The Informant

No doubt you’ve heard by now that former Dallas Cowboy Sam Hurd’s in federal custody, having been popped by authorities in Chicago Wednesday night for trying to buy “five to 10 kilograms of cocaine, at $25,000 per kilogram, and 1,000 pounds of marijuana, at $450 per pound, per week for distribution in the Chicago area,” per the U.S. Attorney’s Office release just dispatched to media. But you may not know that the case of the current Chicago Bears wide receiver has been filed in Dallas...Read Full Story

Courtesy of the Fairbanks Newsminer : The attorney for militia leader Schaeffer Cox argued in court papers this week that an FBI informant took actions “analogous to kidnapping” to keep Cox in Alaska and incite him to plan violent attacks against the government this spring.  In a brief filled Monday, attorney Nelson Traverso said Cox decided to leave the state in February rather than get into a confrontation with state authorities who had issued a warrant for his arrest on previous, unrelated...Read Full Story

You may be familiar with the true story of Mark Whitacre , and that may detract from  The Informant! ’s potential on several fronts. First, you may be inclined to avoid a film that details the events of a whistleblower in a giant corporate entity he accuses of price fixing, simply because… well, how interesting is that? Second, you may know how things turn out, and with most of the plot in hand, you figure there isn’t much to see here. Don’t let either of those angles keep you from this...Read Full Story

Movie: The Informant! (2009) Director: Steven Soderbergh Release Date: 18 September 2009 (USA) Run Time: 108 min Country: USA Genre: Comedy , Drama , Thriller   MPAA: Rated R for language. Tagline: Based on a tattle-tale   Trivia: This story was the subject of the 9-15-2000 episode (#168) of This American Life entitled “The Fix is In.”   Goofs: Revealing mistakes: When the two agents visit Mark and Ginger to tell them they can no longer talk to them except about...Read Full Story

(Warner Brothers) In Steven Soderbergh 's newest movie The Informant! , Matt Damon , sporting a feathery mustache and thirty extra pounds, plays Mark Whitacre , a dumpy, doofy VP at agricorp Archer Daniels Midland. When the special project he's heading up begins to skid off the rails due to a virus infecting the corn, he comes to his bosses with shocking news: a Japanese competitor is sabotaging their supply, costing the company $7 million a month. What's more, a mysterious Japanese...Read Full Story