The first came just a few days after Internal Affairs investigators and the Bronx district attorney's office obtained authorization for their first wiretap on the phone of a police union delegate, one of those with knowledge of the case said.
After investigators gathered enough information to obtain a wiretap on the officer, who was once a union delegate, they began hearing conversations about fixing tickets, the people said.
The next day, Ms. Sarasohn said, a repairman said the TV was working fine; the only possible problem could be a wiretap on the adjoining neighbor's lines.
In early 2009, an investigation led to a wiretap on the officer's cellphone, which he frequently used to discuss criminal business at the Bronx barbershop that he owned, several people said.
The case involved a wiretap on the home telephone of then-Kissinger aide, Morton Halperin, between May 1969 and February 1971, to find the source of foreign-policy leaks.
Goldstein, the longtime "This American Life" producer and decade-plus host of "Wiretap," on the CBC, is a wonderfully distinctive presence, whose manner has the kind of self-aware comic audacity that says you're in good hands — even if those hands are dropping the mike, as he does in one episode.
