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WITNESS-SECURITY: A BLOODSTAINED HISTORY: PART ONE (OF TEN)
Witness-protection has a long and bloodstained history–with the blood belonging to early witnesses against the Mafia. Fortunately, that has since changed. Today the Witness Security Program, operated...
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WITNESS-SECURITY: A BLOODSTAINED HISTORY: PART TWO (OF TEN)
The testimony of Abe “Kid Twist” Reles’ propelled seven Mafia assassins or lieutenants into the electric chair—a feat never before or since equaled. Among these was Louis “Lepke” Buchalter, whose...
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WITNESS-SECURITY: A BLOODSTAINED HISTORY: PART THREE (OF TEN)
Eight years after the death of Arnold Schuster in 1952, the lack of a witness security program cost the life of James V. Delmont, a member of the Stefano Magaddino Mafia Family of Buffalo, New York....
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WITNESS-SECURITY: A BLOODSTAINED HISTORY: PART FOUR (OF TEN)
Joseph Valachi was the first member of the Mafia to talk publicly about its secrets. But before that happened, he had to be persuaded to open up. The men who first got that assignment were agents of...
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WITNESS-SECURITY: A BLOODSTAINED HISTORY: PART FIVE (OF TEN)
The Witness Security Program owes its creation to one of the most-feared assassins the Mafia has ever produced: Joseph Barboza, who took pride in his underworld alias, “The Animal.” It was a nickname...
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WITNESS-SECURITY: A BLOODSTAINED HISTORY: PART SIX (OF TEN)
Mafia Hitman Joseph Barboza had become known throughout the New England underworld as “The Animal.” He relished his new alias and his reputation as a temperamental killer. Everyone who dealt with...
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