In Lewiston, Maine, a man who called himself Abraham helped his neighbors with the trash and rode dirt bikes with his friend. His old life in New York City got him killed. By Ali Watkins The plea by a ...

EXCLUSIVE: Pete Earley and Gerald Shur’s nonfiction book WitSec: Inside the Federal Witness Protection Program is being developed for TV at HBO, from Peter Chernin’s Chernin Entertainment. Justin ...

Jackee Taylor has been in the US Witness Protection Program since she was 7. Now 51, Taylor is opening up about how difficult her life has been because of the program. She didn't ask to be a part of ...

When convicted mobster Sammy (The Bull) Gravano emerged from federal prison five years ago, he was a new man. Placed in the federal witness-protection program, the mob stool pigeon--whose courtroom ...

The government allowed "a small but significant number" of terrorists into America's witness protection program and then failed to provide the names of some of them for a watch list that's used to ...

In the criminal underworld, informants, referred to as snitches, rats, or stoolies, are widely despised and frequently targeted for retaliation. To safeguard their most valuable sources, federal ...

It was as if Pat Freiermuth had entered the federal witness protection program. That is how seldom the Pittsburgh Steelers utilized the tight end during the first five games of the season. Freiermuth ...