As a "Paid RAT",I find they usually are 100 times more crooked and the fact they are being paid with tax money,after making small fortunes off of others misfortune to be a travesty of justice(if such a thing exist anymore).

I never for one second beleived that Billy 'had no idea of his brother's acitivities' Everyone in Southie (even the dimmest of characters) knew what was happening. As a transplant from Hells Kitchen to Boston I figured he was not unlike one of the gang leaders of the Westies. When they snagged Whitey last week all I could think was he ran out of cash and all the 'guys' he paid off are retired or dead. He should fry for all the lives he has ruined.

It seems that the number of paid informants working on organized crime is greater in the past. For how many years was Whitey Bulger a paid informant for the FBI?