Jackee Taylor entered when she was 7 years old and wishes it had never happened. — -- Jackee Taylor still remembers when her mother woke her up in the middle of the night and U.S. Marshals were ...

Developed by Justice Department employee Gerald Shur and beginning in 1971, the Federal Witness Protection Program—or Witness Security Program (WITSEC)—has provided safe harbor for over 18,000 federal ...

L-R: Justin Piasecki, 'WitSec: Inside the Federal Witness Protection Program' by Pete Earley, and David Kob Getty/Anita Lashey EXCLUSIVE: Pete Earley and Gerald Shur’s nonfiction book WitSec: Inside ...

Say the words “witness protection program” and you think of federal informants living quiet lives with new identities in podunk locales. For anybody who saw the movie Goodfellas, you’re reminded of ...

What is the Witness Protection Program? And what, exactly, happens when a person enters Witness Protection? Here's what you need to know about the secretive program, adapted from an episode of The ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. (CNN REPORT)--- The U.S. Marshal Service had been 'unable to locate' two former participants in the federal Witness Security Program 'identified as known or suspected terrorists,' ...

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Since 1967, when Gerald Shur created the federal Witness Security Program, or WITSEC, almost 7,500 witnesses and their 14,000 family members have been relocated in the United States. That means that ...

Bantam. 359 pp. $26.95 In 1961, a young attorney named Gerald Shur enlisted in the Kennedy Justice Department's campaign against organized crime. Shur was eventually instrumental first in designing ...

CNN reports that the US Marshal Service, a branch of the Justice Department, has been "unable to locate" two former participants in its witness security program. The revelation comes from a Justice ...