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-Lurid Crime Tales-
FBI And Other Agencies Paid Informants $548 Million In Recent Years With Many Committing Authorized Crimes
2021-11-28
[Forbes] Federal agencies paid out at least $548 million to informants working for the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), in recent years, according to government audits.

  • A few informants became millionaires, with some Amtrak and “parcel” delivery workers making nearly $1 million or more.

  • Many informants were authorized to commit “crimes” with the permission of their federal handlers. In a four-year period, there were 22,800 crime authorizations (2011-2014).

  • The FBI paid approximately $294 million (FY2012-2018), the DEA paid at least $237 million (FY2011-2015), and ATF paid approximately $17.2 million total (FY2012-2015) to informants.
Posted by:Besoeker

#4  
Given the DEA & FBI seized over $1.2 Billion in cash and bit coins in 2020 ... It did not cost the Taxpayers too much I hope.


BTW: In 2020 the US Gov. printed an average of $27 Billion per Day.
Posted by: NN2N1   2021-11-28 16:13  

#3  "One Amtrak employee was paid $962,615 between 2010 and 2015"
DEA informant. Evidently lotsa drugs go by rail. No wonder they're so dead set on keeping Amtrak going.
Posted by: ed in texas   2021-11-28 12:36  

#2  And what was the budget for making sure certain information was never ‘informed’?
Posted by: Airandee   2021-11-28 06:51  

#1  American Stasi.

Time to shut it down. Raze it and start over.
Posted by: Merrick Ferret   2021-11-28 06:17  

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