Word: tipstering
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...famous Tiffany's last Sunday, police sources confirmed to TIME New York correspondent Massimo Calabresi. They expect to recover some or all of the precious purloined stones. Investigators were acting on search warrants for an undisclosed location this afternoon, and expected to arrest one or more suspects tonight. The tipster's motive for coming forward: a $50,000 reward from Tiffany's and its insurers for information on the theft...
...drop relief supplies over Bosnia -- a step that had seemed like a low-risk humanitarian gesture -- might have been answered in thunder by the Serbs. Still, the Bosnian hypothesis was by no means the only one. A caller from the West Coast credited the Iranian Revolutionary Guard; an anonymous tipster blamed Jewish extremist groups...
Crimson editors tend to dismiss "anonymous phone tips" as the work of unfunny Lampoon pranksters or overzealous first-years who have just rented All the President's Men. Yesterday morning, the phone rang, as it tends to do at the Crimson, with yet another anonymous tipster. The conversation went something like this...
...addition, he said, some of the money would go into a "tipster fund" to encourage drug informants. Under federal law, a person who provides information that leads to the confiscation of drug-related property can receive 10 percent of the proceeds, up to a maximum...
...there was another warning, this one from the FAA. The reason: four days earlier, the U.S. embassy in Helsinki had received an anonymous phone call from a person with a Middle Eastern accent. The tipster stated that a man named Abdullah planned to pass a device to a female Finnish passenger, who would unwittingly transport it to Frankfurt, then onto a U.S.-bound craft. U.S. and Finnish authorities dismissed the message because the caller was a known hoaxer...