His attempt to entrap his wife and get custody of his kids severely back-fired.

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He accused US agents from a government agency of acting illegally to entrap him.

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After that meeting, Franklin was approached by the FBI, which had been wiretapping his conversations, and was compelled to entrap Rosen and Weissman in a sting operation.

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She and the four other nuns who made up the order's general council were participating in a sting operation to entrap some "advisers" who had defrauded the order.

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William Pollak wants to entrap every lawyer in America.

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It can be hard, says Natalia Savitskaya, of Faith, Hope and Love, an Odessa support group, to persuade these women that anyone wants to help them, rather than entrap them again.

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When Bobby is asked to help entrap a Russian drug lord, he finds himself being pulled away from the good times (this is 1988) and back into his family, to the dismay of his girlfriend, Amada (Eva Mendes).

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And when I talk about obsession, sir, I wonder why Mr. Starr encouraged Linda Tripp to continue to betray and entrap her young, unsuspecting friend and to allow her to continue her illegal tape recordings without court approval.

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The private eye Chris Lanzillo a 43-year-old retired Riverside police officer later told the Daily Pilot newspaper that the real reason he was at the sports bar was to entrap Costa Mesa Councilmen Gary Monahan and Steve Mensinger with a woman.

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