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This actually began to happen. we are beginning to see precisely that trend with the air b&b. but hopefully, cutting out the middleman and relying on companies, why not just swap with the neighbour? why not just ask your friends precisely where they recommend and whether or not they have enough room to take their kids as well? and not they have enough room to take their kids as well?— their kids as well? and yes, im cominu their kids as well? and yes, im coming to _ their kids as well? and yes...

Organized gang is behind this? and what are they stealing? >> so what they do, the individual you saw yesterday, he had a garbage bag, went to a specific area of the store. they primarily target cosmetics, over-the-counter drugs, and they take them and sell them to a middleman. then the middleman then sells it on the international market, markets in the united states, at flea markets. this is a multimillion-dollar industry. and because they know that they can recruit people that can hit one, two...

They were monitored touring monitoring we as journalists make these requests all the time. but what fusion was doing was doing it through a cut out through a middleman and essentially obstructing that middleman to kind of frame the request in a way that john wanted realize they were looking at him. they didnt try to torpedo his story, but the tactics that were being used, i found really troubling and kind of emblematic of the techniques and the strategies that these private intelligence used beh...

Magdi had just asked a question that none of the investigators could answer. when magdi says, tell me who the middleman is, so i know i can trust you, that was something the undercover officers i think werent ready for. >> no. i think we all stopped breathing for about ten seconds. >> investigators had considered the possibility that magdi might have hired the killers through some third party. and now this conversation seemed like confirmation that he had, but who was it? it seems to me that the...

Apparently, he felt hed done enough talking. instead, the defense attorney showed the jury evidence which he said proved magdi was not guilty. magdi had written down the serial numbers of the 15 $100 bills he had given the undercover officers, and he tried to write down the license plate number of their vehicle, which, said the defense, casts that undercover video in a whole new light. >> hes playing along with them in order to be able to apprehend them. >> and so, when he says to them, just tel...

Attempt to trap magdi. >> the only way anthony bridget or somebody like him commits a crime like this is some kind of gain, financial, primarily. so you develop that kind of individual and you come up with a way in which they were able to contact magdi and demand more money. >> let me holler at you for a few ticks. >> in other words, these two undercover officers posing as gang members would approach magdi and hit him up for some hush money. since investigators knew that money was magdis particu...

Undercover sting led to his arrest for the murder of his wife, ariet. it was a case prosecutor sonia balleste couldnt wait to try. nearly a decade in the making. and as it turned out, it would be her last. sonia had been promoted to management. >> its my swan song, yes. >> so you wanted to go out with a win. >> prosecutors dont like to lose. i want to say i did my best. >> despite what youve seen, the case still wasnt a slam dunk. there was no proof magdi knew the alleged killer, anthony bridget...

>> who was the middleman? >> on the eve of the trial, richard and ryan got ready for the big day. their suits were pressed. they reviewed their prior statements. and they weighed the consequences of what this moment meant. >> im happy that we will get closure, but then its just sad, because its like, we lost our mom, and then in the same light, its like, we lost our dad, too. >> their only surviving parent, the one theyd lived in fear of for years, would be the one they had to face in court. >> ...

Told you yesterday. we know whats going on, you know, my boy took care of a little business, you know? so you know, were just trying to get paid just to keep it hush, you know what i mean? >> you got paid everything. >> once he told me, i thought i paid you guys everything. home run. >> its one of those feelings where youve known this all along, and then you actually hear it from him. and so, i think it was overwhelming feeling of confirmation. >> and then, just as quickly, it all threatened to ...

Unfortunately, South Asia seems to have turned into the epicenter of the second wave of COVID-19 as most of the countries