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The following account is based on Bloomberg reporting over nearly two years, including on- and off-the-record conversations with more than two dozen analysts, fund managers, traders and current and former company employees.—
Orianna Rosa Royle,
Fortune,
20 July 2025 -
Details are classified for now, though this reporter was promised an off-the-record reveal at AIFF’s rooftop soiree.—
Essie Assibu,
Variety,
15 July 2025
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Closed session discussion on new senior center, according to agenda Scott Crawford, Inc. was also involved in a closed-door discussion in mid-July about a senior center, but few details are available.—
Erik S. Hanley,
jsonline.com,
6 Aug. 2025
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Several upheavals have rippled through the agency via closed-door meetings and hallway rumors, instead of with clear paper trails.—
Katherine J. Wu,
The Atlantic,
6 Aug. 2025
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In the 2021 film, Odenkirk (Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul) stars as Hutch Mansell, a by-the-numbers working stiff who harbors a secret past as an off-the-books government assassin.—
Tim Lammers,
Forbes.com,
16 Aug. 2025
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Over the years, law enforcement officers have responded to dozens of calls to these casinos for crimes more violent than off-the-books gambling.—
Josh Salman,
Miami Herald,
11 July 2025
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Party leaders could reveal what their rivals were cooking up and reporters could penetrate clandestine deal-making through sources.—
Dan Walters,
Mercury News,
15 Aug. 2025
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Nic Carter, a crypto venture capitalist, then coined the term Operation Choke Point 2.0, referring to an Obama administration clandestine operation to debank undesirable industries including firearms dealers and payday lenders in the early 2010s.—
Billy Bambrough,
Forbes.com,
6 Aug. 2025
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These, though, have generally either been surreptitious efforts or ones that the White House has attempted strenuously to legally justify.—
New York Daily News Editorial Board,
New York Daily News,
1 Aug. 2025
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When one fan posted a surreptitious photo of Sudeikis and Hunt hanging out at a bar, commenters warned them to not share the location.—
Lisa Gutierrez,
Kansas City Star,
1 Aug. 2025
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In it, deaf canteen employee Alison Brooks (Rose Ayling-Ellis) lands an under-the-table gig as a covert lip reader for the police and finagles her way into the apex of an upcoming heist operation.—
Randy Myers,
Mercury News,
1 Aug. 2025
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Reports have long suggested that Iran has increasingly engaged in covert malign behavior to target foreign citizens.—
Caitlin McFall,
FOXNews.com,
31 July 2025
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“Back-channel.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/back-channel. Accessed 19 Aug. 2025.
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