Sentences with phrase «from undercover agents»

The reason why Ross got into trouble was that he made no effort to get any identifying information from the undercover agents, not to mention being unlicensed.

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.

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.

Carrie receives a new piece of electronic evidence from an undercover agent while staying glued to the surveillance footage of life in Brody's home, which reveals a man struggling with his traumatic memories and resisting pressure to become a media hero.

Not exact matches

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 affidavit also includes a transcript of an exchange between an undercover RCMP agent posing as a drug trafficker and an unidentified Phantom Secure employee who wiped supposedly incriminating data from a modified BlackBerry.

You convicted Bridges and Force — undercover federal agents who stole bitcoin when they were assigned to investigate the Silk Road case — partly thanks to evidence from the bitcoin blockchain.

A criminal complaint alleges that the rabbis charged Jewish wives tens of thousands of dollars to orchestrate kidnappings and accepted $ 20,000 for such an operation from undercover FBI agents.

First, there was a report from The Wall Street Journal stating that one of the agents working undercover in the case misappropriated government money and spent it on gambling, food, and beverages.

The only reason that the scam has survived all these years is because it is an undercover paid Government of Ghana agent doing the covert operations the police, security and intelligence agencies can not do under the law, particular surveillance without a warrant from a High Court — See Sections 29, 30 and 31 of the Security and Intelligence Agencies Act, 1992 (Act 526).

A former New York state assemblyman has been sentenced to 14 years in prison after he was caught in a sting operation accepting bribes from a carnival promoter and two undercover FBI agents posing as out - of - town real estate investors.

«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.

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.

According to city campaign finance records, the campaign paid Tabone $ 3,000 on Feb. 16 — two days after the aide allegedly took a hefty cash bribe from an undercover FBI agent posing as a real estate developer, according to the criminal complaint.

According to court papers, he accepted the $ 15,000 from an undercover FBI agent.

The Brooklyn Democrat was accused of accepting bribes from a carnival promoter and two undercover FBI agents posing as out - of - town real estate investors.

Prosecutors said Boyland sought reimbursements for travel to Albany while he was 150 miles away soliciting bribes from undercover FBI agents.

An undercover DEA agent bought 700 pills in September and October from the Jakackis, who leased a $ 100,000 Land Rover and a $ 45,000 Porsche, prosecutors said in Manhattan federal court.

A colorful lawmaker from southeast Queens, Mr. Smith was quoted in the criminal complaint telling an undercover FBI agent that he should be considered «the best thing since sliced bread» or even «better than sliced bread.»

During the trial, Halloran admitted taking $ 10,000 in cash from an undercover FBI agent who he thought was a «shady» and «crooked» businessman.

Boyland was convicted after his attorneys failed to convince a jury that he had solicited more than $ 250,000 in bribes from undercover federal agents as part of a plan «to scam a pair of corrupt businessmen who were trying to scam him.»

Undercover agents (Daniel Sunjata, Aaron Tveit, Vanessa Ferlito, Brandon Jay McLaren, Manny Montana, and Serinda Swan) from the FBI, DEA and US Customs, live and work together in a Southern California beach house.

Out on the street, as Ethan had predicted, three white - coated men and a female Czech agent (undercover IMF agents) from a pollution control van emerged and climbed the stairs, where they were directed by trench - coated Kittridge to assault the apartment with guns drawn.

Out this weekend is Spy, Paul Feig's latest action - comedy romp starring the brilliantly irreverent Melissa McCarthy as Susan Cooper, a pencil - pushing C.I.A. agent turned undercover operative amidst a nuclear threat from an Eastern European mob boss.

Bruce Lee plays Lee, working as an undercover intelligence agent seeking revenge for his dead sister, who killed herself to keep from getting taken by Han's men.

75 PG A police dog goes undercover with a human FBI agent at the world's most exclusive dog show to recover a stolen baby panda, foil another kidnapping plot and rescue other valuable animals from a gang of greedy smugglers.

Little is known about the plot, but a short synopsis posted on casting database site suggests that we can look forward to more of the same: «Picking up where the 2007 film left off with the incompetent underboss Kirill thinking that he and his henchman driver Nikolai really have inherited the throne from his crime - lord father, without knowing that Nikolai is actually a clandestine agent working undercover in Russia's federal security service.»

