His “most notable case,” as he described it to Van Susteren, was called Wooden Nickel, and it began in 2002. So we know the crimes they’ve committed in advance.” When she introduced the segment for her live audience, Van Susteren said, “Our next guest sounds more like James Bond than a congressman.” We do a tremendous amount of investigating before we are out there as an undercover. goes out with this big net, and whoever gets caught up in it, but that’s not how it works. He then described the rigors of undercover work. Van Susteren asked him if he had ever slipped and revealed his true identity. agent to successfully infiltrate Wall Street.”
He was, he added, “the first and only F.B.I. Van Susteren quickly turned the conversation to the eleven years that he had spent at the F.B.I., which had been the centerpiece of his campaign. An American flag was positioned behind him. He has blue eyes and perfectly combed dark hair. Grimm, a freshman representative who had recently been named to the House Financial Services Committee, is a former marine and F.B.I. Last January, Michael Grimm, a forty-year-old United States congressman from Staten Island, sat for an interview in his Washington office with Greta Van Susteren, of Fox News. Pistone’s operation led to over 200 indictments and over 100 convictions.Josef von Habsburg, center, a confidential informant, worked with the F.B.I. After his operation was over, the Five Families of the New York Mafia instituted new rules to thwart new undercover operations. a full-fledged member of the Bonanno family. In 1981, Pistone ordered to kill Anthony “Bruno” Indelicato and the FBI decided to pull him from his undercover operation because the situation was becoming so dangerous.īut while he was undercover, Pistone nearly became a “made man,” i.e. He managed to get out of most of them, though the FBI did have to stage a fake killing once. Pistone staked out known Mafia haunts until he managed to strike up a conversation with Benjamin “Lefty” Ruggiero, who became his mentor within the Bonanno family.ĭuring his undercover operation, Pistone was ordered to commit four murders. In fact, Pistone became so trusted within the family that he was almost asked to be one of the hitmen who ambushed Giaccone, Indelicato, and Trinchera.Īccording to Biography, in order to go undercover, Pistone went to school to learn about precious gems and the FBI set him up with luxurious homes in New York City and Florida.
Pistone went undercover and managed to become quite high-ranking in the Bonanno crime family under the alias Donnie Brasco, a tough-talking jewel thief. Pistone’s Investigation Led to Hundreds of Arrests In 2005, Pistone did work on an episode of Secrets of the Dead called “Gangland Graveyard” for PBS which focused on his infiltration of the mob and his long-running investigation into the murder of three Mafia leaders by Joseph Massino - those murders were Philip “Philly Lucky” Giaccone, Alphonse “Sonny Red” Indelicato, and Dominick “Big Trin” Trinchera. But he has continued to work as an FBI consultant and has also consulted for Scotland Yard, according to the Sunday Mirror. According to Biography, during his time undercover he was allowed to see his wife, Maggie, and three daughters once every three or four months.įollowing his retirement in 1986, he and his family began living in an undisclosed location in New Jersey under secret identities because the Mafia eventually put a $450,000.
Pistone was an FBI agent who went undercover in the New York mafia’s Five Families starting in 1974 until he was pulled out of the operation in 1981.
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