> The IG found that the search was based on a tip by an airline employee who passed on the names of passengers who had purchased flights 48 hours before departure.

> That employee was being paid by the DEA a percentage of the cash seized, the IG found, and had received tens of thousands of dollars over several years. That arrangement is problematic, investigators concluded.

I think this goes even beyond civil forfeiture (which shares revenue with police departments, etc)

I think sharing it with an airline employee is out and out corruption.