[…] a rigged sample evidently intended to provide support for a larger campaign – the floundering ‘War on Drugs’). Labour figures moved to distance themselves from the attempted fraud. Campaign manager Peter Mandelson announced that ‘I have made clear……. that nothing of the kind should ever happen again.’ Blair himself was at pains to add: […]
[…] coterie. The values they espouse and their conduct reflect the world that New Labour inhabits and has, in part, created. Mills has been investigated by the Serious Fraud Office; and his sister-in-law Dame Barbara Mills was head of this office until just prior to his investigation. Mills was for many years an adviser to […]
[…] in a British inner city. This is not so far-fetched. No-go areas between Muslim, Sikh and poor white gangster enclaves are a real security concern because drugs, fraud and people trafficking creates an economic base for a black economy dominated by gangsters, supported by electoral fraud and the will to violence necessary to enforce […]
[…] policy making. In short, he’s into politics for grown-ups: collecting and then connecting details to form big pictures. His 1991 book with Bob Whittington on the BCCI fraud remains one of the best guides to that financial and political scandal 14 years later, as the Bank of England’s regulatory role is finally being examined […]
[…] a telephone call from one of Wallace’s former colleagues to another journalist, that ‘Wallace never jumped out of a plane’ – i.e. the parachuting story was a fraud. This mattered little: we had photocopies of letters from (a) a Major Boyd, of the Community Relations Branch, Army HQ, dated 19 April 1974, describing Wallace […]
[…] US far right groups. is Daniel Brandt’s site which monitors Google’s activities and protocols. JFK: Billy Sol Estes A long, detailed account of the Billy Sol Estes-LBJ fraud story by Larry Hancock, is on the Net in two parts: part 1 is at and part 2 at This is by far the biggest and […]
[…] Brown and Root had underpaid taxes on stood at $1,099,944. They faced paying a penalty of 50%, with the additional danger that they could be charged with fraud. The dangers for Johnson were evident: publicity about the case could have ended his career. Johnson saw President Roosevelt in January 1944 to discuss the case. […]
[…] CIA now derided the whole project as a ‘scam’ and a ‘bunch of hocus-pocus’. Even Azzam, the DEA’s Task Force representative, thought it ‘stunk’.(34) But this obvious fraud did not deter North from playing the long odds in Lebanon with the Druze informant. In a June 7, 1985 memorandum to Robert MacFarlane, North advised […]
[…] to be a friend of Bill Clinton, stumbled across that long-lost Piper turbo prop in a hanger back in Arkansas. The FBI went after Reed for insurance fraud. He managed to clear his name in court, despite several unnerving incidents, including the fire-bombing of a car belonging to his lawyer’s daughter, and the sequestering […]
[…] agency.'(34) Seymour Hersh: ‘ former high-level intelligence official told me that some senior CIA officials were aware that the documents weren’t trustworthy…. They knew it was a fraud – it was useless. Everybody bit their tongue and said, “Wouldn’t it be great if the Secretary of State said this?” The Secretary of State never […]
