At the time of the young man's death, Liang was conducting a controversial procedure known as a vertical patrol, where police officers stringently check each floor of high-crime projects, from the roof to the lobby, for shady behavior.
The company, the prosecution said, conducted shady side deals that no one quite understood.
For some time now, the industry has been more than a touch shady in the way it conducts its daily business.
The photography was conducted in a shady controlled room.
Just one witness, an art historian who had been active in the Resistance, hinted at shady aspects of van Meegeren's wartime conduct.
There's an entire industry of tax sheltering and avoidance, conducted by knowledgeable and legally savvy (or shady) accountants, ensuring the rich pay as little as possible.
But he said this wasn't a "shady deal" and that there was no secret meeting with the head of the Lausanne laboratory which conducted the test.
An elaborate sting operation was conducted by Danish and Swedish police, with the head of the American FBI's Art Crime Team posing as a shady art dealer.
