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"Logistically, it's very difficult for one squad of agents to work two families," said DeVecchio, who detailed those years in a book he just wrote with Charles Brandt about the controversial and failed 2007 murder prosecution of him by the Brooklyn District Attorney's office: We're Going To Win This Thing: The Shocking Frame-up of a Mafia Crime Buster.
Jerry Capeci: Six Weeks After Big Bust, FBI Slashes Mob-Busting Agents Jerry Capeci 2011
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"Logistically, it's very difficult for one squad of agents to work two families," said DeVecchio, who detailed those years in a book he just wrote with Charles Brandt about the controversial and failed 2007 murder prosecution of him by the Brooklyn District Attorney's office: We're Going To Win This Thing: The Shocking Frame-up of a Mafia Crime Buster.
Jerry Capeci: Six Weeks After Big Bust, FBI Slashes Mob-Busting Agents Jerry Capeci 2011
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Frame-up! "while the prisoners responded with" Pub-lic!
Manhood in the Age of Aquarius: Masculinity in Two Countercultural Communities, 196583 2007
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The crowd surrounded the wagon, chanting Frame-up!
Manhood in the Age of Aquarius: Masculinity in Two Countercultural Communities, 196583 2007
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God is unhappy with the rash of "Frame-up" jobs by scurrilous prosecutors and wishes to make an example of this case.
Abuse of The Courts, Leads to Downfall of DA in "Fiasco" 2007
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(In fact, you noted she entered even earlier, by helping the cutter tie the bundles according to size and color.) “Frame-up” means taking boards the proper length with broad tape tacked along one edge.
Working With the Working Woman Cornelia Stratton Parker
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"Frame-up!" he repeated, laughing hoarsely between his teeth.
'Drag' Harlan Charles Alden Seltzer 1908
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I'm going where the lobster à la Newburg and the Welsh rabbit hunt in couples in the interest of the Sure-Thing game; where the bird-and-bottle combine is the stalking-horse for the Frame-up; and where the Flim-flam (I use the word on the authority of Beaumont, Fletcher & Giddings) has its natural habitat.
Aladdin & Co. A Romance of Yankee Magic Herbert Quick 1893
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The audience does not need to hear the retelling (see "Dylan Frame-up" storyline).
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