Federal Witness Protection Program Goodfellas Henry Hill Identity Limbo Informants Mafia Quotes Rats Snitches True Crime When what you need is a message of hope… Find the goodness of this moment—in a book, in powerful words, in a comforting image, through the writers and artists you love and all that you hold dear. Name changes are done by the court system just like any name change, but the records are sealed. In 1996, the U.S. Their alias would show, not "confidential" Think about it, if some mafioso was on revenge and knew roughly where they snitch was, they'd just have to find all the "Confidentials" at the land office and visit them all. Marshals provide 24-hour protection to all witnesses, while they are in a high-threat environment including pretrial conferences, trial testimonials and other court appearances. The U.S. It has never happened. If someone in the witness protection scheme was found and killed, it would be catastrophic. However, according to the book "WITSEC: Inside the Federal Witness Protection Program, co-written by the program's creator, Gerald Shur, witnesses are advised to keep their current initials or same first name. The Reality of Being in the Witness Protection Program It’s difficult to know what happens to witnesses who stay in the program because, well, they’re not supposed to tell anyone.

Sometimes good people see bad things, and when they do there's only one escape - the witness protection program. She cannot even tell organisations such as the Samaritans or Victim Support that she is in witness protection because she still feels her life and that of her son are in danger if she is identified. The UK has a witness protection scheme, run by the National Crime Agency, but little has been revealed about it to date. No Witness Security Program participant, following program guidelines, has been harmed or killed while under the active protection of the U.S. Marshals Service. When limo driver David runs afoul of mobster Nicky Andolini, federal agent Diane Carter gives him and his family alternate identities and a new home. But the Andolini gang on their trail and it will take all the skill of Diane and her agents to keep David alive long enough to testify. If it was witness protection they would just have a new, different idenity.