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Here's What It's Really Like To Enter The Witness Protection Program

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  • A highly-secretive program, the United States Federal Witness Protection Program protects witnesses before, during, and after a criminal trial. Also called the Witness Security Program (WITSEC), the program is a joint venture of the US Department of Justice and the United States Marshals Service. In movies and TV shows, it seems like people enter this program all the time. However, in real life, WITSEC is incredibly selective. Since anonymity is the goal, agents may also tailor protection procedures to be less conspicuous, meaning witnesses likely won't have full a protection detail at all times because it makes them stand out.
    #WitnessProtectionProgram #HenryHill #WeirdHistory

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  • @WeirdHistory
    @WeirdHistory  4 роки тому +799

    If you had to be in WITSEC, what would be the hardest thing to leave behind?

    • @MrTybo41
      @MrTybo41 4 роки тому +191

      Weird History not being a snitch

    • @Laoriginal718
      @Laoriginal718 4 роки тому +97

      My family and friends

    • @frankwagner3659
      @frankwagner3659 4 роки тому +111

      Free will. Has anyone ever told you that your voice sounds like that of Stephen Colbert?

    • @Bywr123
      @Bywr123 4 роки тому +111

      My student loan debt

    • @_JayRamsey_
      @_JayRamsey_ 4 роки тому +7

      @@MrTybo41
      Amen.

  • @JRLB38
    @JRLB38 4 роки тому +4356

    If I had money to pay my debt, I wouldn't be in debt.

  • @porkchop1343
    @porkchop1343 4 роки тому +4718

    My friend must had joined in because I haven’t seen him since I lend him that 20$.

    • @imxploring
      @imxploring 4 роки тому +183

      If getting rid of a leech only cost you $20.... you're lucky!

    • @imxploring
      @imxploring 4 роки тому +52

      Can't take credit for that theory.... straight out of "A Bronx Tale".

    • @SONJASAVEDBYGRACE
      @SONJASAVEDBYGRACE 4 роки тому +2

      Crooked Level lol

    • @henk-3098
      @henk-3098 4 роки тому +35

      I think he lives near my dad, who also joined the program.

    • @SONJASAVEDBYGRACE
      @SONJASAVEDBYGRACE 4 роки тому +2

      Crooked Level lol

  • @deavida
    @deavida 4 роки тому +127

    My dad had been a crime reporter for a Cleveland newspaper when my family moved from Ohio to a rural northern Illinois town in the early 80s. One day my dad needed to get his shoes repaired so he took them to the local shoe guy. When he introduced himself he realized he knew the shoe guy but couldn't figure out how since we had just moved there. Mr. Shoe repair had been a Greek mobster in Cleveland and my dad covered the story. WITSEC had moved him to rural Illinois and set him up with a shoe repair shop.

    • @charlescarter4608
      @charlescarter4608 3 роки тому +3

      The Plain Dealer?

    • @deavida
      @deavida 3 роки тому +5

      @@charlescarter4608 yes...it was a newspaper in Cleveland...*edit* lol sorry I just realized you were asking me, was it the plain dealer 😅

    • @charlescarter4608
      @charlescarter4608 3 роки тому +4

      @@deavida Lol...that's ok. The Plain Dealer has all but gone out of business. I think they only have a couple weekday issues, and Sunday. Ur dad probably has some great stories. Was he around for the Danny Green stuff?

    • @barbr6445
      @barbr6445 3 роки тому +7

      OMG, sounds about right. I grew up just outside of Cleveland, on the West Side, lived as an adult 30 years in the Chicago area, where stories of the mob are constant. I also heard the stories about the Beverly Hills Supper Club fire, just outside of Cincinnati. So. rural Illinois...yeah, what better cover, for both the mob and WITSEC, unless they both find the same spot.

    • @saraw9317
      @saraw9317 Рік тому +2

      Annnnd you just outed him. Nice.

  • @yevetter.2126
    @yevetter.2126 4 роки тому +78

    I think if a witness is valuable enough to the government to testify against a dangerous criminal AND had huge debts that could not be paid, the government would step in and pay off those debts. There is no way every single person going into witness protection was able to pay off all of their debts before entering the program. If this is true then they should be running this country and teaching all of us how to pay off our debts....lol

    • @yassm
      @yassm Рік тому +1

      im pretty sure unless its college debt all the thing they have a debt on are just sold or returned to the bank and the debt is extinguished

  • @jec1ny
    @jec1ny 4 роки тому +3013

    They should have something like this for people who win the lottery.

    • @Robloxchat123
      @Robloxchat123 4 роки тому +71

      no they shouldn't

    • @mangot589
      @mangot589 4 роки тому +321

      You can do it yourself if you win the lottery if you win enough

    • @mrabrasive51
      @mrabrasive51 4 роки тому +44

      Just have everyone you know clipped!

    • @funny3scene
      @funny3scene 4 роки тому +10

      ultimate shota lol, your family win and run off? Why shouldn’t they?

    • @grandmap3389
      @grandmap3389 4 роки тому +64

      Change your name and disappear, with enough money it's possible.

  • @nathanjohansen7169
    @nathanjohansen7169 4 роки тому +1185

    With all the facial recognition technology being put into businesses everywhere they're going to have to add plastic surgery to their list of things to do.

    • @thelauravuitton1150
      @thelauravuitton1150 4 роки тому +38

      Nathan Johansen This made me laugh but OMG that’s so true!!!! 😂😂😂🤯🤯🤯

    • @whiskey419
      @whiskey419 4 роки тому +24

      Especially in China

    • @tiamarie6719
      @tiamarie6719 4 роки тому +18

      They should do that anyway because, changing your appearance would make it a lot more challenging for whoever is after you to find you.

