The phrase "a fiscal sting" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a financial penalty or a negative financial impact, often in a context related to budgeting or taxation.
Example: "The new tax regulations will impose a fiscal sting on small businesses, making it harder for them to thrive."
Alternatives: "financial penalty" or "economic burden".
According to the Washington Post, Sandini was part of a 2016 sting by O'Keefe's organization.
A 2013 sting conducted by Science magazine's John Bohannon showed that some open access journals readily accepted a spoof paper.
O'Keefe's 2009 sting of ACORN led to the destruction of that group; a 2011 sting of NPR executives led to two resignations.
The company filed for bankruptcy protection after Mr. DeLorean was accused in a 1982 sting operation of conspiring to sell $24 million of cocaine to salvage his venture.
It weighs 330 pounds but disappeared from the museum during the looting, only to be seized in a 2006 sting when someone in Syria tried to sell it to an art dealer in New York.
They pointed to a September 2006 sting in which undercover police officers approached 11 illegal immigrants in a city park and offered them jobs; when the workers followed, they were arrested.
Mr. Bout was arrested in a March 2008 sting operation at a hotel in Bangkok after he agreed, according to the authorities, to sell millions of dollars' worth of weapons to undercover United States agents posing as rebels from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC.
T. I., who is in the action movie "Takers," remains on probation after pleading guilty to federal weapons charges stemming from a 2007 sting operation in which he was caught receiving three machine guns and two silencers that had been bought for him.
Mirroring the results of a 2013 sting operation by this author, the team found that most of the publishers are based in developing countries in Asia, with India leading the pack with 27%.
Vicodin was one of the prescription drugs confiscated by the Los Angeles County Health Authority Law Enforcement Task Force in a 2011 sting operation on a downtown L.A. street.
