This morning at 10am, Anonymous hacker/FBI informant Hector "Sabu" Monsegur was scheduled to be sentenced in a New York federal court. But when I called the judge's chambers this morning, I was told that the sentencing had been adjourned—again. No explanation was given.

Monsegur has been subject to several of these delays already, most recently on the morning of his previous sentencing hearing back in February. The government generally sends in a last-minute letter explaining that it requires Monsegur's special service for another six months. That has likely happened again, though the US Attorney's office handling the case has not yet responded to a request for comment.

Monsegur, who had assisted in high-profile hacks of security firm HBGary and others, began cooperating with the FBI in June 2011 after his arrest at the Jacob Riis public housing complex in New York City. His work began immediately, and he helped the government build cases against numerous Anonymous hackers, including Stratfor hacker Jeremy Hammond. He has apparently also assisted the government in its investigation of Wikileaks.

Hammond, currently serving a sentence in prison, posted a statement on Monsegur yesterday that levels some new charges about his cooperation with the FBI. "It is widely known that Sabu was used to build cases against a number of hackers, including myself," Hammond wrote. "What many do not know is that Sabu was also used by his handlers to facilitate the hacking of targets of the government’s choosing—including numerous websites belonging to foreign governments. What the United States could not accomplish legally, it used Sabu, and by extension, me and my co-defendants, to accomplish illegally."

For its part, the New York FBI office for which Monsegur's handlers work believes that its work arresting Monsegur and the other members of Lulzsec had a "huge deterrent effect" on Anonymous and sowed an extra layer of mistrust. That's according to Austin Berglas, who heads the cybercrime division in the FBI's New York office. "The movement is still there, and they're still yacking on Twitter and posting things, but you don't hear about these guys coming forward with those large breaches," he told the Huffington Post this week. "It's just not happening, and that's because of the dismantlement of the largest players."

Despite his cooperation, it is Monsegur who continues to deal with the fallout from his hacking, even as his former Anonymous/Lulzsec colleagues have moved on. Jake "Topiary" Davis, former spokesperson and chief jokemaker for Lulzsec, said in a recent online question-and-answer session that he eventually pled guilty in part to avoid a Sabu-style fate.

"What, and be hunted/monitored mercilessly for the rest of my life by begrudging authorities with the power to flip the tables on your life with a few pieces of paper at any given turn?" he responded when asked why he turned over the encryption keys to his computer. "No thanks, I'll play ball with the encryption keys and say, 'you caught me, I wasn't good enough, fair play, let's get this over with.' And now it's over—for me. Perhaps not for others. Probably the snitches. Ironic, isn't it?"

Davis has now served his sentence, and though he operates under some remaining restrictions (no contacting members of Anonymous or Lulzsec), his Lulzsec days are behind him. Monsegur's, apparently, are not.