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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, [nb 1] as part of an infiltration primarily into the Bonanno crime family under the tutelage of Anthony Mirra and later Dominick Napolitano, and to a lesser extent the Colombo crime ...
- 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 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. Initially, Pistone planned on spending six months inside the Mafia, bu...
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...
Aug 8, 2024 · The 1997 film Donnie Brasco, starring Johnny Depp and Al Pacino, recounts the story of the real “Donnie Brasco,” an FBI undercover agent by the name of Joseph Pistone. In the 1970s, Pistone infiltrated the Bonanno crime family under the alias Donnie Brasco.
- Austin Harvey
Aug 22, 2024 · The relationship between Lefty and Donnie Brasco (undercover agent Joseph Pistone) was indeed close in real life, mirroring their portrayal in the film, according to Pistone's autobiography, Donnie Brasco: Unfinished Business.
Jan 5, 2024 · Donnie Brasco is based on the true story of FBI agent Joe Pistone, who infiltrated the mob in the late 70s and early 80s. The majority of the film is accurate, with only about 15% being...
- Mike Newell
- Senior Author
- Al Pacino
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...
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Apr 2, 2024 · The former fed estimates that 85% of Donnie Brasco is completely accurate, which extended to the Pennsylvania-born Pistone being inducted into the mafia as a jewel thief and petty criminal from Florida.
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