https://nypost.com/2013/09/25/smoking-gun-atf-agents-busted-in-cigarette-sting/
"ATF officials allowed a tobacco distributor working as an ATF confidential informant to keep $4.9 million in profits from cigarette sales to criminal suspects."
They call their criminal cronies informants to protect them. Just like the FBI did with Whitey Bulger.
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