The Witness Protection Program How would you feel if you and your family would have to leave your home and friends behind? All because you were at the wrong place at the wrong time. Your deleted from the world, you no longer exist. One minute your Christopher Torres the next your James Austin. You are now in WITSEC otherwise known as the witness protection program. An organization created to protect you from those who want you dead. Gerald Shur is a well-known man in the WITSEC for he was the one who created it all. It all started in 1961, Shur was having a hard time trying to get a witness to testify. He was talking to a New York trucking company owner who claimed that Johnny “Sonny” Franzese demanded half of his business profits. Johnny and his men vandalized his trucks and beat him with bats until he complied. When the owner was asked to testify he refused. He was scared to testify against one of the members of the Five Families of the New York Mafia, who would kill him on the spot. To protect witnesses from the criminals they
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They have to delete you form the world and replace you with another person. They take you and your immediate family away. Some people are ready for this transaction and others are not. The families do not get to choose where they’re relocated to, in rare cases they are given an option. Only four government officials know where participants are placed. The families must memorize their new identities their past and present. The mafia was one of the main reasons why WITSEC was created. The mafia’s code of silence “Omerta” ensured mobsters kept there dealings in the shadows. Threats of violence made sure there members kept there mouths shut. The Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act allowed mob bosses to be charged with leading criminal enterprises despite committing crimes themselves. Therefore allowing wire taps and undercover cop testimonies admissible in
They have to delete you form the world and replace you with another person. They take you and your immediate family away. Some people are ready for this transaction and others are not. The families do not get to choose where they’re relocated to, in rare cases they are given an option. Only four government officials know where participants are placed. The families must memorize their new identities their past and present. The mafia was one of the main reasons why WITSEC was created. The mafia’s code of silence “Omerta” ensured mobsters kept there dealings in the shadows. Threats of violence made sure there members kept there mouths shut. The Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act allowed mob bosses to be charged with leading criminal enterprises despite committing crimes themselves. Therefore allowing wire taps and undercover cop testimonies admissible in