Sentences with phrase «undercover government»

She traveled the world with her family, following her father from one undercover government assignment to the next.
Big Boss returned to his post as one of the most badass undercover government agents in gaming with a prelude to Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain.
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.

Not exact matches

Pierce is a top HYDRA operative working undercover for SHIELD and the government.
«Two powerful government businesses are discussing radical new espionage powers that could see Australia's cyber undercover agent company monitor Australian residents for the first time.»
In an 11 - website page list of proposals, finance minister Yanis Varoufakis laid out programs to monitor government investing and struggle tax evasion utilizing students, tourists and housekeepers as undercover tax inspectors.
If Senate - approved treaties affirm our respect for the sovereignty of other nations, we can not permit our government's undercover agents to mount attacks — military or verbal — that threaten the right to self - determination; no matter how misguided we may judge other nations to be.
The government has been facing pressure to do more to cut the number of failing care homes after recent scandals found by undercover reporters.
Who is an undercover secret government agent?
The organization George Clooney co-founded, The Sentry, released the findings of a two - year, undercover investigation into the war profiteering of South Sudan's government leaders.
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.
Notice of testing, corrupt doping control officers, falsification of lab results and substantial financial support through government grants purportedly designated for research also helped keep doping undercover.
The OAG found that representatives from both companies twice told undercover testers that Section 8 and other government assistance programs would not be accepted at certain properties.
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).
Amidu is trying to shift the burden of proof to Anas to demonstrate that he was not on the payroll of the NDC government when he went undercover and exposed judges allegedly collecting bribes.
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.
An undercover FBI agent posed as a corrupt real estate developer as part of the federal government's investigation into the alleged bribery scheme.
«In fact, the need for government confidentiality may be at its zenith when a law enforcement agency is undertaking a covert investigation of individuals or organizations, where the lives of the public, cooperators and undercover officers may hang precariously in the balance,» Chief Judge Janet DiFiore wrote in the majority decision.
Given that yesterday saw Tory MP Brooks Newmark resign from the government after a tabloid sting (involving an undercover journalist and explicit pictures of Newmark's, ahem, «majority»), the stock of us hacks has probably never been lower among the Tory faithful.
A federal agent who went undercover as a wealthy businessman for the government's case against former state Sen. Malcolm Smith testified Wednesday that the disgraced politician was well aware he...
A senior Conservative minister has become the first member of the government to back proposals to field coalition candidates at the next general election.His comments to The Sunday Telegraph came as both parties began a battle to bolster the coalition in the wake of a week of damaging revelations made by Vince Cable and other Lib Dem ministers to undercover reporters.
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.
A recent investigation by the Government Accountability Office, part of which employed undercover senior citizens, has revealed how loose regulations and questionable sales tactics are more persuasive than science, potentially putting consumers» health at risk.
Searching for the whereabouts of a strongbox lost in a stage hold - up, government agent Jim Wilson (Steele) goes undercover as a prison inmate.
After their father is killed in a botched undercover mission, Shane Wolfe (Diesel) is sent in to protect the five Plummer children for 48 hours while their mother (Faith Ford) leaves the country to recover some secret information for the government.
free — until now, when a Government agency wants him to carry out an undercover op in return for clearing his record.
The husband is the believed - dead Coy Harlingen (Owen Wilson), a saxophone player who is actually working undercover for the government to infiltrate counter-culture groups (If there's a deeper meaning here, it's how the Establishment ruins everything, man).
He plays Mike Warren, one part of a group of government officials from various departments (F.B.I., C.I.A., etc.) forced to hole up in the same house as part of an undercover operation.
However, for this to be a common practice, rather than a rare exception, would require a truly enormous and perfect conspiracy of manufacturers, rendering plants, and government, and as of yet no whistle - blower, journalist, or undercover animal rights activist has yet come forward to reveal evidence of any such conspiracy.
Carolyn Atchison had been an undercover exotic animal agent working with the federal government for quite a few years when companion animal rescue snuck up on her.
This group conducts undercover investigations, coordinates outreach and public education campaigns, lobbies government bodies to secure stronger laws for animals, participates in corporate outreach and pressure campaigns to secure meaningful animal related policies, and they engage with the mass media to raise the profile of animal issues in Latvia.
Dying Light's story starts you off as an undercover agent named Kyle Crane who is sent into the infected wasteland of the city Harran to retrieve some sensitive documents that the government wants back.
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.
Anthony Comstock, the government's obscenity enforcer (birth control was obscene under the law) entrapped William into handing one of his wife's pamphlets to an undercover police officer.
Leng Ouch, Cambodia: In one of the most dangerous countries in the world for environmental activists, Leng Ouch went undercover to document illegal logging in Cambodia and exposed the corruption robbing rural communities of their land, causing the government to cancel large land concessions.
In a country where there is risk in speaking out, he has worked undercover, posing as a laborer, tourist, and driver, to catch illegal logging activities while the government looked the other way.
WWF confirmed my fears in 1989 when, as a Tanzanian NGO was persuading their government topropose an ivory ban using some of our international undercover revelations, Hanks flew to Dar es Salaam representing WWF to try and talk them out of it.
United States intelligence agents who did not want this woman in charge of the federal government and exposing more agents and more resources and undercover access in the Middle East to who they truly are and where they were... ``
«The case deals with the question of whether the Contergan Foundation was, or perhaps still is, an undercover subsidiary of Grunenthal under the eyes of the Federal Government,» said Meyer.
Most Government Accountability Office reports present a wealth of information, but relatively few involve undercover agents and semiautomatic rifles.
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.
If they [the politicians] are investing then surely the day will come when the government will legalize the coin in India as well,» another property dealer who promised lucrative returns on investments on a property along the Noida Expressway in India's National Capital Region told the undercover journalist.
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The undercover videos have been at the center of the effort by conservative Republicans to end federal funding for Planned Parenthood, with some threatening to shut down the federal government if federal funding for the group isn't ceased.
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