FBI Informant Paid $40,000+ to Help in Terrorism Conspiracy Case
An informant who provided key information implicating friends in a terrorism conspiracy case was paid more than $40,000 by the FBI.
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Famous San Francisco Activist, Black Panther Was FBI Informant
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Richard Masato Aoki, widely considered a hero among activists and liberal political groups in the San Francisco area, was an FBI informant who filed more than 500 reports about activists with the bureau. The Mercury News reports that newly revealed FBI documents show for the first time the extent that Aoki…
FBI Informant Code-Named Mellow Was Anything But As he Helped Bust 24 Suspects
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Don’t let his code name with the FBI fool you. Informant “Mellow,” as he’s code-named by the bureau, is anything but mellow. MassLive.com reports that David Rodriguez, a former Latin Kings ember, helped target 24 suspected drug and gun dealers for the FBI in the less than a year in Massachusetts. Rodriguez…
Army Sniper Pleads Guilty to Conspiring to Murder DEA Agent, Informant
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A former U.S. Army sniper has pleaded guilty to conspiring to murder a DEA agent and an informant. Joseph Hunter, 49, and five others were arrested in September 2013 after they were recorded plotting to kill a DEA agent and informant in Liberia for $800,000, International Business Times reports. Hunter was…
Ex-DEA Informant Awarded $1.1 Million
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A federal judge has awarded $1.1 million in damages to a former undercover DEA informant who was kidnapped in Colombia and held captive for more than three months, the Legal Times reported. The Legal Times reports that a U.S. Court of Federal Claims said the informant, identified in court papers as…
Movie review: ‘Whitey’ Documentary Gives Too Much Legitimacy to Claim That Bulger Wasn’t Informant
By Kevin Cullen Boston Globe I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Joe Berlinger made a pretty good documentary about Whitey Bulger, but it is seriously undermined by his treating far too seriously Bulger’s claim that he was never an informant for the FBI. Whitey insists he had no idea that when he…
War Crimes Tribunal to Hear Complaints About FBI Trying to Turn Member of Defense Team into Informant
Steve Neavling ticklethwire.com A U.S. war crimes tribunal will determine whether the FBI acted inappropriately by trying to turn a member of the legal defense team into an informant, Reuters reports. Attorneys for Guantanamo Bay inmates accused of orchestrating the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks plan to argue that the FBI created a conflict of interest….
Former Informant Opens Up About Experience Infiltrating Islamic Terrorists
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Emad Salem was one of the FBI’s most valuable government informants. Now the 64-year-old who helped put Islamic terrorists behind bars is speaking out publicly for the first time in years and is selling his first self-published book, “Undercover,” the Los Angeles Times reports. Born in Egypt, Salem emigrated to the U.S….