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  1. Joseph D. Pistone. Joseph Dominick Pistone (born September 17, 1939) is an American former FBI agent who worked undercover as Donnie Brasco between September 1976 and July 1981, [nb 1] as part of an infiltration primarily into the Bonanno crime family, and to a lesser extent the Colombo crime family, two of the Five Families of the Mafia in New ...

  2. Undercover Agent Joe Pistone, aka Donnie Brasco. Special Agent Pistone (left) sits with Sonny Black (Dominick Napolitano) of the Bonanno family and unidentified woman in the 1970s during an ...

  3. Jul 27, 2021 · 1 of 5 | An FBI surveillance photo shows agent Joe Pistone working undercover as "Donnie Brasco" sometime during the operation, which lasted from 1975 until July 27, 1981.

  4. May 21, 2024 · Wikimedia commons Undercover agent Joseph Pistone as Donnie Brasco, with the low-level wiseguy who took him under his wing, Benjamin “Lefty Guns” Ruggiero. After the FBI pulled Joe Pistone from his deep cover in mid-1981, his evidence led to the imprisonment of over a hundred leading Mafiosi leading to the implosion of the American Mafia.

  5. Jan 17, 2024 · Pistone's work in Milwaukee included vouching for another undercover FBI agent, Gail "Ty" Cobb, who was trying to infiltrate the Balistrieri crime family by posing as a vending machine businessman ...

  6. Jan 23, 2024 · Joe Pistone is an American ex-FBI agent who is better known by the undercover name Donnie Brasco. The mafia was wreaking havoc on America back in the 1970s, and something had to be done about it. The FBI came up with an idea to put one of their agents undercover in the Bonanno crime family in 1976.

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  8. Feb 2, 2021 · MYSTERY WIRE — Former FBI agent Joe Pistone had one of the most harrowing assignments ever handed to an agent – infiltrate New York’s feared Bonanno crime family. Pistone spent six years posing as a mobster named Donnie Brasco inside the Bonanno crime family. After growing up in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, Pistone joined the FBI in 1969 ...

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