informant
Example Sentences
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Department of Justice announced just before Christmas Eve it would stop monitoring the Orange County district attorney’s use of jailhouse informants.
From Los Angeles Times
Ryan won an award from the New York Press Club in 2018 for coverage of a jailhouse informant scandal in Detroit.
Left by themselves to fight for answers, his mother Margaret and brother Eugene, both now dead, came to suspect collusion between British security forces and informants – meaning state agents - in the group responsible.
From BBC
The government’s case was built on Snapchat messages Martinez sent to a government informant—a man he knew and trusted from the construction business—and to his own brother.
Paul Hare, a former British ambassador to Cuba and Venezuela, argued that Cuban intelligence underestimated US access to "insider cooperation in Venezuela" -- an informant within Maduro's camp.
From Barron's
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
