informant
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She added to the informant on an encrypted messaging app that she had "picked up some anarchist literature at the social justice center" which "could have some good tips."
From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026
Vincent Pastore, best known for playing gangster informant Salvatore “Big Pussy” Bonpensiero on HBO’s “The Sopranos,” has died.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2026
In The Sopranos, Pastore played Tony Soprano's best friend who ultimately became an informant for the FBI.
From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026
He traveled in a van with Abdel-Rahman and Emad Salem, the government informant who later became a key witness in the federal case against Abdel-Rahman.
From Slate ● Jul. 14, 2026
It was unwritten law in China, so my informant told me, that when one man saved another’s life he became responsible for that life to the end of its existence.
From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck
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In 1962, a full 17 percent of the membership was reported to be federal informants.
From Slate ● Sep. 18, 2026
We learn that in Romania, for example, the leper colony of Tichilești was one of the only places in the country to lack state informants under the totalitarian Ceaușescu dictatorship.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
Federal prosecutors accused Heidi Beirich of helping to facilitate secret payments to informants from extremist groups.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
It said they identified those behind the abduction and dismantled their support network, including informants and hideouts in the Old Oyo National Park forest.
From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026
While the detectives were trying to establish a connection between the slayings of Charles Whitehorn and Anna Brown, Comstock passed on tidbits that he collected from his network of informants.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
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