Posted on 10/04/2016 9:51:24 AM PDT by nickcarraway
Snitching for the feds can be dangerous work, but it also can be pretty lucrative.
One South Florida man who has been working undercover as a confidential informant for 31 years has been paid about $1.5 million for his efforts, according to court records and testimony that shed some light on the usually shadowy world of informants.
The payments, which appear to have started during President Ronald Reagan's second term in office, average out to more than $48,000 per year.
The Drug Enforcement Administration won't say who he is or why he does what he does, but some information about him slipped out in court this week after the DEA used him in a heroin sting.
"It's surprising that he's still alive … that he's been able to survive," U.S. Magistrate Judge William Matthewman said during a hearing in federal court in West Palm Beach on Monday. The judge was a Miami police sergeant and respected defense lawyer for years before his appointment to the bench.
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He could get paid $48,000 per year as a manager of a Dunkin Donuts, and at Dunkin Donuts, there’s a much lower chance drug dealers will want to have you executed.
That’s just what I was thinking!
But, God Bless the men and women that do this dangerous work. Sure wish our own Government wasn’t working against them in the long run.
Good work if you can get it!....................
Even so, more power to him.
There was a show on one of the murder channels about someone like this. He also got about 1/4 of the assets seized in arrests.
Still walking around with no attempt at concealment.
Yeah, but Dunkin Donuts managers have to get up early to make the donuts. That whole work ethic thing can be a problem for some people.
This guy’s toast. If he’s been around and on the payroll since the Reagan administration, can’t be that hard to identify. If he does a runner, that’s just confirmation.
Cheap at the price. Especially considering if he was successful over that length of time, his information would have been about higher dealers and bigger deals.
Factor in a few busts with confiscations of cash and assets and he probably made the DEA money.
I’ll bet you a beer that he’s got white hair. Ain’t nobody can keep looking over his shoulder that long and keep his black hair.
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