Posts Tagged ‘snitch’

On the face of it, they were model supergrasses – pointing police to a series of major gun hoards. The information passed on by career criminals John Haase and Paul Bennett earned them a royal pardon and early release from jail. But yesterday, a court heard that the seizures were all a big fix. Prosecutors [...]

September 6, 2008 The life of a high-level mobster is a staple of books and Hollywood films. But most real-life gang leaders don’t tell their stories. The code of silence runs deep; breaking that code can be fatal. That’s especially true if the mobster is behind bars. But one former leader of the Mexican mafia [...]