1.   First, a media sting operation caught several senior government aides taking bribes from arms dealers.

2.   Most of the suppliers accused in the sting operations have pleaded guilty to fraud charges.

3.   An FBI sting operation and two murder-for-hire trials followed, one ending with a hung jury and the second with an acquittal.

4.   An undercover policewoman, Grace Flint, is horribly injured in a sting operation that goes wrong.

5.   And another federal sting operation, Operation Haunted Hall, has charged dozens of city, state and county workers with being ghost employees.

6.   And unscrupulous retailers will continue to sell to minors, which is almost unstoppable unless police resort to the unusual practice of using kids in sting operations.

7.   Apparently, Nash is in the middle of a sting operation, and his cover is about to get blown, if not blown away for good.

8.   As for sale to minors, Yarbrough said states that allow Internet sales have used minors in sting operations.

9.   As part of the sting operation, there had been previous meetings with the smugglers in Munich at the end of last month.

10.   As described by federal officials, the case involves two schemes, one real and one manufactured by the government in its sting operation.