Sentences with phrase «efcc undercover agent»

Uber relied on undercover agents to undermine taxi drivers and their companies, Halunen wrote.

Undercover agents impersonated taxi drivers to subvert opposition to the ride - hailing app.

The 37 - page letter describes how Uber hired people to spy on executives of overseas rivals, used undercover agents to impersonate taxi drivers, and scraped competitors» information from the Internet.

The defendants portrayed the bribes as an accepted part of the NCAA, according to an undercover agent pretending to be a financial backer for two defendants» sports - management business.

The undercover agent said that former sports agent Christian Dawkins bluntly explained the benefits of paying bribes to Lamont Evans, associate head coach of Oklahoma State's basketball team, to other defendants.

He is accused of selling bitcoin to an undercover agent who posed...

Multiple undercover agents, posing as drug traffickers looking to expand their operations, also met Ramos in Las Vegas in February 2017, the complaint continues.

He is accused of selling bitcoin to an undercover agent who posed as a butane hash oil manufacturer, as well as operating an unlicensed money transmitting business.

The issue became public this year when a man was arrested after trying to help two undercover agents who told him they wanted to launder illegally obtained cash by exchanging it for bitcoin.

«Two powerful government businesses are discussing radical new espionage powers that could see Australia's cyber undercover agent company monitor Australian residents for the first time.»

«Secret plan to undercover agent on Aussies,» The Sunday Telegraph headlined the story.

If Senate - approved treaties affirm our respect for the sovereignty of other nations, we can not permit our government's undercover agents to mount attacks — military or verbal — that threaten the right to self - determination; no matter how misguided we may judge other nations to be.

Yet ten days later undercover agents were able to buy cocaine in bulk at the same price as before the seizures.

He didn't know the Feds had it tapped, or that he had unwittingly hired their undercover agents.

Lawyer James Branden told the Second U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that when Boyland was convicted in 2014 of overlapping schemes to take cash from undercover agents to help them with a carnival permit and a real estate project, the judge gave jurors too broad a definition of the type of promised acts that the Supreme Court says would be a crime.

Soon after, with undercover agents closing in, Fathi fled the country with her husband and two children, beginning a life of exile.

The feds last week arrested Liu fund - raiser Xing Wu «Oliver» Pan on fraud charges for allegedly using straw donors to hide a $ 16,000 contribution from an undercover agent that violated campaign - finance laws.

In exchange for their help and ponying up the bribe money, Smith is accused of promising to use his position in the senate to steer $ 500,000 in state funding to a development project in Spring Valley that the cooperating witness and the undercover agent claimed they were planning.

The undercover agent testified that he personally handed Tabone a $ 25,000 bribe.

One of those video tapes showed one of the undercover agents, Brian Getson, arriving at Mr. Boyland's district office with a blank check.

After the November meeting with Smith, the cooperating witness and the undercover agent enlisted Halloran to act as a middleman to persuade the Bronx and Queens party bosses to sign off on the certificates, according to a criminal complaint.

A few months later the undercover agent met Smith again, this time in Smith's car in Rockland County.

The undercover agent promised Smith that he could arrange a meeting for him with «County Chairman 1» and Bronx GOP boss Joseph Savino, in which Raj would convince them to back Smith.

«However, what never occurred to us is the possibility that a reputable organization like UNICEF would allow some of its staff to enlist in the club of undercover agents of foreign forces against Nigeria, in disguised support for terrorism.

«I believe that when Roman and Barry discussed «four pairs» of «size 9» «air jays,» [they] were referring to four 9 mm handguns,» the complaint states, adding that an undercover agent bought four 9 mm handguns from Roman the day after the message was sent.

A Department of Investigation report found that one of its undercover agents was able to smuggle weapons and drugs past checkpoints on six separate occasions.

The complaint says in exchange for payments from the developer to the Republican officials, Smith agreed to use his power as senator to help obtain state money for a road project in Spring Valley — a project he believed would benefit the undercover agent's company.

CFPN wondered why a reputable organization like UNICEF would allow some of its staff to enlist in the club of undercover agents of foreign forces against Nigeria, in disguised support for terrorism.

Christopher Alessandro, a New Rochelle City Court trainee, sent indecent material to an undercover agent posing as a 14 - year - old girl, police charged.

State Sen. Malcolm Smith made a wire - wearing, undercover agent posing as a power - hungry developer an offer he thought he'd never refuse: Help rig the mayor's race in the pol's favor...

The undercover agent...

«Law enforcement will use every aggressive and creative tool at our disposal — wire taps and confidential informants and undercover agents and stings,» Bharara said.

He also asserts that «not a single fake donor has been established other than the ones that were the result of an FBI undercover agent... tricking and deceiving his way into my campaign.»

Smith, the prosecutor said, turned to crooked Rockland County developer Moses Stern and an undercover agent for money and help pulling off the scheme.

As WCBS 880's Irene Cornell reported, the undercover agent was posing as a wealthy restaurant owner who wanted to circumvent the campaign laws and donate $ 16,000, an illegally large amount of cash to the campaign.

In that revelation, undercover agents with the FBI released evidence in which Boyland discussed how influential he was in making deals happen in Brooklyn.

During the White Plains federal corruption trial of Halloran (R - Queens), defense lawyer Vinoo Varghese tried to shoot down the government's claims that the pol in 2012 offered to dole out $ 80,000 in no - show city consulting work on a Queens YMCA to the wire - wearing undercover agent in exchange for funds to boost what would be a failed congressional run by Halloran.

Separately, Halloran is also accused of steering $ 40,000 to $ 80,000 in discretionary member items to a company he thought was controlled by a wealthy contributor who in fact was an undercover agent.

Yesterday, the F.B.I. arrested Councilman Dan Halloran and State Senator Malcolm Smith for allegedly attempting to bribe Republican party officials and also, in the case of Halloran, planning to redirect City Council member items to an undercover agent posing as a real estate developer in exchange for money.

Halloran was accused, among other things, of offering to redirect some of his Council money to an undercover agent posing as a real estate developer in return for cash payments.

Raj defended the tactics as «part of my job as an undercover agent.»

Hermon — who notably told an undercover agent that a $ 1,000 payoff made her «so hot» — cooperated with the feds.

The deal, which Boyland Jr. suggested to undercover agents posed as businessmen, entailed buying a derelict Brooklyn hospital for $ 8 million and applying for public grants to be used for the property's renovation.

That, in turn, was to benefit a real estate project that Smith believed was being built by the undercover agent's company in suburban Spring Valley, the complaint alleged.

In an unrelated incident, Halloran also pledged to steer $ 80,000 to a shell company operated by the cooperating witness and the undercover agent in exchange for cash bribes and fake donations to his unsuccessful 2012 congressional campaign, which he lost to U.S. Rep. Grace Meng (D - Bayside).

In the process, Idowu was asked to liaise with the complainant's personal assistant, who was an EFCC undercover agent.

Smith also agreed to steer $ 500,000 in state money towards a real estate development in Spring Valley, N.Y., for the undercover agent and a cooperating witness.

First he promised the undercover agent and the cooperating witness that he would direct $ 500,000 in state transportation funds to a Rockland project he thought was real, but was in fact fabricated by the feds, the complaint alleged.

Theron starred in the action flick Atomic Blonde, where she played an undercover agent investigating a murder abroad.

She wasn't the first little undercover agent who's tried to blow my cover (too many to include in this article, but I promise to share more on this).