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Thu 12 Dec 2005Feeney hired investigator to inquire into ConnollyBillionaire Chuck Feeney hired a private investigator last July to inquire into allegations that Frank Connolly had travelled to Colombia in 2001 on a false passport.The investigator, Dermot Benn of Risk Management International, which is based in Dublin, initially gave a qualified bill of health to Mr Connolly when he reported back to Mr Feeney's New York-based charitable foundation, Atlantic Philanthropies.