Video | Dramatic FBI video shows how agents tricked their way into Paul Phua's villa for gambling bust
Defence challenges evidence from footage, which was taken through a lapel camera in Las Vegas
Video filmed through the lapel camera carried by an undercover government agent shows how the FBI tricked its way inside a luxury villa at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas as part of a major bust involving an Asian gambling kingpin.
Defence lawyers said the FBI shut off internet access to the suspects then impersonated repair technicians to get inside and collect evidence.
Defence lawyer Thomas Goldstein is challenging evidence the government collected in the videos, which he described as an illegal search because the agents did not have a warrant.
The video shows investigators devising code words to use while they were inside and a brief exchange about how another investigator should dress for the role of a technical repairman.
"If you put on that shirt, you have to look the part. Go all the way," said Mike Wood, an outside technician working for Caesars, advising Nevada Gaming Control Board agent Ricardo Lopez before Lopez headed to one of the suites on July 4.