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informant

[in-fawr-muhnt] / ɪnˈfɔr mənt /


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Between 2015 and 2023, the nonprofit paid this informant $270,000.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 29, 2026

Only recently has Tennessee acknowledged that it used a paid informant.

From Slate • Apr. 20, 2026

To convict him, the state relied on the testimony of a paid jailhouse informant, while no physical evidence suggested he was present at the crime scene.

From Slate • Apr. 20, 2026

Paramount President Jeff Shell has fired back in his ugly feud with a Las Vegas gambler and FBI informant, contending that Robert “R.J.”

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 16, 2026

What’s more, the informant said that Burt and Hale had “split on the boodle”—the sum of money—obtained from Bigheart.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann




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