Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)
[PDF file]: […] Caribbean and Central and South America (and helping himself to the barely supervised funds). A pilot as well as a kind of accountant, with expertise in stock fraud and money-laundering, Holt ended up in California in the early 1960s, running a CIA unit making fake documentation and an engineering shop which produced modified weaponry […]
Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)
[PDF file]: […] used to be ‘a simple, predictable con. Every four years, the money men in D.C. teamed up with party hacks to throw their weight behind whatever halfbright fraud of a candidate proved most adept at snowing the population into buying a warmed-over version of the same crappy politics they’ve always bought’. And the media […]
Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)
[PDF file]: […] the Trump Casinos, Mar-a-Lago – all these enterprises were followed by a trail of claims and litigation that told a consistent story of borderline and often outright fraud’. (p. 78) He was very much a minor player in what Wolff describes as our ‘oligarch-billionaire world’, in which the super rich – men often richer […]
Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)
[PDF file]: […] and the erosion of civil rights; greater politicisation of the justice system; the hollowing out of the traditional media; and then the Great Financial Crisis, endemic banking fraud and austerity. You couldn’t have designed an environment more amenable to the conspiratorial memes of the far right: the UK’s recent experience could easily be framed […]