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Post by Yep on Sept 11, 2005 22:34:36 GMT -5
SNITCH A noun- 1- fink, snitch, snitcher, stoolpigeon, stoolie, sneak, sneaker, canary "Someone acting as an informer or decoy for the police" entity object; physical object ¨^living_thing; animate thing ¨^organism; being ¨^person; individual; someone; somebody; mortal; human; soul ¨^communicator ¨^informant; source ¨^informer; betrayer; rat; squealer; blabber ¨^fink, snitch, snitcher, stoolpigeon, stoolie, sneak, sneaker, canary B verb 1 - denounce, tell on, betray, give away, rat, grass, shit, shop, snitch, stag Give away information about somebody; "He told on his classmate who had cheated on the exam" act; move ¨^interact ¨^communicate; intercommunicate ¨^inform ¨^denounce, tell on, betray, give away, rat, grass, shit, shop, snitch, stag ¨^sell_out 2 - hook, snitch, thieve, cop, knock off, glom |
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Post by nn on Sept 11, 2005 22:46:23 GMT -5
Fake snitch tricks FBI and flees the country March 12, 2004 A Detroiter suspected of dealing crack cocaine who won his freedom and fled the country after promising to lead investigators to Osama bin Laden has again exposed the vulnerability of the government's informant system. The case involves Nageeb Al-Haidari, 32, a U.S. citizen with Yemeni connections, who was paid $9,000 to serve as an FBI informant after telling agents that he could help them find bin Laden, the chief suspect in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and the October 2000 bombing of the USS Cole in Yemen. The Justice Department, FBI and U.S. Attorney's Office in Detroit declined Thursday to comment on the case described in a recent edition of Newsweek. The Wayne County Prosecutor's Office confirmed that the U.S. Attorney's Office had sent a letter asking that Al-Haidari be freed from jail in 2001, but a spokeswoman wouldn't go into details. Newsweek reported that the negotiations between Al-Haidari and the government began in early 2001, months after the USS Cole bombing, but before Sept. 11. Newsweek said Al-Haidari told agents he could contact bin Laden and his associates at any time and could provide the FBI with names, phone numbers and addresses. At the time, Al-Haidari was facing charges in Wayne County Circuit Court resulting from fleeing and eluding police in May 2000 after a shooting at a Detroit bar. He was indicted in U.S. District Court in March 2001 on cocaine distribution charges. Newsweek said the U.S. Attorney's Office arranged for Al-Haidari's release from jail just before he was sentenced to probation in the circuit court case, saying he was providing valuable information to the federal government. Newsweek said that he returned to drug dealing and later fled the country. "I think they are flubbing the war on terror and this is another example of it," said Debbie Schlussel, a Southfield lawyer who has criticized the FBI's Detroit office and the U.S. Attorney's Office in columns in the New York Post. The incident is the latest in a series of foul-ups that have embarrassed the FBI's Detroit office and the U.S. Attorney's Office. The former lead prosecutor in last year's terrorism trial in Detroit is under investigation for possible misconduct in a case the Bush administration had hailed as a victory in the war on terrorism. Three of four men were convicted in the case. The judge who presided over the trial has criticized federal prosecutors for failing to give defense lawyers documents that might have helped the defendants in the terror trial. The judge has ordered a thorough review of government files before deciding whether to grant the defendants' request for a new trial. Last month, a paid Detroit FBI informant was charged with convincing agents that he had penetrated an international drug ring and then persuading them through alleged associates to pay $164,000 for mostly phony drugs. The informant also is accused of tricking agents into believing that the head of the FBI Detroit field office, Willie Hulon, had leaked them information to the drug ring, resulting in Hulon's temporary reassignment. Al-Haidari's lawyer, David Steingold, defended the FBI and U.S. Attorney's Office, but wouldn't discuss what Al-Haidari pledged to do for agents. "Everything done in Mr. Al-Haidari's case was completely above board and not at all unusual," he said, adding that the government frequently offers favorable treatment to low-level drug dealers who can lead them to more serious offenders. "It's the cost of doing business." Steingold said Al-Haidari is a lifelong Detroiter who had attended three years of college and has three children who live with their mother. Detroit-area lawyers have complained since the Sept. 11 attacks that federal authorities