Sentences with phrase «sting operations»

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Volunteer — Communities Against Substance Abuse (CASA) 2005 to 2006 Collaborated with local youth advocate volunteers in tobacco and alcohol sting operations.

In February, Reid and Michell Abner Espinoza were arrested in sting operations in which they engaged in fake transactions with undercover agents through online marketplace LocalBitcoins.com and converted $ 30,000 of cash into bitcoin.

We must clarify that The Indian Express does not itself conduct sting operations, out of the reasonable conviction that they undermine the relationship of trust between journalists and their sources.

Enforcement officials involved in large - scale sting operations meant to catch Uber drivers would sometimes buy dozens of cellphones to create different accounts.

On Monday, Channel 4 released video featuring Cambridge CEO Alexander Nix encouraging sting operations involving bribes and paid sex in an effort to swing a campaign in Sri Lanka.

Charleston police will hold «sting operations» to warn Uber drivers and possibly fine them after the service launched in Charleston weeks ago, according to The Post and Courier, which...

In August, 127 tickets were written as the city resumed its sting operations at crosswalks with a history of serious or fatal accidents.

The ruling in McLean is a good reminder that sting operations may not only raise questions of entrapment but also questions that engage proportionality and the degree of moral blameworthiness in sentencing irrespective of a mandatory minimum sentence.

This new label coincides with a crack - down on these types of offenses which includes increased enforcement efforts and sting operations.

If the feds would monitor the court system a lot of the corruption wouldn't be taking place if there were sting operations taking place when the smell of a rat starts coming into play.

Sometimes they set up sting operations to get kidnapped dogs back.

Take California Fish and Game warden A.J. Bolton, for example, who employs animal automatons in Eureka, California as decoys in poaching sting operations.

In California, the Dairy institute has hired private detectives to conduct sting operations, and 11 «recyclers» who accepted stolen crates have been arrested.

Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon has ebbed significantly in recent years due to better monitoring by the federal authorities and a series of major sting operations against illegal loggers.

National police have intensified a crackdown begun two years ago on the dog trade, setting up sting operations in the forests where dogs are slaughtered and shipped, often to Vietnam and China, where dog eating is more prevalent.

Cabral and Sutcliffe's subject is Shariff, a charismatic but deeply troubled informant who has played the closer in a couple of high - profile sting operations of alleged would - be domestic terrorists.

Lee Pace has been cast as DeLorean, and Jason Sudeikis will take on the role of a con artist - turned - FBI - informant who led one of the most scandalous FBI sting operations of the 1980s.

The Directorate of State Security Service today explained the rationale behind its sting operations which led to the invasion of the homes of some judges in Abuja and PortHarcourt in the early hours of today.

Six people caught in sting operations by the former News of the World investigations editor, Mazher Mahmood, are seeking leave to appeal against convictions resulting from stories about them in the newspaper.

More sting operations similar to this one are being planned.

A week after Mayor Bill de Blasio announced the city's Vision Zero safety campaign, Ameri met one - on - one with local advocates and laid out a plan of action that included speeding enforcement and failure - to - yield sting operations, McClure said.

Simple sting operations could clear this up.

More locally, BostInno has reported recently on sting operations in Boston that have resulted in tickets for Uber drivers.

The technology uses data collected from the ride - hailing app to track and circumvent users who violate Uber's terms of service, including competitors and government sting operations.

However we are constantly pursuing them with our own undercover sting operations.

Many of the government's largest sting operations come from busting up cross-state Ponzi schemes, «affinity» investment scams (which prey on the elderly or on particular ethnic or religious groups), and penny - stock boiler rooms, like the infamous Stratton Oakmont and Sterling Foster.

Uber's use of Greyball was recorded on video in 2014, when a code enforcement inspector in Portland, Ore., tried to hail an Uber as part of a sting operation, according to the Times.

