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Two youthful - looking (and since this is a comedy, spectacularly incompetent) police officers are assigned to a special division that places undercover agents in schools in an attempt to stop illegal activity.

Their mission is to capture a traitor who has stolen a list of undercover agents in the Eastern Bloc.

During the White Plains federal corruption trial of Halloran (R - Queens), defense lawyer Vinoo Varghese tried to shoot down the government's claims that the pol in 2012 offered to dole out $ 80,000 in no - show city consulting work on a Queens YMCA to the wire - wearing undercover agent in exchange for funds to boost what would be a failed congressional run by Halloran.

In an unrelated incident, Halloran also pledged to steer $ 80,000 to a shell company operated by the cooperating witness and the undercover agent in exchange for cash bribes and fake donations to his unsuccessful 2012 congressional campaign, which he lost to U.S. Rep. Grace Meng (D - Bayside).

Denis Villeneuve hands the directing reins to Stefano Sellima in this new crime thriller — which shifts the focus to Benicio del Toro's former undercover agent in the drug wars along the U.S. - Mexico border.

This is the catalyst that begins your tenure as an undercover agent in a zombie bashing playground.

Not exact matches

The cartel was undone by the February 1985 kidnapping and killing of undercover DEA agent Enrique «Kiki» Camarena in the western Mexican city of Guadalajara.

Multiple undercover agents, posing as drug traffickers looking to expand their operations, also met Ramos in Las Vegas in February 2017, the complaint continues.

The agent went undercover, asking Rockcoons in December 2016 for help buying bitcoin.

Yet ten days later undercover agents were able to buy cocaine in bulk at the same price as before the seizures.

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.

Stern and the undercover FBI agent led the politicians involved to believe that they were wealthy developers looking for to curry favor and would use their economic resources to help Smith bribe his way into City Hall in exchange for political favors that would pave the way for their upstate development projects.

Cuomo actually does come up in the allegations, very tangentially: At one point in the U.S. attorney's complaint, Smith is quoted as having said to an undercover F.B.I. agent, as part of an explanation for why the Republican county chairmen were unlikely to go back on a bribe - based bargain with him, «I got them already asking me about judgeships, because judgeships now come through here, it comes through the governor.»

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.

Soon after, with undercover agents closing in, Fathi fled the country with her husband and two children, beginning a life of exile.

Once he admits to being a covert unlawful Government agent, I have discharged my burden that he has always been one and the onus does not lie on me to prove that in the particular case of the judicial corruption undercover operations he was not acting as an agent for the Government in spite of foot notes 16 and 17 of my article on judicial and political corruption.

The senator, who represents Queens Village, St. Albans and Jamaica, is accused of conspiring in November 2012 with a cooperating witness and an undercover FBI agent posing as a wealthy real estate developer to bribe city Republican leaders in order to win Wilson - Pakula certificates.

In exchange for their help and ponying up the bribe money, Smith is accused of promising to use his position in the senate to steer $ 500,000 in state funding to a development project in Spring Valley that the cooperating witness and the undercover agent claimed they were planninIn exchange for their help and ponying up the bribe money, Smith is accused of promising to use his position in the senate to steer $ 500,000 in state funding to a development project in Spring Valley that the cooperating witness and the undercover agent claimed they were planninin the senate to steer $ 500,000 in state funding to a development project in Spring Valley that the cooperating witness and the undercover agent claimed they were planninin state funding to a development project in Spring Valley that the cooperating witness and the undercover agent claimed they were planninin Spring Valley that the cooperating witness and the undercover agent claimed they were planning.

Smith, the feds say, turned to Moses Stern — a crooked Rockland County developer who was, in fact, a cooperating federal witness — as well as another man he thought was a developer but who was actually an undercover federal agent.

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.

One day earlier, according to the federal criminal complaint, Halloran met with Stern and an undercover FBI agent in a Manhattan hotel.

On Jan. 25, 2013, another undercover FBI agent posing as a courier for Raj delivered $ 5,000 in cash to Halloran in exchange for Halloran arranging meetings with Savino and Queens Republican party vice-chairman Vincent Tabone.

A few months later the undercover agent met Smith again, this time in Smith's car in Rockland County.

NEW YORK — An undercover FBI agent who snared Malcolm Smith and other politicians in a public corruption scandal posed as a wealthy investor of Indian descent named Raj who promised to grease wheels into City Hall and beyond, sources said.

