The Last Witness

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 verywrong 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.

A Journey of Faith helps congregations plan, carry out, and follow up on a Lay Witness Mission--a ministry in 3 phases: preparation, Witness weekend, and continuation. The Handbook includes checklists, reproducible worksheets, and a 4-session Bible study for the preparation phase. Order 6-8 months prior to the Mission weekend. LAY WITNESS MISSION/JOURNEY OF FAITH The Lay Witness Mission is a team of lay people who come to your church at their own expense to share how their relationship with God through Jesus Christ helps them live out their lives. Forty percent of adults in the U.S. have no church memory. A Journey of Faith encourages persons to invite others who are not actively involved in a church family to participate in small groups and fellowship meals. A Journey of Faith helps people identify their own story and invites them to begin to share that story. The Journey of Faith/Lay Witness Mission requires 6-8 months of preparation and 4 weeks of study and prayer prior to the Mission Weekend.

Hostile witness - In United States law, a hostile witness is a witness in a trial who testifies for the opposing party or a witness who offers adverse testimony to the calling party during direct examination. A witness called by the opposing party is presumed hostile.

Witness tampering - Witness tampering is harming or otherwise threatening a witness, hoping to influence their testimony.

Expert witness - An expert witness is a witness, who by virtue of education, or profession, or experience, is believed to have special knowledge of his subject beyond that of the average person, sufficient that others may officially (and legally) rely upon his opinion.

Witness impeachment - Witness impeachment, in the law of evidence, is the process of calling into question the credibility of an individual who is testifying in a trial. There are a number of ways that a witness may properly be impeached, and several ways that, although effective, are prohibited except under special circumstances.

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