Witness Protection Programs In America
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Author |
: United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Crime |
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Total Pages |
: 62 |
Release |
: 1999 |
ISBN-10 |
: PURD:32754069230054 |
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Rating |
: 4/5 (54 Downloads) |
Synopsis Witness Protection Programs in America by : United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Crime
Author |
: United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Crime |
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Total Pages |
: 68 |
Release |
: 1999 |
ISBN-10 |
: STANFORD:36105119554330 |
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: 4/5 (30 Downloads) |
Synopsis Witness Protection Programs in America by : United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Crime
Author |
: Pete Earley |
Publisher |
: Bantam |
Total Pages |
: 448 |
Release |
: 2009-11-18 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780307431431 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0307431436 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (31 Downloads) |
Synopsis Witsec by : Pete Earley
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. . .
Author |
: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Departments of State, Justice, and Commerce, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 210 |
Release |
: 1983 |
ISBN-10 |
: LOC:0001138433A |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (3A Downloads) |
Synopsis Federal Witness Security Program by : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Departments of State, Justice, and Commerce, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies
Author |
: United States. Congress. House. C. Crime |
Publisher |
: Hardpress Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 68 |
Release |
: 2013-12 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1314782819 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781314782813 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (19 Downloads) |
Synopsis Witness Protection Programs in America by : United States. Congress. House. C. Crime
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.
Author |
: John Partington |
Publisher |
: Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages |
: 258 |
Release |
: 2010-09-14 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781439167762 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1439167761 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (62 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Mob and Me by : John Partington
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.
Author |
: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs. Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 354 |
Release |
: 1981 |
ISBN-10 |
: LOC:00018917488 |
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Rating |
: 4/5 (88 Downloads) |
Synopsis Witness Security Program by : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs. Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations
Author |
: William McCollum |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 53 |
Release |
: 1996-11-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0756707137 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780756707132 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (37 Downloads) |
Synopsis Witness Protection Programs in America by : William McCollum
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.
Author |
: Jake Burt |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 369 |
Release |
: 2017-10-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781250107114 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1250107113 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (14 Downloads) |
Synopsis Greetings from Witness Protection! by : Jake Burt
A funny and poignant debut middle-grade novel about a foster-care girl who is placed with a family in the witness protection program, and finds that hiding in plain sight is complicated and dangerous.
Author |
: Billy J. Burke |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 116 |
Release |
: 1986 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:19461066 |
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Rating |
: 4/5 (66 Downloads) |
Synopsis Witness Protection Program by : Billy J. Burke