Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)
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[PDF file]: […] researchers do not take this theory seriously is due, in large part, to their not taking Estes seriously, because he was a convicted fraudster. Precisely what his fraud was has been difficult to grasp until recently. But Amy Reading has researched it in detail and has published an intelligible account.2 7 Via Robert Caro’s […]
Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)
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[PDF file]: […] right when he described him as ‘a dumb son of a bitch’. (p. 240) After the election, Navarro prepared his own report The Immaculate Deception3 ‘proving’ massive fraud. This, of course, made it unequivocably true; but anyone who pointed out that the election was being stolen found themselves facing ‘the Cancel Culture wrath of […]
Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)
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[PDF file]: […] anything! While I was expecting that to be the overall motif, I was not prepared to have it spelled out so bluntly.’44 Former City of London Police Fraud Squad officer, Rowan Bosworth-Davis: ‘Your children cannot buy a house in London because the criminal banks prefer Russian dirty money . . . Property prices have […]
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 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 – […]
Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013)
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[PDF file]: […] was jailed in 1996 for laundering £400,000 for Nadir but freed on appeal a year later. Nadir had fled to northern Cyprus in 1993 after a Serious Fraud Office raid on Polly Peck in 1990 collapsed its share price. He lived in exile for 17 years before returning to Britain in 2010 to ‘clear […]