[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 […]
[PDF file]: […] choose the Labour candidate for Mayor of London in 2000 (p. 404) is something he finds particularly outrageous and is worth quoting: ‘Realising they couldn’t win without fraud, Dobson’s supporters – without his knowledge – encouraged MPs to call on party members to collect their ballot papers. Members could vote by phone or post. […]
[PDF file]: […] a £3,000 bottle of claret Chris Bryant, Parliament: The Biography Vol 1, (London: Black Swan, 2015) p. 227. To be fair, Mompesson had been engaged in massive fraud more on a VIP lane scale. Unfortunately he fled the country before the horse was ready. 9 or 10 6 with New Labour’s favourite businessman, the […]
[…] a £3,000 bottle of claret Chris Bryant, Parliament: The Biography Vol 1, (London: Black Swan, 2015) p. 227. To be fair, Mompesson had been engaged in massive fraud more on a VIP lane scale. Unfortunately he fled the country before the horse was ready. 9 or 10 6 with New Labour’s favourite businessman, the […]
[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 […]
[…] assassination, and how his purchase was meant to have protected him, remain unclear). There is also plenty on organised crime, in particular the wave of tax evasion, fraud and murders that accompanied the ‘Aluminum Wars’. So closely packed with mega miscreants is this section that it reads like a sort of X-Factor for Bond […]
[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 […]
[…] peace loving – war making; and replete with crime, double standards and hypocrisy in the ‘too big to fail and too big to jail’ systemic world financial fraud, and so on. Its ideological cover is wearing increasingly thin. The U.S. is fast becoming an ideological phantom! And the Orwellian doublethink laden in U.S. ruling […]
