In doing so, they essentially inflated Anglo Irish Bank's deposit levels by about $8 billion. Nolan was unsparing in his critique of the men's business practices and called Anglo Irish "probably the most reviled institution in the state." One was the finance director at Anglo Irish Bank, which failed in 2011. Drumm fled to the United States in 2009, where he failed to win bankruptcy protection. Nearly a decade after Lehman Brothers declared bankruptcy and the financial crisis unraveled, those calls have largely gone unanswered, including in the United States.

Source: Washington Post July 31, 2016 17:15 UTC