A failure of self-regulation

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Kenneth Trench looks back at how collective silence among City professionals gave Maxwell free rein to gamble with the savings of thousands of pensioners

The publishing industry knew for decades that Maxwell was ‘dodgy’. Tales were told of his launching Pergamon Press by publishing technical manuscripts he had looted with a revolver in his hand from...

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