Word: agent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Star Quest took more than three years to complete. In one elaborate sting, an FBI agent entertained hoodlums on a luxury yacht while posing as a high-rolling fence seeking to buy stolen goods. In addition, more than two dozen victims of extortion were induced to cooperate. Attorney General William French Smith announced "the decimation of organized-crime leadership" in the nation. That assessment may have been grandiose, but the arrests did mean that pressure on the Mafia was continuing in both the U.S. and Italy. Last week Italian police arrested 54 organized-crime members, bringing the total detained there...
...charges against Nipon are part of a 3½-year investigation of the IRS's Philadelphia office, which has already led to the indictment of six present and former Government workers. According to the indictment, Tax Agent Meyer Weiss examined Nipon's 1978 and 1979 returns and discovered that they were fraudulent. But instead of filing a report with his office, Weiss conducted a phony audit in exchange for the payoff. In November 1980, Nipon made the first of what would be four $50,000 cash payments to another IRS agent, Edmond Costantini, who served as intermediary...
...contemplation. Wilson is forbearing about the sins of the flesh, while the transgressions against reason are greeted with disdain. Conservative authority is the secret hero of this book; hapless liberalism and its freebooting institutions are the goats. The result is a sharp irony concisely expressed by an envious KGB agent: "How could a man reach Blore's position of eminence without being checked or vetted? Questions like this were put in the public mind by the likes of Feathers. In other words, he worried them, and stirred them up. For this, the capitalist press magnates paid him sums...
...home from work to the western suburbs had very clear visions of the worst things that could happen to Ferraro. "She could have a snit." "She could cry or giggle." "I'm afraid my husband might think she seems like his mother." A travel agent said, "I worry a lot about her feet. Where does she find comfort able shoes? That's not a problem men candidates have...
...applicant chosen for the position had no special courses and worked for two years as a pot washer, which Local 26 Business Agent Barbara Rice said did not give him more expensive in cooking. Rice said that pot Wahers are occasionally asked to help cook, but added that she feels checkers who could help just as well are not given the opportunity...