Yahoo Web Search

Search results

1. theintercept.com › annotation_sets › how-the-fbiHow the FBI Recruits and Handles Its Army of Informants ...

   theintercept.com › annotation_sets › how-the-fbi

   • Cached

   In a covert approach, the FBI agent takes on a false identity for the purpose of recruiting someone to be an informant. Covert informant recruitment is not subject to the...

2. time.com › 6284913The FBI's Troubling History With Confidential Informants | TIME

   time.com › 6284913

   • Cached

   Jun 7, 2023 · The FBI uses many confidential informants but their quality varies and what happens to them can be tragic, as one family learned

3. People also ask

   Does the FBI use informants?

   • In some past cases, the FBI's use of informants violated the Informant Guidelines, the MIOG, or federal or state law, with serious adverse consequences to prosecutions, third parties, agents' careers, and the FBI's reputation.

   Special Report - United States Department of Justice Office of the

   oig.justice.gov/sites/default/files/archive/special/0509/chapter3.htm

   See all results for this question

   Do FBI agents pay informants?

   • The FBI implicitly acknowledges the temptation to disguise service payments to sources as expense reimbursements, instructing agents not to consider the effects at trial when paying informants. A special agent-in-charge has the authority to pay each of his office’s informants up to $100,000 per fiscal year.

   How the FBI Recruits and Handles Its Army of Informants Archives

   theintercept.com/annotation_sets/how-the-fbi-recruits-and-handles-its-army-of-informants/

   See all results for this question

   What happens if a FBI informant does not follow guidelines?

   • Failure to adhere to the Guidelines' provisions requiring periodic instructions can result in claims by informants that they had authority from the FBI to commit crimes and can thereby jeopardize investigations and prosecutions of informants and others or result in civil liability for the government.

   Special Report - United States Department of Justice Office of the

   oig.justice.gov/sites/default/files/archive/special/0509/chapter3.htm

   See all results for this question

   Did FBI informants have a role in Flemmi's indictment?

   • Four days after Flemmi's arrest and the day before his indictment, the Special Agent in Charge (SAC) of the FBI's Boston field office notified the U.S. Attorney in the District of Massachusetts for the first time that Bulger and Flemmi had been informants for the FBI for much of the period covered by the indictment.

   Special Report - United States Department of Justice Office of the

   oig.justice.gov/sites/default/files/archive/special/0509/chapter3.htm

   See all results for this question

4. www.fbi.gov › about › faqsWhat is the FBI’s policy on the use of informants? — FBI

   www.fbi.gov › about › faqs

   • Cached

   Although it is legally permissible for the FBI to use informants in its investigations, special care is taken to carefully evaluate and closely supervise their use so the rights of individuals...

5. www.nytimes.com › 2024/05/20 › usF.B.I. Shed Informants Linked to Russian Influence Operations

   www.nytimes.com › 2024/05/20 › us

   1 day ago · Johnathan C. Buma, an F.B.I. agent who oversaw at least four of the informants who were dropped, suggested in a written statement provided to the Senate Judiciary Committee last year that law ...

6. Videos

   • 

     20:48

     youtube.com

     Undercover FBI Agent Fact Checks Mob Movies & TV | Vanity Fair

     Feb 24, 2020

     3.4M Views

   • 

     3:18

     youtube.com

     Inside The FBI’s January 6 Investigation

     Jan 6, 2022

     21.2K Views

   • 

     3:53

     youtube.com

     FBI Special Agent Careers

     May 26, 2017

     538.6K Views

   View all

7. oig.justice.gov › sites › defaultSpecial Report - United States Department of Justice Office ...

   oig.justice.gov › sites › default

   • Cached

   In some past cases, the FBI's use of informants violated the Informant Guidelines, the MIOG, or federal or state law, with serious adverse consequences to prosecutions, third parties, agents' careers, and the FBI's reputation.

8. www.npr.org › 2008/09/01 › 94117338Bulger Case Changed FBI's Role With Informants : NPR

   www.npr.org › 2008/09/01 › 94117338

   Sep 1, 2008 · That's when the godfather of the city's Irish mob, Whitey Bulger, became a confidential informant for the FBI and, in the process, he managed to corrupt two agents — John Connolly and his...

9. www.factcheck.org › 2024 › 02Indictment of FBI Informant Undermines Centerpiece of GOP's ...

   www.factcheck.org › 2024 › 02

   • Cached

   Feb 16, 2024 · In directing the House to open a formal impeachment inquiry against President Joe Biden, then-Speaker Kevin McCarthy cited, among other things, an unverified report from a “trusted FBI informant”...