Summary of Joseph D. Pistone's Donnie Brasco

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#1 The media knew that a primary witness would be an FBI undercover agent who had infiltrated the Mafia. They were using every angle to try to find out who it really was. I had never given an interview, never allowed the press to photograph or film me.

#2 I was in a whirlwind after I ended my undercover role. I was working with U. S. attorneys to seek indictments of Mafia members, and preparing for trials on racketeering, gambling, extortion, and murder in New York, Milwaukee, Tampa, and Kansas City.

#3 I was testifying against Milwaukee Mafia boss Frank Balistrieri in August 1982 when a defense attorney asked where I and my family had lived while I was undercover. I didn’t answer the question, but the FBI moved my family anyway.

#4 I was forty-three years old when the first of the cases went to trial. I had missed six years of normal life with my family. I had done the best job I could, and I was proud of that.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: May 17, 2022
• ISBN: 9798822523012

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Insights on Joseph D. Pistone's Donnie Brasco

Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 6

Insights from Chapter 7

Insights from Chapter 8

Insights from Chapter 9

Insights from Chapter 10

Insights from Chapter 11

Insights from Chapter 12

Insights from Chapter 13

Insights from Chapter 14

Insights from Chapter 15

Insights from Chapter 16

Insights from Chapter 17

Insights from Chapter 18

Insights from Chapter 19

Insights from Chapter 20

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

The media knew that a primary witness would be an FBI undercover agent who had infiltrated the Mafia. They were using every angle to try to find out who it really was. I had never given an interview, never allowed the press to photograph or film me.

#2

I was in a whirlwind after I ended my undercover role. I was working with U. S. attorneys to seek indictments of Mafia members, and preparing for trials on racketeering, gambling, extortion, and murder in New York, Milwaukee, Tampa, and Kansas City.

#3

I was testifying against Milwaukee Mafia boss Frank Balistrieri in August 1982 when a defense attorney asked where I and my family had lived while I was undercover. I didn’t answer the question, but the FBI moved my family anyway.

#4

I was forty-three years old when the first of the cases went to trial. I had missed six years of normal life with my family. I had done the best job I could, and I was proud of that.

Insights from Chapter 2

#1

I was an FBI agent, and I was working on a bank-robbery fugitive. I was chasing him down an alley when he said to me, You’re an Italian, because there’s only two types that fight like that: a nigger or an Italian. And I know you aren’t a nigger.

#2

I had been working as a special agent for the FBI for just over a month when I had my first serious confrontation. We had a warrant for a fugitive, an escapee from a Georgia prison. He was a kidnapper and had shot two people. He had fled across the state line into Florida.

#3

I developed sources in the street world, from thieves to prostitutes. I did not look down on people who survived by their wits and street smarts. I did not try to rehabilitate anybody.

#4

I had an informant named Brown Sugar. I talked her into at least moving out of the lousy neighborhood into a better, safer area. She didn’t have anything for a decent apartment, so I gave her some of our old pots and pans for her apartment.

#5

I was transferred to Alexandria, Virginia, in 1972, and four years later, in 1974, I was put on the Truck and Hijack Squad in New York City. I had developed a string of informants who were instrumental in solving a lot of bank robberies and fugitives.

#6

I was one of the few agents with experience driving heavy equipment. I was sent to work undercover with the thieves, who thought I