The Illustrated Guide to Criminal Law
Chapter 12: I Was Entrapped!
Entrapment pg 27: Snitches/Informants/Cooperators
After Francine is arrested for espionage, she learns that Glenn was in a whole nother kind of trouble the whole time.
Glenn on bended knee again
It seems that he had been caught selling secrets. To get a lighter sentence, he’d offered to cooperate with the feds and help them catch other spies.
Glenn has to think
But he didn’t actually know any other spies. So, like countless informants before him, he tried to get somebody—anybody—else in trouble.
Francine being dragged away by the FBI, as Glenn shrugs it off.
FRANCINE
You bastard!
GLENN
Hey, better you than me, buddy.
Glenn was acting on the government’s behalf, so it counts as police action. And what he did was absolutely entrapment.