The candidates could even set up agents to solicit money, as long as they weren't doing it themselves.
The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network is questioning whether the company may be unwittingly setting up agents who turn out to have terrorist ties, though no hard evidence has been cited.
Yet agents set up stall at the LBF to pitch, to cajole, to fight for their writers.
FBI agents set up Mohamud; what he thought was a live bomb to blow up the tree lighting ceremony was actually a fake.
Gomez said that the FBI's informants and undercover agents set up the suspect for the "next proactive move," but don't make them take it.
They said agents had deposited the drug proceeds in accounts designated by traffickers, or in shell accounts set up by agents.
In experiments involving pharmacological inhibitors, cells were pretreated with the agent for 30 minutes prior to the adhesion assays being set up, and the agent was maintained in the medium throughout the assay.
Anyone can set up as an agent and that is the nub of the problem.
Bowman said that she met Cosby when she was 17 through a meeting set up by her agent.
Recently, the Defense Department set up a biological agent production line in the Nevada desert to show how easily and cheaply it could be done.
