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News Archive For September 13, 2012
Access the news archive for all articles posted on September 13, 2012 on Montreal Gazette. Read all the news and events covered on this day.
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Joseph Pistone | American government agent | Britannica
FBI agent Joseph Pistone infiltrated the Bonanno family in 1976 and went undetected for years, rising through the ranks. The evidence that he collected led to more than 100 convictions, and the Bonanno family lost their seat on the Commission as punishment for allowing…
Pistone, Joseph D. 1939–
Pistone, Joseph D. 1939(?)–(Donnie Brasco) PERSONAL: Born 1939 (some sources say 1940), in Paterson, NJ; father a bar manager; married; wife's name Maggie (a nurse); children: three daughters.ADDRESSES: Agent—c/o Author Mail, Running Press, 125 S. 22nd St., Philadelphia, PA 19103-4399. Source for information on Pistone, Joseph D. 1939(?)–: Contemporary Authors, New Revision Series dictionary.
Joseph D. Pistone
Joseph Dominick Pistone (born September 17, 1939) is an American former FBI special agent who worked undercover as Donnie Brasco between September 1976 and July 1981, 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 family, two of the Five Families of the Mafia in New York City. Pistone was an FBI agent for 17 years, from 1969 until he resigned in 1986. The evidence
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