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- Witness protection is security provided to a threatened person providing testimonial evidence to the justice system, including defendants and other clients, before, during, and after trials, usually by police.
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The Witness Security Program has successfully protected approximately 19,000 participants–including innocent victim-witnesses and cooperating defendants and their dependent family members – from intimidation and retribution since the program began in 1971.
Witness protection is security provided to a threatened person providing testimonial evidence to the justice system, including defendants and other clients, before, during, and after trials, usually by police.
- Meredith Danko
- The witness protection program used to provide plastic surgery for witnesses. To entice mobster Aladena Fratianno to testify in the late 1970s, the program paid for his wife’s surgery, including breast implants and a facelift.
- The Witness Protection Program is officially known as the Witness Security Program, or WITSEC. WITSEC is run not by the FBI, but by the U.S. Marshals Service.
- The Witness Protection Program began as a result of the Organized Crime Control Act of 1970. In part, the Act said that the government would protect witnesses.
- WITSEC was founded by Gerald Shur. Shur worked for the Justice Department at the time; he was the head of the Witness Security Program for around 25 years and was instrumental in turning it into what it is today.
Witness protection is provided only for witnesses whose testimony is determined to be essential to the successful prosecution of a criminal case and in which the witness's life or the life of his family is at risk.
- Kevin Bonsor
The United States Federal Witness Protection Program (WPP), also known as the Witness Security Program or WITSEC, is a witness protection program codified through 18 U.S. Code § 3521 and administered by the United States Department of Justice.
The Witness Security Program has successfully protected approximately 19,000 participants – including innocent victim-witnesses and cooperating defendants and their dependent family members – from intimidation and retribution since the program began in 1971.
The Witness Security Program has successfully protected approximately 19,100 participants – including innocent victim-witnesses and cooperating defendants and their dependent family members – from intimidation and retribution since the program began in 1971.
