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

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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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