Snitch posed as FBI agent
A former Illinois state police informant conned people into giving him thousands of dollars by posing as a corrupt FBI agent and lawyer gone bad.
Omar Abbas, 41, is to be sentenced Nov. 2 for impersonating an FBI agent, making false statements to the FBI and crossing the Illinois state line with proceeds from fraud, the Chicago Sun-Times reported Monday.
Abbas, as a paid informant, helped the state police win two murder-for-hire convictions in the 1990s, the Sun-Times reported.
By 2003 Abbas, posing as an FBI agent, allegedly accepted more than $9,500 in bribes to fix an immigration case, and in 2005, he posed as a politically connected lawyer and took $5,000 in bribes to secure bail for a man charged with attempted murder, the FBI said.
Abbas, a Jordanian national, was unable to "fix" either of the cases he said he could, the FBI said. // Copyright 2007 by United Press International
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