Though 95 percent of those relocated are criminals, only 10 percent re-offend, an admirably low recidivism rate. Judging by the, ahem, evidence, most folks do fine in WITSEC, wherever they’re sent. I’m sure the marshals have something similar.” That’s who provided me, when I was undercover, with my employment history and credit reports and stuff like that. It’s a private business that’s been in existence for many years. In an interview on a true-crime podcast last year, retired FBI agent Bobby Chacon speculated as much: “The FBI has businesses-it’s called backstopping.
Marshal known as a Witness Inspector, who helps them ease into the new location, likely assisting in establishing a credible-yet-concocted “history” for them through the sorts of front companies and other bogus entities that undercover federal agents use to appear legitimate. Once a witness is relocated under an assumed name, their primary point of contact is a special U.S. Still, we can piece together how it works in general-and speculate a bit to fill in some gaps. You never know who might be reading a magazine like Popular Mechanics, studying up on shovels or cement. What that means exactly is anybody’s guess-neither the Department of Justice nor the Marshals Service is eager to dispense any detail on the program’s inner workings, which seems reasonable enough. Marshals Service, which administers WITSEC, while about 18,865 witnesses and family members have been relocated since the program’s inception, “no Witness Security Program participant, following program guidelines, has been harmed or killed.” Note the embedded qualification: following program guidelines. The system seems to work, by the way, so long as you follow the rules. "The FBI has businesses-it’s called backstopping."
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