have been too eager to believe the tales of untrustworthy informants -- not taking into account that some might use the system as a way to settle old scores with extended family members or former business partners. In 2002, the case involving a local Yemeni suspected of terrorism was thrown out of U.S. District Court in Detroit after the government's key informant recanted his statements. The informant told prosecutors that the man intended to launch a terrorist attack in Michigan. The informant turned out to be the former brother-in-law of the accused man, and was angry over the man's divorce of his sister. In another case, an Arab informant agreed to help a divorced friend strike back at his ex-wife and former brother-in-law by making up a story to the FBI, according to sealed federal court records obtained by the Free Press. |
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Post by nn on Sept 11, 2005 22:52:57 GMT -5
Newsbrief:
No Honor Among Thieves -- Informant Sues FBI for His Cut of Forfeitures
7/5/02 - A former police chief turned confidential informant has filed a lawsuit against the FBI for failing to live up to its promises to protect him and his family and to give him 10% of the proceeds from everything confiscated, according to an article appearing in the Baltimore Sun on Sunday. Informant Avery Ensley has a long history in law enforcement, including a stint as police chief of North Sioux City, SD, but now says he is filing the lawsuit in part to make people aware that the "FBI does not take care of its people."
Ensley was upset because although he claimed to have contributed to drug seizures totaling $12 million in cash and 1,200 kilos of cocaine, he only received a paltry $50,000. Ensley made more than 15 trips to Mexico gathering evidence for the FBI regarding the Arellano-Felix drug cartel. Ensely claimed that because of his commitment to pursuing his career as an FBI snitch, he and his wife lost several homes and businesses.
"One of the reasons I'm going forward with this thing is that I want other people to know the FBI does not take care of its people," Ensley said. "My experience is that they will put anybody at risk for their own benefit."
The FBI had no comment.
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Post by Yep on Sept 12, 2005 15:40:28 GMT -5
Sept. 12, 2005 - WASHINGTON - FBI agents often violate bureau's rules for handling confidential informants that were revised after FBI abuses in the 1990s, the Justice Department's internal watchdog said Monday.
A review of 120 confidential informant files from FBI offices around the country found violations in 104 cases, or 87 percent, Inspector General Glenn A. Fine said. His 301-page report, parts of which were blacked out, examined FBI compliance with rules that govern most criminal investigations.
The report said agents failed to assess informants' suitability or get permission for informants to engage in activity that otherwise would be illegal. Agents did not convey proper instructions or tell prosecutors when informants had committed crimes that were not authorized by their FBI handlers, Fine said.
FBI Director Robert Mueller, according to the report, said many agents find the required paperwork cumbersome. In a statement, the FBI said the violations were "administrative" and that officials have begun simplifying procedures.
Among the material in the report that was withheld from the public is how many confidential informants the FBI uses. Some have provided information to the FBI for more than six years. Others are designated "high-level" informants because they are part of the senior leadership of a group the FBI is investigating.
A third category of informants identified in the report includes lawyers, doctors and clergy — all obligated to keep confidential their dealings with clients — or members of the news media.
FBI spokesman Ed Cogswell said the bureau would not identify whether any of its informants are clergy or members of the media.
"We can use them and if a need presents, I'm sure we do," Cogswell said. "But we do not want to identify what our sources are."
Confidential informants are critical to some prosecutions, the report said. But their use by the FBI also "presents serious risks, including the risk that informants may claim that their criminal activities were authorized or acquiesced in by the government," Fine said.
The Attorney General's Investigative Guidelines were developed in the mid-1970s in response to FBI surveillance and infiltration of civil rights and other protest groups in the 1950s and 1960s.
The section on informants was overhauled in 2001, after celebrated cases in which FBI agents protected mobsters from prosecution or tipped them off to investigations while simultaneously using them as FBI informants.
