Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)
[PDF file]: […] joint MI5/MI6 operation against Asil Nadir. A TurkishCypriot businessman, Nadir had built up a large business empire, Polly Peck International, in the UK before being charged with fraud. He fled the UK and in 1993 was in the Turkish part of Cyprus which was beyond the reach of formal international law.3 The MI5/6 plan […]
Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)
[PDF file]: […] But as I have discussed ad nauseam in these columns, the JFK researchers ignore Holt because they have persuaded themselves – wrongly – that he was a fraud. The JFK researchers should start taking Holt seriously and follow the leads he provided. Never mind CIA files which may or may not actually exist; and […]
Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)
[PDF file]: […] were deterred from serving under Trump by his lying and bullying, nor by his his racism and misogyny. They completely overlooked his well-known reputation for dishonesty and fraud. They were blind to his rallying of the Tea Party, the Christian Right and the US Far Right which brought along neo-Nazi, white supremacist, KKK and […]
Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)
[PDF file]: […] anything! While I was expecting that to be the overall motif, I was not prepared to have it spelled out so bluntly.’44 Former City of London Police Fraud Squad officer, Rowan Bosworth-Davis: ‘Your children cannot buy a house in London because the criminal banks prefer Russian dirty money . . . Property prices have […]
Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)
[PDF file]: […] 2008 collapse of the casino economy amply showed, it has been sufficiently far from power to have become a very realistic place – a showcase for the fraud that drives that world economic system and for how a people accustomed to poverty and neglect by their rulers still manages to maintain a kind of […]
Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)
[PDF file]: […] was coming unstuck. Criminal and political investigations were under way into Bobby Baker, Johnson’s bagman, and Billie Sol Estes, one of his major financial backers, whose huge fraud of federal funds had been made possible in part by Johnson’s influence. With the Kennedys keen to remove Johnson from the ticket for the 1964 election, […]