{"id":19388,"date":"2021-07-21T18:36:52","date_gmt":"2021-07-21T22:36:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/?p=19388"},"modified":"2021-07-21T18:36:52","modified_gmt":"2021-07-21T22:36:52","slug":"former-informant-white-boy-rick-sues-fbi-for-100m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2021\/07\/21\/former-informant-white-boy-rick-sues-fbi-for-100m\/","title":{"rendered":"Former informant ‘White Boy Rick’ sues FBI for $100m"},"content":{"rendered":"
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His exploits were fictionalised in a Hollywood movie, and now the true story of a one-time teenage FBI informant has a new twist.<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Richard Wershe Jr has filed a $100m (\u00a373m) lawsuit against former FBI agents and prosecutors, alleging child abuse in connection with his time as an informant.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Wershe, now 52, spent three decades behind bars after a drug conviction.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Recruited at 14, he is thought to be the youngest FBI informant in history.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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“I want this chapter in my life closed,” Wershe said, surrounded by family at a press conference on Tuesday, on the one-year anniversary of his release.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Known as “White Boy Rick”, Wershe’s brief stint as an informant and his ultimate conviction inspired a 2018 movie of the same name, with Matthew McConaughey cast as his fictional father.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Wershe has said the moniker was not a nickname, but made up by the media around the time of his arrest.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Former Detroit police officers, retired FBI agents, former federal prosecutors and the city of Detroit are all named in the suit.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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A spokeswoman for Detroit office of the FBI declined to comment on the suit because it is ongoing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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In the 10-page lawsuit, Wershe alleged he was initially contacted by federal agents after his father reached out to the FBI, saying his daughter was dating a known drug dealer.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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He recalled meeting regularly with FBI agents and Detroit police officers to provide information on Detroit’s drug gangs.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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“Had I not been an informant for the task force, I would never have gotten involved with drug gangs or criminality of any sort,” he wrote in the filing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Wershe was “coerced” to continue the work, he said, despite what he described as an attempted assassination by local criminals once his link to law enforcement was suspected.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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After two years working with law enforcement, Wershe was drawn to the other side. He told The Guardian in 2015 he was “blinded” by money, women, and material possessions.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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He was convicted in Michigan at age 17 for possession of cocaine. His role as an informant was not admissible in court and he received a life sentence.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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“I was misguided,” he told the Guardian. “I went down a path that I never thought would affect the rest of my life.”<\/p>\n

Source: bbc.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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