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Sat 11 Nov 2007Fundraiser tells of $10,000 in envelopeThe former chief Fianna Fáil fundraiser Des Richardson told the Mahon tribunal yesterday he was given $10,000 cash in an envelope during a lunch in Manchester in April or May 1994. Colm Keenaand Fiona Gartlandreport.Mr Richardson said he was given the money by an English businessman, Norman Turner, who had invited him to a Manchester United match and with whom he had had a "liquid lunch" in a hotel beforehand.