Search Results for: fraud
The strange loves of Mariella
[PDF file]: […] and had first-hand experience of the last year or two of Ward’s life as the Profumo Affair unfolded. I followed his postings and thought he was a fraud. He revealed nothing that couldn’t have been gathered from existing books and articles. He was teasing his readers, beckoning them with as yet unspoken secret knowledge, […]
Griftopia: Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids and the Long Con That Is Breaking America by Matt Taibbi
Money laundering in British football
[PDF file]: […] eligibility to continue as a director of a football club playing in the English Football League of his recent conviction in Kyrgzstan for money laundering offences and fraud. 2. I am instructed that my clients have recently been told by the English Football League’s in-house solicitor that the League has now decided that Mr. […]
The Crimes of Empire by Carl Boggs
[PDF file]: […] 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 […]
Maggie’s guilty secret
[PDF file]: […] what had gone on were swiftly crushed on government orders: Matrix Churchill’s directors were arrested; Gerald James was hounded and threatened by the police; and the Serious Fraud Office and HM Customs began to raid and threaten companies associated with the project. However not all the Thatcher government secrets disappeared into the black hole […]
Democracy for Sale: Dark Money and Dirty Politics by Peter Geoghegan
[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 […]
The Super-rich Shall Inherit the Earth by Stephen Armstrong
[PDF file]: […] 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 […]
Estes, LBJ and Dallas
[PDF file]: […] this period, both Texan and national (he made the cover of Time in 1962), it is odd that Estes’ claims are so widely dismissed because of his fraud conviction. Does this mean we should dismiss all statements made by people with criminal convictions? Gordon Liddy, for example? In this country, former Cabinet ministers Jonathan […]
Wilson, MI5 and the rise of Thatcher
[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 […]