Bentley-driving Mr Goodman, an intensely private man, started out as a 15-year-old school drop-out selling sheep guts to butchers in Dundalk, Ireland for use as sausage skin.
He made his first fortune after he founded Anglo Irish Beef Processors in 1962 and started selling beef to Muslim countries including Saddam Hussein’s Iraq.
But United Nations sanctions imposed on Iraq after Saddam invaded Kuwait in 1990 led Iraq to default on millions of pounds of payments to Goodman’s company.
By August 1990 Goodman had accumulated almost £550million in debts and an emergency session of Ireland’s parliament the Dail was called with politicians thinking one of the country’s most successful businessmen was in crisis.
Eventually the banks took a 60 per cent stake in the business and Goodman – a lifetime teetotaller – was allowed to cling on to the rest. But an investigation by Granada TV journalist Susan O’Keefe, now an Irish Labour senator, subsequently revealed serious financial malpractice involving the Goodman International group.
That then led to a judicial tribunal in Ireland, known as the Beef Tribunal, which shone a light on the relationship between Goodman and Ireland’s then Taoiseach Charles Haughey.
It was during this hearing that Goodman – one of Ireland’s richest men with a fortune believed to be worth around £600million – became dubbed ‘Dirty Larry’ by the Irish media.
It emerged that after winning an election in 1987 Haughey had agreed to underwrite a multi-million pound beef contract Goodman had secured with Iraq.
The agreement meant the Irish government had effectively provided Goodman with an insurance that meant the taxpayer would foot the bill if Iraq reneged on its payments.
At the time Iraq was embroiled in a bitter war with its neighbour Iran. The policy was later cancelled. Despite the findings of the tribunal Goodman was never charged with any wrongdoing.
Less than five years after he was bailed out Goodman was able to buy his business back from the banks for £30million.
The beef baron’s processing company, Irish Food Processors, has not published accounts since 2001 when it recorded a turnover of £720million. His companies now have contracts with fast food chains and supermarkets including Tesco, Burger King, Asda and Sainsbury’s.
Now the company is under investigation again by the Food Safety Authority of Ireland amid suspicions that it may have received contaminated meat from unchecked sources.
Silvercrest Foods yesterday said it was withdrawing 10million beef patties from stores across Ireland and the United Kingdom.
The ABP Food Group yesterday said it had despatched its own auditors to two of its suppliers to conduct spot checks on their products.
In a statement it said: ‘We take this matter extremely seriously and apologise for the understandable concern this issue has caused.
‘ABP Food Group companies have never knowingly bought, handled or supplied equine meat products and we acknowledge the understandable concern created as a result of the Food Safety Authority of Ireland’s DNA frozen beef burger test results.’
It also said it was introducing a new testing regime for its meat products which will include DNA analysis.
In the Irish parliament yesterday Sinn Féin agriculture spokesman Martin Ferris demanded to know the names of the companies in Spain and the Netherlands which are believed to have supplied contaminated products.
The Irish minister for agriculture Simon Coveney said any companies involved in the production of beef burgers containing horse meat would be named.
He said: ‘If there are inappropriate linkages here, we will highlight those.’
A spokesman for Mr Goodman said he would not be making a personal statement on the horse meat issue
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2263628/Revealed-Dirty-Larry-multi-millionaire-firm-sneaking-horsemeat-supermarket.html#ixzz2IBaWKP9z
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No No No i wont have it, he's a good man Goodman...Wagons circle 
MY mate cant sell his cattle at the mo., the food processers cant take in anything for the time being.And he says things are not gonna be great, tesco has cancelled all contracts.
where will wildbore aka dark rosaleen shop now ?
New 'horse-in-beef' tests negative
21/01/2013 - 22:22:26 http://www.breakingnews.ie
A second round of tests at a food processing firm embroiled in controversy over horse DNA in beef products have come back negative.
The Department of Agriculture confirmed no traces of horse meat at the Liffey Meats factory in Ballyjamesduff, Co Cavan.
Simon Coveney, Agriculture Minister, welcomed the results.
“This is very positive news as it supports the claims of the company that they have addressed any concerns that arose from the findings of the FSAI survey in December which found very low trace levels of equine DNA in three of the Liffey Meats burger samples,” he said.
Liffey Meats was one of two Irish food processing plants linked to the horse DNA controversy. Samples from a range of beef burgers produced between January 10-16 were tested.
