Unfortunately for him, that someone happen to be working for the Feds and wearing a wiretap.
He found mistakes in supporting paperwork, which excluded the use of vital wiretap evidence.
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Upon hearing the wiretap recordings, his story changed and some of the truth emerged.
Magistrates had ordered the wiretap as part of an investigation into inappropriate interference in the takeover.
So back to that Wiretap Act, which prohibits the interception of phone and electronic communications.
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But they say law enforcement should respect historic constraints, such as the need for subpoenas and wiretap orders.
The one thing governments have that investment banks do not is intelligence services with the power to wiretap people.
Investigators played hours of the wiretap recordings in court, alleging many conversations involving the three suspects prove they were plotting murder.
The 62-year-old was sentenced in 2010 after pleading guilty to lying over hiring a private investigator to wiretap a film producer.
U.S. officials say the wiretap details weren't provided to the FBI when Russian officials made their inquiries in March and September 2011.
Afghan lawyers say that wiretap evidence is regularly used in such cases.
Lucky for Reynoso, federal agents had a wiretap on his captors' phones.
The rise in these types of requests helps explain why the number of wiretap requests that law enforcement makes is falling.
He urged the administration to submit its program to the federal court that oversees wiretap requests "lock, stock and barrel" for its review.
Shirley Huntley, a Queens Democrat, made numerous recordings of her meetings over several months last year after she was herself caught on an incriminating wiretap.
Its primary weapon to prevent terror was the wiretap, a surveillance tool virtually everyone in law enforcement says is the best way to catch criminals.
The director initially pleaded guilty in 2006 after the FBI obtained a recording in which the men discussed the wiretap, but he later withdrew his guilty plea.
The one most often brought up: Did the court grant blanket authorization for the wiretapping program as a whole, or did it grant permission to wiretap specific individuals?
The agency had its first big success this year when an important drug dealer was brought down by a sting operation and the novel use of wiretap evidence.
The publication of the transcript in a national newspaper broke secrecy rules, and Mr Berlusconi was accused of obtaining the transcript from the wiretap company used by magistrates.
The Patriot Act's notification provision is no different in principle from the legal notice that was previously required to be given to persons intercepted in a court-ordered wiretap.
In November 2009, Afghan prosecutors issued a warrant for Mr. Azimi's arrest after he was allegedly heard on a wiretap discussing bribes paid to the country's then-Islamic affairs minister.
Prosecutors brought the wiretap case after a transcript of a phone conversation intercepted by the authorities was published in the newspaper Il Giornale, owned by Mr Berlusconi's brother Paolo.
Mr McTiernan was originally accused of lying about hiring former celebrity private investigator Anthony Pellicano to wiretap film producer, Chuck Roven, after they both worked on the movie Rollerball.
The case against Martoma is relatively straight forward and does not include wiretap evidence and the kind of controversial tactics that the feds have employed in some recent insider-trading cases.
"To wiretap an email, to grab it while it's in transmission, that requires a wiretap order, sort of a super search warrant, " lawyer Kevin Bankston of the Electronic Frontier Foundation said.
In a civil case, such as the cases here challenging the National Security Agency wiretap program, there's not been judged by the courts to be that balance on the other side.
The Associated Press reported the wiretap information on Saturday.
The subpoenas issued last year originally cited a broad array of documents, including wiretap requests and other materials involving confidential sources that Holder argued he was prevented by law from supplying.
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