Witness protection
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Oct 30, 2026
RahsaanPANELIST
Why you getting so tight?
Peter RosenbergHOST
By the way, he looks like he's in fucking Witness Protection.
Peter RosenbergHOST
Yo, this is like the NASA documentary.
Peter RosenbergHOST
I can't see anything you're saying, bro.
RahsaanPANELIST
have to put up the game like tremendously.
Peter RosenbergHOST
Yo, he literally looks like he is not allowed to speak.
Laura StylezHOST
Witness protection is coming.
Laura StylezHOST
Let's see.
George KnappHOST
He was convinced by the feds that Tony Spolatro, his boss, was going to have him whacked, so he turned, and he helped put away a lot of mobsters, not only here, but in Chicago and across the Midwest.
George KnappHOST
And then he went into Witness Protection, and he was out in that for a number of years.
George KnappHOST
And we got the first interview with him when he was just emerging from Witness Protection, did some series, and I stayed in touch with him for years.
George KnappHOST
You know, in a way, it's kind of outrageous that – He enjoyed life as sort of a semi-celebrity.
George KnappHOST
He was in the movie Casino, which is about to celebrate its anniversary.
Lucie PrunierGUEST
Really?
António SalretaGUEST
Well, I had some people in the witness protection program aboard my station.
OscarHOST
So the research station wasn't actually just a research station, was it?
António SalretaGUEST
Maybe not.
LesliHOST
I'm like, is he talking to me? Yeah.
WillHOST
And then he goes on the Witness Protection Program.
WillHOST
Yeah.
WillHOST
If he's legitimately bronchial, we'll take that into consideration.
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LesliHOST
He had the one...
LesliHOST
Like an alias? No, what do you call it? When they hide you.
LesliHOST
Oh, witness protection.
LesliHOST
He had one name, and I think maybe it was because he got arrested, then he had to have another
Robert BorelliSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
That's kind of how I grew up.
Robert BorelliSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Now, of course, later on in life, I didn't follow those things because, as you know, I ended up collaborating with the government and was placed in the Witness Protection Program.
Robert BorelliSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
You know, I was in Rikers Island feeling completely hopeless, and after I cried out to God, the government was going to my mom's house in Florida.
Robert BorelliSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Always harassing her, hey, we want to try to talk to your son and all this kind of stuff.
Robert BorelliSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
I believe God used them for where I am today.
Robert BorelliSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And they gave me an offer I just didn't refuse.
Robert BorelliSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
They said, if you cooperate with us, we'll try to change your life and we'll recommend you go into the Witness Protection Program.
Robert BorelliSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Of course, they can't promise you that because they're not, that's the marshals deal with the Witness Protection Program, not the AUSA's, the Assistant U.S.
Southern CannibalHOST
After six years of being stalked, I couldn't take the anxiety and stress.
Southern CannibalHOST
I went to the DA and he helped me get into a witness protection program.
Southern CannibalHOST
Unfortunately, there was a hurricane and all the prisoners had to be released, so my robber was released about a year after I went into hiding.
Southern CannibalHOST
I had to say goodbye to my old life and completely start over.
Teklo Maxwell GrigsbyGUEST
you? Of course, because it's a crime for me to disclose or expose the identity of anyone.
Teklo Maxwell GrigsbyGUEST
The current law, not even the amendment proposal, Section 7 of the Witness Protection Law makes it a felonious crime.
Teklo Maxwell GrigsbyGUEST
to expose the identity of any person who provide testimony, thereby endangering their life.
Teklo Maxwell GrigsbyGUEST
So it's a felony of the first degree.
Teklo Maxwell GrigsbyGUEST
They sign off to it.
Teklo Maxwell GrigsbyGUEST
They have each person working in the institution has signed off to an agreement that says, I am aware.
Teklo Maxwell GrigsbyGUEST
I am aware that Section 7.1 and 2 of the Witness Protection Law provides that where I engage into action, that expose the identity of a witness or whistleblower, you know, I commit a felony of the first degree.
Teklo Maxwell GrigsbyGUEST
And when found guilty, I can be sent to jail for up to 10 years.
Casey EverettHOST
Now he's not mad anymore.
Aaron KincaidHOST
So, Bill, have, have y- were you part of Witness Protection? Because that name Bill Smith, it's, uh...
Aaron KincaidHOST
[laughs]
Casey EverettHOST
[laughs]
David SimsHOST
What's life like for the mobster
Griffin NewmanHOST
who's now in witness protection? Right.
Griffin NewmanHOST
Yeah.
Griffin NewmanHOST
But based on the same accounts of Henry Hill.
45 MINS LATER
David SimsHOST
I think it's vital that you sort of know if for one, it would be a little boring if it was just like, here I am a young man.
David SimsHOST
And what I want to be is a gangster.
David SimsHOST
The, no, the book start, the prologue, right? Actually of the book is like, he's going into witness protection.
David SimsHOST
You need to, you know, like, which makes sense to like, you know, so Henry Hill has decided to not exist anymore.
speaker_0NARRATOR
The sheriff grilled Sonny for more than three hours, during which Pearson revealed that he had a criminal past and a secret identity courtesy of the federal government.
Gennaro FerraraSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
He gives me the story about the, uh, the Marshals Service Witness Protection Program.
Gennaro FerraraSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Come to pass, he did say at one point in time that he had robbed a bank at one point in his life.
speaker_0NARRATOR
Pearson refused to say much else, but did mention that he'd served time at the federal penitentiary in Atlanta.
Alice VickSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
The law was blaming him for the murder of his wife, and he told me, he said, "I swear to you on my mom's soul that I did not kill my wife." And those were his words when he left.
speaker_0NARRATOR
Marion Pruett escaped New Mexico undetected and went on a nationwide crime spree.
speaker_0NARRATOR
And because the Federal Witness Protection Program had given Pruett a new, cleaned up identity, the government would be widely blamed for allowing the rampage to occur.
Gerald ShurSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
The guy that turns a wild animal loose to kill is responsible.
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