[…] 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]: […] 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 […]
[PDF file]: […] 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]: […] year through bogus agricultural subsidies; and feeding some of that back to then Vice President Johnson.54 When the Johnson-Estes link was threatened with revelation, witnesses to the fraud in Texas began dying. Estes later claimed that he had made tape recordings of his conversations with various people involved and that it was the threat […]
[…] year through bogus agricultural subsidies; and feeding some of that back to then Vice President Johnson.31 When the Johnson-Estes link was threatened with revelation, witnesses to the fraud in Texas began dying. Estes later Under the subhead Labour and the Israel Lobby at 29 ‘Dark Arts Dispatch: SW1 is a ‘safe space’ for lobbyists’ […]
[…] year through bogus agricultural subsidies; and feeding some of that back to then Vice President Johnson.31 When the Johnson-Estes link was threatened with revelation, witnesses to the fraud in Texas began dying. Estes later Under the subhead Labour and the Israel Lobby at 29 ‘Dark Arts Dispatch: SW1 is a ‘safe space’ for lobbyists’ […]
[PDF file]: […] the Trump Casinos, Mar-a-Lago – all these enterprises were followed by a trail of claims and litigation that told a consistent story of borderline and often outright fraud’. (p. 78) He was very much a minor player in what Wolff describes as our ‘oligarch-billionaire world’, in which the super rich – men often richer […]
