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NEWS ABOUT: sting operations

sting operations stories: 11 news summaries
updated

 Letterman Reveals 
 Extortion Attempt 
 Over Office Sex  

After grand jury testimony, late-night host says con man wanted $2M,

Oct 2, 09 8:01 AM CDT
(Newser) - In a highly unusual moment during the taping of last night’s Late Show, David Letterman confessed to his studio audience that he had had sexual flings with female staffers on the show, and that they had become the basis for a $2 million extortion attempt by a CBS news... More »

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entertainment • CBS • extortion • affair • late night host • David Letterman • sting operations • office workers • Regina Lasko • Late Show • Robert Halderman

Feds Head Off Bombing Plots in Dallas, Illinois

Cases unrelated to each other; no link to Denver, NY terror arrests

Sep 25, 09 12:01 PM CDT
(Newser) - A Jordanian citizen arrested in an elaborate FBI sting is to be arraigned today on charges of attempting to blow up a Dallas skyscraper. The court appearance comes a day after an Illinois man was charged with plotting to detonate a bomb near a Springfield courthouse, only to learn that... More »

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terrorism • FBI • Dallas • federal investigation • skyscraper • sting operations • al-Qaeda • undercover • criminal charges • Timothy McVeigh • bomb plot • Hosam Maher Husein Smadi • Michael Finton

opinion

ACORN Video Sting a Lesson in New Journalism


Sep 24, 09 2:50 PM CDT
(Newser) - Andrew Breitbart may have an ideological ax to grind, but so what? The undercover ACORN videos he's posted illustrate a significant strength of 21st-century American journalism, writes Jack Shafer: "It will accept contributions from everybody from amateurs to entertainers (I'm looking at you, Jon Stewart) to gadflies to billionaires... More »

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Matt Drudge • conservative • sting operations • hidden camera • Acorn • Andrew Breitbart

ACORN Sues Creators of
Sting Video

Recordings made without two-party consent, group says

Sep 23, 09 6:21 PM CDT
(AP) - ACORN is suing the makers of a hidden-camera video that showed employees of its Baltimore office giving tax advice to a man and woman posing as a pimp and prostitute. The liberal group contends that the audio portion of the video was obtained illegally because Maryland requires two-party consent to... More »

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lawsuit • Baltimore • sting operations • hidden camera • Acorn • Andrew Breitbart

OPINION

 ACORN Sting 
 Raises Media 
 Ethics Questions 

Hidden video subterfuge made news, but where was the reality check?

Sep 23, 09 10:35 AM CDT
(Newser) - “You've got to give James O'Keefe and Hannah Giles credit for abundant chutzpah and guile,” writes James Rainey in the Los Angeles Times. The pair’s hidden camera ACORN takedown “likely will do for guerrilla video what Ashton Kutcher did for Twitter—popularize and expand the... More »

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prostitution • video • sting operations • hidden camera • scandal • undercover video • Acorn • mainstream media • James O'Keefe • Hannah Giles

ACORN Orders Investigation Into Programs

Group promises
reform after 'sting' videos surface

Sep 16, 09 5:40 PM CDT
(Newser) - ACORN is ordering an independent investigation into its community service programs after undercover videos exposed questionable behavior by its employees, the AP reports. The group also said it would put its programs on hold while it conducts staff training. A series of videos show ACORN employees instructing a fake prostitute... More »

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corruption • sting operations • undercover video • Acorn • advocacy

ACORN May
Sue After New Tape Emerges

Second film shows staffers advising fake hooker, pimp

Sep 14, 09 10:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - ACORN is weighing legal action after another undercover sting tape emerged, this time in Brooklyn, the New York Post reports. Like a tape made in Baltimore, the new footage shows a man and a woman dressed as a pimp and a prostitute getting advice on housing loans. “Honesty is... More »

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mortgage • lawsuit • sting operations • undercover video • Acorn

US Census Bureau Axes Community Group ACORN

Group called 'distraction' after sting catches employees advising prostitute

Sep 11, 09 9:55 PM CDT
(Newser) - The US Census Bureau will not allow community-organizing group ACORN to participate in next year’s national census, the Wall Street Journal reports tonight. The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now is a “distraction,” Census director Robert Groves writes, after members of its Baltimore and Washington offices... More »

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prostitution • Census Bureau • Baltimore • sting operations • hidden camera • Washington, DC • Acorn • community organizers • 2010 census

 Brit Envoy 
 Quits Russia 
 After Hooker Video 

Officials accuse Russia of set up

Jul 9, 09 6:10 AM CDT
(Newser) - A senior British diplomat was forced to resign his post in Russia after a video of him canoodling with two prostitutes was posted on the Internet, reports the Daily Mail. British officials were livid about the scandal, but also angrily accused Russian officials of a sting. The 4-minute video, called... More »

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Russia • video • diplomat • Britain • sting operations • prostitute • undercover video • hooker • Ural

(Newser) - The FBI rounded up 48 suspected teen prostitutes and arrested 571 others on a range of prostitution charges this weekend, the AP reports. The nationwide offensive, Operation Cross Country, rescued girls as young as 13 years old. "The goal is to recover kids," one FBI official said. "... More »

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FBI • law enforcement • child abuse • arrest • rescue • child prostitution • sting operations • teenager • pimp

Child Porn Found in Home of Suicide DA

Texas man shot self
as NBC sex predator sting closed in

Nov 27, 07 7:21 AM CST
(Newser) - Texas investigators looking into the suicide of a former county district attorney found child porn in his home, reports the Dallas Morning News. He shot himself last year as a SWAT team closed in and a Dateline NBC camera crew covering internet predators waited outside. A search of laptops, a... More »

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To Catch a Predator • Dateline • child pornography • chris hansen • sting operations

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