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	Peter Foster - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Foster was at the centre of the Cheriegate scandal that rocked the British Prime Minister, Tony Blair in 2002.
		"Cheriegate" was a massive political scandal that almost brought down the British PM after it was revealed that Foster was the “financial advisor” to his wife Cherie Blair and assisted her with the purchase of two flats in Bristol.
		Cherie Blair tried to distance herself from Foster and deliberately lied when she briefed the press office at Number 10 to go public with a statement claiming that Foster was not involved with the deal.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Peter_Foster (1335 words)

	Tribune editorial (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Now, in the light of “Cheriegate”, that process is so far advanced that all politicians risk being tainted by it.
		“Cheriegate” was more important to much of the media than the prospect of a third world war.
		“Cheriegate” was a Westminster farce, and, as usual, few outside Westminster were interested in it.
	www.tribweb.co.uk /edit20122002.htm (735 words)

	‘Cheriegate’ conman brings new embarrassment to Blairs - [Sunday Herald] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		THE Australian conman involved in the “Cheriegate affair” has surfaced again with a string of new and extraordinary claims about life inside Downing Street as he tries to promote a book covering his relations with the Blairs.
		Peter Foster, a jailed conman, was at the centre of the financial scandal that broke around Cherie Blair in late 2002 when he helped her buy two flats in Bristol, the university city of her son Euan.
		In a series of unsubstantiated claims, Foster – currently living in Australia’s Gold Coast – said that Caplin, who was his fiancée until the fallout of the Cheriegate affair saw their brief relationship end, had an “extraordinary influence” over Blair.
	www.sundayherald.com /40455 (466 words)

	American Politics Journal -- Holiday Downer at Downing
		We have seen Cherie Blair reduced to tears and forced to give a public statement about her involvement in the Foster affair and the Downing Street spin machine unravel before our very eyes as it tried to combat the crisis, much to the delight of the press.
		But while the Cheriegate saga has continued to be the hot topic of conversation, Blair has insisted he wants to keep focused on the important matters of office -- notably the ever increasing likelihood of going to war with Iraq.
		Dubya has been talking up his stance of Iraq by giving formal assent to deploy a further 50,000 soldiers to the Gulf; meanwhile, in his Christmas message to the UK's military forces, Blair has been preparing troops for war, and apologising for the uncertainty the faced.
	www.americanpolitics.com /20021227Mitchell.html (470 words)

	Guardian \| Sun censured by press watchdog for 'Cheriegate' phone tapping
		The Sun did not deny that it had obtained the tapes without Mr Foster's consent but argued that publication of the transcripts was in the public interest.
		The paper said the story helped "ensure the public was not misled further by those involved in the saga" and helped "establish a clearer picture of events surrounding what became known as Cheriegate".
		Les Hinton, executive chairman of the Sun's publisher, News International, is alive to the concerns: he is the chairman of the PCC's code committee, which drew up the editors' code of conduct.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4703415-103690,00.html (510 words)

	Observer \| The fire next time for New Labour
		They will judge it as it asked to be judged: on the claim to be able to deliver an improved health service, better education, reduced crime and a transport network that functions occasionally.
		It will not seem like this inside Number 10, and it was not the effect intended by the Torquemadas of the press who have been racking and flaying the Blairs, but Cheriegate has done the Government something of a favour over the past fortnight.
		Were I to be deeply cynical, I might even wonder whether it has all been a spinmeister's cunning diversion to distract attention from an embarrassing sequence of U-turns and failures.
	observer.guardian.co.uk /print/0,,4567754-110676,00.html (1305 words)

	The Telegraph - Calcutta : International
		When the so-called Cheriegate scandal involving Caplin’s boyfriend, Peter Foster, erupted last year, there were even rumours of a fall-out between Millar and her boss.
		Smith was left to deal with the media at the time of Cheriegate, a thankless task given the way Cherie Blair changed her story during the controversy.
		In a tongue-in-cheek BBC survey drawing 15,000 votes, Cherie Blair topped the hall of shame with 31 per cent after damaging revelations last month about her property dealings with a convicted fraudster dominated headlines and embarrassed the government.
	www.telegraphindia.com /1030527/asp/foreign/story_2008885.asp (539 words)

