Sentences with phrase «undercover sting»

This spring a CBC Marketplace segment ran an undercover sting operation to see how honest a Realtor would be about the details of other offers in a multiple offer scenario, if the agent was representing both the buyer and the seller in a transaction.

An undercover sting video from Britain's Channel 4 News revealed CA executives offering to «fix» Sri Lankan elections for an undercover reporter.

On Tuesday, the UK information commissioner said she was seeking an urgent court warrant to enter the London headquarters of the elections consultancy Cambridge Analytica after the firm was caught in an undercover sting and accused of using honey traps and running fake news campaigns.

Britain's Channel 4 has published an undercover sting video in which Cambridge Analytica executives boast of swaying elections in Africa and Europe through tactics including fake bribes and seduction.

For the past week it has been impossible to ignore the controversies around Cambridge Analytica, with the excruciating, watch from behind the sofa, undercover sting on its boss, and the public relations disaster for Facebook, one of the biggest companies in the world.

A Channel 4 undercover sting against Cambridge Analytica is part of a «co-ordinated attack» by the media to damage «the company which had some involvement in the election of Donald Trump», the firm's chief executive says.

Answer: The Rome police recently performed an undercover sting on the mean gladiators.

Russell is currently in post-production on his adaptation of The Silver Linings Playbook starring Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence and recently attached himself to the 1980s - set undercover sting story American Bullshit.

Posing as a teacher as part of an undercover sting operation, he's initially given the runaround by his class of hyperactive tots, often to hilarious effect.

Worse yet, this bust was no undercover sting in which a plain clothes cop posed as some chronic in order to entrap the unsuspecting seller.

Stern, in fact, was introduced to Smith during the undercover sting by a rabbi who dropped Schneiderman's name when vouching for Stern's pull in the fundraising community, a law enforcement source said.

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 watchdog has found «there was no breach of the rules» by Sir Malcolm Rifkind and Jack Straw after a cash - for - access undercover sting.

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.

Separately on Monday, British news station Channel 4 News broadcast an undercover sting which showed senior executives at Cambridge Analytica suggesting that entrapment techniques such as bribes and sex workers could be used to help a politician gain favor against a rival.

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.

BREAKING: Telegraph set to launch a new undercover sting on Gareth Southgate to find out why he included Glen Johnson in his squad.

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

Not exact matches

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.

BY DUNCAN OSBORNE Police arrested more men than previously known in controversial 2008 prostitution stings that involved young undercover vice cops first soliciting consensual sex from men in six Manhattan porn shops then offering to pay for the sex and arresting the men for prostitution.

Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer took some shots at Mayor Bloomberg's undercover gun show sting in her state during an appearance with Fox's Greta Van Sustern.

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.

Castro's cooperation led to the arrest of fellow Bronx Assemblyman Eric Stevenson and four others in a bribery sting and he indicated that more arrests may be on the way from his undercover work.

A Sunday Times sting operation caught the peers telling undercover reporters they could set up an all - party group to represent its interests.

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.

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

Vince Cable today broke his silence to speak of how a sting by undercover reporters had caused «great damage» to the confidential relationship between MPs and constituents.

An Australian man has been arrested in an undercover police sting for allegedly selling illicit drugs in the Cambodian coastal city of Sihanoukville.

Synopsis: Seeking the gunrunners who killed his partner, undercover cop Derrick Vann (Samuel L. Jackson) sets up a sting.

The movie, adapted from Robert Mazur's book about his time as an undercover agent for the United States Customs Service, follows «Operation «C» Chase,» a sting operation during the mid-to-late 1980s that redirected the War on Drugs toward the oldest investigative trick in the book: Follow the money.

CROWN by Max Hurwitz In exchange for a lighter prison sentence, a hacker goes undercover for the FBI in a sting operation (Chris Hemsworth)

But lo, Sarge is damaged goods, having lost his undercover crew to a botched sting — and lo, the blizzard forces a prison bus ferrying kingpin Marion Bishop (Laurence Fishburne, still doing Morpheus) to take refuge in the storm at the run - down jail along with a collection of misfits and a police shrink, Alex (Maria Bello), whose car has broken down.

Undercover agents with the Manhattan District Attorney's Office arrested the men after purchasing three prints from them on eBay as part of a sting operation.

Police don't do undercover deer jerky stings, do they?

The stash house sting, as with the undercover terrorism operation and the Mr. Big scenario, will continue to present Canadian criminal lawyers with difficult constitutional issues and substantive questions of proof.

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.

Executives from Cambridge Analytica spoke to undercover reporters from Channel 4 News about the dark arts used by the company to help clients, which included entrapping rival candidates in fake bribery stings and hiring prostitutes to seduce them.

In a sting operation by Britain's Channel 4 News, Alexander Nix is heard boasting to an undercover reporter that his company helped Donald Trump win the elections.

Earlier this month Florida police arrested a LocalBitcoins user in a sting operation where an undercover agent attempted to convert $ 30,000 into bitcoin.

The defendant was caught in a sting operation run by undercover Treasury agents.

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.

• Successfully infiltrated illegal drug ring operating on base and participated in undercover surveillance and «sting» operation leading to the arrest, prosecution and incarceration of guilty parties.

Infiltrated illegal drug ring operating on base and participated in undercover surveillance and «sting» operation leading to the arrest, prosecution and incarceration of guilty parties.

«The anti-abortion group that released an undercover «sting» video of a Planned Parenthood doctor this week appears to be a dummy nonprofit that may have deceived the Internal Revenue Service and the public about its mission.»