" only the undercover solicitors, which to me is entrapment !!!"
It probably would be entrapment if the under cover people posing as pension fund managers, "hadn't" told them that they were paying-off corrupt pension fund managers, and getting kick backs.
Wilcox KNEW he was helping to defraud the pension fund investors.
Would you call someone who robbed a bank as entrapment? After all they have all that money just lying around enticing him to take it!
“There are three kinds of men. The ones that learn by readin’. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.” –Will Rogers