The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] 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 […]

Olivia Jayne Frank, 1956-2023

Lobster Issue 88 (2024)

[PDF file]: […] Polly Peck International by her client Asil Nadir. Nadir was a Conservative Party donor who had fled to Northern Cyprus during his pre-trial hearing on theft and fraud charges before that very same Mr Justice Tucker. When it came time for Mr Justice Tucker to sentence Mrs Forsyth, her 89 year-old mother and her […]

Olivia Jayne Frank, 1956-2023

Lobster Issue

[PDF file]: […] Polly Peck International by her client Asil Nadir. Nadir was a Conservative Party donor who had fled to Northern Cyprus during his pre-trial hearing on theft and fraud charges before that very same Mr Justice Tucker. When it came time for Mr Justice Tucker to sentence Mrs Forsyth, her 89 year-old mother and her […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)

[PDF file]: […] researchers do not take this theory seriously is due, in large part, to their not taking Estes seriously, because he was a convicted fraudster. Precisely what his fraud was has been difficult to grasp until recently. But Amy Reading has researched it in detail and has published an intelligible account.2 7 Via Robert Caro’s […]

The MOSSAD Spy by Olivia Frank

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 […]

The view from the bridge

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 […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013)

[PDF file]: […] the privatisers: 1. The public service ethos did exist and was most valuable in maintaining standards, continuity and honesty within public provision. 2. Multiplying the opportunities for fraud inevitably results in more fraud. The Wiki entry on him is incomplete but conveys something of this. He contributed ‘Laissez faire as religion’ to Lobster 58. […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] While I was expecting that to be the overall motif, I was not prepared to have it spelled out so bluntly.’4 2 Former City of London Police Fraud Squad officer, Rowan Bosworth-Davis:4 3 ‘Your children cannot buy a house in London because the criminal banks prefer Russian dirty money…… ……Property prices have escalated way […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)

[PDF file]: […] read: regulators from the European Union are a threat to the City. Bottom line: to preserve the City as a world centre of money-laundering, gambling and financial fraud the UK may have to leave the Union. Huh? Did someone say the world of politics is getting complicated? This appeared in the Daily Telegraph. ‘Iraq […]

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