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	Joseph D. Pistone - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Joseph D. Pistone (born 1939), alias Donnie Brasco, was an FBI agent who worked undercover for years to infiltrate the Bonanno family, a branch of the Mafia in New York City.
		Pistone's performance was so convincing that, at the time the operation ended, he had been proposed to become a "made man" (officially inducted into the Mafia).
		Pistone continues to be active as an author and consultant to worldwide law enforcement agencies.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Joseph_D._Pistone (416 words)

	Sonny Red Indelicato - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Unlike the movie, FBI Agent Joe Pistone was never witness or took part in the murders of Indelicato, Giaconne and Trinchera.
		FBI agent Joe Pistone, undercover with the mob as "Donnie Brasco," was tasked with finding and killing Bruno, which quickened Pistone's being removed from the operation.
		Joe Massino, who later became boss of the Bonanno Family, was convicted in 2004 of ordering seven murders, including those of Indelicato, Giaccone and Trinchera.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sonny_Red_Indelicato (486 words)

	COURT TV ONLINE - The Real Donnie Brasco
		Joe Pistone: When you're in an undercover situation, in deep cover, there are certain illegal activities you have to commit, or they won't keep you around.
		Joe Pistone: As far as the glorification of the mafia, I think Hollywood does glorify it way more than it is. It shows their brutality, but it also shows them as lovable characters, which basically they are not.
		Joe Pistone: One way is they go in, if they don't have a reservation, give a name, the maitre d' says there's no reservation under that name, and they insist that there is a mistake, and they get loud and obnoxious until they get seated.
	www.courttv.com /talk/chat_transcripts/2004/0422pistone.html (1325 words)

	Feds Pile On Anthony Spero
		Former FBI agent Joe Pistone quietly made his professional acting debut in "Falcone," the CBS TV series that was based on his undercover exploits against the mob two decades ago.
		Pistone, who played the role of wannabe Bonanno mobster Donnie Brasco (right) in real life, was Vito the bartender in several episodes that aired during a nine day stretch over the last two weeks.
		Pistone, 61, could not be reached for comment yesterday but his role as Vito the bartender was confirmed by several sources.
	www.ganglandnews.com /column174.htm (960 words)

	JOE PISTONE on DONNIE BRASCO - the iMAGAZINE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Pistone is one such man, and such was the snowball effect of his courage, work and his book, Donnie Brasco: My Undercover Life In The Mafia, that British director Mike Newell decided to make a film about him.
		Pistone is, when all is said and done, testament to inner strength, conviction and upholding the law, even if his life has been spent hiding behind a fictional veneer and being forced - in the line of duty - to travel a dark and malignant path that the Mafia had carved.
		Pistone responds: "I have to give a lot of credit to Johnny because he was very, very concerned about portraying me with sensitivity and I don't know any other actors that would care.
	www.thei.aust.com /isite/cellinbrasco.html (1283 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Americas \| Movie mobsters face the music
		In 1976, FBI agent Joe Pistone went undercover to infiltrate one of New York's five mafia families, the Bonannos.
		Pistone's evidence led to five Bonanno soldiers being convicted of racketeering in 1982.
		Pistone, who has a new book out called Way Of The Wiseguy, said there was still a contract out on his own life but he said: "I don't think people go out every day looking for me. But they are still pretty cheesed off about what I did.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/low/americas/3554111.stm (1086 words)

	IMDb user comments for Donnie Brasco (1997) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The plot follows Joe as he gets in deeper, is suspected, gets involved in battles between bosses and eventually starts to lose himself and forget what side he is actually on.
		Bruno Kirby plays a great weasel, Anne Heche is wonderful as Pistone's neurotic wife (you can understand her suffering, what with being married to an FBI special agent) and Michael Madsen is reliable, once again, as a mobster (honestly, does this guy do anything besides gangster or sci-fi flicks?).
		Pistone is trying to infiltrate his way into a mob family in order to gather evidence against them.
	us.imdb.com /title/tt0119008/usercomments (2950 words)

