Lobster Issue 17 (1988) £££
[…] 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 […]
Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005) £££
[…] 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 […]
Lobster Issue 4 (1984) £££
[…] 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 […]
Lobster Issue 18 (1989) £££
[…] 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 […]
Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001) £££
[…] 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 […]
Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1) £££
[…] 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, […]
Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000) £££
[…] 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, […]
Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6) £££
[…] for a while so that they will lead the police to the bigger fish). The target is ‘economic crime’ (a wonderful return to Soviet terminology) such as fraud and tax evasion. Identity cards are thus much more about managing identity in the context of fraud (including benefit fraud) than about any threat from terror […]
Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005) £££
Paul Krugman London: Allen Lane, 2003, h/b, £18.99 I only caught up with this at Christmas. Krugman writes a column for the New York Times and this is a collection of those columns. Krugman is an academic economist at Princeton and saw pretty early that Enron and others similar were just frauds, and that … Read more
Lobster Issue 34 (Winter 1997) £££
[…] the companies will receive little more than a slap on the wrist and a request to say sorry.’ p. 95 ‘the ministry’s mechanisms for preventing and detecting fraud verge on an inducement to criminal activity.’ p. 172 ‘It is notable that while the DHSS set up a telephone hot-line in August 1996 to encourage […]