Bro, I’m Going Rogue’: The Wall Street Informant Who Double-Crossed the FBI

comagnum said:
First how can the FBI throw him into jail without letting him contact his lawyer and without a trial? This is America, no?

The U.S.A has by far the highest %per capita of people in prisons. Post 911 under the Patriot act you can be held for life in prison with no court trial & never have access to a lawyer. You do not always get a phone call or access to a lawyer when arrested as it appears on T.V. shows.

I got stopped in a border town in Texas at 17. The charge was vagrancy despite having my drivers license and being in car. I was pulverized my first night in there by a drunk biker twice my size since the locked me in a cell with only me and him- my clothes were soaked in blood - they moved me to solitary where I was thrown in a cold/dark cell/no clothes. You get one horrible meal a day. Every few days they took me to a room with 2 detectives that had a big list of unsolved crimes and a big bag of Mc Donalds food they would give me for admitting/signing any open case - did not matter which one. They told me I would get out immediately, go to court later, and would only get probation since I had no prior record. This went on for 45 days - than I got my first phone call and was released a few hours later. I am a white guy from good home in Texas - people of color and from out of state would have it a lot worse. Solatiry will make you go insane inside of 3 days - I did 45 days in the hole!

COUNTRY AMOUNT PER CAPITA IN PRISONS
1 United StatesUnited States 715 per 100,000 people
2 RussiaRussia 584 per 100,000 people
3 BelarusBelarus 554 per 100,000 people
4 PalauPalau 523 per 100,000 people
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Mushrooms or Acid? Purple Mescaline or Peyote? My first phone call would have been to Billy Jack.
 
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Pekelo said:
I thought the story explained it well. They were trying to screw him although they made a deal.
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There must be something more to the story, like him trying in some kind of ways to take advantage of the fbi without their full and clear agreement. So whenever he can post without jeopardizing his own situation, then we'd be able to really find out where he screwed up for the fbi to turn on him.
 
Could be, but I think the Feds are mean enough and try to screw the informant once he served its usefulness without any extra reason. After all the deals are usually made verbally, or there could be a new prosecutor who doesn't honor the agreement, etc.
 
Sorry I don't believe so : what would be the interest of this agency to turn against an informant, except if the informant tried to cross them. They have a hard time recruiting informant, so does not make sense to mess up an informant that is reliable.
 
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