as in informer
a person who provides information about another's wrongdoing
the FBI is working closely with informants to find out about the subversive group
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The 11-count indictment alleges that the civil rights nonprofit organization, best known for its work to oppose the Ku Klux Klan, lied to donors about paying confidential informants to infiltrate hate groups and deceived banks about the bank accounts used to make those payments.
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Sarah N. Lynch, CBS News, 23 Apr. 2026
Trusted informant Nuñez and Gonzalez both described Pretel as a trusted informant.
—Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 23 Apr. 2026
What happened The Justice Department on Tuesday charged the Southern Poverty Law Center with financial crimes, accusing the civil rights organization of secretly paying informants in the Ku Klux Klan and other white supremacist groups without telling its donors.
—Peter Weber, TheWeek, 22 Apr. 2026
The department responded to his harassment report by launching an investigation into Lodes unlawfully using informants and threatening him with possible criminal prosecution, according to Darvish.
—Clara Harter, Los Angeles Times, 22 Apr. 2026
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Sarah N. Lynch, CBS News, 23 Apr. 2026
Trusted informant Nuñez and Gonzalez both described Pretel as a trusted informant.
—Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 23 Apr. 2026
What happened The Justice Department on Tuesday charged the Southern Poverty Law Center with financial crimes, accusing the civil rights organization of secretly paying informants in the Ku Klux Klan and other white supremacist groups without telling its donors.
—Peter Weber, TheWeek, 22 Apr. 2026
The department responded to his harassment report by launching an investigation into Lodes unlawfully using informants and threatening him with possible criminal prosecution, according to Darvish.
—Clara Harter, Los Angeles Times, 22 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for informant
informer
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And so every regime invests in having student informers.—
Anne Applebaum,
The Atlantic,
23 Jan. 2026
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The whole family is deeply involved in the revolutionary movement: the oldest son disappears into Siberia, never to be seen or heard of again, while the youngest, eighteen, is jailed together with his father, and executed after his cell is exposed by an informer.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
22 Jan. 2026
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