Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)
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[PDF file]: […] Dirty Politics Peter Geoghegan London: Head of Zeus, 2020, £8.99 Colin Challen Ever since the birth of ‘democracy’ it has been for sale. Influence pedlars, bribery, blackmail, fraud, honours touting – these are all as common as the ballot box. A whole library has been written about these less savoury approaches to power; and […]
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[PDF file]: […] The “Wigan Alps” story was offered to the Daily Mail and the Guardian just before the general election of February 1974. (113) (i) Allegations of income tax fraud by Labour ministers Once again this surfaces in Pincher (114) in “two long letters . . . from a man claiming to be an officer of […]
Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012)
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[PDF file]: […] appeal to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg. A year later, More was named in Florida as one of 15 defendants accused of racketeering, mail fraud and employing a Hambro subsidiary called Network Security Management to bug the U.S. phone billing system and steal items from the Florida home of Douglas Leese, […]
Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012)
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[PDF file]: […] appointed Sir Evelyn de Rothschild to IMG’s board of directors. In addition Rothschild North America provided banking services to IMG.123 Conrad Black: Before his imprisonment for mail fraud in 2007 (he was reimprisoned in 2011), Canadian-born Lord Black of Crossharbour was Chairman of Hollinger International and the owner of a number of newspapers and […]