Sentences with phrase «as an informant in»

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.

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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.

In addition to disclosing the political motivations behind Steele's research, the DOJ also outlined the former British spy's long history as an FBI informant and status as a credible source of intelligence who had provided information the DOJ had used in criminal proceedingIn addition to disclosing the political motivations behind Steele's research, the DOJ also outlined the former British spy's long history as an FBI informant and status as a credible source of intelligence who had provided information the DOJ had used in criminal proceedingin criminal proceedings.

Some former U.S. officials say the problem is too few U.S. informants on the ground in danger zones such as Pakistan or Yemen.

In court filings, Zambada has already made the explosive claim that he was working as a secret informant for the DEA.

The Hill quoted the attorney for a former FBI informant in the TENEX case as saying her client «witnessed numerous, detailed conversations in which Russian actors described their efforts to lobby, influence or ingratiate themselves with the Clintons in hopes of winning favorable uranium decisions from the Obama administration.»

Your task is to find out, with as little preconception as possible, how your informants describe what is going on in life, where it seems to be headed, and why.

After only a few conversations it was evident that a catechetical approach — one in which I would ask what an informant understood about some credal tenet such as the Trinity or salvation — did not plumb the richness of that member's perception of life.

Write down as much as possible of the informant's answer as it is spoken, and later fill in the gaps.

The details of this report reached the Allies from Vatican sources as well as from informants in Switzerland and the Polish underground.

Here then is a summary of the essential purport of the life and work of Jesus in a kind of symbolic shorthand: he undertook his mission, our informants are saying, as Messiah, as Son of God, as the Servant of the Lord, in the power of the divine Spirit — and this is «God's truth,» affirmed by the divine voice whose echo can be caught by the inward ear.

Now every informant, even one in a friendly religious bureaucracy, must maintain anonymity, so he shall simply be identified as «Deep Choke.»

She is divorced from Hector Pagan, Jr., who was exposed as an FBI informant, and with whom she has a son, A.J.. She's been the subject of feature articles in People, US Weekly, and OK!

The reason my informant was optimistic about the referendum result - I wouldn't go as far as to say confident - was that the Remain campaign's private polling, he claimed, tells a different story to the polls we read about in the newspapers or see on TV.

President - elect Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpGOP lawmakers want Trump to stop bashing Congress US ends aid for northwest Syria: report FBI informant met with three Trump campaign advisers: report MORE dismissed talk of sanctioning Russia as some lawmakers and President Obama push for the U.S. to act in light of Russian interference in the election.

I also found the book annoying because it made no attempt to address those whose beliefs it apparently dealt with, instead situating its author in a position familiar from colonial times, as the native informant there to traduce his people for the pleasure and plaudits of foreigners.

The defense claim of selective prosecution stems from recent revelations that Singh, the government's star informant, secretly pleaded guilty in October 2016 to bribing Mangano and Venditto, and also to trying to bribe a New York City elected official with campaign contributions — identified in Azrack's decision as Mayor Bill de Blasio.

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

However, its action and handling of its informants is a threat to its operations» success as the signal shows that many are likely to think twice in engaging the military should they stumble on intelligence that is capable of winning our wars for us.

Court papers filed ahead of Smith's upcoming Manhattan corruption trial say he unwittingly told an FBI informant that he bought his way into power as majority leader by doling out campaign cash to other senators in 2008.

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Defending his nutty conspiracy theory, Mr McCluskey claimed: «We found out just a couple of years ago that the chair of my union then, the Transport and General Workers Union, was an MI5 informant at the time that there was a strike taking place that I personally as a worker was involved in.

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.

And, although he has never been implicated in a crime, two of his top former associates have: Former Councilman Miguel Martinez is serving in prison for stealing more than $ 100,000 in taxpayer dollars and former Assemblyman Nelson Castro was indicted for perjury and spent his entire Albany tenure as a wire - wearing informant, culminating in his resignation last April.

Rumors circulating in Rockland County that Attorney General Eric Schneiderman utilized FBI informant Mark / Moses / Moshe Stern as a go - between with the Rockland Hasidic community in the recent past are greatly exaggerated, Schneiderman's office told the Rockland County Times.

Stefan Halper is a Cambridge Academic and has been named in several reports as an FBI informant on the Trump campaign.

Standing in the way, along with the rigors of a campaign and the incumbent, is the fact that Castro served as a government informant for years - to avoid perjury 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.

