Word: middlemen
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...approved search warrants, FBI agents last week moved methodically to seize documents and computer records at 45 sites in at least twelve states. The sweep included the offices of at least five Pentagon procurement officials, 15 defense contractors and six consultants, mostly former Pentagon insiders who now work as middlemen between their former associates and firms seeking military contracts. Magistrates issued more than 200 subpoenas demanding specific records or personal appearances before federal grand juries...
...free-lance miners hit pay dirt, they split the booty with other clan members, since holding out on one's fellows is a capital offense. Then the stones are usually sold to middlemen at the river's edge or in nearby towns and eventually wind up in the hands of smugglers. Every guaquero's dream is to find a large "drop of oil" stone -- one of great purity that could fetch thousands of dollars. Most of the treasure hunters, however, spend their days in extreme poverty, squandering what little they earn on liquor...
...quickly to North. A private U.S. aircraft carrying supplies to the contras was shot down over Nicaragua last Oct. 5, and the downed airmen were carrying telephone numbers that linked them with Robert Owen, North's personal courier to the contras. Two days later Casey learned that angry middlemen in the Iran arms sales were claiming they had lost millions and were threatening to expose the diversion. Thus in early October, North testified, Casey told him to "clean up the files." North went on a shredding binge that included the account ledger and had him turning documents into confetti...
...London travel agencies that specialize in cut-rate fares: "An airline ticket is the most perishable commodity in the world. Once the plane takes off, that empty seat becomes dead loss" to the carrier. For that reason, many airlines sell surplus tickets at as little as half price to middlemen known as "consolidators," who typically agree to buy blocks of seats during the slow winter months -- when seats on certain routes go begging -- in exchange for a supply of cheap tickets in the busy tourist season. The consolidator adds a commission of perhaps 10%, then resells the tickets to travel...
...Attorney General Edwin Meese last week hailed it as "remarkable." So it was: the largest and most successful undercover ploy in federal drug law enforcement history. Acting simultaneously in Los Angeles, Miami and New York City, U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration officials reeled in some 80 smugglers, dealers and middlemen, and issued arrest warrants for about 35 more. An additional 351 people had already been nabbed on the basis of tips from the three-year operation. About $49 million in cash and property, along with 19,000 lbs. of cocaine with a street value of $270 million or so, was also...