The Jordanian national also gave the FBI a false tip that a Burbank man was a member of Hamas.

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Onetime paid snitch guilty of posing as FBI agent
COURT | Ex-State Police informant faces Nov. 2 sentencing for bribery

September 17, 2007
BY FRANK MAIN Crime Reporter/[e-mail]

Omar Abbas -- a paid snitch -- helped the State Police win two murder-for-hire convictions in the 1990s and was an informant for the FBI and Drug Enforcement Administration.

But apparently, snitching didn't pay enough.

Posing as a corrupt FBI agent and a dirty lawyer, Abbas conned people into forking over thousands of dollars in bribes, authorities say. snip

The Jordanian national also gave the FBI a false tip that a Burbank man was a member of Hamas.

Ironically, Abbas was paid thousands of dollars to put other criminals behind bars.