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• n  someone acting as an informer or decoy for the police

• He enlists the help of a Mafia boss (Peter Stormare, playing against Nordic type) by finding--don't ask how--the witness protection-sheltered stoolie who fingered him.
• In 1977, shortly after he had infiltrated a small gang of crooks attached to the Colombo family, two mobsters became suspicious that Pistone was a stoolie and demanded that he .
• First, there were strange accidents: a log would roll off a pile and cast a stoolie into the river.

• fink
• snitch
• snitcher
• stoolpigeon
• stool pigeon
• sneak
• sneaker
• canary

News & Articles

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• Sharpton: I didn’t use cocaine – but I would admit it if I had
  If he were indeed a coke-snorting, drug-dealing, FBI-fearing mob stoolie, he would have just said so, the Rev. Al Sharpton insisted Saturday. And the world would have forgiven him, he...
  April 13, 2014 - New York Post