	'Cheriegate' flats spark more trouble for Blairs / Britain / Home - Morning Star
		Sunday newspaper reports said that the flats - which were at the centre of the "Cheriegate" affair - have been rented out to executives from the French-owned arms giant Thales.
		The reports suggested that the Blairs could be earning £60,000 a year for the flats, which are in an elitist development known as The Panoramic.
		They had bought the luxury flats as an investment, claiming that one would be used as student digs by their eldest son Euan.
	www.morningstaronline.co.uk /index2.php/ex/britain/cheriegate_flats_spark_more_trouble_for_blairs (300 words)

	IOL: Mrs Blair: I have distracted my husband
		Her husband's personal poll ratings, although not those of his ruling Labour Party, fell after it was revealed Cherie had used Foster to help secure discounts on two properties in Bristol, south-west England.
		"Cheriegate" is not the only time the Cherie Blair, has been subjected to unwanted press attention.
		The morning after her husband's Labour Party won the 1997 general election with a landslide victory she was photographed answering the front door of their north London home wearing a short nightdress and sporting dishevelled hair.
	www.int.iol.co.za /index.php?set_id=1&click_id=3&art_id=qw1094905262519B211 (499 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Guardian daily comment \| The political siege warfare that is driving Cheriegate
		To assert, as the Telegraph editorial said at the weekend, that Cheriegate is proof of institutionalised mendacity is ludicrous exaggeration.
		This is not to imply that a prime minister and his wife can be absolved from the general need for vigilance in the conduct of public life, or that they should be excused when they make wrong judgments.
		Nor does it mean that events like Cheriegate do not matter, either in terms of personal conduct or political consequences.
	www.guardian.co.uk /comment/story/0,3604,857028,00.html (1310 words)

	RTE News - Foster makes statement on 'Cheriegate'
		Convicted conman Peter Foster this afternoon issued a statement on his role in the 'Cheriegate' affair, which has rocked Downing Street in recent weeks.
		The 40-year-old Australian, who has a number of convictions for fraud, was involved in Cherie Blair's purchase of two flats in Bristol.
		Cherie Blair admitted his involvement only after leaked e-mails showed Foster had helped her with the purchase, and she was later forced to make a public apology.
	www.rte.ie /news2/2002/1216/blair.html (252 words)

	iafrica.com \| news \| world news Cheriegate 'could bring down Blair'
		A convicted conman at the centre of Britain's "Cheriegate" scandal attempted on Tuesday to stop publication of sensitive material he claimed could bring down British Prime Minister Tony Blair.
		Foster hit the headlines in late 2002 when it emerged he negotiated knock-down rates on two apartments for Blair's wife Cherie, who was then forced to deny interfering to prevent his deportation from Britain.
		He said the material went beyond "Cheriegate", which came about because of a friendship between his girlfriend, Carol Caplin, and Cherie Blair.
	iafrica.com /news/worldnews/306790.htm (371 words)

	The Daily Star: International News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Cheriegate moves on despite Blair's challenge to newsmen
		Prime Minister Blair rounded on journalists over the so-called Cheriegate affair on Thursday, saying it was time to move on now that everyone has "had their pound of flesh".
		Blair said it was a mistake to have asked Foster to help her find and buy the flats in Bristol, where the Blairs' son Euan is at college.
	www.thedailystar.net /dailystarnews/200212/14/n2121413.htm (6117 words)

	Carole Caplin :: When you take advice from a new age fashion guru what do you expect? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		As a former Downing Street aide said last night: “Invite a former topless model and New Age fashion guru into your household, take lifestyle advice from her and well...
		‘‘Cheriegate’’, as it was dubbed by the press, was a disaster waiting to happen.
		When Cherie Blair had concealed and was then forced to admit Foster’s help in her acquisition of two Bristol flats at the end of 2002, it was a political nightmare for Number 10 that was intense and short-lived.
	www.religionnewsblog.com /news.php?p=6353&c=1 (1242 words)

