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  • According to the indictment, the defendants were caught in wire-tapped conversations discussing their alleged crimes with cooperating witnesses who were former members of the Bonanno family.

    Six Crime Family Suspects Arrested Tamer El-Ghobashy 2012

  • But while he's feeding FBI agents, Brian Shepherd (Scott Bakula) and Bob Herndon (Joel McHale), with wire-tapped meetings among the playmakers in the price-fixing, he's also withholding information from them pertaining to his own blithely ignorant and misguided attempts to divert attention from him, as well as his own illegal activity of a different nature.

    Rabid Rewind: The Informant 2010

  • Prosecutors in January filed hundreds of pages of court documents, viewed by The Wall Street Journal, to Parliament that included wire-tapped conversations of women describing how they competed for the premier's attention during late-night soirees at his Milan villa, donning nurse uniforms and other outfits, and then were given money or gifts.

    Berlusconi Targeted for Trial in Sex Case Stacy Meichtry 2011

  • Liberals tried to distort this fact in order to get low-information voters to believe the Bush administration “wire-tapped” calls between U.S. citizens within the borders of the country.

    Think Progress » Ingraham: Americans Are Saying ‘Maybe That Bush Guy Wasn’t Quite As Bad As We Thought’ 2010

  • That assertion, made by U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District Loretta Lynch at the time of Officer Michael Daragjati 's subsequent arrest in 2011, was based on a wire-tapped conversation in which the officer is heard telling a female friend he "fried" the man, using a racial epithet in reference to him.

    Officer Admits to False Arrest Tamer El-Ghobashy 2012

  • Blagojevich's lawyers have unsuccessfully tried to get the case -- based largely on FBI wire-tapped conversations -- thrown out, claiming that the charges are a violation of Blagojevich's First Amendment rights.

    Blagojevich Defense Attorney Clashes With Judge, Could Be Held In Contempt 2010

  • Blagojevich's lawyers have unsuccessfully tried to get the case -- based largely on FBI wire-tapped conversations -- thrown out, claiming that the charges are a violation of Blagojevich's First Amendment rights.

    Blagojevich Defense Attorney Clashes With Judge, Could Be Held In Contempt 2010

  • Death squads carried out forced disappearances and massacres; intelligence agents wire-tapped telephones and set up covert cameras in the offices of activists, jurists, and elected officials.

    Scott Gilmore: The Fujimori Verdict and the Justice Cascade: Ending Impunity 2009

  • The US Congress is reeling with the revelation this week that powerful and prominent Congresswoman Jane Harman of California was wire-tapped by the National Security Agency under the provisions of the anti-terrorist legislation she herself had supported.

    There are Sticks, Big Unes, to Beat Those who Might be Tempted by the Angels 2009

  • THEY SHOULD GET: A platinum, wire-tapped ring, to make snitch-killing that much easier.

    Ways the 2007 VMA Gift Bag Could Be Improved | Best Week Ever 2007

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