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Tchenguiz’s Israeli ‘military intelligence’ operators Black Cube ‘were employed by Harvey Weinstein over sex accusations’

November 9, 2017 By admin

The New Yorker claims that former Israeli intelligence operators now behind the private investigations company Black Cube were deployed by Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein over sex accusations. Harvey Weinstein’s Army of Spies In the fall of 2016, Harvey Weinstein set out to suppress allegations that he had sexually harassed or assaulted numerous women. He began […]

Ex-Israeli intelligence operatives settle dispute with Tchenguiz

April 22, 2013 By admin

The spectacle of Vincent Tchenguiz publicly falling out with his team of former Israeli intelligence operatives has come to an end, with the latter describing themselves as “very happy” with the settlement. Black Cube launched an action against Tchenguiz in the UK for £330,000 plus interest for work carried out for the tycoon following his […]

Tchenguiz falls out with his ex-Israeli intelligence operatives … and now they are suing each other

April 11, 2013 By admin

UPDATE April 22: Dispute settled. More here UPDATE April 13, 18.29 LKP / Campaign against retirement leasehold exploitation “As mentioned in the court documents which you referred to, Black Cube should be described as a creative intelligence agency run by a group of “ex-Israeli intelligence operatives” or “IDF (Israel Defense Force) intelligence’s veterans”.” Black Cube […]

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Land Registry sell-off is shelved (for the moment)

The astonishing proposal to sell off the Land Registry has been removed from government legislation as it ponders responses to the idea. The £1 billion sale was part of George Osborne’s efforts to balance the books. But it is now under review as reported here in the Guardian The proposal would empower the kind of […]

All Party Parliamentary Group, April 26: Barratt praised at Citiscape; Galliard reviled at New Capital Quay; Taylor Wimpey scorned over ground rent review scheme

APPG, April 26 A picture of relief and continued misery emerged from the meeting of the All Party Parliamentary Group on leasehold and commonhold reform last week. Relieved were two representatives of the 95-flat Citiscape site in Croydon, where Barratt – which built the site 17 years ago – is picking up the tab to […]

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Linden Homes calls in libel lawyers to silence customer who spoke to BBC

Linden Homes, part of the Galliford Try group, is instructing defamation solicitors to act against the purchaser of one of its leasehold houses in Bedfordshire. Louise O’Riordan featured in a BBC Look East report on the leasehold house scandal earlier this month. She bought a three-bedroom leasehold terraced house at Linden Homes Kaleidoscope site in […]

Taylor Wimpey and Long Harbour deal to defuse toxic lease scandal … after 11 months!

Taylor Wimpey and the anonymous speculators in the Long Harbour ground rent fund have agreed to vary double ground rent leases to ones linked to RPI, it was announced this afternoon. The announcement comes 11 months after LKP managed to get this issue to national attention. The deal has been extended by Long Harbour, whose […]

Englishman’s home isn’t a castle: it’s a revenue stream for an offshore company thanks to national housebuilders, Justin Madders tells the Commons

Justin Madders MP makes devastating intervention into the ground rent scandal Government needs to act against this “worst excess of capitalism” Select committee needs to question the housebuilders Taylor Wimpey and others must say how many ex-customers own unsellable, toxic leases Developer-recommended solicitors need to explain the advice they gave buyers Justin Madders MP made […]

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£3m Grenfell cladding bills fall on residents at Lendlease’s Cypress Place and Vallea Court

The property tribunal last week dumped the cost of removing Grenfell cladding on the residents at Cypress Place and Vallea Court in Manchester’s Green Quarter, which were built by Australian builder Lendlease. And Vallea Court pays for the “waking watch” fire marshals. In addition, the tribunal declined to issue a section 20c order, which means […]

Leaseholders in local authority and housing association blocks will have Grenfell cladding bill paid by government

The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government has provided the following answer to your written parliamentary question (145263): Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to his Department’s press release, Government announces it will fully fund unsafe cladding removal in social housing, published on 16 May […]

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Officials fail to stop LKP publishing legal opinions on flawed reform of Recognised Tenants’ Associations (RTAs)

A last minute attempt to stop LKP from publishing three legal opinions extremely critical of the government’s bungled reform to Recognised Tenants’ Associations failed last week. The government introduced a statutory instrument in October that has actually made the position of leaseholders worse. The failing was referenced in the Commons by Sir Peter Bottomley with […]

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