paid informant
1paid — [peɪd] adjective 1. paid work is work which you receive money for: • It will become increasingly difficult for those over retirement age to obtain any paid work with which to supplement their pension. 2. HUMAN RESOURCES a paid worker receives… …
2informant — in·for·mant /in fȯr mənt/ n: one who informs against another; specif: one who makes a practice esp. for money of informing police of others criminal activities Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster. 1996. informant …
3informant — in|for|mant [ınˈfo:mənt US o:r ] n 1.) someone who secretly gives the police, the army etc information about someone else = ↑informer ▪ One of the witnesses was a paid informant for the FBI. 2.) technical someone who gives information about their …
4informant — noun (C) 1 someone who gives secret information about someone else, especially to the police: The FBI were warned about the spy ring by a paid informant. compare informer 2 technical someone who gives information about their language, social… …
5Informant — Stool pigeon redirects here. For other uses, see The Stool Pigeon (disambiguation). For variations on informer and informant, see Informer (disambiguation). For variations on The Informant, see The Informant (disambiguation). A representative… …
6The Informant (book) — infobox Book | name = The Informant title orig = translator = image caption = author = Kurt Eichenwald illustrator = cover artist = country = United States language = English series = subject = Lysine price fixing conspiracy genre = publisher =… …
7The Informant (2009 film) — Infobox Film name = The Informant image size = caption = director = Steven Soderbergh producer = Jennifer Fox and Gregory Jacobs writer = Scott Z. Burns narrator = starring = Matt Damon Scott Bakula Joel McHale Melanie Lynskey music =… …
8Department of Justice v. Landano — Supreme Court of the United States Argued February 24, 1993 Decided …
9Miranda warning — The Miranda warning (also referred to as Miranda rights) is a warning that is required to be given by police in the United States to criminal suspects in police custody (or in a custodial interrogation) before they are interrogated to inform them …
10Delroy Denton — (born c.1961) is an illegal immigrant to Britain from Jamaica who, while a paid informant for Scotland Yard, murdered 24 year old trainee beautician Marcia Lawes in 1995. After his arrest and conviction, the fact that he was an informant for… …
