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This is very important for me to find out, because it is how I have been making trust decisions. We have it in mind to have a lawyer give us the definitive answer, my partner said he was on that and would find out. I am skeptical that we'll ever get a straight answer though, because lawyers seem to enjoy taking your money and providing you heuristic guesses rather than concrete facts. Maybe I've just had bad lawyers.

I would really like to know a specific way that I can find something a cop or CI can't do. Something that if they do it, their cases are all thrown out 100%. What a holy grail. So far I have been living as though "doing a criminal act" disqualifies them. Like people who smoke a joint with someone to make sure that person isn't a cop. Or a hooker who asks her john, "Are you a cop? You know you have to tell me if you are."

Brett Johnson was indeed dirty. But contrary to suspicions, his return to crime in the post-Firewall era hadn't started as a snitching expedition. It had all begun with a girl.

Johnson's crime and cocaine habits had driven away his wife of nine years—she threw out his MSR206 on her way out the door—and he'd been seeing a psychologist to cope with the loss. Then he met Elizabeth in a North Carolina bar. She was a twenty-four-year-old exotic dancer at a local strip club, and for Johnson it was love at first sight. He burned through his savings to buy her gifts, a $1,500 purse here, a $600 pair of shoes there, and she moved in with him after five months. But when they had sex for the first time, she wouldn't let him kiss her.