{"id":23915,"date":"2016-09-30T06:59:27","date_gmt":"2016-09-30T11:59:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=23915"},"modified":"2016-09-30T06:59:27","modified_gmt":"2016-09-30T11:59:27","slug":"wapo-want-to-make-a-million-become-a-dea-informant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=23915","title":{"rendered":"WaPo: Want to make a million? Become a DEA informant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/powerpost\/wp\/2016\/09\/30\/want-to-make-a-million-become-a-dea-informant\/\">Want to make a million? Become a DEA informant<\/a> by Joe Davidson:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There\u2019s an unfortunate saying on the street: Snitches get stitches.<\/p>\n<p>Turns out some get paid, too, sometimes very, very well.<\/p>\n<p>Consider this from a new report on major problems with the Drug Enforcement Administration\u2019s confidential-informant program. DEA paid:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 One source $30 million over a 30-year period, \u201csome of it in cash payments of more than $400,000.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Nine people $25 million during a five-year period, averaging $555,555 annually, for narcotics-related information and assisting law enforcement.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 A parcel worker more than $1 million over five years, or $200,000 a year.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: Want to make a million? Become a DEA informant by Joe Davidson: There\u2019s an unfortunate saying on the street: Snitches get stitches. Turns out some get paid, too, sometimes very, very well. Consider this from a new report on &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=23915\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-informant-hearsay"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23915"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23916,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23915\/revisions\/23916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}