    • @sleepn_on_me2473
      @sleepn_on_me2473 4 роки тому +9

      Tia Marie I was thinking that too.
      I thought it would be one of the essential characteristics in joining the house of snitches

    • @cierakitty
      @cierakitty 4 роки тому +2

      Sometimes they do especially in a facial beating or cutting so severe it cannot heal right.

  • @jeepjoseph9036
    @jeepjoseph9036 4 роки тому +251

    Imagine a dad telling their child their going to the store to get milk but get enlisted in the witness protection agency

    • @romanbotello15
      @romanbotello15 4 роки тому +1

      Ha!!

    • @kierstenward852
      @kierstenward852 4 роки тому +5

      Roman Botello must’ve been what happened to mine! 😂😂

    • @JustinMacri007
      @JustinMacri007 3 роки тому

      @@kierstenward852 it's an evil thing to do to peoples lives judt protect them till triple that's it

    • @dashhill443
      @dashhill443 3 роки тому

      @@kierstenward852 lmaoooooo

  • @superstarreviews9937
    @superstarreviews9937 4 роки тому +372

    My son would be texting his friends,and blowing our cover, within an hour!!! Lmao

  • @57broski
    @57broski 4 роки тому +6363

    Could you imagine needing to go into this program but getting denied due to your outstanding student debt 😂
    *Edit* You really just never know what you're going to get in the UA-cam comments lol thanks for keeping me entertained throughout COVID guys.

    • @Steve-tq5ei
      @Steve-tq5ei 4 роки тому +81

      Hilarious bro! Best comment of 2019! You win

    • @fernandoblanco3001
      @fernandoblanco3001 4 роки тому +346

      Perhaps unlikely. Clearly if an individual is being considered for protection, it must be an important case that prosecutors wouldn't just let go based off of student debt. The DA would probably ensure that student loans are to be discharged or satisfied by the federal government. Also, if someone has massive debt, it's possible they could be given a death certificate, especially if the case is relying on witness testimony and very little hard evidence. In my opinion, if there are medical or law school loans, the federal government could employ them in their respective field and garnish a percentage of pay to offset costs of satisfying expensive student loans.

    • @Steve-tq5ei
      @Steve-tq5ei 4 роки тому +59

      Fernando Blanco you know it was a joke right? Lol

    • @fernandoblanco3001
      @fernandoblanco3001 4 роки тому +146

      @@Steve-tq5ei Ah okay, I must've missed the joke since I find it difficult to envision someone having to go into such a program and experiencing debt as something to mock and laugh at. But yeah, good joke.

    • @Birdbike719
      @Birdbike719 4 роки тому +9

      Yeah. That part got me, too!

  • @ziggy8253
    @ziggy8253 4 роки тому +748

    “You order some spaghetti with marinara sauce, and you get egg noodles and ketchup.”
    That’s what Witness Protection is like.

    • @joshp2542
      @joshp2542 4 роки тому +25

      Greatest movie ever...

    • @UnderAlog572
      @UnderAlog572 4 роки тому +7

      I like egg noodles

    • @mamarobyn
      @mamarobyn 4 роки тому +11

      Love that movie!!! Worst nightmare for an Italian .... 🍝🍝

    • @albebelt3013
      @albebelt3013 4 роки тому +1

      @@mamarobyn I agree.

    • @albebelt3013
      @albebelt3013 4 роки тому +31

      I'm an average nobody. I get to live the rest of my life like a schnook.

  • @Rixian3334
    @Rixian3334 3 роки тому +47

    Witness protection for what? Nobody was convicted of anything.

    • @danim8414
      @danim8414 5 місяців тому

      One in a million

  • @jandy4604
    @jandy4604 Рік тому +27

    Makes you wonder how many people we've all come across that might be in witness protection. Could be the next door neighbor, people we work with, people we pass in the streets, who knows.

    • @DontKnowDontCareee
      @DontKnowDontCareee Рік тому +2

      Hell, it could even be your own damn family after the fact. Your parents, grandparents etc... and they'd never tell you 🤯

    • @creynolds7681
      @creynolds7681 Рік тому

      @@DontKnowDontCareee never say never

  • @Lenise-xx1uk
    @Lenise-xx1uk 4 роки тому +475

    Imagine how many people(adults/entire families) out there that have been reported "MISSING" that could actually be in the Witness Protection Program? Think about it, it's possible. Isn't it? Those that reported them missing would never & will never really know what really happened to their loved one/s.

    • @justincash1181
      @justincash1181 4 роки тому +52

      Lenise 1975 this is such a terrifying thought... imagine never being able to say by to your loved ones because you’re in witsec and losing all contact with them, your parents could be on their death bed and even if you knew you wouldn’t be allowed to say goodbye and they would die not knowing where you went, all the while literally restarting your life, restarting your resume, trying to live a normal social life etc

    • @mauricearchie7399
      @mauricearchie7399 4 роки тому +14

      No because if there missing in Federal or state database the government would no obviously your under there protection..

    • @markusbergen506
      @markusbergen506 4 роки тому +2

      Oh wow, that is a very interesting thought.

    • @PnwOnTour
      @PnwOnTour 4 роки тому +4

      Kid from movie varsity blues went missing here the cops told his mom he’s either dead or witness relocated Joe Pichler

    • @uwpride
      @uwpride 4 роки тому +2

      🤯

  • @cflowermakeup
    @cflowermakeup 4 роки тому +971

    Lol so basically you have to have money first.

    • @smhgaming3259
      @smhgaming3259 4 роки тому +8

      Yup

    • @steveharveyhd5289
      @steveharveyhd5289 4 роки тому +13

      Not necessarily

    • @Fre3domAction
      @Fre3domAction 4 роки тому +20

      and they take your money under a rico act!