Taut tales of stealthy undercover agents from the Civil War through the Cold War have provided... more

For example, Doc's nemesis, LAPD Detective Lieutenant Christian «Bigfoot» Bjornsen (Josh Brolin), is first seen in a television ad costumed in «hippie» gear promoting the «Channel View Estates» housing development; Coy Harlington (Owen Wilson), a musician and former dope addict, now supposedly an undercover government agent, is first glimpsed in a family photo taken by his ex-junkie wife Hope (Jena Malone); Mickey Wolfmann stares out at us from a newspaper photograph before he makes his one and only appearance in corporeal form late in the film; hit man Adrian Prussia (Peter McRobbie) first appears to us in FBI photo files.

The movie, adapted from Robert Mazur's book about his time as an undercover agent for the United States Customs Service, follows «Operation «C» Chase,» a sting operation during the mid-to-late 1980s that redirected the War on Drugs toward the oldest investigative trick in the book: Follow the money.

His mission: track down and retrieve sensitive information from a fellow undercover agent who has gone dark.

The Infiltrator is adapted from the memoir by Robert Mazur, a federal agent who went undercover among Colombian druglords associated with Pablo Escobar and helped bring down his crooked banking infrastructure; the screenwriter who adapted Mazur's book is the director's mother: Ellen Brown Furman.

Picking up where the 2007 film left off with the incompetent underboss Kirill thinking that he and his henchman driver Nikolai really have inherited the throne from his crime - lord father, without knowing that Nikolai is actually a clandestine agent working undercover in Russia's federal security service.

About a year ago I retired from agenting to spend more time writing my own books, and to start an author consulting company called Literary Agent Undercover.

Set in Santa Fe on Christmas Eve, Morrell's tale mixes the suspenseful derring - do of an undercover agent protecting a very special infant from the Russian mafia with a spy's version of the tale of the Magi.

Convinced that everyone from his agent, friends, and bums on the street are portrayed by famous actors, Self goes undercover into the dangerous world of celebrity culture.

Fans of The Selection and The Hunger Games will discover a heart - pounding thrill ride of espionage and suspense set in glittering high society.An eighteen - year - old covert agent is pulled out of training before graduation by Black X, a espionage group so secret even the President of the United States doesn't know it exists.For her first mission, she must go undercover as the long - lost daughter of a recently deceased billionaire, infiltrate high society, and protect the Prince of Montrovia from assassination.But Prince Lorenzo is known as the Playboy Prince for a reason and his sensuality and charisma add a whole other level of complication to her mission.

Acting on a tip from MLAR, Pennsylvania SPCA sent an undercover agent to Blank's kennel where he was able to buy a sick 3 week old puppy.

His mission: track down and retrieve sensitive information from a fellow undercover agent who has gone dark.

This latest push to regulate the art market comes after testimony three weeks ago at a closed - door session of the House Financial Services Committee in which prosecutors from the Department of Justice and NY District Attorney's Office gave testimony about recent cases, such as the recent indictment in the Eastern District of New York of six individuals and four corporations in a $ 50 million money laundering scheme in which an undercover agent purchase a Pablo Picasso painting to launder fraudulent profits from a stock manipulation scheme.

Undercover agents with the Manhattan District Attorney's Office arrested the men after purchasing three prints from them on eBay as part of a sting operation.

This series of work is informed by strategies used by the state, whereby government agents implement undercover operations to prevent dissident groups from rightfully organising demonstrations and expressing their civil liberties.

Or hired double - agent «John Cook» of the Koch - Scaife Climate Denial Machine undercover website «Skeptical Science» and front man of the denialist tract «Climate Change Denial: Heads in the Sand», who wrote, «Stay away from Mann's 2008 paper... It has actually been invalidated.»

After federal agents made undercover purchases of counterfeit goods from certain sites, a court authorized the seizure of those sites» domain names.

Agencies tasked with policing the internet do so with a highly specialized and trained agents, conducting everything from undercover operation to highly technical analysis of computer data.

Force, the lead undercover agent, who communicated with Ulbricht, said he had used fake online personas to steal bitcoin from both the US government and the investigated parties.

A man from Pennsylvania has been sentenced to spending a year and a day in federal prison for selling $ 1.5 million in Bitcoin to undercover federal agents.