Lobster Issue 17 (1988) £££
[…] article in Sir James Goldsmith’s magazine NOW!. This dealt in depth with an allegation made in Der Spiegel (June 1963) that Strauss had been involved in a fraud when he was a Minister. Strauss was later exonerated but as a result of the notorious ‘Spiegel Affair’ Strauss’ hopes of becoming Chancellor were dashed. Crozier’s […]
Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001) £££
[…] laws appear to have ended in failure. The fate of an Australian broker, Peter Johnston, is dealt with in some detail. Johnston was arrested by the Serious Fraud Squad, tried and jailed for twelve months whilst acting on the behalf of an Indonesian lawyer who was trying to sell a number of gold certificates. […]
Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7) £££
[…] Here it is. There is a long chapter on the way the Republicans stole the 2004 election. But he isn’t interested in the claims of computer voting fraud in the 2004 election. Palast believes he has shown that the election was stolen using ‘traditional’ methods – rigging the voting lists, discouraging Democrat voters etc. […]
Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001) £££
[…] the take-over struggle between Guinness and Distillers. His obituarist in The Independent 15 January 2001, commented that this was ‘on the margins of City practice’. A basic fraud, but on the margins, eh? Ever wonder why private capital wants to get involved with the Private Finance Initiative (PFI)? The Guardian story ‘Billions lost in […]
Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006) £££
[…] but of his more recent beliefs.(8) Presidential Election theft 2004 Meanwhile, still barely reported by the major media on either side of the Atlantic, the evidence of fraud in the 2004 American Presidential election continues to grow. And never mind all the stuff from websites like blackbox: we now have reports from Senator Conyer […]
Lobster Issue 16 (1988) £££
[…] used by the Conservative Party and its allies in the press to discredit both Strachey and the Labour Party. In 1963 de Courcy was found guilty of fraud and imprisoned – an episode which he believes was a set-up designed to snare him. This complicated case still trundles along; in 1968 de Courcy was […]
Lobster Issue 14 (1987) £££
[…] relatively straightforward. The older and more established criminal firms which served their apprenticeship in the fifties have now forsaken robbery and theft, and even to some extent fraud, for more legitimate business. This last statement should be qualified by saying that legitimate business hides dealings in illegitimate commodities, such as drugs. A few serious […]
Lobster Issue 8 (1985) £££
[…] of but he does clearly state that “Garrison found out from Walter Sheridan … that I’d been working with Bobby Kennedy to expose Garrison’s investigation as a fraud.”. Did we know this? I didn’t. Survey of personnel and income of Adam Smith Institute, AIMS, CPS, Economic League etc in Labour Research February 1985. Anyone […]
Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6) £££
[…] to the right. There’s not much of a living to made in America by being a lefty writer, is there? Hitchens’ writing is collected at . Vote fraud 2004 Meanwhile, more or less unreported by the major media on either side of the Atlantic, the evidence of the Republican theft of the 2004 presidential […]
Lobster Issue 6 (1984) £££
[…] in things Nazi in this part of the world (Barbie et al), this might be of some interest. The author argues that the ‘Fourth Reich’ was a fraud, a device used to clobber German economic interests in Argentina, replacing them with US interests. His article only deals with the war-time and immediate post-war years, […]