Mr. Smith was offered witness protection for himself and his family, but turned it down.
This is another way of saying that Mr. Armstrong put a layer of legal protection between himself and the money.
Gujarat: Suspended senior police officer, Sanjiv Bhatt, sought protection for himself and his family citing a "manifold" rise in security threats, Daily Bhaskar reports.
A person may live his life here with no connection to the mob, never talking about them, never paying them pizzo or protection, kidding himself they don't even exist.
As Bronstein tells it, the US navy and a grateful nation gave the shooter nothing upon leaving the military: "No pension, no healthcare, and no protection for himself or his family".
"Millions of Shenyang people point accusing fingers at Mu's protection of himself and a horde of corrupt officials," said a 1999 letter written by the group of retired cadres.
The authors of the report claimed to have discovered "clear — and long-lost — proof that the Second Amendment to our Constitution was intended as an individual right of the American citizen to keep and carry arms in a peaceful manner, for protection of himself, his family, and his freedoms".
A defense lawyer in the embassy bombings trial charged yesterday that a crucial government witness who was a former aide to Osama bin Laden had lied repeatedly, to the American authorities to win protection for himself, and again when he took the witness stand.
The judges accepted as credible the account of a mafioso turned state's evidence who testified that Berlusconi had received three Cosa Nostra godfathers at his office in Milan in 1975 to arrange for protection for himself and his family after receiving threats.
But Milan Milosevic said that as head of the country's largest party, Mr. Milosevic would retain significant power over politics and business, and would probably be able to negotiate some protection for himself and his family, Yeltsin-style, from any new government.
