Sentences with phrase «blag bank»

John Prescott used parliamentary privilege to directly accuse the Times editor John Witherow of lying to the Leveson inquiry, following the revelations from the whistleblower John Ford, who claimed he was employed during Witherow's tenure on the Sunday Times to blag bank records.

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Yesterday, The Sunday Times carried a story which said he had been accused — in a previous job — of hiring a private investigator to «blag» the bank details of the Conservative donor Michael Ashcroft.

which addressed the growing concern of the use of «blagging» by private investigators and others to obtain personal information from sources such as insiders at banks and mobile telephone companies.