Posted on 11/26/2021 11:31:32 AM PST by LibertyWoman
The U.S. government has paid out at least $548 million to informants working for the FBI, Drug Enforcement Agency and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms in recent years, multiple federal audits found as they slammed the agencies for wasteful spending.
Among the questionable payments made to the informants include a parcel worker who was paid $1.4 million, an Amtrak employee who was paid nearly a $1 million and an airline worker who received $655,000. All three received those amounts from the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA).
Those three unidentified informants were all given the huge sums of cash between 2011 and 2015,...
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
I'm thinking that this is where the weaponization of our intelligence communities began.
Any comment, gas_dr?
How much of that $ was kicked back to the Agents running the “informants”? And their bosses?
Exactly. This reeks of money laundering.
Man, I gotta find someone to rat out!
I have absolutely no doubt, not one iota, that the FIB is neck deep in drug and human trafficking. No human secret police agency with that level of power was ever anything but corrupt beyond belief.
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Agreed. Our extra-Constitutional agencies have metastasized out of control and beyond any measure of accountability. And their budgets will never go down.
I had been wondering about how to supplement my income in retirement, but not any longer. Maybe I can form some sort of co-op where we can all snitch on each other.
“ Man, I gotta find someone to rat out!”
I’m sure the neighbor’s kid is part of the Sinaloa hierarchy.
Where’s my cash?
Making socialism great again.
I have information that the government has been taken over by commies. Where’s my money. I’d probably be put in solitary confinement.
I wonder how common this was and how well it was known in certain circles. Ive told a story here some years back about this happening around here in that time frame.
MrsMaw had joined one of those community container purchasing clubs. The person who runs it buys a shipping container full of something then sells those things cheaper than the big box stores to the club members. This month maybe its knit hats and next month something else.
Our packages and those of some others were showing up appearing to have been opened, some not really resealed properly. Long story short, it turned out that someone down at the post office was convinced that the packages were drug shipments and was taking pictures of all of the contents and sending it we were told to the FBI.
Eventually they supposedly did show up but the parcel worker lost their job as it wasnt authorized. Makes a person wonder what the real story was.
“I’d probably be put in solitary confinement.”
Yeah, in Jeffrey Epstein’s old cell.
DEA used to pay $1000 a kilo to a snitch.
Tell them where they can find the drugs, they go find the drugs, pick up a check. No questions asked. No taxes.
It’s not. They paid snitches to do their jobs.
They used to pay airline ticket agents to alert them when someone purchased a ‘same day ticket w/ cash’ to certain locations deemed, drug centers...Miami, Caribbean countries, Central/South America.
They’d track them coming back into the US and intercept them when they got off the plane.
Some agents made some serious cash.
I suspect some of these payments may be the result of qui tam lawsuits that pay informants for blowing the whistle on bad actors trying to rip off taxpayers. But it’s speculation on my part because the idiots at the Daily Mail won’t allow you to read their propaganda garbage if you block their stupid ads.
Qui tam is a type of lawsuit based on an ancient writ in common law that allows a private person, known as a relator, to prosecute a lawsuit for the government and receive a reward. ... If the case is successful, the relator can earn a whistleblower reward.
Relators can collect millions.
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