The New European Order – judges, modernising conservatives and Tony Blair

Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004)

[…] investigation to such pan-European investigators or national investigators with trans-national powers – not only organised crime, terrorism and human rights cases but also those covering tax evasion, fraud, money-laundering, anti-competitive practices and corruption. This will mean that not only national security and human rights but regulation of the international capitalist system will gradually fall […]

PERMINDEX: The International Trade in Disinformation

Lobster Issue 2 (1983)

[…] literal translation from the German) accused Nagy and Permindex of being “a bunch of swindlers”.(It was further alleged that Nagy had been in jail in Rome for fraud.) Nagy sued for libel, won the case, but was awarded very small damages (only 3000 old francs.) Shortly after the trial Parkhof (AG) went bankrupt and, […]

Our Friends in the North-East

Lobster Issue 47 (Summer 2004)

[…] of Cunningham Snr, Poulson and T. Dan Smith (a Councillor on Newcastle City Council 1950-1966 and Chair of the Northern Economic Planning Council 1965-1970) on corruption and fraud charges in April 1974. (2) Enter Eddie Eddie Milne (Labour MP for Blyth Valley 1960-1974), who had criticised Cunningham et al for many years, found himself […]

Maria Novotny: From Prague With Love

Lobster Issue 2 (1983)

[…] hidden in a bedroom at Brown’s Hotel when he came across for a diplomatic meeting. In 1978 (24) she was involved in the break-up of a massive fraud. She had been put onto the activities of Taylor and Ash by Billy Hill, the former London underworld boss, who thought there was the making of […]

Enron accounting… and how to prevent it

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010)

[PDF file]: […] audited accounts falls, then the cost of doing business rises as companies take steps to try to safeguard themselves against losses from honest business failures or outright fraud. They will become more cautious in their business dealings generally. They will attempt to insure against losses. The general cost of borrowing money will almost certainly […]

Wall Street, the Supermob, and the CIA

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)

[PDF file]: […] York and New Jersey Mafia underbosses as Anthony (‘Fat Tony’) Salerno and Carmine Galante. Starting in the early 1960s, three federal trials of Cohn on charges of fraud, bribery, and conspiracy resulted in no conviction, but established his personal and business relations with various mobsters, including Moe Dalitz and Meyer Lansky.51 Like Garfinkle, Cohn […]

Volodymyr Zelensky and the breadbasket-case of Europe: The deep politics of a hybrid regime

Lobster Issue 87 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] à clef . Perhaps that genre’s long association with true crime was an unconscious factor in Zelensy’s mind, given that he was inadvertently confessing to campaign finance fraud. One TV viewer later told researchers: Somewhere in subconscious you made some, well, not analogies, but you remembered him, this Holoborodko Everyone probably thought that in […]

Zelensky Ukraine parapolitics

Lobster Issue

[…] à clef . Perhaps that genre’s long association with true crime was an unconscious factor in Zelensy’s mind, given that he was inadvertently confessing to campaign finance fraud. One TV viewer later told researchers: Somewhere in subconscious you made some, well, not analogies, but you remembered him, this Holoborodko Everyone probably thought that in […]

Zelensky Ukraine parapolitics

Lobster Issue

[…] à clef . Perhaps that genre’s long association with true crime was an unconscious factor in Zelensy’s mind, given that he was inadvertently confessing to campaign finance fraud. One TV viewer later told researchers: Somewhere in subconscious you made some, well, not analogies, but you remembered him, this Holoborodko Everyone probably thought that in […]

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