	Joseph D. Pistone - Donnie Brasco
		At the time when his double-agentry was revealed, there was a $500,000 contract on Joe Pistone's head, according to FBI informants.
		In 1986, Joe Pistone retired from the FBI.
		Pistone answers questions about life inside the mafia, his life today, and even offers a review of HBO's "The Soparanos" season finale.
	www.chasingthefrog.com /reelfaces/donniebrasco.php (875 words)

	Massino Case Looking Like Donnie Brasco II
		At the time of the conversation, which Pistone taped and turned over to his superiors, Mirra and “Brasco” had been engaged in a feud over what defense lawyers charged were narcotics sales by the undercover detective never reported to the FBI.
		Pistone insisted the dope deals were concocted by an undercover police officer as part of their cover.
		Michael Coiro, a colorful mob lawyer who defended a young John Gotti, an older Jimmy (The Gent) Burke, and years later was convicted of obstructing justice in a drug probe of Gene Gotti, died of congestive heart failure in Las Vegas on May 23.
	www.ganglandnews.com /column333.htm (1328 words)

	Book Review: The Good Guys by Bill Bonanno & Joe Postone with David Fisher
		Pistone tells agents are concerned about protecting their butts so as not to jeopardize promotions, but he also stresses agents’ dedication to fighting crime and willingness to take chances despite their potential roadblock to advancement.
		One of the points Bonanno makes, and Pistone seems to agree, is that the nobility of Bobby’s willingness to give his life in furtherance of those values makes it difficult to view the mob one dimensionally.
		Joe Pistone, born in 1939, has intimate knowledge of the inner workings of organized crime.
	mostlyfiction.com /spy-thriller/bonanno-pistone.htm (1004 words)

	The Good Guys, by Bill Bonnano and Joe Pistone
		While The Good Guys is a work of crime fiction, Bill Bonanno and Joe Pistone interject factual data and commentary as they narrate their tale of murder, violence, love and justice.
		Joe Pistone offers both the undercover cop and FBI agent perspectives on the business of fighting crime.
		Pistone describes his job as tedious, monotonous, political, and laden with paperwork.
	www.roadtripamerica.com /read/The-Good-Guys.htm (412 words)

	FingerLakes1.com
		Donnie Brasco is based on the true-life story of undercover FBI agent Joe Pistone who infiltrated the Bonanno crime family in the 1970s.
		Pistone's work ultimately begins to affect him, and almost brings his relationship with his wife (Anne Heche) to ruin.
		Pistone (who's now living under an assumed name and who still has a half-million-dollar contract on his head) acknowledges the toll his job took on his wife and daughters but says that he has no regrets about what he did.
	www.fingerlakes1.com /reviews/dvd/movies/donnie-brasco.php (758 words)

	DONNIE BRASCO - Al Pacino's Loft
		This true story follows FBI agent Joe Pistone as he infiltrates the mafia of New York.
		Befriending Lefty Ruggiero, Pistone (under the name Donnie Brasco) is able to embed himself in a mafia faction lead by Sonny Black.
		Pistone was an FBI agent for 17 years from 1969 to 1986 and retired in 1996.
	velvet_peach.tripod.com /fpacdonniebrasco.html (2308 words)

	Donnie Brasco's Mob Memory Lane, Former FBI Agent Who Infiltrated Mafia Tells Secrets Of Made Men - CBS News
		Pistone was so convincing that he was almost inducted into the family.
		Pistone spent six years with the Bonannos, eventually putting more than 120 mobsters in jail.
		Pistone, who posed as a jewelry thief, had his own alias: Donnie the Jeweler.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2004/05/06/print/main615996.shtml (1016 words)

	FBI undercover agent offers mob insights - BOOKS - MSNBC.com
		Two of Pistone’s Mafia pals were executed by the mob once his true affiliation became public.
		Pistone’s recounting of the ins and outs of mob nicknames hits the perfect tone about the murderous Mafiosi and their aliases.
		Sonny was marked for death once Pistone’s true identity became known, and he knew it.
	msnbc.msn.com /id/4893908 (921 words)