    • @patrickconnors4602
      @patrickconnors4602 4 роки тому +12

      They seize all your assets.

    • @llsnjnnfr
      @llsnjnnfr 3 роки тому +42

      PotatoGirl I think what she means is that you have to have money to get rid of your debt first.

  • @TheWriterWalker
    @TheWriterWalker 4 роки тому +1015

    If you're a former Jehovah's Witness, as I am, and your mother and several family members remain in the religion, you are already cut off from your former life and so are already in a Witness protection program, of sorts. (Pun intended.)

    • @TheWriterWalker
      @TheWriterWalker 4 роки тому +38

      @Lord Inquisitor Shadowlord, with a wry and appreciative smile, I thank you. It still amazes me when I ponder some of the ostracizing methods I and my sister have experienced. But it makes us happily grateful to God that we were freed from the Witness concentration camp.

    • @andrewbmartin
      @andrewbmartin 4 роки тому +1

      Damn

    • @TheWriterWalker
      @TheWriterWalker 4 роки тому +1

      @@andrewbmartin, why the exclamation? Lol.

    • @Obiwannabe
      @Obiwannabe 4 роки тому +3

      were u shunned?

    • @TheWriterWalker
      @TheWriterWalker 4 роки тому +26

      @@Obiwannabe, royally. An example: My mother and I arrived at a family baby shower neither knew the other was to attend. When she stopped her car in front of mine, I became joyful and said, "Oh! It's Mama!" I got out and stepped to her driver's window, saying, "Hey, Mama!" As soon as she realized it was I whose car she had stopped near, she stomped on the accelerator and left me standing, mouth open, in the parking lot. Out of the back window, my young nephew, who my mother is raising, waved sadly at me as she drove away.

  • @ceyf8724
    @ceyf8724 4 роки тому +461

    Most people are in debt that they cant just pay ..even their life depended on it

    • @IIISWILIII
      @IIISWILIII 4 роки тому +1

      go bankrupt

    • @MrBeast1901
      @MrBeast1901 4 роки тому +27

      IIISW ILIII going bankrupt doesn’t get rid of student debt

    • @HobbiesWithNick
      @HobbiesWithNick 4 роки тому +17

      It's called liquidating all assets

    • @misslady5645
      @misslady5645 4 роки тому

      MrBeast1901 what gets rid of it 😂

    • @malloryknox5072
      @malloryknox5072 4 роки тому +8

      Most people are living above their means bc they have a sense of entitlement. I've never been in debt- since I don't believe that I deserve things without first saving up to pay for them.

  • @jasong1000
    @jasong1000 4 роки тому +1348

    I’m so early that I forgot to use my fake witness protection account

  • @kryssyskloud
    @kryssyskloud 4 роки тому +57

    Did he say extramarital partner?! They just might be asking for another crime to occur with that living arrangement 🤨

    • @felisd
      @felisd 4 роки тому +6

      One would hope WITSEC would have the common sense to relocate the extramarital partner somewhere far away from the family. :P

    • @keldonmcfarland2969
      @keldonmcfarland2969 3 роки тому

      It's probably for those who are playing house.

  • @redwemette5942
    @redwemette5942 3 роки тому +14

    Your medical history and the good people that helped you in life. When they told me to apply I had an interview first. The man told me, "We don't take care of anything you own. Sell your house or any property and we don't care about the price. You can't keep anything with a serial number on it. Car, to firearms to TV's anything, we toss it in the garbage. We don't care about your standard of living. We will try to get you a job for $10 an hour and no more. You loose all your VA benefits. You will not be able to get the Social Security money that you put in before you joined. Any questions, I'm retiring next month and I don't care if you do or don't join" I told the FBI I was going public with the way I was handled and low and behold, they put me in the undercover FBI. That's only because they needed me.

  • @brunerbruner1360
    @brunerbruner1360 4 роки тому +629

    If I can’t pay I can’t be protected? Also if I get a whole new identity then why not send a death certificate to the debt collection agency

    • @francesnorred944
      @francesnorred944 4 роки тому +49

      BEYOND B-R-I-L-L-I-A-N-T....

    • @oriecipollaro7889
      @oriecipollaro7889 4 роки тому +148

      Stop using common sense! Its the government

    • @francesnorred944
      @francesnorred944 4 роки тому +9

      @@oriecipollaro7889 F-A-N-D-A-M-N-T-A-S-T-I-C ANswer

    • @TobeEvans
      @TobeEvans 4 роки тому +22

      Frances Norred not its not. That debt just gets passed on to your family

    • @bumblebeerror9019
      @bumblebeerror9019 4 роки тому +24

      Bobbie actually, only you are required to pay your debt. Your family is only required to pay your debt if they agree to do so.

  • @ZacharySkan
    @ZacharySkan 4 роки тому +49

    Witsec: you must pay all debts to join this program
    Me: Guess ill die.

  • @kkay000
    @kkay000 3 роки тому +100

    Fun fact : Michael wasn't in witness protection

    • @AlMazrahHostileSoldier
      @AlMazrahHostileSoldier 3 роки тому +25

      WITNESS PROTECTION? FOR WHAT? NO ONE WAS CONVICTED OF ANYTHING!

