FBI PAID CLOSE TO 56K TO MIAMI SEVEN INFORMANTS

By Madeline Baró Diaz
and Vanessa Blum Miami Bureau
Posted July 26 2006


The FBI paid almost $56,000 to two confidential informants who are key to the case against seven men accused of being involved in a terrorist plot to blow up the Sears Tower and other targets.

According to a document filed by federal prosecutors, the FBI paid one unnamed informant $10,500 and an additional $8,815 in expenses. They also paid a second informant $17,000 with another $19,570 for expenses. U.S. officials also granted the second informant a "significant public benefit" -- immigration parole so he could remain in the country.

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