Former government witness gives up witness protection
NWI Times
Dec 15, 1991
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HAMMOND - Anthony Leone left the federal witness protection program Friday.
Leone, 51, of rural Valparaiso, was a key government witness in the prosecution of Dominick "Tootsie" Palermo and five other gamblers who were alleged to be part of a crime syndicate that had gambling operations in Northwest Indiana. The six are to be sentenced in three weeks.
Crown Point attorney David Braatz said Leone wanted to return to the area to be close to his family. His former wife and two sons live in Porter County.
Leone entered the witness protection program in June 1989 under a condition that he not return to Porter County.
Assistant U. S. Attorney Michael Thill told U.S. District Judge James Moody that Leone had cooperated in prosecuting "some of the most dangerous people a codefendant can testify against."
Having heard the word of caution, Leone signed papers releasing him from the program. Leone plans to be with his sons at Christmas.
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