    • @sprunkadct
      @sprunkadct 2 роки тому +3

      Guys, Michael was in witness protection

    • @xansoui3028
      @xansoui3028 2 роки тому

      @@AlMazrahHostileSoldier r/wooosh

    • @nathan-yx5wx
      @nathan-yx5wx 2 роки тому +1

      I came here to say this you beat me to it lol

    • @yasno915
      @yasno915 2 роки тому +2

      ​@@xansoui3028 r/wooosh

  • @wmonroe21
    @wmonroe21 4 роки тому +104

    I worked for 13 years in the Federal Bureau of Prisons and here’s my contribution to the topic:
    1- FBI isn’t responsible for running the program (Hollywood myth!). Federal US Marshals and the Bureau of Prison are the two Agencies designated to hide and shuffle America’s most notorious snitches.
    2- You’re doing prison time. When becoming a government witness, you’re mostly negotiating a much lower sentence (doing 3 years rather than 40 to life, for example). Before running to an undisclosed location and claiming your new identity, you’re doing Federal time. Very few people escape punishment.
    3- There are various Prison units designed to house WITSECs, and the security bubble around these fellows reminds me of the US Secret Service protecting the White House. No joke.
    4- Never met a WITSEC happy with his choices. They accept the program is a variation of their sentence, with more freedom of movement, and alive. But no one looked forward to cutting ties with family and old friends.
    I could probably add more, but then could also get in trouble myself.
    Good piece! Brought back memories.

    • @dallasbeenthat8979
      @dallasbeenthat8979 4 роки тому +5

      I’m guessing you wrote what was basically put in the video because you can’t give out anymore info 😂😂

    • @francesnorred944
      @francesnorred944 4 роки тому +2

      THank You For your Informative reply=== It was VERY Interesting....

    • @derekhall1934
      @derekhall1934 4 роки тому +2

      wmonroe21 another keyboard liar .

    • @felisd
      @felisd 4 роки тому +10

      What I'm curious about is how they handle the disappearance of the original identity. Does the person just vanish into thin air? Are extended family members informed that their relative is leaving so as not to arouse suspicion with them? How do they manage it if someone files a missing person's report and plasters it nationwide? Do their new identities have fictional records dating back before they assume their new identities so that they don't arouse suspicion if they ever need to get a background check in their new life for whatever reason?

    • @ashburnsdeal
      @ashburnsdeal 3 роки тому

      Interesting

  • @Rustyjamesman
    @Rustyjamesman 4 роки тому +40

    I work at a student loan agency and went “daaamn😂” when you said you still gotta pay student loans

  • @dwaynegreene152
    @dwaynegreene152 4 роки тому +23

    "That reminds me of a guy i knew back in New York...I mean Kansas."

  • @rerewewrwrwrw
    @rerewewrwrwrw 3 роки тому +11

    WITNESS PROTECTION FOR WHAT NOONE WAS CONVICTED OF ANYTHING

  • @jimmyevans4272
    @jimmyevans4272 4 роки тому +455

    I was in witness protection in GTA V until Trevor Phillips found my location 🤬🤫

    • @bigmamabecky30ross2
      @bigmamabecky30ross2 4 роки тому +3

      Lol😂

    • @syntax2004
      @syntax2004 4 роки тому +32

      No, until your found out your wife having affair with that stupid tennis coach and then accidently collapsed Drug Warlord mansion in RAGE !!!

    • @jimmyevans4272
      @jimmyevans4272 4 роки тому +11

      Then I was abducted by aliens or My son Jimmy put some LSD in my soda👀

    • @garrysmith1029
      @garrysmith1029 4 роки тому +3

      It's because you kept your first name and did a heist after promises no more crime. That's how and you said you forget a thousand things everyday make sure this is one of them went through his head everyday because he thought you did on the bank heist.

    • @andymorin9163
      @andymorin9163 4 роки тому +1

      @@jimmyevans4272 it wasn't LSD it was an anesthetic, probably ketamine

  • @lohphat
    @lohphat 4 роки тому +251

    Who can just suddenly pay off their debts? It seems this program is just for wealthy people.

    • @inkey2
      @inkey2 4 роки тому +4

      opinion: yeah, and the money you have to pay off the debts is probably illegally obtained funds therefore can be confiscated by numerous law enforcement agencies. If you have large amounts of "cash" on you or in your domicile that can be confiscated under "Civil Asset Forfeiture" laws "in some states". You can't win.

    • @yeetteet3739
      @yeetteet3739 3 роки тому +6

      @@inkey2 You shouldn’t be able to use illegal money to pay legitimate debts. Stop trying to make it seem like they’re stealing your money lol it wasn’t the persons money in the first place

    • @godwarrior3403
      @godwarrior3403 3 роки тому +7

      @@yeetteet3739 Stop trying to seem like tax dollars are the government's money or any of these debts are legit. If you're going to lick boots preface what you say with "I'm a sucka, and I bend over for big daddy government. They have a right to screw me" so we know what we're dealing with.

    • @pelon7109
      @pelon7109 3 роки тому +5

      Not everybody is in debt only stupid people get in debt

    • @hope_s
      @hope_s 3 роки тому +9

      @@pelon7109 A mortgage is debt. A car loan is debt. Do only stupid people have mortgages and car loans?

  • @Razzletazle
    @Razzletazle 4 роки тому +27

    I had a friend when I was younger who was in this. She said she needed to tell me something and I jokingly said “you aren’t in witness protection are you”. Her dad was a cop who busted a big drug guy apparently.

  • @notBK
    @notBK 2 роки тому +9

    WITNESS PROTECTION FOR WHAT!? NO ONE WAS CONCVICTED OF ANYTHING!

  • @rabidpandamotovlogs1389
    @rabidpandamotovlogs1389 4 роки тому +38

    Had a segment of my family disappear back in the 60s. I believe cousins. They had told some of the family something had happened and shortly after, they were gone. Never to be seen or heard from again. We believe they were put in WITSEC.

    • @justincash1181
      @justincash1181 4 роки тому +15

      Moto The Rabid Trash Panda am I the only person who finds this utterly terrifying? It doesn’t matter how close you were to them they just disappear forever and you have no way of contacting them, they wouldn’t even know if their own parents were on their death bed...

