informant
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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
According to Jones, the informant said Perez was “haunted” by her death and started going to church.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 19, 2026
Ryan won an award from the New York Press Club in 2018 for coverage of a jailhouse informant scandal in Detroit.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 27, 2026
When one of his agents was questioning a seedy local attorney—who, according to an informant, was trying to “strangle” the government’s probe—the attorney betrayed a shocking knowledge of the inner workings of the case.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
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