The other was Silvercrest in Co Monaghan, owned by the Larry Goodman ABP Food Group, operator of the Dalepak facility in Yorkshire, England which was also found to have supplied supermarket products with traces of equine DNA.
More than 10 million burgers have been taken off shop shelves across Ireland and the UK. They were to be destroyed.
The Department of Agriculture said intensive investigations are continuing to uncover the source of the horse DNA at Silvercrest.
Experts said last week they believed the equine contamination may have come from ingredients supplied by companies in the Netherlands or Spain.
“This work includes further quantitative laboratory analysis of a range of samples (both burgers and raw ingredients),” the department said.
“In addition, detailed analysis of records held by the company relating to the sourcing of ingredients and the incorporation of these ingredients in the manufactured burgers that have tested positive for equine DNA is being conducted.”
Results are expected later this week.
According to food safety and government officials, there was no health issue with traces of horse meat or DNA being found in meat products from the processing plants and being sold in supermarkets Tesco, Dunnes Stores, Aldi, Lidl and Iceland.
Liffey Meats declined to comment on the second set of tests.
21/01/2013 - 22:22:26 http://www.breakingnews.ie
A second round of tests at a food processing firm embroiled in controversy over horse DNA in beef products have come back negative.
The Department of Agriculture confirmed no traces of horse meat at the Liffey Meats factory in Ballyjamesduff, Co Cavan.
Simon Coveney, Agriculture Minister, welcomed the results.
“This is very positive news as it supports the claims of the company that they have addressed any concerns that arose from the findings of the FSAI survey in December which found very low trace levels of equine DNA in three of the Liffey Meats burger samples,” he said.
Liffey Meats was one of two Irish food processing plants linked to the horse DNA controversy. Samples from a range of beef burgers produced between January 10-16 were tested.
The other was Silvercrest in Co Monaghan, owned by the Larry Goodman ABP Food Group, operator of the Dalepak facility in Yorkshire, England which was also found to have supplied supermarket products with traces of equine DNA.
More than 10 million burgers have been taken off shop shelves across Ireland and the UK. They were to be destroyed.
The Department of Agriculture said intensive investigations are continuing to uncover the source of the horse DNA at Silvercrest.
Experts said last week they believed the equine contamination may have come from ingredients supplied by companies in the Netherlands or Spain.
“This work includes further quantitative laboratory analysis of a range of samples (both burgers and raw ingredients),” the department said.
“In addition, detailed analysis of records held by the company relating to the sourcing of ingredients and the incorporation of these ingredients in the manufactured burgers that have tested positive for equine DNA is being conducted.”
Results are expected later this week.
According to food safety and government officials, there was no health issue with traces of horse meat or DNA being found in meat products from the processing plants and being sold in supermarkets Tesco, Dunnes Stores, Aldi, Lidl and Iceland.
Liffey Meats declined to comment on the second set of tests.
RTE.IE BREAKING NEWS
Ingredient at Monaghan food company was 75% horse
Updated: Monday, 04 Feb 2013 20:08
Minister for Agriculture Simon Coveney has announced that his department has received a test result confirming 75% horse DNA was found in a raw material ingredient at Rangeland Foods, Co Monaghan.
In a statement, Mr Coveney said that Rangeland Foods last Thursday notified his department of its use of Polish meat ingredients in some burger products.
The company, which produces beef burgers, has suspended production.
In a statement, Rangeland Foods in Castleblayney said the consignment was received in early January but did not go into production.
It said production has been temporarily suspended and the test results were immediately reported to the Department of Agriculture.
The statement added that 90% of Rangeland’s beef usage is of Irish origin.
Mr Coveney has said his department has had inspectors in the plant since Friday.
The investigation is focusing on the full supply chain, including the meat trader concerned and others who facilitated the purchase of the product and its transfer to users in Ireland.
The minister has asked both gardaí and the Agriculture Department’s Special Investigation Unit to join the investigation.
Reacting to the test results, IFA President John Bryan said this is further evidence that only Irish raw material must be used in the manufacture of Irish beef burgers.
He said it is clear that stricter controls must apply to the secondary processing industry, particularly where imported products are being used.
Irish Cattle and Sheep Farmers’ Association President Gabriel Gilmartin said the news was "a deeply worrying development and has left farmers furious. It suggests that the minister will now have to move quickly to investigate all meat processing plants."
Mr Gilmartin also called on all processors who have any grounds for concern regarding suspect ingredients to immediately come forward.
