The crony capitalists: a fond farewell to some regular guys?

Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9)

[…] the facility should be fee paying. What IMC wanted was that a far higher percentage of patients should be Medicare funded – a far easier route to fraud and overcharging. Bush contacted the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) in Washington on IMC’s behalf. C. McClain Haddow, the former chief of staff to […]

Letter from America

Lobster Issue 28 (December 1994)

[…] 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 […]

Web update

Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3)

[…] Jan 2002. Entitlement Cards unit http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/dob/ecu.htm Responsible for running the consultation exercise on the entitlement card scheme and for policy on ID cards Entitlement Cards and Identity Fraud http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/cpd/entitlement_cards.pdf A consultation paper on ID cards, July 2002. Consultation period runs until Jan 10 2003. Privacy International: ID cards http://www.privacyinternational.org/issues/idcard/uk/ Launched July 2002, PI’s UK […]

The Enemy Within (Whitehall)

Lobster Issue 27 (1994)

[…] Intelligence Newsletter, 10, Rue du Sentier, 75002, Paris. The affair is succinctly summarised in Statewatch, January-February, 1994. Statewatch, PO Box 1516, London N16 0EW. For example, ‘The Fraud of the Amsterdam Arms Haul’ in the now defunct Seven Days, (27 October, 1971), began ‘It is now clear that the dramatic “discovery” of 116 crates […]

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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