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...sting was part of Operation Exodus, an effort led by the Customs Service to stem the illicit export of defense-related technology. In this case, an undercover agent had posed as a defense-equipment broker and rented a New Jersey office as a front. The defendants, meeting with the agent in his office and unaware that hidden cameras were taping the session, offered to buy 100 transverse-wave-tube amplifiers, which are used in missile guidance systems, for $12,500 each. In addition, the suspects gave the agent a $1 billion shopping list of computers and other advanced electronic equipment...
Since 1978, federal agents have had the legal authority to strike at the lifeblood of organized crime and drug cartels by confiscating property or assets that can be traced to illicit profits. The program has been so successful that it has resulted in an administrative nightmare: the costly storage, maintenance, sale and disposal of the valuable but unwieldy booty. This month that bureaucratic burden was lifted from the DEA and other law-enforcement agencies and placed on the shoulders of the U.S. Marshals Service...
...season. The show recounts the misadventures of a troupe of fifth-rate actors as they perform a sex farce titled Nothing On during a fleabag provincial tour. The plot of Nothing On involves a ditzy maid in an English country house, a wayward plate of sardines, an illicit couple, a licit couple dodging the taxman, a sheik and a bibulous burglar. Doors slam (the set contains seven of them) and trousers drop with dizzying abandon...
Some funny business is going on at Empire Industries. When Chairman Calvin Cromwell schedules an emergency board meeting, the vice presidents fly into a paranoid panic. The terrified executives are certain he has discovered their illicit affairs, embezzlement and Government bribes. A secretary prepares for the meeting by putting airsickness bags around the board table and supplying Valium and smelling salts. A ranting Cromwell finally tells his subordinates, "Someone on this board is responsible, and they're going to hang...
...scenes typify the vacility. Imagine an illicit afternoon rendezvous in a sleepy Argentine town. The afternoon sun filters lazily into the bedroom where the two lovers embrace. Take away the ambiance. Take away the romance. Leave the grunts...