Criminal
Nov. 8, 2000
High-Priced Informants
A system of clandestine government payments in exchange for information has grown into a cottage industry that includes professional snitches who criss-cross the country helping prosecutors and criminal defendants who are willing to trade testimony to avoid decades in jail.




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