[…] Avakov ran for election as Kharkiv city mayor, but was defeated by Hennediy Kernes, a local business rival. The election was accompanied by widespread accusations of vote fraud, and the result was hotly contested. Electoral fraud is so commonplace in Ukraine that there is a nationally-known slang term for it – ‘Buckwheat’ – derived […]
[PDF file]: […] Labour Party, still seeking to recover from UKIP May local election successes following the jailing of the town’s former MP Denis MacShane. Ahead of his sentence for fraud at the Old Bailey, Labour deputy leader Harriet Harman was one of a cavalcade of friends attesting to MacShane’s good character. Another old pal of the […]
[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 […]
[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 – […]
[…] dictum becomes this: There is one and only one social responsibility of business — to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits. Fraud and deception are entirely acceptable. Just don’t get caught. To cite the obvious recent examples: car-making companies fabricating their exhaust figures,108 Boeing trying to influence The […]
[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 […]
[PDF file]: […] and had first-hand experience of the last year or two of Ward’s life as the Profumo Affair unfolded. I followed his postings and thought he was a fraud. He revealed nothing that couldn’t have been gathered from existing books and articles. He was teasing his readers, beckoning them with as yet unspoken secret knowledge, […]
[PDF file]: […] eligibility to continue as a director of a football club playing in the English Football League of his recent conviction in Kyrgzstan for money laundering offences and fraud. 2. I am instructed that my clients have recently been told by the English Football League’s in-house solicitor that the League has now decided that Mr. […]
[PDF file]: […] for discussing the case and labelled conspiracy theorists and liars’.) Days after Caradori’s death, King was acquitted of sexual abuse, but found guilty of a massive financial fraud. One of those who accused King of sexual abuse, Alisha Owen, was later found guilty of perjury and sentenced to 9 to 15 years in prison, […]