The undercover agent promised Smith that he could arrange a meeting for him with «County Chairman 1» and Bronx GOP boss Joseph Savino, in which Raj would convince them to back Smith.

«However, what never occurred to us is the possibility that a reputable organization like UNICEF would allow some of its staff to enlist in the club of undercover agents of foreign forces against Nigeria, in disguised support for terrorism.

She is accused of demanding an interest in a major real estate development in her village in exchange for giving the contract for the project to a particular real estate company, which was actually run by an undercover FBI agent.

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.

In addition, Halloran and Joseph Savino, chairman of the Bronx Republican Party, had a discussion with an undercover FBI agent about bribing County Chairman 2 to get the chairman to support Smith, according to court papers.

CFPN wondered why a reputable organization like UNICEF would allow some of its staff to enlist in the club of undercover agents of foreign forces against Nigeria, in disguised support for terrorism.

The Democrats are rather gleefully forwarding around a lengthy New Yorker story (April 25 edition) that details former FBI agent - turned - Congressman Michael Grimm's involvement as the undercover Mob - connected hedge fund whiz Michael «Mikey Suits» Garibaldi in a 2002 case known as «Wooden Nickle.»

He was caught on tape telling an undercover FBI agent and a crooked Rockland County developer working with the feds that money «greases the wheels» in New York politics.

This is the case in which Michael Levitis, an attorney and restaurant owner, admitted he lied when questioned about his involvement in an effort to pay off Kruger through an intermediary, who turned out to be an undercover FBI agent.

State Sen. Malcolm Smith made a wire - wearing, undercover agent posing as a power - hungry developer an offer he thought he'd never refuse: Help rig the mayor's race in the pol's favor...

A federal agent who went undercover as a wealthy businessman in the bribery case of state Sen. Malcolm Smith testified Monday that he believes co-defendant and former City Councilman Dan...

Bloom also tried to shoot down Smith's entrapment defense, saying the indicted pol was usually the first person to mention bribery in conversations with the undercover federal agent he knew as «Raj.»

Smith, who represented southeast Queens in the state Senate, was done in when he unknowingly turned to Moses Stern — a crooked Rockland County developer who was, in fact, a cooperating federal witness — as well as ano ther man Smith thought was a developer but who was actually an undercover federal agent.

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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.

At the press conference with Bharara this morning, the assistant director for the F.B.I. in New York, George Venizelos, said the cooperating witness and undercover F.B.I. agent working on the case «did not have to twist any arms.

Separately, Halloran is also accused of steering $ 40,000 to $ 80,000 in discretionary member items to a company he thought was controlled by a wealthy contributor who in fact was an undercover agent.

Yesterday, the F.B.I. arrested Councilman Dan Halloran and State Senator Malcolm Smith for allegedly attempting to bribe Republican party officials and also, in the case of Halloran, planning to redirect City Council member items to an undercover agent posing as a real estate developer in exchange for money.

The Markowitzes» contributions came under scrutiny after Tuesday's federal criminal complaint reported that Halloran, a Republican, had met with Stern and an undercover FBI agent in a Manhattan hotel last September.

Halloran was accused, among other things, of offering to redirect some of his Council money to an undercover agent posing as a real estate developer in return for cash payments.

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.»

«They involve an undercover FBI agent successfully arranging a fraudulent contribution scheme with a Liu bundler and subsequently meeting Liu in person,» he said.

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

That, in turn, was to benefit a real estate project that Smith believed was being built by the undercover agent's company in suburban Spring Valley, the complaint alleged.

Tabone later frisked an undercover FBI agent for a wire, which he missed, and then stepped outside into the agent's car and accepted $ 25,000 in cash, prosecutors said, with the promise of $ 25,000 more.

In another alleged bribery scheme, prosecutors said Halloran agreed to route city discretionary funding to Stern and an undercover FBI agent, who Halloran believed was a wealthy business partner of Stern's, in exchange for $ 24,800 in donations for his own failed congressional biIn another alleged bribery scheme, prosecutors said Halloran agreed to route city discretionary funding to Stern and an undercover FBI agent, who Halloran believed was a wealthy business partner of Stern's, in exchange for $ 24,800 in donations for his own failed congressional biin exchange for $ 24,800 in donations for his own failed congressional biin donations for his own failed congressional bid.