“It’s not that we’re ignoring these crimes it’s that we’re letting the informant engage in the criminal activity for the purpose of furthering our investigation.” It remains unclear whether Desdunes was permitted to continue dealing drugs while providing the FBI information about his heroin supplier. Desdunes, 37, reported to the bureau on a daily basis before “reneging on an agreement that had kept him out of jail even after investigators found several thousand dollars worth of heroin in his vehicle,” according to the paper. More recently, in 2013, FBI agents in Louisiana allegedly shot and killed a federal informant, Allen Desdunes, according to court records reviewed by the New Orleans Advocate. While a handful of informants ultimately brought down the principal hacker responsible, the sting also caused Stratfor, an American intelligence firm, millions of dollars in damages and left an estimated 700,000 credit card holders vulnerable to fraud.
For example, a Daily Dot investigation found that an FBI informant was responsible for facilitating the 2011 breach of Stratfor in one of the most high-profile cyberattacks of the last decade. Those crimes can have serious and unintended consequences. (Totals from 2015 were unavailable when the Daily Dot initiated its records request.) In total, records obtained by reporters confirm the FBI authorized at least 22,823 crimes between 20.
The figure reached 5,939 a year later, according to documents acquired by the Huffington Post.
USA Today previously revealed confidential informants engaged in “otherwise illegal activity,” as the bureau calls it, 5,658 times in 2011. In 2014, authorization was given 5,577 times, the records show. Official records obtained by the Daily Dot under the Freedom of Information Act ( FOIA) show the Federal Bureau of Investigation gave informants permission at least 5,649 times in 2013 to engage in activity that would otherwise be considered a crime. Over a four-year period, the FBI authorized informants to break the law more than 22,800 times, according to newly reviewed documents.
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