David Grossman's books include: See Under: Love; The Book of Intimate Grammar; The Yellow Wind; and Sleeping On A Wire: Conversations With Palestinians In Israel.
In a wire-tapped conversation, Belsito and a party official were heard referring to "black" funds which they said Bossi had passed to the League.
Specifically, federal authorities said, Mr. Jackson is "Senate Candidate 5," associates of whom, the governor said in a wire-tapped conversation, were willing to raise money for Mr. Blagojevich in exchange for the seat.
In one wire-tapped conversation when the journalist was, by his own account, in Panama, he began discussing the payment of his commission with Pozzessere, when he was cut short.
Some, like legal analyst and writer Jeffrey Toobin, have speculated that it could even have meant that Papadopoulos wore a wire in conversations with those connected to the investigation once he agreed to cooperate.
Over the years of teaching and talking about the show, I've learned that when we talk about The Wire, the conversations often are completely detached from what The Wire says about systemic racism and the failure of the American dream.
During this investigation, French magistrates wire-tapped conversations between Sarkozy and his lawyer and made "unsettling" discoveries.
Wire-tapped conversations suggested that the minister had tried to influence the outcome of the recent privatisation of Telebras, the erstwhile telecoms monopoly.
The disclosures closely paralleled a sequence of events laid out in the criminal complaint against Mr. Blagojevich, which quoted him as saying in wire-tapped conversations that he was giving greater consideration to a Senate candidate — since identified as Mr. Jackson — whose supporters had offered to raise substantial campaign financing for the governor.
Several unnamed co-conspirators acted as informants for the government, some of them wearing wires, in conversations dating back two years, according to the complaints filed in the case.
