MOB RAT, NOT FAMILIAR WITH PHILLY, CALLS PHILLY, ABOUT PHILLY. IT PAYS TO RAT.

I won't mention names here, but there is an informant, who attempted several times to get guys in Philly investigated.   Yep, you heard that right.  I had heard rumors that this was the case, but I was able to track down some solid information, and I have to admit, it was shocking to me.  This said informant, allegedly, according to multiple sources called the Philadelphia FBI office, and gave them ramblings and stories about alleged made guys in Philadelphia.   Never mind he's not a Philadelphia guy.  To my knowledge he's never been to Philadelphia for any other reason than to meet grinder dates, but more on that later...

According to some people I do know, my impeccable source, he attempted to insert fictitious crimes against Joey Merlino, and a few others. My name was mentioned in connection with several people, and I have to laugh because it's all garbage.    I don't know the specific details other than that this informant said he knew about "murders," and was trying to get the feds to listen to his ramblings.   From what I was told the feds did look into it, but realized the information was junk.  This is not the first time he's done this, and definitely not the first time my name was hurled into the most ridiculous shit I've ever heard.

This is a much larger problem, because one has to ask the most reasonable of questions.  Why does the F.B.I. who knows they are getting lied to, in an epic way, deal with informants like this?  Why do they allow someone who they know is lying to hurl allegations and assertions, which makes the F.B.I. look into something borderline stalker, and not punish the ass wipe whose OBVIOUSLY lying?   If you, or me, were to go down to the local police station and file a false report, we'd go to jail.   An informant does this, and nothing happens.  Is the F.B.I. so desperate to make an arrest that they are willing to accept lies just to enable them to "look into something?"

IT PAYS TO BE A RAT

Never mind the informants, what does this say about the feds?  What does it say about their morals?  Accepting known lies, and keeping these creatures on a payroll?  Wasn't it Ron Previte who claimed he made a million dollars while moonlighting for the feds?  Wasn't it Ron Previte who claimed on a nationally televised program he was still bookmaking?  

Previte was paid close to $100,000 per month, and was allowed to continue to make illegal money in return for his "service" to the government.

In some cases informants get a huge kickback for any property seized from those arrested and convicted.  You heard that right.  They make 25% of the net value of any property seized as a result of the case.  They can earn up to $500,000 per asset.  With the F.B.I. there are two ways to get payments.  One is reimbursement, and the other is payments for services.  What the agents have been able to do, to avoid defense attorneys from claiming that their witnesses are motivated by money is to disguise payment for services as reimbursements.  It's simple, they simply "reimburse" for housing, cars, meals, transportation, and medical bills.  

Craig Monteilh, who was a former bodybuilder, was paid by the F.B.I. to spy on mosques in Southern California was paid $177,000 from the F.B.I. in a one year.  Monteilh has been public and said that the F.B.I. disguised his payment as a "expense reimbursements."  He provided receipts for everything.  Food, gas, steroids, and medical bills, and he did this to justify the $8,200 the feds were paying him a month.   "I paid for everything. Lunch, movies, everything.  I knew, they knew, I wasn't really paying, but I had to blanket what they were paying me, so that at trial, the attorneys couldn't say I was motivated by money."  While rats have two options to get paid, there is also a 3rd.

Agents offer lump sum payments too. Those payments have to be signed off on, but usually those payments come in the form of money from seized assets.  The bigger the value, the bigger the check.  The F.B.I. usually waits until after the trial to hand over the lump sum, this way when a witness is asked if he's been paid for his testimony he can honestly say no, but said witness already knows, he's getting his payday after the trial.  It's a scheme where the feds can use plausible deniability and get around any witness from being asked about his motivations.   Agent refer to these payments as "performance incentives."  This is the standard the feds have used for decades.

So it begs to offer, at what point are we overvaluing informants who obviously have a money motivator to say things that aren't exactly the truth.  Perhaps this is why so many past informants have acknowledged that they tailored their testimony.  It makes sense.  To nab a guy who doesn't have any assets, it's not worth it to them.  There is no moral implication on their behalf, it's a money motivator.  Imagine the amount of goodies Gravano got, imagine the goodies Mikey Scars got.  The more the asset has in assets, the better it is for said informant.  I just don't think we can honestly claim that money isn't a motivator in this, because it plays a very obvious part in the grand scheme of things.   The problem is, and always will be as long as the feds cherish rats, and make it a money making racket for them, you're always going to have them doing just what they do.  The second the feds take money off the table, you might see some of these guys being unwilling to talk.   Not only are they getting off of charges, escaping time in jail, but for many of them, they are making more money being on team fed then they were on the streets. 

It's pathetic.