The Mob and Me: Wise Guys and the Witness Protection Program - Couverture rigide

Partington, John; Violet, Arlene

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1439167699 ISBN 13 : 9781439167694

Editeur : Gallery, 2010

Synopsis

The Mob and Me Partington, a former U.S. Marshal, and former Attorney General Violet deliver a fascinating, first-person true crime memoir of the development and evolution of the Witness Protection Program. Full description

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Présentation de l'éditeur

In 1967, U.S. Marshal John Partington was given the task of protecting the wife and young daughter of renowned mobster Joe "The Animal" Barboza, now an informant with a bounty on his head. It wasn't Partington's first time guarding underworld witnesses. But this time was different. It was at the behest of Senator Bobby Kennedy that Partington became the architect of a new high- threat program to get the bad guys to testify against the worse guys. Lifelong protection in exchange for the conviction of the upper echelon of organized crime would require a permanent identity change for every member of the witness's family, a battery of psychological tests for re-assimilation, and a total, devastating obliteration of all ties with the past. It created a logistical nightmare for Partington. He would have to make up the rules as he went along, and he did so without the luxury of knowing whom he could really trust. And so, the Witness Protection Program was born.
The account John Partington tells of the next thirty years of his life is a never-before-seen portrait of members of the underworld and law enforcement. He reveals the details of the protection provided such significant figures as Watergate players to Howard Hunt and John and Maureen Dean. Ultimately, Partington delivers the unvarnished truth of the Program, from the heavily-shielded delivery of witnesses to trial, to countless death threats, to managing an ever- rotating crew of U.S. Marshals, to the step-by-step procedure of reinventing his sometimes dangerous, sometimes terrified charges and their families as uncomplicated suburbanites.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Gallery
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1439167699
• ISBN 13: 9781439167694
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 245
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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