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 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 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 […]

Inside the Trump Administration

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)

[PDF file]: […] right when he described him as ‘a dumb son of a bitch’. (p. 240) After the election, Navarro prepared his own report The Immaculate Deception3 ‘proving’ massive fraud. This, of course, made it unequivocably true; but anyone who pointed out that the election was being stolen found themselves facing ‘the Cancel Culture wrath of […]

Is this what failure looks like? Brian Sedgemore 1937–2015

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)

[PDF file]: […] was doing and had probably been asked to run by a third party. Sedgemore denounced Betts and his actions in a House of Commons debate on electoral fraud on 21 May 1997.1 3 But who asked Betts to run? It looked like an inside job: but was it just another manifestation of chaotic Hackney […]

Tittle-tattle

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)

[PDF file]: […] Labour Party, still seeking to recover from UKIP May local election successes following the jailing of the town’s former MP Denis MacShane. Ahead of his sentence for fraud at the Old Bailey, Labour deputy leader Harriet Harman was one of a cavalcade of friends attesting to MacShane’s good character. Another old pal of the […]

The Phoenix Program: America’s Use of Terror in Vietnam by Douglas Valentine

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)

[PDF file]: […] managed effectively — profitably — measurement and reporting systems were borrowed from the leading edge of management and organisational theory. General William Westmoreland was discredited for ‘accounting fraud’ while waging the military side of the campaign.24 However such fraud was inherent in the overall strategy, both covert and overt. As there were not two […]

Gonzalo Lira and the kill chain

Lobster Issue 89 (2024)

[PDF file]: […] Avakov ran for election as Kharkiv city mayor, but was defeated by Hennediy Kernes, a local business rival. The election was accompanied by widespread accusations of vote fraud, and the result was hotly contested. Electoral fraud is so commonplace in Ukraine that there is a nationally-known slang term for it – ‘Buckwheat’ – derived […]

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