Ingredient at Monaghan food company was 75% horse
Updated: Monday, 04 Feb 2013 20:08
Minister for Agriculture Simon Coveney has announced that his department has received a test result confirming 75% horse DNA was found in a raw material ingredient at Rangeland Foods, Co Monaghan.
In a statement, Mr Coveney said that Rangeland Foods last Thursday notified his department of its use of Polish meat ingredients in some burger products.
The company, which produces beef burgers, has suspended production.
In a statement, Rangeland Foods in Castleblayney said the consignment was received in early January but did not go into production.
It said production has been temporarily suspended and the test results were immediately reported to the Department of Agriculture.
The statement added that 90% of Rangeland’s beef usage is of Irish origin.
Mr Coveney has said his department has had inspectors in the plant since Friday.
The investigation is focusing on the full supply chain, including the meat trader concerned and others who facilitated the purchase of the product and its transfer to users in Ireland.
The minister has asked both gardaí and the Agriculture Department’s Special Investigation Unit to join the investigation.
Reacting to the test results, IFA President John Bryan said this is further evidence that only Irish raw material must be used in the manufacture of Irish beef burgers.
He said it is clear that stricter controls must apply to the secondary processing industry, particularly where imported products are being used.
Irish Cattle and Sheep Farmers’ Association President Gabriel Gilmartin said the news was "a deeply worrying development and has left farmers furious. It suggests that the minister will now have to move quickly to investigate all meat processing plants."
Mr Gilmartin also called on all processors who have any grounds for concern regarding suspect ingredients to immediately come forward.
The lesson is to make your own burgers ( better anyway ) from meat bought in your local butchers who source their own meat locally ( and know where the beef came from ) . Thats the principle I have always adhered to . Costs a bit more but tastes better and helps the local economy as against the cross country burger trade which is a fence or two too far for me .
One of the problems though is that in tight economic situations like some families are facing nowadays , value / cost decisions leave doors open for lowest common denominator operators .
Goodman did a good job apparently , with help from Charlie , in putting the Irish export beef industry in a good place . Not acquainted unduly with the trade or those operating the provision of the product , but I know some of those involved were not above cheating . One of them knocked a friend of mine for 430 K . And still paraded around the Irish racetracks ( think he was barred from England though ) .
One of the problems though is that in tight economic situations like some families are facing nowadays , value / cost decisions leave doors open for lowest common denominator operators .
Goodman did a good job apparently , with help from Charlie , in putting the Irish export beef industry in a good place . Not acquainted unduly with the trade or those operating the provision of the product , but I know some of those involved were not above cheating . One of them knocked a friend of mine for 430 K . And still paraded around the Irish racetracks ( think he was barred from England though ) .
Is there a bigger more nauseating c**t than Miriam O'Callghan
Supermacs has confirmed tonight that it buys it's beef burgers from Rangeland Foods.
It said that it has been assured it's burgers are 100% Irish beef.
Supermacs said that it has written guarantees from Rangeland.
It has also said that it has conducted its own independent DNA tests to make sure the burgers it's selling are 100% Irish beef and do not contain horse DNA.
It said that it has been assured it's burgers are 100% Irish beef.
Supermacs said that it has written guarantees from Rangeland.
It has also said that it has conducted its own independent DNA tests to make sure the burgers it's selling are 100% Irish beef and do not contain horse DNA.
Diamond_Joe_Quimby 04 Feb 13 22:46
Is there a bigger more nauseating c**t than Miriam O'Callghan
Larry Goodman?
No substantial 'beef' with Miriam.
Is there a bigger more nauseating c**t than Miriam O'Callghan
Larry Goodman?
No substantial 'beef' with Miriam.
Anyone eating a processed burger can hardly claim that they are eating Grade A quality food and the likes of Tesco are rumored to operate on gross margins of 40% on most products they sell. So what do people expect to find in a yellow-pack burger? Whether its horse meat or mechanically-recovered-meat (MRM) its still crappo. I'd say there's better quality "meat" in a tin of pedigree chum-yum-yum. A nice cheap fried burger gets the kids off your back and allows you to suck another **** while downing another can.
Amidst all the s****ing and horse jokes there is a story here that will put our entire reputation as the "food island" at risk. Our beloved bloodstock industry dovetails neatly with the agricultural industry to produce a nightmare scenario. Battery hens, dioxin scares, pigs goosed to the nines on medication: this processed food business leaves a lot to be desired. And kelly, I hope you had your tongue firmly up your nostril when making that comment about Goodman and Haughey.
