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When FBI Special Agent Joe Pistone began what was supposed to be a six-month operation infiltrating New Yorks Bonanno crime family in 1975, he had no idea what was about to happen. Posing as jewel thief Donnie Brasco, Pistone would spend the next six years undercover in the Family, witnessing-and sometimes participating in-the Mafias gruesome activities while gathering enough evidence to send over 200 gangsters to jail. Pistone told his story in the 1988 book Donnie Brasco-a New York Times bestseller and later a feature film starring Johnny Depp and Al Pacino. But because of pending trials at the time of publication, many details of the alleged crimes were omitted. Now, in Donnie Brasco: Unfinished Business, Pistone for the first time reveals with great detail the horrific deeds of wiseguys Tony Mirra, Lefty Ruggiero, Sonny Black, and the rest of the cold-blooded Bonanno crew. He puts the operation into historical perspective, detailing the timeline of Mafia trials from 1981 through 2005 that crippled the New York City crime family. He also recounts his experiences after the operation, his time on the Hollywood set with Pacino and Depp, and other undercover operations through present day. A tense, thrilling account of the greatest infiltration ever by a federal agent into the most brutal gang of killers in the world, Donnie Brasco: Unfinished Business is the final chapter in the story of a real American hero.
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Table of Contents
ALSO BY JOSEPH D. PISTONE
Donnie Brasco: My Undercover Life in the Mafia
The Way of the Wiseguy
The Good Guys
Deep Cover
Snake Eyes
Mobbed Up
ALSO BY CHARLES BRANDT
I Heard You Paint Houses
The Right to Remain Silent
This book is dedicated to the men and women in Law Enforcement and the
U.S.Armed Forces who risk their lives every day to make the world a safer
place to live in.
J.P.
U.S.Armed Forces who risk their lives every day to make the world a safer
place to live in.
J.P.
As always, for Nancy.
C.B.
Acknowledgements
I would like to thank my publisher, editor, and agents for making this book possible. Also, my co-writer Charlie Brandt (a prince of a man) for putting up with my late return calls. Thanks to all my dear friends (too numerous to name) for their belief in me. And a special thanks to my family for their support in whatever adventure I undertake.
Joe Pistone
Preface
When I give lectures or teach seminars around the world, I get a lot of questions about the state of the American Mafiawhich is principally the Five Families of New York City. My answer always leads to more questions, and there is never enough time to fully explain what happened to the American Mafia and how it got that way.
I decided to write this book in an effort to do justice to these questions and to show how what we did back in the dayon the street, in the social clubs, and in the courtroomshas led to the situation today, in which the Mafia is nothing more than a weakened, exposed shadow of its former self.
This sequel to my bestsellerDonnie Brasco: My Undercover Life in the Mafiaalso gives me an opportunity to reveal certain details for the first time anywhere, details that I could not discuss in the original Donnie Brasco because, in 1988, I did not want to compromise the numerous trials that would come over the next decade and my testimony in them. In 1981, I still had much unfinished business to do after coming out from my six-year deep cover penetration of the Mafia.
At the time I wrote the first book, many of the crimes I discussed continued to pose a mystery; many of the murders were still whodunits. Over the past twenty-five years, with the toppling and falling of the Mafia dominos, trial by trial, nearly all of these mysteries have been completely solved, and I get to analyze them here.
The way I see it, the most important domino to fall was the first one, the one that set the rest in motion. It was the first of the cases to go to trialthe 1982 Bonanno family trial. Had we lost that first trialin which we used a then-novel legal theory to apply the evidence I gathered as Donnie Brascothere would have been no subsequent trials, and none of the good news I report in this book would have occurred. Everything was at stake in that first battle of the Mafia trials war: all we had done, all we hoped to do, and my very safety. You see, the weaker we made the Mafia as we marched on from that first victory, the more we destroyed it and its ruling Commissionwhich had put a price on my headand the better my family and I felt.
As I look at the ravaged state of New Yorks Five Families and its Mafia Commission today, I feel more than satisfied that my unfinished business is finally finishedat least as far as the American Mafia is concerned.