    • @cassidyanne2885
      @cassidyanne2885 4 роки тому +7

      Jacob L *dude, why does your mind immediately go there is the question?*

    • @imxploring
      @imxploring 4 роки тому +11

      I believe the video says the program only started in 1970.... so I'm guessing they disappeared voluntarily or were "disappeared" by someone they pissed off.

    • @aaronkane2010
      @aaronkane2010 4 роки тому +2

      Someone in the comments made a point that might diffuse this .. people go into witsec because they have snitched or done something that would make t and got their sentence reduced

  • @janebeckman3431
    @janebeckman3431 4 роки тому +11

    I once met someone who said they had been in it. They lived in a very remote location and did not give anyone their home address, even though they were no longer in the program.

  • @4ulan1ec40
    @4ulan1ec40 3 роки тому +15

    witness protection for what no one was convicted of anything

  • @NickSaysHenlo
    @NickSaysHenlo 3 роки тому +7

    WITNESS PROTECTION FOR WHAT? NO ONE WAS CONVICTED OF ANYTHING!

  • @MikeyFab
    @MikeyFab 4 роки тому +207

    4:24 "Like some sort of government-funded Beyonce entourage"

  • @andreatalbot2868
    @andreatalbot2868 4 роки тому +36

    A lot of them came to Rio Rancho, New Mexico in the 70s. There is still a lot of New Yorkers here

    • @ericvargas9517
      @ericvargas9517 4 роки тому +1

      That's how Rio Rancho was mainly created.

    • @ritzkola2302
      @ritzkola2302 4 роки тому +2

      Andrea Talbot 😂 nobody caught the “new yorker” part

    • @jeanettewaverly2590
      @jeanettewaverly2590 4 роки тому +1

      Andrea Talbot That explains why anyone would want to live in Rio Rancho.

  • @rzqio9637
    @rzqio9637 4 роки тому +18

    My friend when I was 13 had to go into the witness protection program when his older brother was killed by a bunch of ppl ina gang. It’s been almost three years since I’ve seen him he was one of my closest friends I’ve ever had I still send him msg on instagram once a month knowing full well I wouldn’t get a response

  • @robertogonzales1956
    @robertogonzales1956 4 роки тому +38

    Yeah I want to say the Soviets had a program like this. Entire families one day just disappeared.

    • @user-oy5kv5yy2b
      @user-oy5kv5yy2b 4 роки тому +8

      Yeah it's called the KGP
      Meaning killing or Genocide of the People.

    • @whitney524
      @whitney524 4 роки тому +3

      Samer S KGB*

    • @user-oy5kv5yy2b
      @user-oy5kv5yy2b 4 роки тому +4

      @@whitney524 Da

    • @Bigbadwhitecracker
      @Bigbadwhitecracker 3 роки тому +1

      China just turns them into slaves. Yeah, slavery still exists.

  • @mkmercurio1
    @mkmercurio1 4 роки тому +116

    This is nothing like madea

  • @sabahnaurin4760
    @sabahnaurin4760 4 роки тому +75

    Wait - I'm going to get a whole new identity, get relocated, receive primary stipend, have cool dudes guarding me, AND have no contact with pesky relatives?
    DUDE THIS IS MY DREAM COUNT ME IN RN.

    • @sallyforth7232
      @sallyforth7232 4 роки тому +4

      Who are you going to Rat on for this "luxury"?

    • @sabahnaurin4760
      @sabahnaurin4760 4 роки тому +7

      @@sallyforth7232 That's the only thing missing :(

    • @justincash1181
      @justincash1181 4 роки тому +2

      Sabah Naurin so there’s no one in your life who you care about enough to say goodbye before you leave them forever, it doesn’t matter if they’re on their deathbed a town over and you know about it, might as well catch a flight across the country tomorrow delete social media and change your legal name if this is what you actually want

    • @vixendais9988
      @vixendais9988 4 роки тому +3

      "Pesky relatives"

    • @sabahnaurin4760
      @sabahnaurin4760 4 роки тому +8

      My Lord, please bless these people with a sense of humour.

  • @luccianomolaro7114
    @luccianomolaro7114 4 роки тому +227

    Did you see how fake those super shinny hundred dollar bills looked 😆

  • @bigk8210
    @bigk8210 3 роки тому +5

    Can you imagine being a child, parents are criminals and you end up in this program?! What a horrible experience it must be for said child on so many levels.

  • @NewMessage
    @NewMessage 4 роки тому +13

    Another great vid, Weird History!
    ... if that is your real name.... * narrows eyes *

  • @broganreilly4506
    @broganreilly4506 4 роки тому +13

    The debt rule is true to an extent, depending on how much the debt is and how serious the risk is, sometimes the government will pay it off for you and then you pay it back over a period of time through your new identity

  • @Moot731
    @Moot731 4 роки тому +42

    To every person I walk by now I will tell them “hey don’t I know you from somewhere?” There’s a chance I will find an undercover person and get them worried as hell lmao

    • @jokullah
      @jokullah 3 роки тому +16

      Toby's out here ruining lives

  • @annasherosky
    @annasherosky 4 роки тому +144

    I remember learning a little about this on the golden girls with roses boyfriend miles

    • @prettytoenail6294
      @prettytoenail6294 4 роки тому +1

      Anna Sherosky dangg me too

    • @Lenise-xx1uk
      @Lenise-xx1uk 4 роки тому +3

      I remember that episode. It was pretty funny, as always : )

    • @spectrumofbass3716
      @spectrumofbass3716 4 роки тому

      Haha take it back back to golden g.

    • @moonymoomoo5570
      @moonymoomoo5570 4 роки тому +1

      Oh gosh, me too!