Where I live there are three or four fluorishing businesses chief among them are take-aways, bookies, pound-shops and off-licences. The "food island" has passed most people by.
I find the press coverage to date very pallid and why is no-one asking about false passports for dead horses and the thousands of horses slaughtered here over the past five years and where that flesh disappeared? Bought-off vets, meat exported and re-imported and the famous Irish "blind eye" or so the rumours go......
Amidst all the s****ing and horse jokes there is a story here that will put our entire reputation as the "food island" at risk. Our beloved bloodstock industry dovetails neatly with the agricultural industry to produce a nightmare scenario. Battery hens, dioxin scares, pigs goosed to the nines on medication: this processed food business leaves a lot to be desired. And kelly, I hope you had your tongue firmly up your nostril when making that comment about Goodman and Haughey.
Where I live there are three or four fluorishing businesses chief among them are take-aways, bookies, pound-shops and off-licences. The "food island" has passed most people by.
I find the press coverage to date very pallid and why is no-one asking about false passports for dead horses and the thousands of horses slaughtered here over the past five years and where that flesh disappeared? Bought-off vets, meat exported and re-imported and the famous Irish "blind eye" or so the rumours go......
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2011/01/22/if-you-eat-pro...
No Royal , that is how I remember it being chronicled at the time . The losers I think were the EEC who forgot to watch the back end of the factories for the recycling procedures . Not that either of the aforementioned would have known what was going on , but it became a profitable exercise apparently .
One of the problems we Irish have is that we like a bit of adventure . So having a well set up operation which makes money eventually becomes boring , and the greedier involved start to flex the process , not content with steady profit . How else would the fallouts from the Celtic Tiger be viewed ? Those of us remote from the Celtic Tiger could see the flaws in the system , but those inside the bubble evidently did not , and tomorrow was never going to be a bad day .
I asked a Dublin auctioneer in the middle of the boom about the property scene , as I discovered he had just sold a house ( decent but not ultra fashionable or valuable ) which once belonged to my wifes first cousin ( and we stayed there during the UWC strike up here ) for near to 900,000 euros " Do you know anyone who earns 200,000 euros" . " No " he said , "then how can anyone buy at that price based on traditional figures " I asked . "Its bonkers" he said , "not sure where or how it will finish " . Prophetic words .
And from contacts in UK the bank people ( those with their feet still on the ground at least ) knew that there were very risky operations going on in their bailiewick , anybody querying it though got hooshed aside in the general scramble for the action and the bonuses . Still very little movement on punishing those involved or banishing them . And as for the so called regulators and the monitoring of the regulators , ask Gordon Brown for his "mature" reflection on process which happened on his watches .
There are lots of shysters across the Irish Sea as well as in Ireland . Sometimes we forget that , but there is not a lot we can do about it largely due to geography and to an antiquated legal system which does not fit the 21st century for justice and speed . And the legal system in both parts of our island historically follows the same priciples emanating from jurisdiction enacted in the "Mother of Parliaments " .
One of the problems we Irish have is that we like a bit of adventure . So having a well set up operation which makes money eventually becomes boring , and the greedier involved start to flex the process , not content with steady profit . How else would the fallouts from the Celtic Tiger be viewed ? Those of us remote from the Celtic Tiger could see the flaws in the system , but those inside the bubble evidently did not , and tomorrow was never going to be a bad day .
I asked a Dublin auctioneer in the middle of the boom about the property scene , as I discovered he had just sold a house ( decent but not ultra fashionable or valuable ) which once belonged to my wifes first cousin ( and we stayed there during the UWC strike up here ) for near to 900,000 euros " Do you know anyone who earns 200,000 euros" . " No " he said , "then how can anyone buy at that price based on traditional figures " I asked . "Its bonkers" he said , "not sure where or how it will finish " . Prophetic words .
And from contacts in UK the bank people ( those with their feet still on the ground at least ) knew that there were very risky operations going on in their bailiewick , anybody querying it though got hooshed aside in the general scramble for the action and the bonuses . Still very little movement on punishing those involved or banishing them . And as for the so called regulators and the monitoring of the regulators , ask Gordon Brown for his "mature" reflection on process which happened on his watches .
There are lots of shysters across the Irish Sea as well as in Ireland . Sometimes we forget that , but there is not a lot we can do about it largely due to geography and to an antiquated legal system which does not fit the 21st century for justice and speed . And the legal system in both parts of our island historically follows the same priciples emanating from jurisdiction enacted in the "Mother of Parliaments " .
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