Arnold Goodman
 Arnold Goodman    (lawyer, deep state operative) | |
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| Born | 21 August 1913 |
| Died | 12 May 1995 (Age 81) |
| Nationality | British |
| Alma mater | University College London, Downing College (Cambridge) |
| Religion | Jewish |
A sinister "power behind the throne" exerting huge influence on the British establishment.
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Arnold Abraham Goodman was a British lawyer and political advisor.
Criticisms
Goodman was often portrayed by Private Eye as a sinister "power behind the throne" exerting huge influence on the British establishment. Private Eye often referred to him as Lord "Two Dinners" Goodman, a reference to his girth.
According to a documentary made by Richard Bond for Channel 4, The Gangster and the Pervert Peer, screened on 16 February 2009, Goodman, who never married, was one of the chief parties responsible for suppressing investigations by journalists which exposed how Lord Boothby and others were responsible for protecting the Krays from justice.[1] Official MI5 records declassified on 22 October 2015 revealed that the association between the homosexual Boothby and the Kray twins had been the subject of an MI5 investigation in 1964.[citation needed]
After Goodman's death one of his wealthy clients, Lord Portman alleged that Goodman stole funds worth £10 million from his family's trust over a 30-year period and made donations to the Labour Party. Portman commenced legal proceedings for recovery but the claim was never substantiated, and the research of Goodman's biographer concluded that it had no substance.[2]
