Kenneth (Kenny the Rat) O'Donnell, a mob informer, was charged yesterday with masterminding a May 2 attempt to break out of the Bergen County Jail.

Yesterday's ruling, which was based on the testimony of psychiatrists and mob informers, was just the latest blow.

Both have been accused by mob informers of being close to organized crime.

There, one of Hayes's colleagues is cutting a deal with a mob informer, a Sammy Gravano type who confesses to a dozen murders, including that of the woman with the rosary.

Last week, the diving unit searched the Harlem River for a body that a mob informer told the police had been disposed of there two years ago, anchored by 40 pounds of weights and chains.

A mob informer who is no longer cooperating with the Government has appeared in the dramatically different role of a defense witness in a drug trial.

A jury convicted four men yesterday of selling heroin to a major mob informer who later refused to cooperate with the prosecution.

A mob informer and an F.B.I. agent testified that Mr. Criscitelli was a "made member" of the Bonanno crime family.

He delivered the home run of mob informers: he told the jurors that Mr. Massino, 61, had given him the order to have eight men murdered.

A mob informer recalled attending Mr. Criscitelli's induction ceremony, and said that the restaurateur once paid him $15,000 in Christmas tribute.