Fluoridation is the greatest case of scientific fraud of this century, if not of all time. Dr Robert Carton, former US EPA scientist
Rather fail with honour than success with fraud. Sophocles
Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it. Samuel Johnson
Bush the father did well in placing his sons as governors and did not forget to pass on the expertise in fraud from the leaders of the region to Florida to use it in critical moments. Osama bin Laden
This is more than can be said for Geoffrey Robinson, Blair’s first Paymaster General, who has now been found to have been a beneficiary of the generous crook Robert Maxwell – to the tune of £200,000, no less, the cheque which Robinson just cannot find. Robinson’s connections with the accountants Arthur Andersen, which raised funds for New Labour, have been exposed in a recent book by Tom Bower, just in time for the Enron scandal. Enron went bust last year in a spectacular bankruptcy caused by various imaginative accounting devices dreamed up by Andersen. From 1994 to 1996 Andersen’s sister company employed Patricia Hewitt, a rising star in New Labour, and cooperated generously with New Labour before and after the 1997 election. Its main aim in life – to remove the ban on it imposed by the former Tory government because of its dishonesty over the DeLorean scandal – was achieved within seven months of New Labour coming to office. Paul Foot, Corruption: Dirty Business
Now five year ago John Darwin went into the sea near his home in Hartlepool and vanished. His body was never found but he was presumed dead after his battered red canoe washed up on a beach. But this weekend he stunned his family by turning up alive. The former teacher walked into a police station in London. ITV News
The judge told them [Darwins] the real victims were their sons who’d been kept unaware their father was indeed still alive. Channel 4 News
John Darwin had in fact moved into the bedsit next door to his house. After Anne had obtained a death certificate and claimed a hefty life insurance pay-out John got himself a fake passport, and the couple started purchasing property in Panama. Crimes that Shook Britain
After firemen put out the blaze they discovered the charred remains of the driver ... Clayton’s [Daniels] wife identifies the hat. Crime Stories: Dead or Alive
The policy is for $110,000; Molly [Daniels] tries almost immediately to collect on the policy. ibid.
Clayton Daniels has a lot of enemies. ibid.
The charred body found in the car belongs not to the presumed victim Clayton Daniels but to an unidentified woman. ibid.
A life insurance scam ... But whose body was it? ibid.
The grave marker says Charlotte Davis. ibid.
The arrest of Lord Edward Davenport caused a media sensation. Fraud Lord, Channel 4 2012
Edward would end up behind bars for defrauding his victims out of millions of pounds. Edward Davenport wasn’t all he seemed. ibid.
Just days before Bernard Madoff captured headlines as the largest Ponzi schemer in US history, Marc Dreier, a prominent Manhattan attorney, was arrested for orchestrating a massive fraud that netted over $750 million. Storyville: The $750 Million Thief, caption, BBC 2012
Sold promissory notes to Hedge-Funds fooled by forged documents and fake audit. ibid.
When Dreier LLP collapsed, approximately 800 attorneys and staff lost their jobs. ibid.
Olympus: ‘facing a potential scandal. The company fired its president and CEO.’ Storyville: The Gods of Mount Olympus: 1.7 Billion Dollar Fraud: Full Exposure, American news, BBC 2015
‘They wrecked the company.’ ibid. CEO Woodford
By the 1980s Olympus is a multinational corporation. ibid.
Yamaguchi begins his research and discovers that Olympus spent $700 million acquiring two defunct companies in 2008. Yamaguchi also discovers that Olympus paid out an $680 million financial advisory fee for the acquisition of Gyrus. ibid.
Woodford decides to confront Kikukawa and arranges a lunch meeting. ibid.
11th October 2011: Following Price Waterhouse Cooper’s report, Woodford demands Kikukawa’ and Mori’s resignations. ibid.
14th October 2011: The board votes unanimously to dismiss Woodford. ibid.
[James Randi]: Some people cannot believe that a magician can fool them in such a way that they can’t figure it out. But magicians can and magicians do. Storyville: Exposed: Magicians, Psychics & Frauds, aka An Honest Liar, 2015
It’s OK to fool people as long as you’re doing that to teach them a lesson. ibid.
I’ve always had my battle with the psychics … People who are scheming money from the public. ibid.
A good magician needs to be a little bit of a conman, I think. He needs to be a criminal type but not have enough guts to rob banks. ibid.
‘His point is to widen your scope of vision.’ ibid. comment
People really do believe this nonsense. ibid. Randi
Uri Geller: He Denies He’s a Magician. ibid. TV caption
Carson’s people had followed the instructions I had given them. ibid. Randi
During the 80s the faith-healing racket was very prominent. ibid.
James Randi: The Truth About Uri Geller. ibid.
London: think you can fake it? … This bunch of mugs were fraudsters of the highest order. Storyville: The Great Gangster Film Fraud, BBC 2016
The making of A Landscape of Lives: lured to the glamour and the glitz of making movies. ibid.
Bashar: back to his old stomping ground at East London Uni – he wasn’t the type of guy to end up in middle management tapping a keyboard in an open plan office – no, sir, Bashar had another sky-high ambition: to become a film producer. ibid.
The film tax credit is only meant to be a percentage of the real cost. ibid.
A bunch of wannabes ... or a gang of scammers who planned it all from day one? ibid.
A Landscape of Lives became A Landscape of Lies. ibid.
One of the most imaginative attempts to covering one’s tracks … Acting out an alibi. ibid.
‘To continue to do something wrong with the same people … You kind of deserve what’s coming your way.’ ibid. witness
No-one wanted to watch his film (£60-80,000 cf. declared budget £20,000,000). ibid.
The judge threw the book at our unlucky film-makers. ibid.
700,000 people a year die from tobacco: and I am responsible for citizens’ health. Storyville: The Great European Cigarette Mystery, John Dalli, BBC 2017
Following a fraud investigation, EU Commissioner for Health and Consumer Policy John Dalli has resigned with immediate effect. ibid. news
On his desk is the first draft for the new tobacco directive: it involved billions of Euros and thousands of lives. John Dalli wants a strict directive, so of course the tobacco industry is against him. Dalli has to drive it home but in October 2012 he gets called to the office of Jose Manuel Barroso – President of the European Commission. And then he’s fired. ibid. investigating journalist
The report shows that John Dalli has held a string of non-declared meetings on Malta with the tobacco lobbyists. ibid.
How was I to know that she [Kimberley] was a lobbyist? ibid. Dalli
Because what happens next is that OLAF [European investigators] plants a trap for John Dalli and they do this together with a lobby group which Swedish Match is a part of: ESTOC … So the EU sets a trap for its own Commission. ibid. investigating journalist
‘Massive’ lobbying power of tobacco companies diluted European regulation of cigarettes, study shows. ibid. online news headline
I am the victim of a set-up. ibid. John Dalli