Search Results for: fraud
Reporting Trump
[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 […]
Newsinger Bryant copy
[…] 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 […]
Shameless!
[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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
Making America Great
[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 […]
The Super-Rich Shall Inherit the Earth: The New Global Oligarchs and How They’re Taking Over Our World by Stephen Armstrong
[…] 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 […]