§ 12572 Agent Identity Compensation Claims

• •The Attorney General can hide the name of a special agent or investigator if needed.
• •The Attorney General can ask for money to pay the agent or investigator without saying who they are.
• •The money comes from a special fund set aside for the Attorney General.
• •These secret payments don’t have to follow the usual rules for spending money.

Imagine a secret agent is working undercover to catch bad guys.

The Attorney General can pay the agent’s salary and expenses without telling anyone the agent’s name. The money comes from a special fund, and they don’t have to follow the normal rules for how the government spends money.