Greylord was a watershed moment in its use of eavesdropping devices and a mole to obtain evidence instead of relying on wrongdoers to become government informants.
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Kori Rumore,
Chicago Tribune,
6 June 2026
The charges do not stem from the general practice of paying informants but from the Justice Department's allegations that the SPLC made these payments without disclosing the practice to donors and by defrauding banks.
Pay no attention to the fact that it was proposed three weeks after the EPA came out hard against three-eyed fish, or that only three months ago, this same Legislature considered $100,000 court payouts to snitches willing to rat out mifepristone providers.
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