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...Granted, things look bad for the beleaguered eight-term congressman. Last year, federal agents raided Jefferson's New Orleans and Washington, D.C., homes, carting out boxes of documents and $90,000 stashed in a freezer. That raid and a subsequent invasion of his congressional office were part of an ongoing investigation into whether Jefferson demanded hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash and other payment for his help in landing Kentucky technology firm iGate lucrative contracts in Nigeria and Ghana. The money was allegedly funneled to a company owned by Jefferson's wife, Andrea Green-Jefferson, and to a legal...
Intent on waging war against slavery in the South, the militant abolitionist led a raid on the federal armory at Harper's Ferry, Va. Local militiamen captured him, and he was hanged after being convicted of treason, murder and inciting slave insurrection...
...tight jeans and spiky heels. The sound system, I believe, must have been imported from an Ibiza nightclub, because no household stereo could produce such volume. Of course by 11 p.m., plainclothes police officers - well, we at least like to assume that the men in street clothes who raid parties and take bribes are actual agents of the law - had arrived and broken up the terrified crowd. But that's not the interesting part. Once the month of fasting began, I spotted many of these very same young people around the neighborhood, piously reincarnated with austere hairstyles and headscarves...
Though Damon may not have needed a dialect coach, he did require assistance in becoming a believable double agent in the police force. As part of his training to play Colin Sullivan, he joined the Massachusetts State Police on a drug raid of a crack house...
...years on the Cambodian police force, Keo Thea has seen a lot. But nothing quite prepared the deputy chief of Phnom Penh's anti-human trafficking police for the raid on the home of German national Karl Heinz Henning in August...