Club Fed: A True Story of Life, Lies and Crime in the Federal Witness Protection Program

This is the book that blows the lid off one of the government's most corrupt institutions. As a reward for testimony that helped to convict over one hundred criminals, career felon George "Bud" Taylor was put into the Federal Witness Security Program (WITSEC) -- which provided him with unique access into a taxpayer-supported, out-of-control system that makes dangerous malefactors rich and hides them among honest citizens and their unsuspecting families. His position enabled him to observe -- and to take advantage of -- a frighteningly flawed and wrong-headed program while he mingled with a pampered horde of truly bad men, including Mafia rat Sammy "the Bull" Gravano and former Medillin Cartel drug lord Carlos Lehder Rivas. "Club Fed" is Taylor's shocking, first-person account of federally sanctioned duplicity, greed and betrayal, and of a gargantuan bureaucratic monster running amok as it provides the scum of the earth with protection, privilege...and, sometimes, a new license to rob, rape, and kill. It's a story that, when he first threatened to tell it, got him kicked out of the program -- and now he's on the run from all the criminals he ratted on at the government's behest. Such is the penalty for those who cross the program.