Sentences with phrase «as an informant»

Before the United States Department of Justice handed down the first of several indictments of corrupt soccer executives, the New York Daily News reported that Blazer was working as an informant for the FBI.

In 1970s South Boston, FBI Agent John Connolly persuades Irish - American gangster Jimmy Bulger to act as an informant for the FBI in order to eliminate their common enemy: the Italian mob.

Finally, in Phase 5, we will examine the impact of variations in the robot's verbal repertoire that are likely to make it more or less trusted as an informant by children from particular language backgrounds.

Juan, whose last name Reuters agreed not to disclose because of his ongoing role as an informant, is no longer in Guanajuato.

A timely new six - part thriller from the BBC sees newcomer Nabhaan Rizwar play a second - generation Pakistani - Brit, coerced by a Counter-Terrorism officer (played by Paddy Considine) into working undercover as an informant.

One day, Connolly has a brainstorm — use Bulger as an informant.

With autofocus cameras, the students used sounds as an informant, and touch as a way to compose their images.

Depressed mothers as informants about their children — a critical - review of the evidence for distortion

The records also confirm that the FBI has paid Geek Squad employees as informants.

A phone sex operator who assists police as an informant says more callers want her to put on the voice of a child.

Stevenson was brought down as part of a sting set up by the US Attorney's office to catch corrupt lawmaker with the help of former Assemblyman Nelson Castro, who was also caught on corruption charges and agreed with act as an informant in order to avoid jail time.

But with tensions already high over the official's arrival, she is considered as much a suspect as an informant.

Based on the book of the same name by former Boston Globe reporters Dick Lehr and Gerard O'Neill, «Black Mass,» which opens in theaters Sept. 18, is the story of Bulger's relationship with John Connolly, the egregiously corrupt FBI agent who cultivated his boyhood buddy as an informant and then looked the other way as crook became kingpin.

The film chronicles Bulger's rise to prominence with the formation of the Winter Hill Gang and Bulger's relationship as an informant thanks to a former childhood friend turned FBI agent, John Connolly (Joel Edgerton), who is a good cop that gets seduced by the sadistic ways of Bulger.

When he was caught, he made deals with the CIA and DEA to continue his activities as an informant and spy.

Breazeal, C., Harris, P.L., DeSteno, D., Kory, J., Dickens, D., & Jeong, S. (in press) Young children treat robots as informant.

As you exit the building, Lucius meets you outside asking whether you want him to stay with the company and act as an informant although you will receive no new gear for a long period of time or if he should quit and work only for Batman.

Elsewhere, allegations that theorist and philosopher Julia Kristeva was engaged as an informant by Bulgarian secret services during the Cold War have provoked much debate in recent weeks.

Sanders requested further discovery on Perez as an informant, but the lead prosecutor fought the request by conceding that Perez was acting as a government agent, and thus there was no need for discovery on the issue.

That case accorded to people who informed the authorities of allegations of child abuse the same protection as informants to the police and the gaming authorities.

Methodology A. Ethnographic Research B. Junior Associates as Informants IV.

This longitudinal link between self - control and substance dependence was verified by people whom study members had nominated as informants who knew them well.

This study examined the degree of disagreement between runaway adolescents and their primary caretakers, defined as informant discrepancies, on their view of their family.

In a sample of 30 children diagnosed with ADHD, ADHD symptomatology was assessed with the Diagnostic Interview Schedule for Children — Parent Version (DISC - P), with parents and teachers as informants.

The SAC is a 48 - item standardized and validated measure used to assess the overall mental health of children, including externalizing problems with a teacher or parent as informant.

They claim the FBI got to Blazer in 2011, and that he worked as an informant for a couple of years before leaving FIFA.

In April 2013 Castro abruptly resigned his Bronx Assembly seat, shocking his colleagues and constituents by announcing that he had worked for the U.S. Attorney's office and that his role as an informant was key to convicting former Assemblymember Eric Stevenson for taking $ 20,000 in bribes from businesspeople building a daycare facility.

Joel Edgerton does a great job as John Connolly, the slick, ambitious Federal agent who persuades Bulger that serving as an informant for the government will accrue to his benefit and then does an elaborate tap - dance to convince his superiors — over a span of years — that he's right, even when the results become openly embarrassing.

This is one of the great Johnny Depp performances in a career full of them, and I'm not talking about the «Pirates of the Carribean» franchise, but rather his nuanced turn in «Donnie Brasco» in which he plays an FBI man who goes undercover as an informant and discovers he has more in common with the criminals than with the FBI.

During the early part of the film, the story focuses on Bulger's power but then it becomes more about the relationship between Bulger and John Connolly (Joel Edgarton), the FBI agent who used Bulger as an informant but who ultimately became corrupted by the mobster's influence.

With autofocus cameras, the students used sound as an informant, and touch as a way to compose their images.

Guiding Skelly's way is Najeeb, a tribal Pakistani with his own objective — U.S. visas for his girlfriend and himself, promised by Pakistani intelligence if he acts as an informant.

In at least one such instance, the FBI reportedly paid the Geek Squad employee $ 500 for turning over the material and proceeded to use him as an informant.

The result is open - ended conversations with members of a congregation who, as informants, respond to these questions designed to evoke pertinent answers.

Another funny: as an informant, Sandoval was instrumental in bringing down former Hudson County Executive Robert Janiszewski.

Another protégé and former Espaillat staffer, Nelson Castro, would suddenly resign his assembly seat in 2013 after working as an informant to avoid criminal charges.

He was still a candidate in 2009 when he agreed to work as an informant and later ran for reelection while still in the same position.

As for the perjury charge that led to his work as an informant, Castro stresses that the actual case had nothing to do with his work in the Assembly.

That testimony led to an investigation by the Bronx District Attorney and the charges that led to Castro's agreement to serve as an informant.

There, an agent (Clive Owen), who later reveals his name as Mac, tries to recruit her as an informant by threatening her with a long prison term.

Almost immediately he goes about convincing the Agency to sign up Bulger, a «smaller fry», as an informant to net the Mafia.

We know the name «Deep Throat» as the informant that helped take down President Nixon in the wake of Watergate.