Introduction
by Charles Brandt
Has America witnessed a more heroic or exciting lawman than this books subject? Who springs to mind? Wyatt Earp? Wild Bill Hickock? Eliot Ness? Much of what many legendary lawmen got credit for doing is more myth than reality. But if one swallows their rsums as gospel, these legends still dont measure up to the prolonged heroism, tactical brilliance, and pure mental toughness of a young Italian-American FBI Special Agent from Paterson, New Jersey, named Joseph Dominick Pistoneaka Donnie Brasco, Mafia gangster.
What follows here touches on the dangers Agent Joe Pistone braved his way through and the monumental destruction his testimony caused the Mafia in trial after trial from the early 80s through today. Posing as a jewel thief to whom he gave the fictitious name Donnie Brasco, and with no rulebook to follow and no indispensable introduction to the Mafia, Agent Pistone infiltrated the Colombo Mafia family in 1975. Six months after first contact, using his infiltration of the Colombos as his self-made introduction, he infiltrated the Bonanno Mafia family. Agent Pistone soon became a working member of the Bonanno family, abandoning his own personal life, living the daily life of a Mafia crewmember, following his capos orders, and obeying the tangled web of medieval rules that govern the Mafias secret subculture.
After six eventful years as Donnie Brasco, Agent Pistone was proposed by his Bonanno capo, Dominick Sonny Black Napolitano, for the rare honor given to very few Mafia associatesinduction into the Mafia as a made man. Following the simultaneous assassination of three powerful Bonanno caposAlphonse Sonny Red Indelicato, Dominick Big TrinTrinchera, and Phillip Phil Lucky Giacconeon May 5, 1981, Pistones capo, Sonny Black, became the acting street boss of the Bonanno crime family. To nip a potential civil war in the bud, Sonny Black gave Donnie Brasco the contract to find and kill Sonny Reds son, capo Bruno Indelicato, who was supposed to get whacked along with the other three but missed the meeting.
Because Donnie had become such a close intimate of Sonny Black, often sleeping at Sonnys apartment, the enemies on the other side of this potential gang war might target Donnie Brasco for a bullet. Agent Pistones FBI handler throughout the operation, retired Agent Jules Bonavolonta expressed the dilemma. While Joe would be pretending to look for Bruno so he could whack him and leave him in the street, a bunch of other guys would be looking for Joe so they could whack him and leave him in the street. The only difference between Joe and the other guys was that the other guys wouldnt be faking it.
By the time Sonny Black gave Agent Pistone this murder contract in mid-1981, Pistone had spent close to six years immersed in the role of Donnie Brasco. Much to Agent Pistones disappointment, the FBI decided to pull him from his deep cover and reveal his role to the Bonannos before he could be madeor killed. In the ensuing years, Pistones grueling court appearances on the witness stand were an indispensable element of the biggest, longest, and most significant Mafia trials in history, including the Bonanno Family cases, the Pizza Connection Case, and the Mafia Commission Case. Other major casessuch as the Mafia Cops Casecame later and were a direct result of the chaos caused by these initial cases.
Through his testimony, Agent Pistone was revealed to America as a towering super hero. A man who commits a single act of bravery can be considered a hero; the super hero lives a day-to-day life of constant bravery. For six years, Agent Pistone committed individual acts of bravery from moment to moment. His life was one of constant courage in the face of constant risk of death or harm, including torture.
Many of the made men in the Mafia that Agent Pistone was closest to were super villainspoisonous snakes poised to snap and kill without provocation. Pistone described Tony Mirra, his first Bonanno family mentor, as, Loud, obnoxious. The meanest man I met in the Mafia. Pistone described Benjamin Lefty Guns Ruggiero, his next mentor and the man with whom he had the most intimate contact, this way: You could tell Lefty was a stone cold killer just the way he looked at you. Agent Pistone always had to be super vigilant around Lefty to keep his make-believe stories straight. Lefty would recall conversations we had eight months earlier, and he would remember them verbatim. Pistone described his capo, Sonny Black, as follows: When you met him you knew you had to respect him. If you didnt, hed whack you.
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