Ireland does not easily give up its secrets. That may have been one attraction it held for Sen. Christopher Dodd in 1994 when he became an owner of a refuge on nearly 10 acres on the Irish west coast. The murky tale includes
a felonious inside trader, a Kansas City businessman, a presidential pardon and what appears to be a financial bonanza to
Dodd during the Irish property boom.
The great humorist and political pundit of his time, Will Rogers, was famous for this line: