Witness protection program show

Jon Glaser Jon as Jon. Eugene Mirman Yvgeny as Yvgeny. Jacob Kogan David as David. Zoe Lister-Jones Kim as Kim. Nadia Dajani Susan as Susan …. Larry Murphy Jay as Jay. Mather Zickel Rob as Rob. Kevin Dorff Mike as Mike. Amy Schumer Trish as Trish. Glenn Fleshler Pavel as Pavel …. Jon Glaser. More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. Did you know Edit. User reviews 11 Review. Top review. One of the funniest shows. Law enforcement officials are quick to clarify that WITSEC is not a rehabilitation program: When career criminals who have never earned an honest living and have no job skills enter the workforce, their thoughts can—and often do—turn to illegal activity knowing their status will make it harder to face any consequences.

With another new name and city, they were able to flee creditors successfully—and collect more cost-of-living money from WITSEC.

Getting married as a protected witness means having to do the one thing no partner should be expected to do: lie. All the time. WITSEC members are told not to divulge their prior identity to new spouses in case the relationship ever turns sour and the secret is revealed out of spite.

When infamous mobster Henry Hill was in the program, he married Sherry Anders in The couple soon split up. Instead, several regions have programs that offer relocation during and in the months immediately following trials. In Detroit, Project Safeguard provides lodging and food through private funding; Baltimore is considering a similar program, with officials hoping Congress will approve legislative spending for smaller-scale protection efforts.

In , the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette revealed protected witnesses in custody enjoyed live lobsters and pig roasts via an anonymous ordering system at a commissary; they were also granted unlimited phone calls. Some prisoners used the latter to set up criminal activities or run telephonic credit card scams on the outside. Marshals are proud to say that not a single person has been hurt or killed while under their protection in the WITSEC program.

Unfortunately, not all witnesses take the threat on their lives seriously. Some have left the program of their own volition or have broken the rules about returning to high-risk areas. Gerald Shur, the retired founder and longtime head of the Federal Witness Protection Program, poses for a portrait May 6, at an undisclosed suburban location.

The U. Thriving cities and sunny beach towns are definitely possibilities, depending on who you are. And of course the first thing is safety. The system seems to work, by the way, so long as you follow the rules. According to the U. You never know who might be reading a magazine like Popular Mechanics, studying up on shovels or cement. Still, we can piece together how it works in general—and speculate a bit to fill in some gaps.