A judge on Thursday lifted a seal on court records and transcripts that a Southern California man says will prove he was an informant for the FBI.
Craig Monteilh claims he has not been fully paid by the FBI for spying on mosques — an activity that angered the Muslim community and brought accusations that worshippers and clerics were being targeted instead of possible terrorists.
Superior Court Judge Carol Williams Elswick ordered the unsealing of 2007 court records related to a theft case against Monteilh, 47, a fitness consultant from Irvine.
Monteilh said the records include testimony from an FBI agent confirming he worked with the agency as an informant.
It was not immediately clear, however, whether the records addressed the spying claim or when the documents would be available to the public.
“No one has to refer to Mr. Monteilh as the alleged informant anymore,” Monteilh’s attorney Adam Krolikowski said after the ruling.
In a statement, the FBI said it has “an historic policy of neither confirming of denying the identity of informants; to do so would jeopardize investigations and the personal security of others.”
Source/Full Story: FOXNews.com
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