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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.
Special Agent Pistone (left) sits with Sonny Black (Dominick Napolitano) of the Bonanno family and unidentified woman in the 1970s during an undercover investigation.
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...
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...
Apr 2, 2014 · Donnie Brasco was the alias of Joseph Pistone, an undercover FBI agent that infiltrated the Bonanno crime family.
May 21, 2024 · The FBI gave Joseph Pistone a fake driver’s license bearing Donnie 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.
Jan 17, 2024 · Joe Pistone, or "Donnie Brasco," is famous for infiltrating the Mafia in New York in the '70s. Few are aware that he also worked undercover in Milwaukee.
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.
On July 26, 1981, he and his fellow wise guys learned that Donnie Brasco—who they knew as a small-time jewelry thief and burglar, who they thought was their partner and even their friend, who they...
Joe Pistone becomes an FBI agent after spending time working for Naval Intelligence. He first goes undercover to infiltrate a theft ring. The operation pays off when the FBI arrests one of the largest and most profitable theft rings in history.
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