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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, 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 York City.
Jul 27, 2021 · July 27 (UPI) -- Forty years ago, one of the FBI's greatest success stories against organized crime in the United States came to an official end after six years -- Operation Donnie Brasco, a saga...
Jul 22, 2020 · Donnie Brasco — real name Joseph Pistone — was an FBI agent responsible for taking down the Bonanno crime family, one of the infamous Five Families of the mafia that is featured in Netflix’s...
- Andrea Reiher
Special Agent Pistone (left) sits with Sonny Black (Dominick Napolitano) of the Bonanno family and unidentified woman in the 1970s during an undercover investigation. A New York agent's masterful...
Apr 2, 2014 · Famous Legal Figures. Gangsters, Mobsters, and Mafia Members. Donnie Brasco was the alias of Joseph Pistone, an undercover FBI agent that infiltrated the Bonanno crime family. Updated: Nov 1,...
Jul 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.
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For five years, from 1976 to 1981, Pistone, then an undercover Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agent, penetrated the Colombo and Bonanno crime families by posing as "Donnie Brasco" (he chose the name at random), a jewel thief and small-time hoodlum.
