No bonus for informant who leaked ID to family

• Abdullah Milton cost himself a cool quarter - million-dollars when he leaked his identity as an undercover RCMP agent to his then-wife and his family, as word got back to the target of the national security investigation, Milton’s good friend Awso Peshdary.

Milton resumed his testimony this week in Peshdar y’s trial as the “inside man” in an RCMP operati on dubbed Project Serva nt , where Milton was paid $850,000 to spy on Peshdary, now 29, who has pleaded not guilty to acting as recruiter, facilitator and financier of a homegrown terror network.

Milton was also in line for a large cash bonus for his undercover work once the authorities snared Carlos Larmond on the tarmac of a Montreal airport in early 2015 and arrested his twin brother Ashton Larmond and their friend Suliman Mohamed, charging and eventually convicting all three of terror offences.

Milton’s handlers were to pay out an additional $250,000 in tax-free cash for his help in that spinoff investigation, called Project Slipstream, which culminated with Carlos Larmond’s dramatic arrest Jan. 9, 2015 as he tried to board a plane on his way to join ISIL in Syria.

But the civilian spy’s loose lips cost him the reward money, along with as much as $150,000 the RCMP still had outstanding, after they found out Milton told his wife, a woman he had met through an online matrimonial service — they had never met in person — and his family about his work as a paid police agent.

Milton secretly recorded his interactions with Peshdary for nearly a year beginning in the spring of 2014, providing hours of recordings and volumes of notes to his RCMP handlers, now entered as evidence by federal Crown prosecutors at Peshdary’s trial.

He also told his wife about his prior work as a “human source” investigating Peshdary for CSIS years earlier in another national security operation.

The problem was, authorities had yet to move in on Peshdary at that point, and they were forced to accelerate their “takedown day” to early February 2015 once Peshdary, their prime target, discovered the betrayal.

“I didn’t think there was any risk … I didn’t think it would turn out the way it did,” Milton told court this week.

“I didn’t see any harm in (telling my family),” Milton said. “I wanted them to know what was going on in my life. They had questions.”

Following Peshdary’s arrest, Milton’s name was included on a court ordered list of contacts Peshdary was forbidden to communicate with, a public document which