Entrepreneur and former RTE executive Frances Abeton is facing a fresh legal battle with a US backer over property investments in Ireland after a securities suit against her was struck out in Illinois earlier this year. Abeton, the former director of operations and production services at RTÉ, is one of a number of parties named as defendants in a newly filed High Court case by Chicago-based attorney and former PwC partner Reena Reynolds. Reynolds, who worked in Ireland during the noughties, said she raised funds from investors in America and put in $100,000 of her own money for real estate…

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