    • @asianassassin5082
      @asianassassin5082 4 роки тому +8

      I remember coming home from church we don't have cable growing up and I seen a VHS tape that had Golden Girls titled on it I popped it and let me say it was a different Golden Girls

  • @bryancox7751
    @bryancox7751 4 роки тому +10

    As been mentioned by previous commenters, you only get considered for Witness Protection if you have very valuable information. So, I'm sure a deal is made to pay off outstanding debts. There could be a clause that a percentage is paid back, or not at all depending how how big the bust would be for the Federal Government.

  • @mollysilverman6803
    @mollysilverman6803 2 роки тому

    Glad I found this channel! (Didn’t know you were lost, did ya?) The playlist looks fascinating and I look forward to watching more! 😎💯🏝

  • @austinteutsch
    @austinteutsch 3 роки тому +4

    When I ran for Mayor of Austin, Texas in 1991, there was a guy named "John Johnson" who also ran. He was in the WPP and the government set him up in business in Austin with 3 hot dog vending carts which he operated on 6th street on the weekends. He was straight out of central casting, complete with the gruff Jersey accent and hard nosed attitude. When I asked him how many people he killed, he told me he'd never killed anyone, he was the "wheel" man. He'd been in the program for about 12 years at the time and didn't give a shit who knew about his past. He once went on T.V. during a debate wearing a US flag around his neck and drinking a can of Budwiser. He came on with a briefcase and when he stopped to open it to retrieve some stats, everyone ducked in laughter!! Throughout that campaign, he and I became friends of sorts and he wasn't a bad guy after all.

  • @fast03vette4me
    @fast03vette4me 4 роки тому +79

    I think in the old days it was head to Mexico.

    • @louisazraels7072
      @louisazraels7072 3 роки тому

      @@robertprescott2284 you can always go farther

  • @Print229
    @Print229 4 роки тому +5

    I feel like I joined it myself. Moved away, cut ties, paid off debts, changed careers? Check, check, check.

  • @dreapress1227
    @dreapress1227 3 роки тому +4

    My husband worked with a guy who told the breakroom full of employees he was in WITSEC. A few days later he was gone and nobody has heard from him since.

  • @danielpalmer5346
    @danielpalmer5346 4 роки тому

    Keep it up! These are oddly interesting.

  • @brim89
    @brim89 4 роки тому +82

    My question is how do they keep people off social media.

    • @mangot589
      @mangot589 4 роки тому +11

      Ranee McBride That be super simple. First, not everyone lives for social media. I have none, besides this I guess.🤔. Second, they have a whole new identity, so unless they’re totally stupid, which is a distinct possibility because they had to go into WP in the first place, (I’m leaving out honest citizens who told what they saw, but I’d say nowadays the majority of them are criminals who flipped). Which is what WP REALLY used to be for, innocent people. not habitual criminals trying to get excused from their crimes. It’s WAY out of hand. We all used to live before soc med. it’s really new.🤷‍♀️

    • @NotKimiRaikkonen
      @NotKimiRaikkonen 4 роки тому +29

      I never understood why someone would want to spend their life scrolling through a neverending sea of peoples selfies, lunches and ass pictures.

    • @mangot589
      @mangot589 4 роки тому +19

      Yu Wish Me neither🙄🤔. It’s so LAME. If everyone had to call on the phone, and say, here’s what I ate! Look at my ass! (Again)! I’ll send you a picture! Or me in the mirror! I’ll put them in the mail today! Look at me! Me! That’s what we used to have to do. And believe me, that isn’t what we spent our time doing lol. It’s SO vain. I just don’t get it. At all. Who cares?

    • @3User
      @3User 4 роки тому +12

      People who get into the witness protection program are probably smart enough to understand that their anonymity, which keeps them alive, is more important than being a brain dead fuckhead that posts selfies online

    • @tiamarie6719
      @tiamarie6719 4 роки тому

      I'd stay off the internet, until it's safe to go back on it and I'd set up new accounts. But, it would be hard to do so because a lot of stuff that I do is online. Same with many people. But, I can probably find ways to get by though. I can use physical copies of media like books and movies and music for example, like I've done before the internet.

  • @babaz771
    @babaz771 4 роки тому +6

    my dad is in the witness protection program, he walked out the door saying he was getting cigarettes to my mom, never seen him since!

    • @jamesshelly5557
      @jamesshelly5557 3 роки тому

      I think he pounding another woman 😂😂

  • @btetschner
    @btetschner 5 місяців тому

    A+ video!
    LOVE IT! Fascinating history!

  • @Kimbrly23
    @Kimbrly23 3 роки тому +8

    So what I’m hearing is, unless you have money you’re not getting protected

  • @IntellivisionDudeGaming
    @IntellivisionDudeGaming 4 роки тому +34

    I'd be afraid that after going through all of that someone would notice my face. You were that witness i seen on that murder mystery show. Don Corleone Says Hello.

    • @romanbotello15
      @romanbotello15 4 роки тому +2

      I'm so damn ugly NO ONE forgets my face. People I supposedly knew 50 years ago are coming up and saying hi to me.

    • @abobbybaby56
      @abobbybaby56 3 роки тому

      @@romanbotello15 hi Roman. Remember me? Watch ur back bro.

    • @abobbybaby56
      @abobbybaby56 3 роки тому +1

      @@romanbotello15 PS. Yep, still ugly.

  • @deserteddave1596
    @deserteddave1596 3 роки тому +12

    "I get to live the rest of my life like a shnook." Oh, Henry.

