Meek's essay is much better at explaining how we got here, and it is more vivid, too, with its direct accounts of particular housing estates in London.
… For these and other reasons we may safely abandon direct accounts of perception in favor of indirectly related and never certain … hypotheses of reality".
The alliance estimated at the time that three million investors worldwide had been affected by Mr. Madoff's fraud, though there were just over 4,900 active direct accounts shown in the Madoff records available to investigators.
The Madoff fraud totaled $64.8 billion in paper losses, and the alliance estimates that it affected a record three million investors, although there were slightly more than 4,900 active direct accounts shown in the Madoff records available to investigators.
Discussing the force's handling of child sexual exploitation (CSE) in other areas of the county, Drew said: "I did not receive any direct accounts from victims and survivors or from other people that would lead me to believe that the scale of failure in Rotherham was repeated elsewhere".
The group of villa owners, some who claim they have had their Owners Direct accounts hacked five times, believe the numbers are the tip of the iceberg, and claim both HomeAway and security authorities such as Action Fraud are failing to take the problem seriously.
