Cherie's friend fails to gag paper

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By Paul Cheston, Evening Standard
5 November 2004

Martha Greene, a friend of the Prime Minister's wife, today failed in an attempt to gag the Mail on Sunday in a landmark ruling for the freedom of the Press.

Three Appeal Court judges gave their full support to the paper's right to publish an investigation into the American restaurateur.

The judges said that the legal challenge had threatened the right of the free press in Britain.

The 48-year-old, who owns Villandry, the Marylebone restaurant bar and food store, has been widely described as Cherie Blair's "new best friend".

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I POSTED about this some weeks ago. Greene was furious at suggestions in the Sunday media that she had once been extradited back to the US for cocaine and money laundering charges.

She was involved in the early 1980s with this man:

Councillor John Whelan, Lambeth Borough Council. Real name PAUL LOWY who was busted for cocaine some 20+ years ago and wnet to rehab. His partner in a fraud/moneylaundering scam Martha Greene was put on the first plane back to New York.

Whelan at the time was a journalist working for Middle East Economic Digest, a UK based business publisher, but also deep in with Robert Maxwell and espionage for Israel.

The Greene story most recently involves her business dealings with disgraced ex-US ambassador to the UK William Stamps Farish III and his wife Sarah, who turned tail without so much as a goodbye in late June/early July this year leaving Junior's op diplomatic post vacant. This is unprecedented in the history of US/UK relations.