http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/560902,CST-NWS-snitch17.articleOnetime paid snitch guilty of posing as FBI agent
COURT | Ex-State Police informant faces Nov. 2 sentencing for bribery
September 17, 2007
BY FRANK MAIN Crime Reporter/fmain@suntimes.com
Omar Abbas -- a paid snitch -- helped the State Police win two murder-for-hire convictions in the 1990s and was an informant for the FBI and Drug Enforcement Administration.
But apparently, snitching didn't pay enough.
Posing as a corrupt FBI agent and a dirty lawyer, Abbas conned people into forking over thousands of dollars in bribes, authorities say. snip
The Jordanian national also gave the FBI a false tip that a Burbank man was a member of Hamas.
Ironically, Abbas was paid thousands of dollars to put other criminals behind bars.