Asked by the undercover journalist if payment could be made by bank transfer he replied: "I think it is when it comes, better cash.
The defendant, Raymond J. O'Grady, 56, was found guilty of accepting payments from undercover F.B.I. agents posing as vendors trying to obtain municipal contracts.
The News of the World, owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation, is best known for using elaborate undercover ruses, or huge payments to sources — or both — to expose sexual scandals involving public figures like sports stars and politicians.
Undercover agents wired Horng payments in Macau in exchange for fake bills at a rate of thirty cents for each phony dollar, smuggled in large bolts of fabric and boxes of toys.
Last month al-Jazeera made allegations of corruption in the heart of the vice-president's office when it secretly filmed two people claiming to be his advisers accepting cash payments from undercover journalists in return for a promise he would support an illegal timber project.
Barnsley have sacked their assistant head coach Tommy Wright after reports that he took a £5,000 payment from undercover reporters posing as football agents.
Tommy Wright, the assistant manager of Barnsley has been sacked by the Championship club after being filmed allegedly accepting a £5,000 cash payment from undercover reporters.
These are stories about "bumbling fantasists", hapless druggies, the aimless, even the virtually homeless and mentally ill, and other marginal characters with not the strongest grip on reality, who have been lured into discourses about violence against America only after assiduous courting, and in some cases outright payment, by undercover FBI or police informants.
Three peers and an MP have been accused of agreeing to do parliamentary work for payment after undercover reporters for the Sunday Times, BBC Panorama and the Daily Telegraph posed as lobbyists.
He is also accused of accepting payments from the undercover agent and an unnamed associate while agreeing to steer up to $80,000 in City Council discretionary money to them.
