To avoid infiltration, MC's require prospects to commit felonies in the presence of members. So the claim that the U/C broke no laws himself is laughable. Secondly, how many schemes were cooked up by the U/C? There is no way to know. Certainly, his advice to the crew would be to go out and commit more crimes to buff up his own stats. He would never be a voice saying, "no, robbing a gas station is a bad idea." Instead, he would say, "why are we wasting our time on small potatoes? We gotta rob a bank instead."

Informers manufacture crime where there otherwise would be little or none.

These problems have been around for centuries and are nothing new:

{the informers} were...the scourge of the people...Their careless or criminal violation of truth and justice was covered by the consecrated mask of zeal; and they might securely aim their poisoned arrows at the breast either of the guilty or the innocent...A faithful subject...was exposed to the danger of being dragged in chains to the court to defend his life and fortune against the malicious charge of these privileged informers.

I Gibbon,Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire548, 49 {Modern Library ed.}

See, "How to Spot the Informant at your Local Mosque": https://casetext.com/analysis/how-to-spot-the-informant-at-y...