In each case, the undercover agent posed as a hedge fund manager at Fillmore Capital, a fake firm created by the F.B.I. in Palm Beach.
Mercer – a former army major who completed nine tours in Northern Ireland and who has been highly critical of the prime minister – was approached by a fake firm called Alistair Andrews Communications around seven weeks ago.
Here Mr. Soderbergh and his creative team, including the actor George Clooney, the writer Henry Bean and the producer Mark Sennet, are heightening the trompe l'oeil effect by having real lobbyists and consultants play alternate versions of themselves, while grappling with real issues about real people in a fake firm.
MP Patrick Mercer has been secretly filmed appearing to offer a Commons security pass to a fake firm that paid £4,000 to ask parliamentary questions.
He said he had never accepted an offer from the fake firm, saying it was a "preliminary" discussion "about what they had mind".
Sir Malcolm, the Conservative MP for Kensington who chairs Parliament's Intelligence and Security Committee, said he had never accepted an offer from the fake firm, saying it was a "preliminary" discussion "about what they had mind".
Further footage released by Panorama on Saturday shows Mr Mercer telling a reporter - posing as a lobbyist - that getting a parliamentary security pass to someone from the fake firm would require a brief meeting with the MP and standard vetting.
Hasselbaink denied any wrongdoing, saying he was offered a fee to make only a speech in Singapore and did not ask QPR to sign players said to have been represented by the fake firm.
In addition, two of the bogus firms that GAO created as "manufacturers" of the products received phone calls from real companies that wanted to purchase products because the fake companies were listed as Energy Star partners.
