Word: wiretap
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...secret deposition that the two men had never met, but said Barnes called him once or twice a year. Then, on Aug. 5, Perot's security guards caught Barnes in the billionaire's Dallas headquarters after hours. According to Perot, Barnes said the Republicans had hired him to wiretap the Texan's computers and ruin Perot financially so he could not run again. "Maybe it doesn't make sense," Perot said when asked why he had not made these charges public until now. "But that...
Details of the scandal remain murky. But this much seems clear: Perot insists that he received a tip-off that high-level Republicans were plotting to wiretap his office telephone last August -- even though he had pulled out of the presidential race in July. Acting largely on information provided by both Perot and Scott Barnes -- a shady storyteller with a prior conviction for tape-recording his telephone conversations with other people -- Oliver ("Buck") Revell, the head of the FBI office in Dallas, sent an undercover agent disguised as a cowboy to meet with James Oberwetter, state chairman of the Bush...
Savitz's arrest followed a six-month investigation by the city's sex-crime unit. By early March investigators had gathered enough evidence to install a wiretap and hidden videocamera in his home. On March 25, detectives watched as Savitz offered to pay two 15-year-old boys for oral sex. Police burst into the apartment and took Savitz into custody...
...favor to the New York faction. After the rubout, Leonetti and his pals visited Gravano at his home on Staten Island, where Gravano thanked them for a job well done, according to the debriefing. While Gravano hasn't been charged in that case, Leonetti's promised testimony, along with wiretap evidence of other crimes, may have been what sent Sammy Bull running for protection...
...cartel's need for goods, services and go-betweens has spawned a thriving network of cottage industries. Front companies acquire mobile phones by the dozen and "sublet" them to the cells. The traffickers know investigators need four or five days to get a court-ordered wiretap, so they use a phone for two days and discard it. If a mobile phone is eventually traced, the trail stops at the front company...