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Jul 27, 2021 · July 27, 2021 / 5:45 AM. Still in seclusion, FBI agent who was real 'Donnie Brasco' glad he took down Mafia 40 years ago. "We proved that they weren't invincible," former FBI agent Joe...
- The Birth of Joe Pistone as Donnie Brasco
- The Florida Operations
- The End of Donnie Brasco
The FBI gave Joseph Pistone a fake driver’s license bearing Brasco’s name as well as access to cash and credit cards. Sharing the spoils of cashed-up stolen jewelry with criminal contacts was crucial in fooling the Mob and in the Mob’s vetting his usefulness as an earner. Initially, Pistone planned on spending six months inside the Mafia, but it to...
In Florida, Joseph Pistone convinced Ruggiero (with Black’s approval) to purchase a nightclub called Knights Court. The FBI had purchased the building months earlier, and it now became the perfect location to engineer a meeting between the Bonanno and Trafficante families. Now in 1979, Pistone had entered his fourth-year undercover. Along with fell...
Despite Pistone’s pleas to remain undercover until he was a made man, the FBI decided it was too much of risk and in late June 1981, they ordered the operation shut down. Over the last few weeks, Pistone gathered all the final pieces of information on the Mafia he could from Ruggiero and Black. On Sunday, July 24, 1981, Pistone left the Kings Court...
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 ...
Apr 14, 2024 · Joe Massino Killed His Rivals To Become Boss Of The Bonanno Crime Family — Then Became An Informant. By Neil Patmore | Edited By Adam Farley. Published April 14, 2024. Updated April 24, 2024.
Feb 21, 2019 · Last Updated On: April 8th, 2019. Joe Pistone is one of the FBI’s most celebrated undercover agents. Using the name Donnie Brasco, he infiltrated the New York Mafia and helped produce 200 indictments. Courtesy of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Apr 2, 2014 · Donnie Brasco was the alias of undercover FBI agent Joseph Pistone, who was born in 1939 in Erie, Pennsylvania. The FBI created the alias of Brasco to stem the rising truck hijacking numbers, but ...
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Jul 10, 2019 · July 10, 2019. Joseph Dominick Pistone, a man raised in the Sandy Hill section of Paterson, who graduated from Eastside High School, developed into Donnie Brasco. His day-to-day upbringing in La Cosa Nostra’s neighborhood enabled him to become the sole FBI agent who took down the mob, ensuring 234 convictions.
