Several years back, an individual came to me saying he had information for an investigative journalism project I was working on, regarding certain mob associates turned government witnesses I was investigating. This individual spoke to me on the phone for several hours over several calls. I interviewed him at length. We later met at a diner in New Jersey one night to speak in person.
He proclaimed to be an innocent civilian, who was not a criminal, who met an individual by chance one day at a head shop who he became good friends with… unaware of the fact that his new friend was a former mob associate turned government witness, living under a new name.
He said that later on, this witness scammed him, robbed him, framed him for crimes, and screwed up his life in major ways. He also sounded convincing, telling me detailed stories containing specific details only someone who dealt with this witness firsthand would know. Something I say because the witness in question was my source.
LATER: I learned this person who contacted me was a drug dealing government informant, who had put on a facade, and came to me as a spy, giving me misinformation for nefarious purposes, including trying to discredit my source, and the work I was doing, on behalf of a former mob associate turned government witness he was being extorted by, while that witness was under the protection of a corrupt FBI Agent. They were threatened by certain information I was uncovering, and information they were afraid my source would share with me.
Below is some of the paperwork from a criminal case the drug dealer was arrested in, but that he did not serve prison time for, due to “Mitigating Factors” (cooperation).
