If you are planning on doing your own surveillance, buy a hidden camera.

When you buy a hidden camera for your own surveillance activity, your power to persuade a judge increases 100 fold. Capturing someone engaging in a certain type of activity, whether verbal or physical, is the single most powerful bit of surveillance that you can do.

But always be safe and always have a friend nearby, perhaps in a parked car across the street, in case something goes wrong like the hidden camera is discovered.

If you want to buy a hidden camera and really get good at surveillance, there is no better group to learn from than the FBI. What you are about to see is actual surveillance done with a hidden camera.

Prince George's County schools chief Andre J. Hornsby was suspected of corruption. He purchased $956,000 in educational software from the company LeapFrog SchoolHouse for the school district and then took a $20,000 kickback for the deal.

Federal prosecutors in the corruption trial of former Prince George's County schools chief Andre J. Hornsby today released the surveillance of Mr. Hornsby accepting cash inside a Comfort Inn Hotel room in Bowie. In video shot from a hidden camera that was key to the prosecution's case, Cynthia Joffrion, an education-consulting executive and Hornsby colleague who became an FBI informant, is heard saying: "Okay, if I give you 1,000 now that means I only owe you 144,000?" She then places the money on the table, and Mr. Hornsby puts the money in his shirt pocket.

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UPDATE: On November 25, 2008 former Prince George's County schools chief Andre J. Hornsby was sentenced to six years in federal prison for steering contracts to a girlfriend and a longtime business associate and then orchestrating what prosecutors called an "egregious" coverup.

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