Jun 25, 2014 12:00
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In my case this happened often when I got assistant prosecutors to leak me information from grand jury testimony. Releasing grand jury testimony is a felony in New Jersey and while my editors were delighted with the information they certainly did not want me to ever be able to say they new I was an accessory to that. (Though they must have strongly suspected.)
It would also often happen when police sources gave me information that I needed when I promised them I'd hold back on stuff I knew but didn't need that badly. (I.e. "Dude, I don't give a shit that you go to Canada to fuck hookers, but I'd sure like to know the name of your lead suspect in the murder that's going to be on the front page tomorrow.") They probably suspected this since these conversations tended to happen in bars in the mid afternoon and I would expense my drinks (tacitly admitting that I was either a fraud or getting some information while drinking.)
The third type of situation this would happen with was when I'd be able to get rock stars to give me much more controversial and interesting quotes than our competition could. The reason was that the competitor was very professional while I was more than willing to drink or do drugs with the rock stars and if you get fucked up with someone they tell you more/better shit. Again, they had to suspect but didn't want to "know" that I was doing cocaine/pot/random hallucinogenic drug on the clock.
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