	Movie Info for Donnie Brasco on MSN Movies
		Joe Pistone (Johnny Depp) is an FBI agent who is given an assignment to infiltrate the Mafia; calling himself Donnie Brasco, he befriends Lefty Ruggiero (Al Pacino), a low-level mob hit man whose personal life is in tatters.
		Just as importantly, Joe has come to regard Lefty as a close and trusted friend, and Joe realizes that when the day comes where he has to turn in his Mob associates, he'll be ending Lefty's life as surely as if he put a slug in his head himself.
		The real-life Joe Pistone today lives under an assumed name with a 500,000-dollar contract on his life still in effect.
	entertainment.msn.com /movies/movie.aspx?m=102284 (242 words)

	GANGSTERS INCORPORATED - JOSEPH PISTONE INTERVIEW
		And everyone knows Pistone as "Donnie Brasco," the sham jewel thief who infiltrated the Mafia for six intense years in the most audacious undercover operation ever, sending more than 100 gangsters to prison and single-handedly breaking up the Family in the 1980s.
		In The Way of the Wiseguy, Pistone recalls the habits, language, individual quirks and common connections that set wiseguys off as a breed apart.
		Dear Mr Pistone, San Giuseppe Iato bosses were respectively Salamone, Brusca sr and Brusca jr who had his troubles with "Balduccio"DiMaggio back in San Giuseppe Iato From San Giuseppe Iato also came Benny Zito, Ganci (Catalano's partner) and Francesco Polizzi from the pizza case.
	gangstersinc.tripod.com /PistoneInterview.html (1085 words)

	DONNIE BRASCO - SPECIAL EDITION DVD
		Charlie Chaplin, the most famous silent comedian who ever lived, once spoke, "Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot." I used to think this was a clever observation, until I tried applying it to a film that's very amusing in the details but crushingly mirthless from a distance.
		He would be FBI agent Joe Pistone (Johnny Depp, in a penetrating performance), who risks his neck posing, in a years-long sting operation, as Donnie Brasco, a Manhattan jeweller.
		Unlucky for Joe's ignorant wife (Anne Heche) and kids, a sincere friendship blossoms from Lefty's tutelage, thus spreading Joe's devotions too thin; before long, he is embraced by Lefty's hierarchal crew, and comes to prefer their violent dealings to bureaucratic hypocrisy and a gasping marriage.
	filmfreakcentral.net /dvdreviews/donniebrasco.htm (675 words)

	AmericanMafia.com - Feature Articles 268
		During his six years posing as Donnie Brasco, Pistone managed to gain the trust of countless mobsters and was almost formally made a member of the Mafia.
		Pistone for spending some time with AmericanMafia.com host Rick Porrello, on the release of his new book.
		Joe Pistone: I grew up around wiseguys on the streets of Paterson, New Jersey, but I never got involved with them.
	www.americanmafia.com /Feature_Articles_268.html (1379 words)

	Large Print Reviews - The Good Guys, by Bill Bonanno and Joe Pistone - Audio Book Review
		Bill Bonanno is the former head of the Bonanno Crime Family and Joe Pistone is a former FBI Special Agent who infiltrated the mob under the guise of Bonnie Brasco.
		Pistone has also written about his undercover work in Donnie Brasco: My Undercover Life in the Mafia and in The Way of the Wiseguy he dispels some the myths about the Mafia.
		Working with David Fisher, Pistone and Bonanno bring some unparalleled insights into the interactions between the mob and the FBI and what life is 'really like' within the two organizations.
	www.largeprintreviews.com /goodguys.html (690 words)