In one case, former FBI agent John J. Connolly Jr. tipped off Boston mobster James "Whitey" Bulger to a looming racketeering indictment, causing Bulger to flee. He remains at large.
The FBI has said informants are important to counterterrorism and criminal investigations.
Two informants helped lure Yemeni Sheik Mohammed Ali Hassan al-Moayad and an aide to a meeting in which the cleric was secretly recorded promising to funnel money to Hamas and al-Qaida. Al-Moayad was sentenced to 75 years in prison. Mohammed Mohsen Yahya Zayed received a 45-year sentence.
The case, however, was nearly derailed when one informant, who was the government's star witness, set himself on fire in Washington in what he later described as an attempt to get more money from the FBI, which paid him at least $100,000.
Mohamed Alanssi recovered in time for the trial.
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Post by Mafia Cop on Sept 14, 2005 0:04:00 GMT -5
Sept. 13, 2005 - Lawyers for the "Mafia Cops" are pressing federal prosecutors to disclose whether a key government witness was a secret informant at a time when he allegedly helped engineer some mob murders.
Edward Hayes, who is representing ex-NYPD detective Stephen Caracappa, said in a letter to prosecutors that he has learned that the informant was providing information to the government much earlier than the defense has been led to believe.
Caracappa, 63, and Louis Eppolito, 56, have been indicted on charges they worked as moles for the mob while they were detectives in the 1980s and '90s, and played roles in several hits. Court records and law enforcement sources have indicated that convicted drug trafficker Burton Kaplan is the main source of information used to get the two former cops indicted.
Citing his own sources and a recent Vanity Fair article, Hayes said in his Sept. 1 letter to prosecutors that Kaplan was providing information to the government well before the 2005 indictment against his client. If true, said Hayes, Kaplan might have himself exploited his relationship with investigators to glean information useful for the mob hits.
"Obviously, if he had a relationship with some law enforcement agency and failed to disclose it: 1. that relationship could be a source of information used to kill these individuals, and 2: failure to disclose it could show that he felt guilty or desired concealment of the relationship," Hayes said in his letter to Brooklyn Assistant U.S. Attorney Robert Henoch.
Kaplan, whose daughter is a city criminal court judge, was convicted in 1998 on charges he trafficked in several tons of marijuana. He was sentenced to 27 years in prison. He apparently began cooperating against the former detectives in 2004. Kaplan reportedly was the intermediary between former acting Lucchese crime boss Anthony "Gaspipe" Casso and Caracappa and Eppolito. Government records also revealed that Kaplan had ties to high-ranking members of the Bonanno crime family. He apparently began cooperating in early 2004.
According to an article in Vanity Fair last month that cited two retired police detectives and an FBI agent, all unidentified, Kaplan never disclosed his status as a confidential informant in the 1980s. The magazine stated that the FBI agent later changed his story, claiming to have never used Kaplan as an informant.
Hayes asked Henoch to provide him with information about "the circumstances in which Mr. Kaplan first began providing information of any sort to any government representatives, particularly federal agents." Hayes also wants to know if Kaplan was an informant when he was arrested in the 1990s.
Henoch couldn't be reached for comment yesterday.
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Post by ionu on Sept 23, 2005 13:40:20 GMT -5
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Post by not a snitch on Nov 9, 2005 22:18:40 GMT -5
BARTOW FLORIDA -- A former Polk County sheriff's deputy is seeking to withdraw his plea of no contest to federal charges connecting him to a cocaine distribution ring.
Court records filed Tuesday indicate that Roderick Myron Stevenson, 39, of Winter Haven, accuses federal prosecutors of labeling him a "liar" and going back on their offer to recommend a reduced sentence in exchange for his help in prosecuting other law enforcement officers.
Stevenson -- an 11-year veteran with the Polk County Sheriff's Office -- was arrested Feb. 26, 2004 following a yearlong grand jury investigation in northern Florida.
He was accused of taking payoffs from drug dealers in exchange for protection and giving them information.
As part of a plea deal with prosecutors, Stevenson pleaded no contest Aug. 22 to conspiracy to distribute and possession with intent to distribute more than 50 grams of a substance containing crack cocaine.
