Sentences with phrase «used undercover agents»

The 37 - page letter describes how Uber hired people to spy on executives of overseas rivals, used undercover agents to impersonate taxi drivers, and scraped competitors» information from the Internet.

Not exact matches

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.

The feds last week arrested Liu fund - raiser Xing Wu «Oliver» Pan on fraud charges for allegedly using straw donors to hide a $ 16,000 contribution from an undercover agent that violated campaign - finance laws.

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 planning.

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.

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

The deal, which Boyland Jr. suggested to undercover agents posed as businessmen, entailed buying a derelict Brooklyn hospital for $ 8 million and applying for public grants to be used for the property's renovation.

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.

Fledgling indie distributor Broad Green Pictures, which has staffed up to around 60, has acquired U.S. distribution rights at the Cannes market for «The Infiltrator,» starring Bryan Cranston («Breaking Bad») as undercover U.S. Customs agent Robert Mazur, who used mob ties to make his way into some of the world's largest drug cartels during the 1980s.

Wormold puts his mind to use, using real and fake names to create a network of agents all working to get undercover information — agents that also receive money.

Enter «The Infiltrator,» starring Bryan Cranston as real - life DEA agent Robert Mazur, who used his undercover alias «Bob Musella» to infiltrate Pablo Escobar's powerful underworld empire and crack his money - laundering scheme.

The cops are after the perpetrator and gun in question, so Joey has to find Oleg and get back the piece before the cops use the ballistics evidence to tie him, and those he works for, into the hit on the undercover agents.

Malvo decides to trade his red sports car for something a little more dull and something undercover agents would use.

Wiig plays a once - promising playwright who's flamed out in NYC and goes back home to New Jersey to live with her wacky mom, her mom's wackier undercover CIA agent boyfriend (an hilarious Matt Dillon), and a young man (Darren Criss) who's renting what used to be her bedroom.

Danny has become a favorite target for a pair of undercover narcotics agents, who use Danny's street credibility to learn how to infiltrate the drug trade's bigger fish.

Across the country this spring, hundreds of high - school students have been arrested because their sale or use of illicit drugs on school grounds was observed by undercover narcotics agents posing as students.

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.

Milo Weaver used to be a «tourist» for the CIA — an undercover agent with no home, no identity.

Now this change isn't a result of an undercover anti-BSL agent (though we could use one).

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.

AN undercover agent has managed to discover the following document by using repeated FoI requess.

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.