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 facilitIn 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 facilitin bribes from businesspeople building a daycare facility.

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 AssemblAs 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 Assemblas an informant, Castro stresses that the actual case had nothing to do with his work in the Assembly.

One informant described many scientists as being «in the foetal position», curled up and hoping it will all go away.

As Saeed — using the name «Shariff» — tries to coerce Khalifah into saying that he's interested in going to an actual terrorist camp, even the informant begins to question whether this mission is worth anyone's time.

In this fact - based made - for - TV movie, Patricia Arquette stars as an FBI informant who has a secret affair with a married agent.

Just as she's performing a packed - house routine at the Bolshoi Theatre, Nate Nash (Joel Edgerton) arranges a covert meeting with an informant in Gorky Park.

On radio, Leon Belasco was heard as larcenous informant Pagan Zeldschmidt on The Man Called X; his best - known TV role was Appopoplous the landlord in My Sister Eileen (1960).

They are both perfectly cast as the crime fighting duo with excellent support from a handlebar mustachioed Vince Vaughn as their arch rival, along with furry mustachioed partner in crime Jason Bateman and a perfectly cast Snoop Dogg, with some sharp lines, as the eponymous informant «Huggy Bear».

Melanie Jayne Lynskey (born 16 May 1977 height 5» 7» (1,70 m)-RRB- is a New Zealand actress best known for playing Charlie Harper's neighbor / stalker Rose on Two and a Half Men, and a range of characters in films such as Win Win, Up in the Air, The Informant!

Burl Ives is as an apolitical doctor caught in the middle of the shenanigans, Ernie Kovacs is perfectly sleazy as a corrupt Cuban officer with eyes for Guinness» daughter, Noel Coward and Ralph Richardson are British intelligence officers and Maureen O'Hara is the secretary that they send to help Guinness manage his growing (and entirely fictional) stable of informants and agents.

With Bradley Cooper as an FBI agent and Christian Bale as his criminal informant, Adam Adams as Bale's mistress and Jennifer Lawrence as his wife, plus Jeremy Renner as a «volatile» politician and Louis C.K., Robert De Niro, Michael Pena, Jack Huston and Colleen Camp rounding out the star - studded cast, the film boasts a lot of potential performance-wise — all of them decked out in fabulously awful»70s attire and highly questionable wigs.

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 moIn 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 moin order to eliminate their common enemy: the Italian mob.

Bulger didn't murder 11 people and run the lion's share of Boston's criminal enterprises without help, after all: He had a hand from John Connolly, the overeager and appallingly unscrupulous FBI special agent who brought Bulger on as an agency informant and in doing so gave him the power to carry out his vicious business with impunity.

Instead of continuing solely in the action genre, however, Damon has used his industry box - office standing to make less commercial fare, in which he is not always the lead, such as Syriana, The Brothers Grimm, The Departed (which won an Oscar for Best Picture), The Good Shepherd, The Informant!

There's something in there about the disappearance of a hippie chick, called Shasta; the involvement of a real estate mogul, called Mickey Wolfmann; an international drug smuggling operation, called The Golden Fang; and a sax player, called Coy Harlingen, who may or may not be working as an FBI informant.

One thing leads to another, as tends to happen when you fall down rabbit holes of espionage and clandestine operations, and soon Barry is acting as a bagman in transactions between the Company and Panamanian strongman — and CIA informant — Manuel Noriega, and then he's smuggling drugs into the U.S. for the Medellin cartel, which leads to (after he's caught) becoming a DEA informant.

Of course, it didn't come easy — the film was six years in the making, only after Saeed, who'd been friendly with Cabral for years prior, one day told her he was a living under an assumed identity as a paid FBI informant.

But it is also an unmissable portrait of one man, FBI informant Saeed, the psychological toll the job has taken on him and the incredible story of one particular operation that ends in an (as far as we know) completely unjustified arrest and eventual incarceration.

Matt Damon picked up two nominations, as well, as musical or comedy actor playing a whistleblower spinning wild fabrications in «The Informant!»

The real - life story of James «Whitey» Bulger, the South Boston crime boss who acted as a protected FBI informant for years until the arrangement imploded, is one of the most bizarre, once - in - a-lifetime stories you're likely to hear.

The movie focuses on the years Bulger worked as an FBI informant, from the mid-1970s until he fled Boston in the mid-1990s.

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