Stevenson's lawyer, D. Scott Boardman of Tampa, filed a motion Tuesday to withdraw the plea.
The defense's motion indicates that Stevenson took a polygraph examination at the government's direction where he "continued to deny receiving payoffs which the polygraph examiner deemed deceptive . . ."
Assistant U.S. Attorney Frank Williams called Stevenson "a liar" and refused to talk about any information Stevenson possessed, the motion states.
The defense contends that the government's examination was "improperly staged" and claims Stevenson passed another Oct. 19 polygraph examination where he continued to maintain his innocence of accepting payoffs.
Boardman said a hearing date has not been scheduled to address his client's motion. Stevenson was scheduled for sentencing on Nov. 17.
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Post by WaTcHeR on Dec 13, 2005 13:54:37 GMT -5
Face it we live in a "snitch" society, just like in Nazi Germany.
There is a huge difference between "ratting" on someone for a minor infraction, and going to the authorities with information about bomb threats made against public buildings.
It's even more wrong when someone breaks the law and the prosecutor makes a deal for them to get off with a lessor charge and set back free on the streets, if they snitch on someone.
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Post by Tuttles on Dec 17, 2005 18:08:00 GMT -5
A snitch is nothing more than criminal making a deal with a lazy prosecutor. Both are parasites and should be rid from the earth!
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Post by Blue on Jan 3, 2006 11:25:51 GMT -5
May 27, 2004 - A police department in New Hampshire is paying pizza deliverymen and hotel clerks who give the cops information about underage drinking parties, if the tip leads to an arrest.
Those who tattle on minors or their parents will receive $50 under a new law being enforced in Portsmouth, N.H.
"The message being sent to parents is that it's not safe for them to host a party," Jackie Valley of the Community Diversion Program in Greenland, N.H., told the Portsmouth Herald.
The law makes it a misdemeanor for the owner or occupant at any given address to host a gathering of five or more minors who are consuming alcohol or drugs.
"It's not necessarily just in a home," Sgt. Mike Schwartz, who is in charge of the Juvenile Division of the Portsmouth Police Department, told the paper. "It could be an apartment or even a hotel room."
Under the new program, known as the "Booze Bounty," deliverypeople and hotel employees are encouraged to submit tips anonymously.
"We're going to market this to pizza delivery places and also to hotel clerks," Schwartz said.
The Herald reported many local businesses were in favor of the program.
"My employees have enough contact with these customers to know what's going on," said the manager of a delivery restaurant who wished to remain anonymous. He supports the new program.
"I don't want my drivers to feel like they're junior police officers," he said, "but I'm willing to help."
Schwartz told the paper teens as young as 17 who throw a party could be tried as adults under the new law.
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Post by WaTcHeR on Feb 14, 2006 11:25:02 GMT -5
The majority of COPS are against SNITCHING! Shouldn't you be against SNITCHING?
If COPS don't think it's a good thing to "SNITCH" on fellow officers, then why the hell do COPS always expect people to SNITCH on each other?
If COPS think it's wrong to SNITCH on each other, then people should STOP SNITCHING!
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Post by WaTcHeR on Apr 14, 2006 10:44:35 GMT -5
Today being Good Friday, reminds me of another SNITCH!
What else was Judas, but a Roman snitch?
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Post by CRAZYGIRLSUSAN on Apr 16, 2006 7:33:01 GMT -5
I have always said, DRUGS ARENT BAD, PEOPLE MAKE THEM BAD.
All cops should remember that they are here to protect and serve, not set good people up with the bad, and when your dealing with the law officers, prosecutors and most judges your working with the bad.
Reality is, that the war on drugs is where americans need, to respect all good things in life, and share and share alike.
Americans have taken all countrol of drugs overseas, and made them bad, when foreignors were in control, all shared a piece of the pie.
Once again, I will say, Man and greed will be the death of us all!!!!
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Post by LP on Sept 16, 2006 18:18:52 GMT -5
The best snitch is a dead snitch!
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