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Date Posted: 19:04:22 08/13/02 Tue
>Intelligencer 19th June
>
>THE more information that comes out about David
>Rupert, the main witness in the trial in Dublin of
>Mickey McKevitt, alleged head of the Real IRA, the
>more questions are raised about his credibility.
>
>Rupert, of course, is the Chicago-based informer who
>penetrated Real IRA support groups in the U.S. before
>going to Ireland and working undercover for the FBI
>and British intelligence.
>
>This column has seen well-researched documents that
>allege the following about Rupert: *The native of
>Madrid, New York, was bankrupted at least four times
>while in New York state and had hundreds of creditors.
>On one of those bankruptcies in 1985 in Massena, New
>York, he had his assets, which included a hotel, a
>tavern, several trucks and a 1981 De Lorean sports
>car, seized.
>
>*For a few months in 1992, the documents allege Rupert
>worked for a company called B&W cartage near Detroit,
>and that he wrote company checks to himself totaling
>$800,000 and fled to Chicago.
>
>*He was married four times, to Tamara Buckley, Julie
>Smith, Jacqueline Sullivan and Maureen Brennan Alban.
>The first two claim that Rupert defrauded members of
>their families.
>
>*He had three IRS tax liens for over $900,000 owing,
>which the FBI apparently negotiated with the IRS down
>to $25,000.
>
>*Set up a Friends of Irish Freedom website, asking for
>donations, which the organization has never received.
>
>*Could have been involved in the massive marijuana
>smuggling ring that his brother, Dale, was arrested in
>Florida for.
>
>All in all, given such a colorful past the
>cross-examination of Rupert when the case finally gets
>to court should be very interesting.
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