In April, eBay sued Craigslist, alleging Craigslist Founder Craig Newmark and Chief Executive Jim Buckmaster spearheaded "clandestine transactions" in an effort to unfairly dilute eBay's stake.
Ben January, the freed slave who holds the moral high ground in this series, is investigating the death of a used-up prostitute who enchanted him in his youth ("January had seen what became of freebooters' women when they ceased to be young and fiery and gay") when he gets wind of one clandestine smuggling transaction that could lead to a slave revolt.
However, now that the industry wasn't as clandestine – and transactions no longer had to take place in biker hangouts next to metropolitan ring-roads – Ben was already well stocked at a time when everyone else was only just starting to hire camera equipment and stock up on cheap bed linen.
Farrow's most recent story examined the elaborate system of clandestine meetings, financial transactions, and legal pacts designed to hide Donald Trump's infidelity.
But these transactions are clandestine affairs, occurring in the back rooms of palazzi, easily missed by us mere civilians.
Guinness's use of clandestine and apparently illegal stock transactions in acquiring Distillers created a major corporate scandal when these acts became known to the public.
The closure of clandestine online marketplace Silk Road - which required users to pay for their transactions using Bitcoins and was famed for selling drugs and other illegal items - in October led to a surge in media coverage.
But the Iranian fleet has been flouting safety rules and turning its beacons off since April, according to the IEA, allowing vessels to make clandestine port visits and mid-ocean oil transfers.Even if it could spot illicit transactions, America might still choose to ignore them.
