The Insider first broke the news of a 2009 sting operation by the FBI against nearly two dozen gun dealers that culminated in embarrassing arrests at the SHOT Show in 2010 in Las Vegas. The latest news is that a U.S. federal judge in July declared a mistrial after the jury deadlocked over whether four salesmen were guilty of violating federal bribery laws, namely the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, by offering bribes to win lucrative contracts in an undercover operation that ensnared 22 people, according to the Justice Department. According to a Reuters news report, Judge Richard Leon declared the mistrial after jurors could not reach a unanimous verdict after six different votes. Read the full Reuters news report here.
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