undercover law enforcement operation. multiple law enforcement authorities got together and they hatched this plan that they would open up a fake business in queens. a fake scrap metal and auto salvage business in that part of queens. and they would do that basically as a sting operation. because that business sector in that part of new york was generally believed by law enforcement to be all mobbed up and so they thought they could use a fake business of that kind to try to crack open the organized crime infiltration of the businesses. so undercover law enforcement officers learned to -- i mean, i don't know -- drive wreckers and car crushers and forklifts and flatbed trucks and they learned how to do this type of business and they opened up this fake business and in early 1999 and they started doing work. they were buying and selling scrapped autos and scrap metal and doing auto salvage. but bingo, as soon as they