	FBI Agent "Donnie Brasco" Recalls Life in the Mafia
		Summary Now in his sixties, FBI agent Joe Pistone talks about his undercover life inside the Mafia in the 1970s—the subject of a new TV documentary.
		What Pistone did, for six years in the 1970s, made him perhaps the most famous undercover agent in FBI history.
		Joe Pistone, aka Donnie Brasco, was an undercover FBI agent working inside the Mafia for six years.
	news.nationalgeographic.com /news/2005/06/0610_050610_tv_mafia.html (607 words)

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		In the past year Joe had the good fortune to work with writer-director-producer Bobby Moresco twice: as a Day Player in his upcoming film 10th and Wolf (starring Giovanni Ribisi and James Marsden) and on The Way of the Wiseguy, a one-man show starring Leo Rossi opening in Chicago this fall.
		Joe’s NYC theatre credits include: The Tempest (Ferdinand); Macbeth (Macduff); Scotch and Poison (Jimmy) and An Evening of Alan Ball One-Acts (Hunter) Regional credits include Born Yesterday (Harry Brock), The Last Night of Ballyhoo (Joe Farkas), Psycho Beach Party (Star Cat), Proposals (Vinnie Bavasi), Machinal (Prosecutor), A Few Good Men (Corporal Howard).
		Joe is a graduate of The University of North Carolina at Wilmington (B.A. in Theatre) and currently studies in NYC with acting coach Suzanne Shepherd.
	newcockpitensemble.com /bios/joe_pistone.html (280 words)

	SECRETS OF THE DEAD . Gangland Graveyard \| PBS
		Like other New York crime families, the Bonanno Family was founded in the aftermath of the Castellamarese War of the late 1920s and early 1930s, which pitted Chicago's Al Capone against members of the Castellamarese family (whose members hailed from the Castellamarese region of Sicily) for control of the bootleg liquor business.
		In 1962, his ally, Joe Profaci -- boss of what is now the Colombo Family -- died of liver cancer.
		Rastelli expanded the family operations and formed a network of front businesses that trafficked narcotics, called the "Pizza Connection." During his tenure, however, the family was infiltrated by undercover FBI agent Joe Pistone, or "Donnie Brasco," whose eventual testimony led to the conviction of over 120 Bonanno Family members.
	www.pbs.org /wnet/secrets/case_gangland/index.html (674 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| Americas \| Movie mobsters face the music
		Pistone, ringing from a secret address in the US, said: "Joe Massino is very sly.
		Pistone believes Massino will be convicted and he pointed out several of his top men, including his brother-in-law and underboss Sal Vitale, would be giving evidence against him this time.
		As for the film, Mr Breitbart claims: "It's all fiction which portrays [Pistone] as a hero instead of the mutt that he really is."
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/americas/3554111.stm (1116 words)

	Amazon.com: Donnie Brasco: Books: Joseph D. Pistone (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The suspense in Pistone's story builds as he unfurls his experience of life on the edge of good and evil and on the verge of death.
		Pistone, along with Richard Woodley, does a great job of bringing real-life Wiseguys like "Lefty Guns", "Sonny Black", and Tony Mirra to life on the printed page, and even though I know Pisone survived his ordeal (He obviously did- He wrote the book!), I was still constantly worried about him.
		Pistone became close friends with Black (he thought Lefty as an ignorant man) and almost felt bad for him once he was killed.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0451192575?v=glance (1703 words)

	LDS (Mormon) Character in the movie "Donnie Brasco" (1997)
		The movie portrays Agent Pistone and his family as active Catholics, although while he is working undercover as "Donnie Brasco," Pistone is constantly in the company of mobsters, and he does little or nothing to overtly practice his faith or live by its tenets.
		Blandford, apparently based on a real-life boss that Pistone had, is a Latter-day Saint, but this fact is a relatively minor aspect of the film and Blandford's character.
		In the final scene of the movie (2 hours, 1 minute into the film), Blandford accompanies Donnie/Joe Pistone (Johnny Depp) and Joe's wife (Anne Heche) to a ceremony in an FBI building in which Agent Pistone is given a medal, a certificate of accomodation, and a $500 check.
	www.ldsfilm.com /movies/DonnieBrasco.html (2594 words)

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