Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)
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[PDF file]: […] was doing and had probably been asked to run by a third party. Sedgemore denounced Betts and his actions in a House of Commons debate on electoral fraud on 21 May 1997.1 3 But who asked Betts to run? It looked like an inside job: but was it just another manifestation of chaotic Hackney […]
Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)
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[PDF file]: […] wealth by the pastors who advocated the doctrine. They generally extracted their personal wealth from their congregations by the exploitation of the crudest superstition and by straightforward fraud. And, while the superstition might look back to the Middle Ages, the methods used to exploit it were very up to date – with the various […]
Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)
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[PDF file]: […] joint MI5/MI6 operation against Asil Nadir. A TurkishCypriot businessman, Nadir had built up a large business empire, Polly Peck International, in the UK before being charged with fraud. He fled the UK and in 1993 was in the Turkish part of Cyprus which was beyond the reach of formal international law.3 The MI5/6 plan […]
Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)
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Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)
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[PDF file]: […] managed effectively — profitably — measurement and reporting systems were borrowed from the leading edge of management and organisational theory. General William Westmoreland was discredited for ‘accounting fraud’ while waging the military side of the campaign.24 However such fraud was inherent in the overall strategy, both covert and overt. As there were not two […]
Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)
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[PDF file]: […] read: regulators from the European Union are a threat to the City. Bottom line: to preserve the City as a world centre of money-laundering, gambling and financial fraud the UK may have to leave the Union. Huh? Did someone say the world of politics is getting complicated? This appeared in the Daily Telegraph. ‘Iraq […]
Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014)
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[PDF file]: […] Geller by Margolis. The first, in 1998, was a biography, Uri Geller: Magician or Mystic? Writing that, Margolis began as a sceptic – assuming Geller was a fraud, essentially – and ended up accepting that he wasn’t. This is in part a rehash of that with some new material added, the intelligence stuff – […]