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Pic-139 - Ex-Lord Mayor Alastair King Posing For Pictures With A Convicted Cr_ - [reclaimec1.wordpress.com].pdf

https://reclaimec1.wordpress.com/2026/01/04/ex-lord-mayor-alastair-king-posing-for-pictures-with-a-convicted-criminal-the-city-of-london-council-lobbying-for-honours/ This is a Reclaim EC1 blog post (dated 4 Jan 2026) attacking what it calls the City of London “honours/lobbying machine” and uses a photo opportunity as its hook: it says ex-Lord Mayor Alastair King posed for pictures with “former Playboy model and convicted criminal Anna-Maria Galojan” at a City event (captioned as the Lord Mayor’s Last Laugh at Guildhall on 5 Nov 2025). The post argues that City figures get honours and positive PR regardless of wider controversies, names other City personalities in the same “rewarded despite…” frame, and cites/quotes commentary about the honours system being driven by who you know and organised lobbying. In short: it’s a polemical “elite networks protect themselves” piece, with Galojan used as a reputational weapon and example. Why it matters to her story: it’s a clean, modern example of the pattern you’re documenting: even years later, she gets invoked as a shorthand label (“convicted criminal / Playboy”) in unrelated contexts, and the label is used to create scandal-by-association — which then keeps the old narrative alive without revisiting the underlying record.

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Part of Anna Maria Galojan Case File: The Coverage, The Courts, And The Caricature

Estonia Politics Published 8 April 2026 at 22:33 Source: 1 January 2011
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