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The WITSEC program was formally established under Title V of the Organized Crime Control Act of 1970, which states that the United States Attorney General may provide for the relocation and protection of a witness or potential witness of the federal government or a state government in an official proceeding concerning organized crime or other serious offenses.
The assessment for federal misdemeanors range from $5 to $25. For example, a person convicted of 14 federal felonies would need to pay 14 $100 special assessments, for a total of $1,400. The money is used to fund the Crime Victims Fund. The sentencing judge is not authorized to waive the special assessment, even for the indigent. [4] [5]
David Allen Rundle was born in Nevada County on January 4, 1965, the son of chief warrant officer for the United States Navy David William Rundle. [2] His family moved to live in Idaho shortly after he was born, and until he fell into a drug addiction at age 14, Rundle was described as a normal child who enjoyed hunting and fishing. [2]
The United States established a formal program of witness protection, run by the U.S. Marshals Service, under the Organized Crime Control Act of 1970. Before that, witness protection had been instituted under the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871 to protect people testifying against members of the Ku Klux Klan.
At this same press conference, it was also stated that a friend of his girlfriend had turned in Biela via the Secret Witness program on November 1, 2008. Biela's girlfriend had confided to this friend that she had found underwear unknown to her in Biela's truck as they were returning from Washington state, where Biela had taken a job in March.
Evidence provided by the secret witness dubbed Garson was used in trials against 4000 Turkish police officers accused of being members of the Gülen movement. [4] In the Kobani trial, the former Mayor of Diyarbakır Gültan Kişanak is accused by secret witnesses of organizing the Kobanî protests supporting the Kurds during the Siege of Kobanî by the Islamic State (IS).
Jul. 11—The Kern County Sheriff's Office announced Tuesday a local program allocated $10,000 in reward money to help solve a Mojave mass shooting that left four dead in April. Kern Secret ...
The searches take place under a surveillance program Congress authorized in 2008, [12] under Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Amendment Act (Section 1881a et seq in FISA). [13] Under that law, the target must be a foreigner "reasonably believed" to be outside the United States, and the court must approve the targeting ...