Word: wiretaps
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...David L. Mullane of 238 Broadway St. was arrested at the same address for "keeping [a] house of ill fame, sharing earnings of a prostitute, and violation [of a] wiretap statue...
...examination of Michael Fortier, charging that Timothy McVeigh's friend changed his story, his clothes and demeanor for the sake of obscuring his own involvement in the Oklahoma bombing. Two years ago, a scruffy Fortier sported a beard and earring. His speech was littered with vulgarities. On an FBI wiretap recording soon after the attack, Fortier boasted to a friend of making money by being the government's star witness. But over the past two days in court, in a new suit and haircut, the clean-shaven Fortier answered many questions with a polite "Yes, sir." When Jones challenged...
Wise guys call it "the magic box." It's the hottest item in the underworld high-technology arsenal--and the feds' worst nightmare. This cigarette pack-size gizmo threatens to send the wiretap the way of the FBI fedora. It sells for about $1,200 from some mail-order electronics distributors in the U.S. and the U.K. Cabled to a cellular telephone, it allows a bad guy to change his cell-phone number every three or four minutes with just a few keystrokes. Says Secret Service agent Robert Weaver: "The criminal can become a needle in a haystack electronically...
...profile criminals ranging from airline-bomb-plot mastermind Ramzi Yousef to Mexican drug tycoon Juan Garcia Abrego. And she has revitalized Justice's antitrust, civil rights and environment divisions. But she has also failed to harness her popularity to win important legislative battles, such as expanding the FBI's wiretap authority. Her darkest day remains the deadly assault on the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas; its devastating effect on the morale of the FBI continues to haunt the agency...
...Republican Governor Jim Edgar for a Dec. 13 signing, the measure was reworked to embrace any listening in that serves "educational, training or research purposes" without defining inappropriate monitoring. The final bill is more permissive than laws in many other states, as well as the federal wiretap law, which instructs listeners to hang up if they chance upon a personal call...