    • @justayoutuber1906
      @justayoutuber1906 3 роки тому

      He got thrown out because he kept telling people who he was. lol

  • @P.Jlive2024
    @P.Jlive2024 4 роки тому

    Congratulations on hitting a Million Subs. You do great work so I'm happy for you guys & girls? Be Sound

  • @freddystreamz9122
    @freddystreamz9122 4 роки тому

    I'm glad I found this channel

  • @michrain5872
    @michrain5872 4 роки тому +12

    -Hello? WITSEC, how can I help you?
    -Someone's trying to murder me!
    -Do you have any debts?
    -Do student loans count?
    -Sorry, can't help you.
    -But I have dirt on the criminal and will cooperate!
    *line cuts

  • @whitney524
    @whitney524 4 роки тому +21

    How tf did Henry Hill pass the psych evaluation? He was crazy!

    • @clearcreek69
      @clearcreek69 4 роки тому +1

      It was either women & hats or helicopters

  • @faysalnsimbo6679
    @faysalnsimbo6679 Рік тому

    Awesome helpful video!!!

  • @wjatube
    @wjatube 4 роки тому +5

    So I learned if the District Attorney wants my testimony they'll have to pay off my mortgage and credit cards first.

  • @hatink4319
    @hatink4319 4 роки тому +31

    You guys should do a video on coppa. People need to hear about this.

    • @marceloromero4515
      @marceloromero4515 4 роки тому +2

      Coppa?

    • @hitoyota4runners
      @hitoyota4runners 4 роки тому

      No, I didn’t BUT thanks for the info!! 🙏🏽 steh blessed/ steh lifted/ steh pono (righteous) 😊🤙🏽

  • @alolkoydesigns
    @alolkoydesigns 4 роки тому +39

    I'd be interested in a listing of people that disappeared into the witness protection system

    • @alolkoydesigns
      @alolkoydesigns 4 роки тому

      @bob ross ??

    • @mrfunluvin2840
      @mrfunluvin2840 4 роки тому +3

      Ask Sammy the bull

    • @jokullah
      @jokullah 3 роки тому

      @@mrfunluvin2840 Or Lorry the rhino

    • @hamzak2181
      @hamzak2181 Рік тому

      Joe Massino, Salvatore Vitale, Frank Lino, Sammy the Bull, Al D'Arco.........these are some of the famous people in Witsec.

  • @jlh4jc
    @jlh4jc 4 роки тому +2

    There's a reason why you hear a jail cell door closing sound effect at the end of Goodfellas. You don't have to worry about dropping the soap or getting stabbed by a utensil swiped from the chow hall. But you're still in prison because you're limited in your movements and isolated from loved ones.

  • @Zedza96
    @Zedza96 4 роки тому

    Love this channel

  • @DavidBrocekArt
    @DavidBrocekArt 4 роки тому +6

    I understand how it worked in the 70's, but I really wonder what it is like now with Facebook, Instagram and so on. I mean, does the government also forbid them using these sites? Because that is hella suspicious if a 15 yo girl in the family claiming she refuses to use social media.
    Because now even with a new name, the criminals can use face-recognition software to track down people from all around the globe and one facebook selfie can jeopardize the whole operation.

  • @sarahhein4678
    @sarahhein4678 4 роки тому +5

    That second cousin thing had me dead

  • @mikek3658
    @mikek3658 4 роки тому +3

    A video contrasting German and Japanese POW camps during WWII would be dope. Escapes, living conditions, relations between POWs and the Luftwaffe/Japanese, how the POWs kept themselves occupied, camps in the US, etc.

  • @justinportillo3996
    @justinportillo3996 2 роки тому +4

    WITNESS PROTECTION FOR WHAT?!?!

  • @nadirrabah6756
    @nadirrabah6756 4 роки тому +7

    "A criminal background check?" 😂😂 wow

  • @jasonmcdaniel345
    @jasonmcdaniel345 3 роки тому +3

    For awhile, the real life Henry Hill lived in the same town my parents. Apparently, he moved around a lot because he kept blowing his cover. Crazy to think I might have bumped into a famous mobster at the grocery store and not even realized it.

  • @marianelabocanegramonroy2841
    @marianelabocanegramonroy2841 4 роки тому +1

    Love the video, but I would like to see something more about the program. I mean, I already knew all that from tv shows.

  • @pauli6570
    @pauli6570 4 роки тому +5

    0:15 Mr. Bean to the left.....😂😂😂😂😂😂

  • @KateRambo
    @KateRambo 4 роки тому +5

    10/10 would be happy to enter the programme NOW.

  • @bewbew0016
    @bewbew0016 4 роки тому +150

    The government tries to use you as a witness. "Sorry I have a degree in Lesbian Dance Theory that cost $100k".

    • @generationofswine-ge5rw
      @generationofswine-ge5rw 4 роки тому +7

      Better to have a degree than be an ignorant high school dropout working three jobs for no money.

    • @bewbew0016
      @bewbew0016 4 роки тому +8

      @@generationofswine-ge5rw Are you implying that I'm a high school dropout who's working three jobs for no money? If so, you couldn't be more off base.

    • @derailedtrain2517
      @derailedtrain2517 4 роки тому +14

      @@bewbew0016 he must be the gender studies type of guy, idk you somehow triggered him with your splendid joke

    • @fionafiona1146
      @fionafiona1146 4 роки тому +4

      @@bewbew0016
      Puting a political compass in your status, that's closely associated with low education and complaining about the people who chose degrees in a market that didn't promise a way to pay them off over immediate unemployment? That's sensible.

    • @bewbew0016
      @bewbew0016 4 роки тому +8

      @@fionafiona1146 The left likes to tell you that Conservatives are uneducated fools, however, there is plenty of data to show that it's simply untrue. My picture is for the people who feel the need to call me "alt-right". Avoiding unemployment by racking up huge amounts of debt earning a gender studies degree isn't an exorcise in good judgment. We all have to start off working a shit job and work toward whatever you feel is better. I'm not uneducated, I spent quite a bit of time in college, and my work was not a low paying job for uneducated fools. I also voted for Trump and will definitely in 2020.
      You should look into what the left tells you instead of just absorbing and repeating it. Why do you people insist on deconstructing jokes like that? I hope you grow and not live the rest of your life being angry and triggered by everything outside of your echo chamber.

