Download or read book Witness Protection Programs in America written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Crime and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Witness Protection Programs in America written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Crime and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 Witness Protection Programs in America written by United States. Congress. House. C. Crime and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2013-12 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Download or read book The Mob and Me written by John Partington and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-09-14 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This revealing first-person narrative, by one of the founders of the Witness Protection Program and a personal protector to more than five hundred informants, offers an eye-opening, dead-on authentic perspective on the safeguard institution. How did law enforcement’s frustration with the criminal underworld and a serpentine series of hit-or-miss rules and mistakes give rise to one of the most significant and endlessly fascinating government-run programs of the 20th century? In 1967, U.S. Marshal John Partington was given the task of overseeing the protection of the wife and young daughter of renowned mobster Joe “The Animal” Barboza, now an informant with a bounty on his head. It wasn’t Partington’s first time guarding underworld witnesses. But this time was different. It was at the behest of Senator Bobby Kennedy that Partington became the architect of a new high- threat program to get the bad guys to testify against the worse guys. Lifelong protection in exchange for the conviction of the upper echelon of organized crime would require a permanent identity change for every member of the witness’s family, a battery of psychological tests for re-assimilation, and a total, devastating obliteration of all ties with the past. With no blueprint for success, it created a logistical nightmare for Partington. He would have to make up the rules as he went along, and he did so without the luxury of knowing whom he could really trust at any given time. And so, the Witness Protection Program was born. The account John Partington tells of the next thirty years of his life is a never-before-seen portrait of members of the underworld and law enforcement—from Joe Valachi, the first mobster to violate the “omerta,” the sacrosanct code of silence, to high-profile informant and NYPD narcotics detective Bob Leuci, immortalized in Prince of the City. He reveals the details of the protection provided such significant figures as Watergate players to Howard Hunt and John and Maureen Dean. Ultimately, Partington delivers the unvarnished truth of the Program, from the heavily-shielded delivery of witnesses to trial, to countless death threats, to managing an ever- rotating crew of U.S. Marshals, to the step-by-step procedure of reinventing his sometimes dangerous, sometimes terrified charges and their families as uncomplicated suburbanites. These would be the guarded new neighbors just across the street bearing secret histories—uncomfortable actors in a play that would run for the rest of their lives. Lifting a cloak of confidentiality and controversy, The Mob and Me immerses readers in the rarified, misunderstood world of Witness Protection—at once human, dangerous, intimate, surprising, and stone-cold violent.
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 922 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 Witness Protection Programs in America written by William McCollum and published by . This book was released on 1996-11-01 with total page 53 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hearing held by the House of Representatives. Witnesses: Richard Callahan, Prosecuting Attorney, Cole County, Missouri; Robert E. Cummings, Assistant Commissioner, Florida Department of Law Enforcement; Miguel E. Gierbolini, Deputy Director, Special Investigations Bureau, U.S. Department of Justice, Commonwealth of Puerto Rico; & Stephen J. T'Kach, Associate Director, Office of Enforcement Operations, Criminal Division, Department of Justice; & Bill McCollum, Representative in Congress form the State of Florida, & chairman, Subcommittee on Crime, House Committee on the Judiciary.
Download or read book Witness Protection Programs in America written by United States Congress House Committe and published by Nabu Press. This book was released on 2014-03 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
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Download or read book Witness Protection Programs in America written by U. S. Committee on the Judiciary and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-12-29 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Witness Protection Programs in America: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Crime of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundred Fourth Congress, Second Session on Witness Protection Programs in America, November 7, 1996 Mr. Mccollum. This hearing of the Subcommittee on Crime will come to order. I will ask everybody to be happy that we are here in the sunshine today. Our colleagues that have come down from the North tell me that the weather is not nearly so nice there. I welcome you to Orlando, gentlemen. The oversight hearing of this subcommittee today is one that is of a very important nature to not only Florida and our area, but to the Nation. I extend a special welcome to everybody who is here. I want to express my special appreciation to Mayor Glenda Hood for letting us use these chambers today. We do not often have an opportunity as congressmen to sit in commission chambers, so my chair is not hiked up as high, and I do not get to look down as far. We are more with the people than we normally would be. Our hearing today provides us with an opportunity to examine witness protection programs, one of the indispensable tools to com bat violent crime. Successful prosecution of cases depends on the quality of evidence that the State can produce, as well as on the cooperative testimony of the witnesses. 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 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 Federal Witness Security Program and Protection of Foreign Nationals written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Government Information, Justice, and Agriculture Subcommittee and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Witsec written by Pete Earley and published by . This book was released on 2003-08 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No law enforcement program has been as cloaked in controversy & mystery as the Fed. Witness Protection Prog. (WITSEC). Shur, who created WITSEC, tells the story of turncoats, crime-fighters, killers, & ordinary people caught up in a life-&-death game of deception in the name of justice. In the early 1960s, Shur urged the Justice Dep't. to entice mobsters into breaking their code of silence with promises of protection & relocation. But as big 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 & creating new ones. An account of infamous witnesses, of the lengths the program goes to keep its charges safe, & of cases that went wrong.Ó Photos.
