That vile, lying Tory peer, Michelle Mone

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From reddit, in Private Eye apparently

 

[stavros]

From reddit, in Private Eye apparently

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Yep, first or second page in the current issue.

 

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Oh dear, my heart bleeds

Cameron broke convention when he made Michelle Mone a peer, says Tory MP

David Mundell says Scotland Office was not consulted about Mone’s 2015 appointment

www.theguardian.com

And

 

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oops

 

[teqniq]

I thought they froze their bank accounts ages ago. Is this new? It looks like it might be.

 

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"mines assess" I imagine to be those held in the UK so not much Im guessing. I imagine lots are in trusts, in other people's names, overseas etc. will she feel the pinch; doubtful.

 

[teqniq]

All coming unglued:

Michelle Mone’s former lawyer says he wants apology for ‘damage to reputation’

Jonathan Coad also asking for charity donation, saying Mone has suggested he advised her to lie to media

www.theguardian.com

 

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All coming unglued:

Michelle Mone’s former lawyer says he wants apology for ‘damage to reputation’

Jonathan Coad also asking for charity donation, saying Mone has suggested he advised her to lie to media

www.theguardian.com

Mone and Barrowman are now represented by the legal firm Grosvenor Law. Last week the firm wrote to Coad accusing him of breaking client confidentiality by apologising and inviting him to report himself to the Solicitors Regulation Authority.

In a furious response, Coad accused the couple of enlisting him into “a concerted and mendacious effort by your clients to cover up the immense benefit to them of a transaction whereby £200m of public money was paid to a company in which they have the most obvious financial interest” and “instructing me repeatedly to disseminate lies” about their links to PPE Medpro.

looks like a hole of their own digging

 

[editor]

Her inevitable fall from grace - and hopefully a criminal conviction to boot - is going to be a pleasure to witness:

The Conservative peer Michelle Mone assured the government that she was not entitled to “any financial benefit whatsoever” from a PPE company, five months before £29m of its profits were transferred into a trust for her benefit.

Leaked emails between Mone and the Cabinet Office reveal that a civil servant asked her to make a declaration that she had no conflict of interest in relation to the company, PPE Medpro, which she had recommended to ministers in May 2020.


Mone stated that she had “no conflicts whatsoever” and that she was not “entitled to any financial remuneration or financial benefit whatsoever”.

In June 2020, within weeks of Mone giving these assurances, the government awarded PPE Medpro two contracts to supply PPE, worth a total of £203m.

Three months later Barrowman was paid at least £65m from the profits on those contracts, according to documents produced by HSBC bank and seen by the Guardian. He secretly transferred £29m from those profits to an offshore trust set up to benefit Mone and her children.

The National Crime Agency (NCA) is conducting a long-running investigation into Mone and Barrowman for potential fraud and bribery offences relating to the procurement of the PPE Medpro contracts. The couple deny any wrongdoing.

Mone first approached the Cabinet Office ministers Michael Gove and Lord Agnew with an offer to supply PPE in early May 2020. Agnew referred her offer to the government’s “VIP lane”, which gave high priority to companies recommended by people with political connections.

In December 2023 Mone and her husband admitted they had lied to the media for years when they instructed lawyers to deny they were involved in PPE Medpro. In an interview with the BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg, Barrowman acknowledged that he had made more than £60m profit from the deals, and had transferred money into the trust. The couple said Barrowman’s children were also beneficiaries of the trust.

A YouTube film released in December, that was paid for by PPE Medpro and featured interviews with Mone and Barrowman, reported that the NCA was investigating allegations of bribery, fraud by false representation and conspiracy to defraud.

An NCA spokesperson said that its investigation, which began in May 2021 into “suspected criminal offences committed in the procurement of PPE contracts by PPE Medpro”, was continuing.

Leak reveals Michelle Mone told government she would not benefit financially from PPE firm

Exclusive: Tory peer said she had ‘no conflicts whatsoever’, five months before trust received £29m of profits

www.theguardian.com

 

[Pickman's model]

what was wrong with the existing thread about her? The Michelle Mone file.

 

[editor]

*threads merged

 

[Pickman's model]

*merge

why did you need to change the title of this longstanding thread to title of your own thread, started and indeed merged today?

 

[cupid_stunt]

why did you need to change the title of this longstanding thread to title of your own thread, started and indeed merged today?

Well, it is more descriptive.

 

[Monkeygrinder's Organ]

I imagine she was giving a massive wink as she 'assured' the government she wouldn't benefit, but it seems likely that will give them enough plausible deniability to hang her out to dry and keep the heat off them doesn't it. While it'll be a good thing if she does end up being prosecuted if it doesn't go any further that's a massive failure of accountability really.

 

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what was wrong with the existing thread about her? The Michelle Mone file.

What, there's more
I suspect it might be difficult to arrest her if charges are brought as she could be floating around on her yacht in international waters.

 

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I imagine she was giving a massive wink as she 'assured' the government she wouldn't benefit

Nah. She said to Johnson or whoever I can make a "killing" out of this; scratch my back and I'll see you right.

 

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Shame it wasn't MM herself, but early days

Man arrested in probe into Michelle Mone-linked PPE firm

PPE Medpro, the company led by Michelle Mone's husband, has been at the centre of a row over procurement.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Boris Sprinkler]

Can’t we just sink her fucking yacht? It is ours after all.

 

[teqniq]

Other people have observed that it seems a little strande that the investigation is gathering pace just before the election. Coincidence?

Michelle Mone: five suspects questioned as PPE case reaches China

 

[tim]

Can’t we just sink her fucking yacht? It is ours after all.

If it belongs to us, sequestrate it and give it to a youth group.

 

[Lurdan]

The remains of Viking settlements have been found on the Isle of Man. Perhaps we could use the yacht for a Viking funeral.

 

[xenon]

30% profit margin on PPE? Is that normal.

 

[nogojones]

Can’t we just sink her fucking yacht? It is ours after all.

But timing it so that she and her husband are on board is tricky.

 

[A380]

She.wont see a day inside. Her kind of criminal rarely do. It’s one of the few areas where the Americans do better than us in criminal justice.