Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000) £££
[…] Belén Balanyá, Ann Doherty, Olivier Hoedeman, Adam Ma’anit and Erik Wessselius Pluto Press, London and Sterling (Virginia, USA) 2000, £14.99 Blowing the Whistle: one man’s fight against fraud in the European Commission Paul van Buitenen, London: Politicos, 2000, £12.99 In his memoir, In Office,(1) Norman Lamont describes meeting Wim Kok, the Dutch Finance Minister, […]
Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6) £££
[…] this was the JFK case for the Internet generation. There are some obvious similarities; but there are obvious differences, too. For one thing, if this was a fraud, it is infinitely bigger than the killing of JFK. Kennedy was just a politician and killing politicians isn’t that unusual in American history. Another difference is […]
Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6) £££
[…] for a while so that they will lead the police to the bigger fish). The target is ‘economic crime’ (a wonderful return to Soviet terminology) such as fraud and tax evasion. Identity cards are thus much more about managing identity in the context of fraud (including benefit fraud) than about any threat from terror […]
Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005) £££
Paul Krugman London: Allen Lane, 2003, h/b, £18.99 I only caught up with this at Christmas. Krugman writes a column for the New York Times and this is a collection of those columns. Krugman is an academic economist at Princeton and saw pretty early that Enron and others similar were just frauds, and that … Read more
Lobster Issue 34 (Winter 1997) £££
[…] the companies will receive little more than a slap on the wrist and a request to say sorry.’ p. 95 ‘the ministry’s mechanisms for preventing and detecting fraud verge on an inducement to criminal activity.’ p. 172 ‘It is notable that while the DHSS set up a telephone hot-line in August 1996 to encourage […]
Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003) £££
[…] golf, and Peter Mandelson, the ‘online begetter’ of New Labour. Mills has suffered various public embarrassments since the mid-nineties, when his offices were raided by the Serious Fraud Office searching for papers relating to investigations by Italian magistrates into allegations of corrupt financial practices by Berlusconi. Mills had acted as Berlusconi’s lawyer in the […]
Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3) £££
[…] “the road-kill of history”‘. That from a descendent of slaves! Beyond parody A story in The Daily Telegraph, 15 August 2002, ‘Bush Anti-Corruption Chief Accused of Account Fraud’ began: ‘President Bush’s efforts to clean up corporate America were dealt an embarrassing blow last night when the man charged with leading his new anti-corruption task […]
Lobster Issue 23 (1992) £££
[…] I distrust any and all stories and conclusions that have been conveyed. I hope you will entertain no further doubts about my views.’ Shapiro says Oeschler a fraud I had already contacted retired RADM Shapiro, former head of the Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI) on 3 August 1991. Asked if he had ever met […]
Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8) £££
[…] reasonable doubt, every lingering question as to what happened in Dallas and who was responsible….Every detail and nuance are accounted for, every conspiracy theory revealed as a fraud on the American public. Bugliosi’s irresistible logic, command of the evidence, and ability to draw startling inferences shed fresh light on this American nightmare. At last […]
Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002) £££
[…] a rigged sample evidently intended to provide support for a larger campaign – the floundering ‘War on Drugs’). Labour figures moved to distance themselves from the attempted fraud. Campaign manager Peter Mandelson announced that ‘I have made clear……. that nothing of the kind should ever happen again.’ Blair himself was at pains to add: […]
