The case against Gen. Vang Pao — and the ongoing prosecution — was largely based on a sting operation involving conversations in 2007 with an undercover agent from the Bureau of Alcohol , Tobacco Firearms and Explosives.
The case against the former N-Dubz singer was based on a sting by The Sun on Sunday, in which journalists posing as film producers approached Contostavlos and flew her to Los Angeles and Las Vegas on the promise of a role in a film with Leonardo DiCaprio.
A number of states are currently defending the terminations of their Medicaid contracts with Planned Parenthood, based on the sting videos, in court.
"Frankly, I feel the US Justice Department should come in, confiscate their computers, and do a thorough investigation of at least the last 10 years," said Henry Mosier, a recently retired public defender, who in 2010 threw a Kern County prosecution based on a police sting operation into chaos by uncovering that a detective buried unfavourable evidence in the desert.
Other ethically challenged New Jersey politicians have become enshrined in popular culture: cable TV's popular "Boardwalk Empire" features a bloodier version of Atlantic City boss Enoch "Nucky" Johnson, and the new movie "American Hustle" is based on the Abscam sting that took down a U.S senator from New Jersey, the mayor of Camden and six congressmen.
OWNING MAHOWNY Directed by Richard Kwietniowski; written by Maurice Chauvet, based on the book "Stung" by Gary Ross; director of photography, Oliver Curtis; edited by Mike Munn; music by the Insects, Richard Grassby-Lewis and Jon Hassell; production designer, Taavo Soodor; produced by Andras Hamori, Seaton McLean and Alessandro Camon; released by Sony Pictures Classics.
One of the most sensational was the 2006 collapse of the "Red Mercury" trial, which was based on a Mahmood sting and the allegation that the three defendants were planning to supply terrorists with radioactive bomb-making material.
"American Hustle" (in theaters Dec. 13), loosely based on the Abscam FBI sting operation of the 1970s that ensnared seven members of Congress for taking bribes, shares much with Russell's last two movies, "The Fighter" and "Silver Linings Playbook".
Dr Smith donated his own bodyto the cause, carefully applying honey bees to 25 locations and assessing the pain of each sting based on a comparison to his "internal standard" – a sting to his forearm.
Vanita Gupta is all of 28, a 2001 graduate of New York University Law School and a lead lawyer in the Tulia, Tex., case in which more than a tenth of the town's black population was arrested in a drug sting based on the uncorroborated testimony of one out-of-control undercover officer.
