[…] of the ‘bit at the back’ of Private Eye written by Paul Foot, may remember a couple of pieces about EU whistle-blower, Dougal Watt. Watt’s story of fraud, corruption, cover-up and Masonry is too complex to summarise here but can be read in more detail at , < www.thesprout.net/004/graft/graft12.htm > and < www.justresponse .net […]
[…] He led an investigation code-named Operation Akin, part of which was unravelling Siddiqui’s dealings with the network. He was part of a counter-proliferation team within Customs’ Commercial Fraud Branch. (Amin had previously taken part in investigations of mercenary Tim Spicer and co.(16)) Amin travelled to Dubai in April 2000 to further investigate some of […]
[…] madness Brady’s suspension set a precedent, and at a Directorate meeting held on 3 May 1986, 23 charges against Ian Anderson were discussed, ranging from intimidation to fraud. Anderson had kept a low profile for a few months, and the timing of the disciplinary procedures appeared to connote a deeper agenda, along the lines […]
[…] the facility should be fee paying. What IMC wanted was that a far higher percentage of patients should be Medicare funded – a far easier route to fraud and overcharging. Bush contacted the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) in Washington on IMC’s behalf. C. McClain Haddow, the former chief of staff to […]
[…] to be a friend of Bill Clinton, stumbled across that long-lost Piper turbo prop in a hanger back in Arkansas. The FBI went after Reed for insurance fraud. He managed to clear his name in court, despite several unnerving incidents, including the fire-bombing of a car belonging to his lawyer’s daughter, and the sequestering […]
[…] (34) Seymour Hersh: ‘ former high-level intelligence official told me that some senior CIA officials were aware that the documents weren’t trustworthy…. They knew it was a fraud – it was useless. Everybody bit their tongue and said, “Wouldn’t it be great if the Secretary of State said this?” The Secretary of State never […]
[…] Intelligence Newsletter, 10, Rue du Sentier, 75002, Paris. The affair is succinctly summarised in Statewatch, January-February, 1994. Statewatch, PO Box 1516, London N16 0EW. For example, ‘The Fraud of the Amsterdam Arms Haul’ in the now defunct Seven Days, (27 October, 1971), began ‘It is now clear that the dramatic “discovery” of 116 crates […]
[…] Jan 2002. Entitlement Cards unit http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/dob/ecu.htm Responsible for running the consultation exercise on the entitlement card scheme and for policy on ID cards Entitlement Cards and Identity Fraud http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/cpd/entitlement_cards.pdf A consultation paper on ID cards, July 2002. Consultation period runs until Jan 10 2003. Privacy International: ID cards http://www.privacyinternational.org/issues/idcard/uk/ Launched July 2002, PI’s UK […]
[…] of exculpating the establishment at all costs. In the Jeremy Thorpe trial, Mr Justice Cantley described alleged potential murder victim Norman Scott as follows: ‘He is a fraud. He is a sponger. He is a whiner. He is a parasite. But, of course, he could still be telling the truth. It is a question […]
[…] back over.’ Back over? On 4 July the Observer ran a third of a page on the political situation in Nigeria, ‘New rules, new date, same old fraud on Babangida’s election.’ Roughly; for the first time the Northerners lost control in an election, so the army promptly ruled the election null and void. The […]
