Sentences with phrase «government informant»

The finding came in a reversal and remand of a district court's dismissal of a suit brought by Muslim plaintiffs who claimed they'd been added to the federal no - fly list after refusing to become government informants.

The New York Times reported separately this past week that at least one government informant met several times with Carter Page and George Papadopoulos, both former foreign policy advisers for Trump's Republican campaign.

Halloran allegedly told a wired government informant, «You can't do anything without the money... Money is what greases the wheels... good bad or indifferent,» CBS 2's Jessica Schneider reported.

Government informant Moses Stern, who has pleaded guilty to defrauding Citibank out of $ 126 million in an unrelated case, took the stand to describe his dealings with Halloran.

In a 2012 dissenting opinion as the case was winding through the court, appellate Judge Richard Posner had put an even finer point on it, referring to the stings as a «disreputable tactic» that used government informants to target people at a vulnerable time in their lives.

The New York Times reported separately this week that at least one government informant met several times with Carter Page and George Papadopoulos, both former foreign policy advisers for Trump's Republican campaign.

A government informant struck up a relationship with Randy Weaver, and this eventually resulted in Weaver's selling, at the informant's request, several illegally sawed - off shotguns.

David Fried — who was endorsed last month by Clinton in his bid for Rockland County executive — said he will give to charity $ 10,000 that political fixer, government informant and admitted felon Moses «Mark» Stern contributed to Fried's failed 2006 run for New York State Assembly.

Smith asked Moses «Mark» Stern, a government informant posing as a businessman, to give him $ 27,000 — money that was later to be dispersed to other senators to cement his influence.

He cites disgraced former State Senate Majority Leader Malcolm Smith who told a government informant, «that's politics in New York.

Former Queens Councilman Daniel Halloran testified at his federal trial that an envelope of cash he took from someone who turned out to be a government informant wasn't a bribe but a personal loan.

Stevenson was caught after another Bronx assemblyman, Nelson Castro, was caught in a corruption probe and agreed to become a government informant.

Another Assemblyman admitted to being a government informant and said he'd been wearing wire on and off for the past four years.

Former Queens City Councilman Daniel Halloran testified at his federal trial Thursday that an envelope of cash he took from someone who turned out to be a government informant wasn't a bribe but a personal loan.

Castro secretly recorded conversations with other state lawmakers as a government informant for five years.

This past April, Castro, now 41, had to resign his Assembly seat when it was revealed that he'd been indicted for perjury, after which he was a government informant for almost his entire tenure in the State Assembly — and helped make a bribery case against a legislative colleague.

Nelson L. Castro, a former Democratic state assemblyman from the Bronx who secretly recorded conversations as a government informant, avoided prison on Thursday, largely because of his cooperation that a judge characterized as by all accounts «extraordinarily valuable, and indeed historic.»

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.

Although he was an excellent student, he could not get into any graduate programs in physics because, he suspects, the KGB blacklisted him for refusing to become a government informant.

Investigators began focusing on Li in 2011, when a government informant sold two raw rhino horns to a middleman at the Vince Lombardi rest stop on the New Jersey stretch of Interstate 95.

As a government informant played by Michael Sheen tells Webb, the reporter is being «controversialized,» with accusations about the messenger being used to distract attention from the message.

John McClane (Bruce Willis) and his estranged son Jack (Jai Courtney) team up to protect a government informant in Moscow, and thwart a major crime in Chernobyl in this sequel from director John Moore (Max Payne, Behind Enemy Lines).

From there, Gary follows the path of proof from Russell Dodson (Barry Pepper), a federal prosecutor whose evidence is often kept secret due to matters of national security, to a government informant to a crack dealer in South Central Los Angeles.