Informants can earn significant amounts of money if they negotiate their compensation based on high-value seizures or the recovery of large amounts of cash.

“when you have access to a large cache of of cash money, if there's a million dollars, you can negotiate how much of that you're going to get with the law enforcement element that you're working with because they don't know where it is until you tell them and then you're going to get a portion of it ”

The FBI used informants and assets to infiltrate groups and instigate the events of January 6th.

“and there were two over conservative EP estimate over 200 FBI Assets in the crowd and inside the capital”