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Pinkerton is an American private investigation and security company established around 1850 in the United States by Scottish-born American cooper Allan Pinkerton and Chicago attorney Edward Rucker as the North-Western Police Agency, which later became Pinkerton & Co. and finally the Pinkerton National Detective Agency.
George W. Riddell was a Pinkerton labor spy who infiltrated the Western Federation of Miners (WFM) in Telluride, and later became president of the Eureka miners union in Utah. Riddell was forced to resign when Morris Friedman published the book The Pinkerton Labor Spy .
Jamie Lowther-Pinkerton: Private secretary to Princes William and Harry: Warned by police: 2006: Named in indictment at trial of Goodman and Mulcaire Jo Armstrong: Legal adviser to Gordon Taylor: Warned by police: 2009: Warned by police after Guardian story in July 2009. Sued the NOTW for breach of privacy and was paid costs and damages John ...
In 2002, WotC sponsored a design contest for which designers could submit proposals to produce a new campaign world to the company. WotC selected "Eberron", which game designer Keith Baker submitted, and its first campaign book was released in June 2004. [9] The Eberron Campaign Setting won the 2004 Origins Award for Best Role-Playing ...
On 8 August 2006, Clarke's team arrested three men, including Goodman and former footballer turned private investigator Glenn Mulcaire. [7] After releasing the third man, in consultation with the Crown Prosecution Service, Goodman and Mulcaire were charged with hacking the telephones of members of the royal family by accessing voicemail messages, an offence under section 79 of the Regulation ...
WOTC may refer to: Wizards of the Coast, an American publisher of fantasy and science fiction games; Work Opportunity Tax Credit, an American federal tax credit for employers; XCOM 2: War of the Chosen, the expansion pack to the 2016 turn-based tactics videogame XCOM 2; WOTC, a radio station in Edinburg, Virginia
Agents of the Burns Detective Agency were hired to "investigate" jurors in a federal trial of Harry F. Sinclair in November 1927. Sinclair hired William J. Burns to have 14 agents follow the jurors and produce daily reports on their activities.
The Anti-Pinkerton Act was a law passed by the U.S. Congress in 1893 to limit the federal government's ability to hire private investigators or mercenaries.. The Anti-Pinkerton Act is contained within 5 U.S.C. 3108 and purports to specifically restrict the government of the United States (as well as that of the District of Columbia) from hiring employees of Pinkerton or similar organizations ...