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29/03/2012
Bertie Ahern Removed From Lucrative US Speakers Website
Troubled former taoiseach Bertie Ahern has been removed from the listing of available speakers on the website of prestigious Washington Speakers Bureau.
With his minimum fee listed as €30,000 he had been listed alongside other former politicians, including Tony Blair, George W Bush and John Major.
Mr Ahern remained on the website as recently as this week, despite the findings of the Mahon Tribunal, which said he repeatedly lied about the sources of €275,000 in his bank accounts.
The former Taoiseach has been in Nigeria this week, where he gave the keynote address at the Ogun State Economic Investors' Forum and as of yesterday was still not at his home in Drumcondra.
Efforts made by the Irish Independent to contact the Washington Speakers Bureau for comment were unsuccessful.
Mr Ahern currently serves as a voluntary board member with the peace charity Co-operation Ireland. He is also chairman of the International Forest Fund and of the renewable-energy firm Scientia Solar.
A spokesman for the International Forest Fund would not comment as to whether Mr Ahern was paid for his role, or if it was considering his position in light of the Mahon findings.
With his minimum fee listed as €30,000 he had been listed alongside other former politicians, including Tony Blair, George W Bush and John Major.
Mr Ahern remained on the website as recently as this week, despite the findings of the Mahon Tribunal, which said he repeatedly lied about the sources of €275,000 in his bank accounts.
The former Taoiseach has been in Nigeria this week, where he gave the keynote address at the Ogun State Economic Investors' Forum and as of yesterday was still not at his home in Drumcondra.
Efforts made by the Irish Independent to contact the Washington Speakers Bureau for comment were unsuccessful.
Mr Ahern currently serves as a voluntary board member with the peace charity Co-operation Ireland. He is also chairman of the International Forest Fund and of the renewable-energy firm Scientia Solar.
A spokesman for the International Forest Fund would not comment as to whether Mr Ahern was paid for his role, or if it was considering his position in light of the Mahon findings.
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