Word: dragnet
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Only days before the sentencing, the Government's dragnet had proved effective in snagging another suspect, this time outside the Boesky ring. Israel Grossman, a 34-year-old Manhattan lawyer, was charged with sharing information about a Colt Industries stock buy-back with at least six friends and relatives. His telephone tips allegedly enabled them to reap $1.5 million in profits on their investments of just...
...frame will put the cargo over the weight limit. There are MTV-style music videos, a game show called But Who's Counting?, and a funny continuing feature entitled Mathnet, in which a pair of mathematician-sleuths do a dead-on, deadpan parody of the old Jack Webb Dragnet series...
...nicely when he realizes he is suspected of murder. Until she must act the trollop to entice the killer, McGovern makes for an agreeably matter-of-fact heroine. If only there were a little sleek skin on the bones of this plot. The visuals are the pictorial equivalent of Dragnet prose; they offer just the facts, ma'am, but no sizzle, irony or insight. So The Bedroom Window looks like a peculiar tribute to Hitchcock: an exercise in style without the style...
More than 200 FBI agents were involved in raids on the group in Puerto Rico and Boston just before Labor Day. Those captured included Filiberto Inocencio Ojeda-Rios, 52, the suspected mastermind of the Hartford robbery. But the FBI dragnet failed to find Victor Manuel Gerena, 27, a former wrestler accused of leading the robbery. Behind Gerena and the Macheteros, says the FBI, is Fidel Castro. The agency believes that Gerena fled to Cuba with much of the Wells Fargo booty. Ojenda-Rios is also thought to have worked closely with Cuba's intelligence agency: in San Juan, his nickname...
Quincy, Mass., July 22, 1985. Three youths are accused of beating a vagrant to death behind a school building. At the same time, local police officers begin what some have called a discriminatory dragnet of the city's homeless. Seven transients are rounded...