Some clans, like the Quinns, still keep legally separate accounts but share strategy and cut deals together.

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The Quinns are attempting to prove that the money was loaned illegally in order to prop up Anglo's share price.

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But until a court says otherwise - and none has - those assets are only disputed in the minds of the Quinns and their supporters.

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