Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Budget
Publisher:
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Category : Budget
Languages : en
Pages : 604
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Government witnesses
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Budget
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Budget
Languages : en
Pages : 604
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Budget
Languages : en
Pages : 604
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United States Attorneys' Manual
Author: United States. Department of Justice
Publisher:
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Category : Justice, Administration of
Languages : en
Pages :
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Category : Justice, Administration of
Languages : en
Pages :
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Witsec
Author: Pete Earley
Publisher: Bantam
ISBN: 0307431436
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
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. . .
Publisher: Bantam
ISBN: 0307431436
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
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. . .
Review of the Stockpiling of Minerals and Metals: Government Witnesses
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs
Publisher:
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Category : Mineral industries
Languages : en
Pages : 188
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Publisher:
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Category : Mineral industries
Languages : en
Pages : 188
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Government witnesses
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Budget
Publisher:
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Category : Budget
Languages : en
Pages : 1216
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Budget
Languages : en
Pages : 1216
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Testimony of government witnesses
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce
Publisher:
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Category : Highway carriers
Languages : en
Pages : 228
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Publisher:
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Category : Highway carriers
Languages : en
Pages : 228
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Federal Immunity of Witnesses Act
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee No. 3
Publisher:
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Category : Self-incrimination
Languages : en
Pages : 96
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Self-incrimination
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Disclosure
Author: Steven M. Greer
Publisher: Crossing Point Incorporated
ISBN: 9780967323817
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 573
Book Description
Publisher: Crossing Point Incorporated
ISBN: 9780967323817
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 573
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Witness Protection Programs in America
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Crime
Publisher:
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 68
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 68
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Executive Office of the President and public witnesses
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on the Treasury, Postal Service, and General Government Appropriations
Publisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 704
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 704
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