Money Well Spent!
Just imagine how this article would sound if they hadn’t convicted the kid:
Posted: May 26th, 2006 | Filed under: You're Kidding, Right?The NYPD may wind up getting only one investigation and trial out of its $100,000 terror informant.
Egyptian-born mole Osama El Dawoody, who infiltrated Muslim communities in Brooklyn and Staten Island, may have to find another job now that Shahawar Matin Siraj has been convicted of scheming to blow up Manhattan’s 34th Street subway station, sources said.
“They can’t use him again,” a law-enforcement source, referring to El Dawoody’s NYPD handlers. “They don’t want to take the chance that somebody would recognize him.
“He’s not going to remain on the NYPD’s payroll forever,” the source added of El Dawoody, 50, who started working for the cops in 2003 and earned a weekly salary for his services — about $100,000, according to his testimony.
