[…] Solicitor General. The Solicitor-General inter alia sought our views upon the possible effects of publication of the Report upon the forthcoming enquiry by officers of the Company Fraud Squad and upon any Criminal proceedings which may be instituted as a result of that enquiry. I was asked to provide a short advice in writing […]
[…] how many people won’t lift a finger to prevent it. A conspiracy of silence In Lobster 43 I reported on the case of the then breaking electoral fraud case in Birmingham, which has now come to fruition with the sacking of Labour councillors who rigged the city’s elections. Although warned repeatedly in advance (by […]
[…] orientation of that group, no one was surprised when they concluded that the CIA’s figures were too low. The ‘Team B’ estimate (little more than a crude fraud) then became ‘fact’ and the ‘dollar gap’ was born. The major mystery of this episode is not that the right-wing should attempt such a fraud, but […]
[…] heads are cheating?’, The Guardian 14 May 2002 and ‘Widespread cheating devalues school tests’, The Guardian 28 October 2002. One head teacher is to be charged with fraud. (The Guardian 9 November 2002). Targets unattainable? Lower the targets! ‘Significant changes are being made to national tests for 14 year-olds to make them more accessible […]
[…] dollars ripped-off. He shows how it was done and by whom. (Even if the allegations turn out to be false, this would remain a guide to institutional fraud in America.) He also names dozens of people he claims were murdered to cover it all up: his cover-up death total is 400. ‘How many others […]
Lundy: The Destruction of Scotland Yard’s Finest Detective Martin Short Grafton, London, 1991 Scotland Yard’s Cocaine Connection Andrew Jennings, Paul Lashmar and Vyv Simson Arrow, London, 1991 The sixties media guru Marshall McLuhan is nowadays generally derided as a fraud.I suspect that most people would found it difficult to accept his statement that television is […]
[…] Belgian count, Alain de Villegas, teamed up with an Italian inventor, Aldo Bonassoli, for the first of several crack-pot schemes that would climax with the notorious ‘sniffer-plane’ fraud in France. The actual extent of the criminality of this pair is difficult to determine, because they did exhibit a genuine eccentricity, professing interest in everything […]
[…] empire simply by means of smoke and mirrors. Alternatively, it was suggested that he was the victim of various plots. The alleged perpetrators ranged from the Serious Fraud Office, eager to justify themselves and make up for the near debacle of the Guinness trial by nailing a big fish, to the Greek government, in […]
[…] from terrorism, drug cartels and the rest, a job better done by the police – as well as internally. For this reason, the public is told: ‘….. fraud investigators from the Benefit Agency are being taught how to use surveillance techniques by former SAS and MI6 officers. The company, AMA Associates, a security agency, […]
[…] Belén Balanyá, Ann Doherty, Olivier Hoedeman, Adam Ma’anit and Erik Wessselius Pluto Press, London and Sterling (Virginia, USA) 2000, £14.99 Blowing the Whistle: one man’s fight against fraud in the European Commission Paul van Buitenen, London: Politicos, 2000, £12.99 In his memoir, In Office,(1) Norman Lamont describes meeting Wim Kok, the Dutch Finance Minister, […]
