More views from the bridge

Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002)

[…] children find ways to fake them. An absolute classic of the genre was reported by AP on 6 June 2001: ‘The Pentagon agency charged with rooting out fraud destroyed documents and substituted fakes to win a passing grade in an audit of its own operations, according to an internal inquiry.’ Inspired by this I […]

Western Goals (UK)

Lobster Issue 21 (1991)

[…] passing money to the Contras. More damaging to the Foundation, as a result of the investigation, the Foundation’s president, ‘Spitz’ Channell, was accused of, and admitted, tax fraud. Guell immediately left the Foundation to become Director of the Larry McDonald Trust. When Western Goals (UK) was challenged about its links with Channell, through the […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007)

[…] huge army of government lawyers, knowing that I have virtually no legal resources to defend myself against them.’ British state lies! Hold the front page! US election fraud A study of the last US congressional and senate elections has concluded: ‘A major undercount of Democratic votes and an overcount of Republican votes in U.S. […]

‘Privatising’ covert action: the case of the Unification Church

Lobster Issue 21 (1991)

[…] ‘heretical’ or unconventional — is best exemplified by the amount of support he has garnered from mainstream church spokesmen in the wake of his prosecution for tax fraud. Even liberal and left-leaning ministers, as well as certain American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) officials, have adopted his view that his incarceration for illegal financial activities […]

Enron accounting… and how to prevent it

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010)

[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 […]

Wall Street, the Supermob, and the CIA

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)

[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)

[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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