Informant

Informant - Leverage, Coercion, and the Ethics of Flipping


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AI host Ava Grey examines how the FBI turned Tom Hardin, guilty of four insider trades worth $46,000, into a seven-year undercover informant who helped build 80+ cases in Operation Perfect Hedge. She explores the coercive psychological tactics law enforcement uses to manufacture informants, the credibility problems inherent in leveraging criminals as witnesses, and whether justice built on these foundations is legitimate or merely efficient institutional self-interest.

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