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FBI And Other Agencies Paid Informants $548 Million In Recent Years With Many Committing Authorized Crimes
Federal agencies paid out at least $548 million to informants working for the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), in recent years, according to government audits.
A few informants became millionaires, with some Amtrak and “parcel” delivery workers making nearly $1 million or more.
Many informants were authorized to commit “crimes” with the permission of their federal handlers. In a four-year period, there were 22,800 crime authorizations (2011-2014).
The FBI paid approximately $294 million (FY2012-2018), the DEA paid at least $237 million (FY2011-2015), and ATF paid approximately $17.2 million total (FY2012-2015) to informants.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamandrzejewski/2021/11/18/fbi-and-other-agencies-paid-informants-548-million-in-recent-years-with-many-committing-authorized-crimes/?sh=10bd1915f4dd
“There are three agencies with the biggest budgets that employ tens of thousands of informants every single year, and it's the FBI, it's the DEA, the Drug Enforcement Agency, and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, the ATF," said Open The Books’ Adam Andrzejewski to The National Desk’s Jan Jeffcoat. “The top-line budget in recent years was up to $550 million, which is a half-billion dollars.”
Andrzejewski says Open the Books found at least two informants were “minted as millionaires over a five and six-year period.”
“There was a parcel employee, think UPS, FedEx. There was an Amtrak employee that made up to a million dollars as a federal human confidential source and informant,” said Andrzejewski.
https://katv.com/news/nation-world/government-agencies-paid-informants-millions-of-dollars-says-watchdog-group
A special agent-in-charge has the authority to pay each of his office’s informants up to $100,000 per fiscal year. However, informants may earn substantially more as long as each additional $100,000 is approved by successively higher levels within the bureau. With deputy director approval, according to the policy guide, an informant may earn more than $500,000 per year.
https://theintercept.com/2017/01/31/how-the-fbi-conceals-its-payments-to-confidential-sources/