Updating and Ongoing

Lobster Issue 26 (1993) £££

[…] 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 […]

Cyberspace Wars: Microprocessing vs. Big Brother

Lobster Issue 26 (1993) £££

[…] Service, which had nothing if not an active imagination, began working closely with telco cops. The federal effort started years earlier after Congress passed the 1986 Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, but in May 1990 it culminated in Operation Sundevil, by far the largest series of high-profile raids ever conducted against hackers. About 42 […]

The aliens on the grassy knoll

Lobster Issue 24 (December 1992) £££

[…] the intellectual incompetents they appear. Whatever the explanation, CSICOP has done an effective job persuading the media (who, in turn, persuade the public) that Geller is a fraud — a stage magician. That Randi and his collegues can replicate a few of Geller’s simpler feats should tell us nothing. But the journalists who report […]

Fantasy Island

Book cover
Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8) £££

[…] the tone and central theme of this book. Some of the book’s content will be familiar to readers of this magazine, Private Eye’s coverage of the PFI fraud, or Elliot’s column in The Guardian. What may not be so familiar is a section near the end, in which in a couple of pages they […]

Enron accounting… and how to prevent it

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] audited accounts falls, then the cost of doing business rises as companies take steps to try to safeguard themselves against losses from honest business failures or outright fraud. They will become more cautious in their business dealings generally. They will attempt to insure against losses. The general cost of borrowing money will almost certainly […]

Secret Justice: Public Interest Immunity Certificates (PIICs) and their use in the Asil Nadir trials

Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013) FREE

[PDF file]: […] whether they intend to apply for public interest immunity certificates for the three boxes of documents relating to the Asil Nadir case recently found by the Serious Fraud Office; and, if so, under what legal mechanism. To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether the public interest immunity certificates issued during the trial of Asil Nadir […]

Wall Street, the Supermob, and the CIA

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022) FREE

[PDF file]: […] York and New Jersey Mafia underbosses as Anthony (‘Fat Tony’) Salerno and Carmine Galante. Starting in the early 1960s, three federal trials of Cohn on charges of fraud, bribery, and conspiracy resulted in no conviction, but established his personal and business relations with various mobsters, including Moe Dalitz and Meyer Lansky.51 Like Garfinkle, Cohn […]

Volodymyr Zelensky and the breadbasket-case of Europe: The deep politics of a hybrid regime

Lobster Issue 87 (2023) FREE

[PDF file]: […] à clef . Perhaps that genre’s long association with true crime was an unconscious factor in Zelensy’s mind, given that he was inadvertently confessing to campaign finance fraud. One TV viewer later told researchers: Somewhere in subconscious you made some, well, not analogies, but you remembered him, this Holoborodko Everyone probably thought that in […]

Zelensky Ukraine parapolitics

Lobster Issue

[…] à clef . Perhaps that genre’s long association with true crime was an unconscious factor in Zelensy’s mind, given that he was inadvertently confessing to campaign finance fraud. One TV viewer later told researchers: Somewhere in subconscious you made some, well, not analogies, but you remembered him, this Holoborodko Everyone probably thought that in […]

Zelensky Ukraine parapolitics

Lobster Issue

[…] à clef . Perhaps that genre’s long association with true crime was an unconscious factor in Zelensy’s mind, given that he was inadvertently confessing to campaign finance fraud. One TV viewer later told researchers: Somewhere in subconscious you made some, well, not analogies, but you remembered him, this Holoborodko Everyone probably thought that in […]

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