{"id":28642,"date":"2021-12-16T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-16T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=28642"},"modified":"2021-12-15T15:30:58","modified_gmt":"2021-12-15T20:30:58","slug":"witness-protection-program-interesting-facts-you-may-not-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=28642","title":{"rendered":"Witness Protection Program – Interesting Facts You May Not Know!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Meredith Danko at Mental Floss came up with an interesting list that she simply calls 23 Facts About the Witness Protection Program<\/a>.\u00a0 Before you click over, here are three of my favorites with thoughts on each…<\/p>\n

WITNESSES MAKE SOME UNUSUAL REQUESTS.<\/strong> (One guy wanted to take his girlfriend with him… and leave his wife behind! Ha!\u00a0 I’d love to see an article about more of the unusual requests. – Craig)<\/p>\n

THE WITNESS PROTECTION PROGRAM USED TO PROVIDE PLASTIC SURGERY FOR WITNESSES.<\/strong>\u00a0 (This was stopped in the 1990s.\u00a0 Prior to that a mobster going into the program was able to get his wife a facelift and a boob job. One mobster, and I’m not kidding, requested penis surgery to give his self-esteem a boost.\u00a0 THAT was denied. – Craig)<\/p>\n

SOME WITNESSES HAVE BROKEN WITSEC’S RULES.\u00a0<\/strong> (Daniel LaPolla broke rules to return to his home city to attend a funeral.\u00a0 Sadly the next funeral he attended was his own — he was killed by a boobytrap set for him. – Craig)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Meredith Danko at Mental Floss came up with an interesting list that she simply calls 23 Facts About the Witness<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime","category-trivia"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28642"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28643,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28642\/revisions\/28643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}