Sentences with phrase «undercover agents say»

Advocates of the use of undercover agents say it offers the only accurate method of gauging the extent to which drugs are used on campus and possibly the only effective method of eradicating the problem.

The undercover agent said that former sports agent Christian Dawkins bluntly explained the benefits of paying bribes to Lamont Evans, associate head coach of Oklahoma State's basketball team, to other defendants.

Not exact matches

During the meeting with undercover reporters posing as businessmen, it is alleged Allardyce said it was «not a problem» to bypass the rules and he knew of agents who were «doing it all the time».

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.

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.

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 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.

'' Smith, the feds say, turned to Moses Stern — a crooked Rockland County developer turned federal witness — and an undercover federal agent for money and help pulling off the botched scheme.

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.»

«Law enforcement will use every aggressive and creative tool at our disposal — wire taps and confidential informants and undercover agents and stings,» Bharara said.

Smith, the prosecutor said, turned to crooked Rockland County developer Moses Stern and an undercover agent for money and help pulling off the scheme.

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.

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.

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

Xing Wu «Oliver» Pan, 46, of New Jersey, is charged with helping an undercover FBI agent posing as a businessman contribute the $ 16,000 to Liu's 2013 campaign account by using straw donors to circumvent campaign finance laws, U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said.

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 bid.

The plot is a little convoluted to say the least but Theron is Lorraine Broughton; an undercover MI6 agent who's sent to Berlin just before the wall is due to fall.

Suffice to say, the plot doesn't really matter that much (Shepard is Jon Baker, a former motorcycle racing star turned rookie CHiPs officer, and Michael Pena is Frank «Ponch» Poncherello, an FBI agent going undercover to ferret out crooked California Highway Patrol officers).

During a November 18 court hearing for two of those charged, prosecutors said undercover agents paid one of the men $ 1,500 for a puppy for dog fighting.

Reportedly, undercover agents running a sting operation not only heard Ramos say that buying one of his phones was «totally fine,» but that the phones were modified «specifically» with drug trafficking in mind.

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.