	Foster sorry for Blair mess - theage.com.au
		But Foster, 40, appeared to contradict Mrs Blair's claim that she had not spoken to him about his legal battle when he thanked her for her "innocent" advice after he helped her negotiate a STG69,000 ($A194,000) discount on two apartments.
		For more than two weeks, "Cheriegate" has dominated the British media with new claims daily about the level of involvement Mrs Blair, a leading human rights lawyer, took in Foster's battle against deportation.
		Prime Minister Tony Blair has been forced to defend his wife, who made a tearful public statement last week admitting she had not told the truth at first about Foster's role in the real estate purchase.
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2002/12/17/1039656367748.html (328 words)

	Telegraph \| News
		Just when they thought "Cheriegate" was safely forgotten and they could concentrate on the war on terror, Tony and Cherie Blair must have been acutely embarrassed by the return to the limelight of Carole Caplin and her conman boyfriend, Peter Foster.
		Two months after the scandal broke over revelations that Mrs Blair had used Foster to help her buy two flats at a knockdown price, the Blairs face another week batting away more revelations and allegations.
		He has already written 300,000 words and is working on the last chapter, which focuses on "Cheriegate".
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/02/17/ncher17.xml (699 words)

	'I've got secrets to sink the Blairs'
		The truth about Cherie Blair's relationship with lifestyle guru Carole Caplin has yet to be revealed, the man at the centre of the Cheriegate scandal will claim in a BBC documentary to be screened Thursday night in London.
		Convicted conman Peter Foster, whose assistance in the purchase of two flats led to weeks of damaging headlines for the Blairs last year, claimed that the fitness adviser had secrets which could "sink" the Prime Minister and his wife.
		Miss Caplin said that Mr Blair's director of communications Alastair Campbell had had "a bee in his bonnet" since she met Cherie about the dangers of her talking to the press.
	www.informationclearinghouse.info /article1535.htm (632 words)

	Khaleej Times - Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		What started as a case of apparent misjudgment by Cherie Blair, one of the Britain's highest-earning lawyers, has quickly snowballed into a bitter slanging match between the media and 10 Downing Street, with more embarrassing revelations expected to hit the headlines in the coming days.
		For a government that has an almost paranoiac obsession with image and ratings, nothing could be more troubling than the findings of two newspaper surveys indicating that few Britons believe Cherie's denials while a huge majority believes that the scandal now dubbed 'Cheriegate' has damaged the prime minister.
		New Labour has an enviable record of defusing controversies through the skilful use of 'media spin', but for once the party's formidable spin machine appears to be overwhelmed by the volume and pace of revelations.
	www.khaleejtimes.co.ae /ktarchive/151202/editor.htm (1814 words)

	Scotsman.com News - Cherie Blair - Conman warns of secrets that could 'sink' the Blairs
		THE full truth about the relationship between Cherie Blair and lifestyle guru Carole Caplin has yet to be revealed, the man at the centre of last year’s Cheriegate scandal claimed in a BBC documentary to be screened tonight.
		Convicted conman Peter Foster, whose assistance in the purchase of two flats led to weeks of damaging headlines for the Blairs, claimed that the fitness adviser had secrets which could "sink" the Prime Minister and his wife.
		Cheriegate 'shows need for code of conduct' (01-Jan-03)
	news.scotsman.com /topics.cfm?id=215342003&tid=427 (539 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Politics \| Cheriegate film angers Foster
		But the BBC dismissed Foster's claims, stressing that he and his girlfriend had consented to the film.
		The Conman, His Lover and the Prime Minister's Wife follows the Australian and his partner Ms Caplin during the latter stages of the Cheriegate storm in December.
		The row resulted in an unprecedented apology from Mrs Blair for the embarrassment she caused by buying two flats in Bristol with the help of the convicted fraudster.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk_politics/2777589.stm (655 words)