Topics covered include: - How Booker's parents used a sting operation to desegregate a neighborhood, and why they did it - Why Ezra doesn't eat breakfast - Booker's disagreements with Ta - Nehisi Coates - How a 10 - day fast led to a (temporary) peace with Booker's worst political enemy - How spirituality informs Booker's approach to politics - The lessons Booker took from his early losses in with elections and city council fights - What it's like to be the only vegan in Congress - Why Booker hates penguins - Whether it's cynical or simply realistic to doubt America's political institutions - Which books have influenced Booker mostAnd much, much more.

As evidence, they pointed to the audio from the FBI sting operation, during which the DVDs can be heard playing.

This morning, the Center for Medical Progress released its 10th overall video in its ongoing sting operation that has revealed some shocking actions by Planned Parenthood employees and affiliates.

The arrests, according to multiple sources, 23 law enforcement agencies in 14 states participated in a massive sting operation starting three weeks before Super Bowl Sunday and leading all the way up to the big game.

The incident started during a sting operation, when Harris, who has had several past criminal convictions, was filmed selling a gun to an undercover police officer.

Holder came under fire after refusing to release papers relating to a flawed gun - running sting operation called Fast and Furious.

As if to prove he had other matters on his mind, twelve years later John produced Bribes: The Intellectual History of a Moral Idea, a study that begins in Egypt two thousand years before Christ and ends with a discussion of Abscam, an FBI sting operation that sent seven U.S. Congressmen and one Senator to prison in the early 80s.

In an exclusive interview, Ghanaian investigative journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas talks to RFI about the ongoing court cases against several judges implicated in his undercover sting operation revealing alleged corruption within Ghana's judiciary.

And it doesn't get more damning for civil society architecture — herding justices of the courts (including the Supreme Court) into detention, with alleged smoking guns, after a sting operation, by the secret police.

However, even the Buhari Presidency must admit the sting operation, against the judges, was nothing short of revolutionary.

What if DSS's claims are proven, that the arrested judges were caught with some humongous cash in varied currencies, after a sting operation possibly after a tip - off, would the NBA not draw the CJN into unfair controversy, about using his office to shield corrupt elements in the judiciary?

John Trickett, shadow Cabinet Office minister, comments on the Bureau of Investigative Journalism lobbying sting operation.

There were fresh demands for reform of the lobbying industry today after a sting operation saw a major company boast about its influence on the prime minister.

Jimmy Meng, a former Flushing state assemblyman and father of current Assemblywoman Grace Meng (D - Flushing), was arrested on charges of wire fraud in an FBI sting operation after he accepted a fruit basket containing $ 80,000 in bribery money Tuesday afternoon at his Flushing - based company, according to federal prosecutors.

A human trafficking and prostitution sting operation between federal, state and local law enforcement yielded multiple arrests during this year's New York State Fair, according Onondaga County District Attorney William Fitzpatrick.

Cambridge Analytica is in the midst of a media firestorm after an undercover sting operation caught senior executives boasting about psychological manipulation, entrapment techniques and fake news campaigns.

A dozen men, including a Mechanicville school bus driver and Glens Falls radio personality Tim Celeste of WNYQ 101.7, have been arrested for allegedly soliciting sex from an underage girl in the Capital Region as part of a sex sting operation last week.

Former whistleblower and current Maryland Senate candidate Chelsea Manning made a surprise appearance, speaking briefly with Project Veritas» James O'Keefe — who came under fire this year after his organization attempted an undercover sting operation to discredit the accusers of former Alabama GOP candidate Roy Moore.

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.

She added that the war against corruption «is by this singular sting operation revived as there is no sacred cow when Justices of the Supreme Court are among the culprits.

A video sting operation conducted by James O'Keefe shows Cornell's assistant dean for students, Joseph Scaffido, agreeing to everything suggested by an individual posing as a Moroccan student.

Meanwhile, fresh details were emerging of the tabloid sting operation which triggered the resignation of Brooks Newmark as minister for civil society.