Andrew Chambers made a nice career for himself as an undercover informant for the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). Over a 16-year period, the drug agency paid him more than $2.2 million for his efforts, leaving him in either first or second place as the DEA's all-time highest paid informant.

Now, the DEA go through training for 16 weeks where they are educated in report writing, law, drug recognition, leadership and ethics. New DEA Agents are also trained in marksmanship, weapons safety, tactical shooting and deadly force decision making. A DEA Agent Salary for a new DEA Agents is at the GS-7 ($35,369 to $44,729) or GS-9 ($39,448 to $50,905) level depending on experience and education. Within three years it is very possible to reach the GS-12 pay level.

Now, ask yourself " Is a DEA agent going to let a high school drop out drug informant make 2 million dollars??" without making more for themself????.
Chambers, a smooth-talking hustler, was involved in some 300 cases with at least 445 defendants, some of whom are now serving life sentences as a result of their dealings with him Now, however, Chambers has been "deactivated" (DEA lingo for "suspended") as a growing scandal swirls around him, his DEA supervisors and a number of U.S. Attorneys. The problem is that at least three federal courts consider Chambers to be an incorrigible liar.

Chambers' career began to unravel last fall when a California public defender, H. Dean Stewart, won a two-year lawsuit forcing the DEA to reveal not only its payments to Chambers, but also his history of arrests, which the agency hid from defense lawyers. But it was only after the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Chambers' hometown paper, ran an extensive investigative piece on January 16, that he was deactivated. And it was not Chambers' DEA supervisors who gave the order, but Attorney General Janet Reno, who acted after reading the story.

The Post-Dispatch reported that Chambers had perjured himself repeatedly in trials across the country. In order to bolster his credibility, Chambers consistently testified that HE HAD NO CRIMINAL RECORD, but the newspaper found he had been arrested at least seven times on charges including soliciting a prostitute, impersonating a DEA agent, forging a loan document and larceny. Most of the charges were dropped (some by the intervention of his DEA handlers.
Now defense attorneys around the country are mulling appeals of cases involving Chambers, and U.S. Attorneys in Florida and elsewhere have dropped at least 14 cases where Chambers was set to testify.
That Chambers lied repeatedly to help his bosses send hundreds of people to prison is scandal enough, but that's only the half of it. Chambers' & DEA supervisors are now engaged in covering-up their earlier cover-up of his criminal history and proclivity for perjury.

As many as two dozen St. Louis DEA agents are being investigated by the agency to see whether they knew their witness was lying. Some agents clearly knew, since they had helped him out from arrests for soliciting, impersonating an agent and suspicion of forgery.

But the person in charge of the investigation, DEA Chief of Operations Richard Fiano, seems to have his own problems with the truth. Fiano told the newspaper that he was unaware of Chambers' perjury until last August, but DEA records show its chief counsel's office was aware of the problem last May. Also, the agency had just fought the two-year battle with public defender Stewart to keep the information secret.

The report denied that the DEA had an agreement with Chambers to give him a percentage of whatever his investigations turned up. A federal judge in Denver disagreed and dismissed 10 indictments against defendants. Internal DEA documents admitted that the DEA indeed had such an agreement, and a DEA agent's sworn testimony confirmed it.
The report denied that St. Louis U.S. Attorney Ed Dowd ever "officially notified" the St. Louis office he was rejecting any cases with Chambers as a witness. But Dowd called the St. Louis special agent in charge in 1998 and "bluntly" told him not to bother using Chambers in his district.
The report denied that St. Louis federal prosecutor Dean Hoag dropped charges because of Chambers' lies, but federal court records say the opposite.
The report said Chambers lied only four times while under oath, but court records available to the DEA listed at least 16 occasions, and probably many more.
The DEA now says its report is being "constantly updated," but has refused to make copies available to reporters.
Fiano, who is in charge of DEA's 4500 agents and approximately the same number of informants, also claimed that once alerted to problems with Chambers last August he immediately "put a hold" on using him. Not quite true. DEA records show that agents could continue to use Chambers with approval from the special agent in charge at one of the agency's 21 field offices. Chambers was not actually "deactivated" and, by the way, even that suspension is not total: the DEA says Chambers can continue to work on existing cases.

DEA remains the only agency investigating its use of Chambers. Its congressional overseers seem uninterested as well; during April's confirmation hearing for acting DEA administrator Donnie Marshall, the Senate Judiciary Committee couldn't find the energy to broach the subject.

You make a deal with the 5/0, feds etc, and they will pull your strings for the rest of you life. And, yeah, it's lucrative, In addition to their license to break the law, the skilled liar is even more valuable because they are used to committing perjury, it's all part of the conviction game. Your life is owned by the feds 4 life. Do you know what your life would be setting up drug dealers,? The FEDS will be setting you up constantly just so that you have to renegotiate just to stay out of the prison system, since they have now given you a snitch jacket; and anyone with a snitch jacket in prison or the outside doesn't stay alive too long.
And who get rich? I'm talking wealthy the G......


The how and the who is just scenery for the public. Keeps 'em guessing, prevents 'em from asking the most important question, Who benefited? Who has the power to cover it up? Who? One may smile and smile and be a villain."

One!