Download or read book Oversight of the Department of Justice Witness Security Program written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Oversight of the Department of Justice Witness Security Program written by and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-05 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Oversight of the Department of Justice Witness Security Program: Hearing Before the Committee on the Judiciary United States Senate One Hundred Fourth Congress Second Session, on the Effectiveness of the Department of Justice Witness Security Program Created Under the Organized Crime Act of 1970 to Protect Witnesses Wh The committee met, pursuant to notice, at 10:10 a.m., in room Sh-216, Hart Senate Office Building, Hon. Orrin G. Hatch (chairman of the committee), presiding. Also present: Senators DeWine and Biden. Opening Statement of Hon. Orrin G. Hatch, A U.S. Senator From The State of Utah The Chairman. The committee meets this morning to hear testimony assessing the effectiveness of the Department of Justice's administration of the Witness Security Program, which is more commonly referred to as the Witness Protection Program. This hearing follows what was a several-week committee investigation into the program. The Witness Security Program was created by Congress under the Organized Crime Act of 1970. It was designed to protect witnesses who testify against traditional organized crime figures. More recently, the purview of the program was expanded to include major narcotics organizations, prison gangs, and violent street gangs. The goal of this program was to allow witnesses to come forward with information against major leaders of organized crime without fear of retaliation. Since the program's inception, close to 15,000 people have been placed in the program. Sixty-six hundred are protected witnesses while the remainder are dependents or close family members. Within the last 5 years, approximately 200 new witnesses have been admitted into the program each year, on average. In 1978, protection for the witnesses and their families cost an estimated $14 million. However, the program has grown by leaps and bounds. In 1995 alone, the U.S. Marshals Service spent $53 million for the protection of witnesses. This figure does not include expenditures by the Office of Enforcement of Operations, Bureau of Prisons, or other related agencies. Indeed, no one with the Department of Justice can tell us exactly how much the program costs today. Over the past 20 years, the Witness Security Program has had its successes. Prosecuting John Gotti and other organized crime figures may not have been possible without this program, and I applaud its successes. I clearly recognize the need for the program. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Federal Witness Security Program written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Departments of State, Justice, and Commerce, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Witness Security Program written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs. Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Oversight of the Department of Justice Witness Security Program written by United States Congress Senate Committ and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2015-09-09 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Witsec written by Pete Earley and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2009-11-18 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For decades no law enforcement program has been as cloaked in controversy and mystery as the Federal Witness Protection Program. Now, for the first time, Gerald Shur, the man credited with the creation of WITSEC, teams with acclaimed investigative journalist Pete Earley to tell the inside story of turncoats, crime-fighters, killers, and ordinary human beings caught up in a life-and-death game of deception in the name of justice. WITSEC Inside the Federal Witness Protection Program When the government was losing the war on organized crime in the early 1960s, Gerald Shur, a young attorney in the Justice Department’s Organized Crime and Racketeering Section, urged the department to entice mobsters into breaking their code of silence with promises of protection and relocation. But as high-ranking mob figures came into the program, Shur discovered that keeping his witnesses alive in the face of death threats involved more than eradicating old identities and creating new ones. It also meant cutting off families from their pasts and giving new identities to wives and children, as well as to mob girlfriends and mistresses. It meant getting late-night phone calls from protected witnesses unable to cope with their new lives. It meant arranging funerals, providing financial support, and in one instance even helping a mobster’s wife get breast implants. And all too often it meant odds that a protected witness would return to what he knew best–crime. In this book Shur gives a you-are-there account of infamous witnesses, from Joseph Valachi to “Sammy the Bull” Gravano to “Fat Vinnie” Teresa, of the lengths the program goes to to keep its charges safe, and of cases that went very wrong and occasionally even protected those who went on to kill again. He describes the agony endured by innocent people who found themselves in the wrong place at the wrong time and ended up in a program tailored to criminals. And along with Shur’s war stories, WITSEC draws on the haunting words of one mob wife, who vividly describes her life of lies, secrecy, and loss inside the program. A powerful true story of the inner workings of one of the most effective and controversial weapons in the war against organized crime and the inner workings of organized crime itself–and more recently against Colombian drug dealers, outlaw motorcycle gang members, white-collar con men, and international terrorists–this book takes us into a tense, dangerous twilight world carefully hidden in plain sight: where the family living next door might not be who they say they are. . .
Download or read book Oversight of Department of Justice and Department of Commerce written by Cynthia A. Schnedar and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2011-05 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Statement of Cynthia A. Schnedar, Acting Inspector General, Department of Justice (DoJ), about the activities and oversight work of the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) for the DoJ. The OIG has compiled a list of top management and performance challenges for DoJ annually since 1998 in an effort to provide strategic guidance for the Attorney General and top DoJ officials to take appropriate management actions. This testimony provides an overview of the top management and performance challenges for DoJ that the OIG identified during this past year. The testimony is based on reviews conducted by the OIG. This is a print on demand edition of an important, hard-to-find publication.
Download or read book Oversight of the Department of Justice Witness Security Program written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Witness Protection Act written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Courts, Civil Liberties, and the Administration of Justice and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Audit of the Department of Justice s Handling of Sex Offenders in the Federal Witness Security Program written by U.s. Department of Justice and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-03-13 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In October 2011, the Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General (OIG) initiated an audit of the United States Marshal Service's (USMS) management of the Witness Security (WITSEC) Program. In May 2013, the Department of Justice (Department) Office of the Inspector General (OIG) issued a report examining the Department's handling of known or suspected terrorists in the Federal Witness Security (WITSEC) Program. During that review, we identified sex offenders as another group of high-risk WITSEC Program participants (Program participants). Therefore, we conducted this audit to evaluate the Department's: (1) admission and vetting of sex offenders into the WITSEC Program; (2) handling, tracking, and monitoring of sex offenders who were Program participants; and (3) procedures for notifying states, local municipalities, and other law enforcement agencies regarding the relocation of sex offenders.
Download or read book Department of Justice s Handling of Known Or Suspected Terrorists Admitted Into the Federal Witness Security Program written by United States. Congress and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-12-13 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Department of Justice's handling of known or suspected terrorists admitted into the federal Witness Security Program : hearing before the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundred Thirteenth Congress, first session, June 4, 2013.
Download or read book Attorney General Guidelines for Victim and Witness Assistance written by U.s. Department of Justice and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2012-06-06 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Attorney General of the United States and the U.S. Department of Justice Office for Victims of Crime strive to pursue justice for criminal acts and that pursuit includes justice for the victims of and witnesses to crime. The 2011 Edition of the Attorney General Guidelines for Victim and Witness Assistance reflects current statutory provisions, recognizes the technological and legal changes that have taken place since the previous Guidelines were promulgated, and incorporates best practices that will benefit victims and enhance investigations and prosecutions.
Download or read book Department of Justice s Handling of Known Or Suspected Terrorists Admitted Into the Federal Witness Security Program written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Victim and Witness Intimidation written by Kerry Murphy Healey and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Oversight written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Model Rules of Professional Conduct written by American Bar Association. House of Delegates and published by American Bar Association. This book was released on 2007 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Model Rules of Professional Conduct provides an up-to-date resource for information on legal ethics. Federal, state and local courts in all jurisdictions look to the Rules for guidance in solving lawyer malpractice cases, disciplinary actions, disqualification issues, sanctions questions and much more. In this volume, black-letter Rules of Professional Conduct are followed by numbered Comments that explain each Rule's purpose and provide suggestions for its practical application. The Rules will help you identify proper conduct in a variety of given situations, review those instances where discretionary action is possible, and define the nature of the relationship between you and your clients, colleagues and the courts.
