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

Partington, John; Violet, Arlene

 
9781439167694: The Mob and Me: Wise Guys and the Witness Protection Program
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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.

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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
Personne responsable
Indigo Musikproduktion + Vertrieb GmbH
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ISBN 10 :  1439167737 ISBN 13 :  9781439167731
Editeur : Pocket Books, 2011
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