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 ...

Earley, an Edgar fact-crime award winner for Circumstantial Evidence, and Shur present a fascinating third-person account of Shur's 25-year career with the Department of Justice. Starting out as a ...

The U.S. Marshals Service lost track of two “known or suspected terrorists” being held by the federal government as part of its witness protection program, the Justice Department’s office of inspector ...

Several known terrorists in the Department of Justice witness protection program were allowed on commercial flights even though they were on the “no-fly” list intended to help track and restrict their ...

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 ...

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,' ...

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 ...

There are stretches of time, it turns out, when protecting repulsive criminals from other repulsive criminals is simply tedious work. The same can be said of this new book detailing the federal ...

Your donation today will help MinnPost continue to report on the news you need. The US has lost track of two known or suspected terrorists given identities under the federal witness protection program ...

"Should you ever be accused of terrorism, here's what you should do," says Spencer Ackerman at Wired: "Snitch on your friends, demand to be placed under witness protection, then fly out of the country ...

Jesus Moreno, a former lieutenant to a Miami crime boss, enters the WITSEC program after his wife is gunned down by his former employer's gunmen. Accompanying him into the program is his 18 year-old ...