	Trusting Government, Trusting Politicians, and the Cherie Blair Affair
		This week (2002-12-14), the British Media were preoccupied with Cheriegate, or the "scandal" surrounding the involvement of an alleged "convicted conman" in the purchase of 2 flats in Bristol by the wife of the British Prime Minister, Cherie Blair.
		In the end it all came to the issue of trust.
		Cheriegate started with an assertion in the media that Cherie Blair used services of a "convicted conman" to buy 2 flats in Bristol.
	www.shamsali.com /taj/trust.html (1605 words)

	Warships
		These fliers were called upon during the war in the Pacific (1941-1945) to become the forefront of the mighty fleet t...
		Tony and Cherie Blair have become embroiled in a fresh row over the so-called "Cheriegate" flats.
		It has emerged that two flats they had bought in Bristol were being let to a defence firm working on mul...
	archive.wn.com /2004/11/21/1400/warships (769 words)

	INSIDE STORY: News Agencies Independent, The (London) - Find Articles
		The Sunday Mirror bought exclusive rights to Sophie Wessex's hospitalisation, and it was later covered on the front of the Daily Mail and the Mirror.
		Also sold the `Cheriegate' story exclusively to the Mail on Sunday.
		Raymond's started life as a court recording agency shortly after the Second World War, and is now a firmly established news agency with a staff of 15 journalists.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20041011/ai_n12811643/pg_5 (426 words)

	The Hindu : 'Cheriegate' rocks Downing Street
		It is already being dubbed the `Cheriegate' to rhyme with the Watergate scandal that brought down the Nixon presidency in America, and such is the media frenzy that had Cherie Blair, wife of the British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, been a minister she would have been certainly forced to resign by now.
		But since that is not an option, the heat is on Mr.
		Republication or redissemination of the contents of this screen are expressly prohibited without the written consent of The Hindu
	www.hinduonnet.com /2002/12/11/stories/2002121100911500.htm (547 words)

	Telegraph \| Opinion \| A dangerous guru
		And all this despite a catalogue of disasters: Miss Caplin's introduction of Peter Foster, the instigator of Cheriegate, into Mrs Blair's circle; her invitation of BBC cameras and the Hello!
		Miss Caplin must have been supremely confident of her friendship with the Blairs to have signed up for a column with the Mail on Sunday, the paper that broke the Cheriegate story, as well as being the paper that published Andrew Gilligan's Iraq article - not Mr Blair's favourite reading.
		This halfway-house position won't be easy to maintain: with Miss Caplin staying in close contact with Mrs, but not Mr, Blair, while Downing Street advisers do their best to cut her off altogether.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2003/09/15/dl1502.xml (333 words)

	The Scotsman - UK - Curse of 'Cheriegate' strikes again (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
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		"Cheriegate" originally proved one of the most politically, rather than financially, damaging investments for the Blairs, after Foster's past as a fraudster was made public.
		Estate agents blame the decline in value of the Panoramic development on its undesirable location.
	thescotsman.scotsman.com /uk.cfm?id=670272005 (734 words)

	All-Star Tournamant
		A big "thank you" for all the families and friends who made it all of this possible.
		Standing: coach William Cheriegate, Jessica Ferialdi, Jolie Stroh, Chelsey Storaker, Katlin Wieselthier, Sam Asarch.
		(ttom row) Courtney Spaulding, Kristen Cheriegate, Jessica Donyanavard, Terra Paniccia and Jolie Stroh.
	www.ayso46.org /2005/site/all_star_tournament_pr.htm (2874 words)

	Correspondents Report - Interview with British master of spin
		And the public frankly couldn't give two hoots about who Cherie's friends are or Black Rod.
		MATT PEACOCK: After "Cheriegate," as it was called, it was speculated that Mr Campbell might even quit.
		ALASTAIR CAMPBELL: It would be very odd if you are, you, background like mine is media and politics and you find a job like this anything other than completely absorbing.
	www.abc.net.au /correspondents/content/2003/s830854.htm (1290 words)

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