  • @GEAUXFRUGAL
    @GEAUXFRUGAL 4 роки тому +1

    When I met Henry Hill it was in Gulfport MS he was in witset then he opted out he was free when I met him . He was driving a late model Lincoln town car had a car phone even though it was 1986 . He had more guns in the car than I have ever seen anyone have , mostly revolvers and one simiautomatic. He wasn't hiding who he was but he was prepared some for the day the ones wanted him gone found him. He was talking about them making his book into a movie. He didn't know the name. Goodfellas.

  • @ricklec
    @ricklec 4 роки тому

    Awesome video. Maybe you should make one about radioactive skin treatments back in the early 1900s and the results.

  • @DrunkUncle1917
    @DrunkUncle1917 3 роки тому +5

    Witness protection for what, no one was convicted of anything

  • @ploppyploppy
    @ploppyploppy 4 роки тому +23

    I must admit this is a lot less interesting than I thought it would be.

    • @michaelchaplin2248
      @michaelchaplin2248 4 роки тому

      Ploppy Ploppy Watch the movie, “My Blue Heaven” - based, loosely, on the story of Henry Hill

  • @Lumpygrits76
    @Lumpygrits76 3 роки тому +2

    This is crazy. My VERY Italian neighbor Valery who was in her late 70’s back in 2008 and has since passed away, was in the witness protection program. At first I thought she was just bullshitting. Turns out her husband and his partner owned a Mercedes & Datsun dealership in New York City in the 70’s through the early 80’s. Her husband’s partner had been in dealings with the Mofia. And he had gotten squeezed by the FBI and testified to stay out of prison. She couldn’t or wouldn’t tell me what happened to him. But her husband ended up having a heart attack during the trial. She said that she picked our town in Tennessee because at that time we had a fairly well known private school/ boys and girls Academy/ boarding school l. And if anything happened to her then her 3 kids would have somewhere to go.
    She was seriously a fascinating lady always dressed in her best, flirtatious as hell and ALWAYS had a “Thaaaat mother fucker” in the chamber, hammer cocked and finger on the trigger. 🤣🤣🤣

  • @terencehayes4181
    @terencehayes4181 4 роки тому

    Great video

  • @PurpleStag123
    @PurpleStag123 4 роки тому +5

    please make a video about the city Salem!!

  • @MAYAiCEO
    @MAYAiCEO Рік тому +9

    The hardest thing I left behind was family. I haven't seen my own grandmother for over decade, the isolation is what gets to you.

  • @rdsieben
    @rdsieben 4 роки тому +1

    Point Roberts WA near Vancouver BC has many residents under the Witness Protection Program

  • @2TMarie
    @2TMarie 3 роки тому +2

    This makes me more anxious! Can never truly relax, can't tell anybody who you use to be, too many rules, and you may be alive, but you can't truly live!

  • @chrisn3794
    @chrisn3794 4 роки тому +3

    I was in the witness protection for most of the 90s such a difficult time of my life.

  • @ArielJRG
    @ArielJRG 4 роки тому +22

    What about a video showing some facts of the life of Mr. Edgar Allan Poe. Facts might be stranger than actually ficction.

  • @alrightalrightalrightalrig1403
    @alrightalrightalrightalrig1403 4 роки тому

    Awesome video, you should make a video on jib!!!!!!!

  • @lexinh9326
    @lexinh9326 3 роки тому +1

    In Plain Sight, Fantastic series on WITSEC program.

  • @oneandone2744
    @oneandone2744 4 роки тому +10

    The best example I've seen of this program was the movie "My Blue Heaven" with Steve Martin and his handler, Rick Moranis. It was so realistic.

  • @tod3msn
    @tod3msn 4 роки тому +3

    I heard getting into the Witness Protection Program is like having the time of your life. Getting into a bowling league and being a ringer (no one knows you are an excellent bowler) and maybe even getting a great paper route and make big bucks!

  • @francoisvanaardt1721
    @francoisvanaardt1721 4 роки тому

    Awesome!! Can you please make one of South Africa

  • @Lighthouseman34
    @Lighthouseman34 4 роки тому +2

    You guys should really do a video of what life was like as a lighthouse keeper or what’s it’s like to live in a lighthouse there’s plenty of weird history in those subjects

  • @solomon2532
    @solomon2532 4 роки тому +118

    yo viewer request here, you should do African history, the super rich empires and stuff. 😁

    • @dynaguy1450
      @dynaguy1450 4 роки тому +7

      Disgusting

    • @anewspinonthings
      @anewspinonthings 4 роки тому +9

      My Nilla fuck you My Nilla

    • @captaincolt1611
      @captaincolt1611 4 роки тому +9

      Mansa musa of Mali is the richest man to ever walk the earth(although some people count genghis khan, but his income was from his country). He had equivalent to 500 billion dollars in today’s money. On his pilgrimage to Mecca he ruined the economy of tons of cities because he gave billions of dollars worth of gold to the poor.

    • @NotKimiRaikkonen
      @NotKimiRaikkonen 4 роки тому +6

      Yeah. You can talk about how great South Africa and Rhodesia used to be.

    • @ohemaapka811
      @ohemaapka811 4 роки тому +2

      Love this idea

  • @phillipleblanc7823
    @phillipleblanc7823 4 роки тому +5

    That was interesting. I didn't know the money ended. I also thought that the program found you a job somewhere, or at least helped.
    I could go into that program so easy. I grew up a military brat moving all the the anyway and I love being alone. All I need for true peace and contentment are books to read.