We all love mob movies, Scarface, The Godfather. The list goes on and on. But there's one movie that speaks to me more than all the others, Donnie Brasco.

It starred Johnny Depp as an FBI agent who went deep undercover in the New York Mafia.

And unlike Scarface or The Godfather, it's actually based on a true story.

And you know what they say?

Truth is stranger than fiction.

I'm Leo Rossi.

I've spent my life behind and in front of the camera creating stories about the mob.

We're going to go off the page and talk to the real life Donnie Brasco.

Welcome back to Deep Cover, The Real Donnie Brasco with Joe Pistone and Leo Rossi.

In this episode, we find Joe assisting the FBI once more,

with an undercover gambling operation in Florida.

This means, again, he has to get the support of the Bonano family to get the green light from the crime family of Florida, the Traficante family.

Since things didn't go too well for Joe in Milwaukee, what are the odds things will work out

for him this time? How will this affect his cover as Donnie Brasco?

Welcome back. So Joe, you told me that now you go to sunny Florida from the cold Wisconsin?

Correct. Back to New York. And then after a while, the next big operation was in Florida, Tampa, Florida.

Tony wasn't involved, was he?

No.

I couldn't have Tony involved the Milwaukee undercover agent because, obviously, he had met Lefty, and this was going to entail Lefty again.

What happens is that, you know, if any things calmed down regarding the Milwaukee,

Snap-Foo. Never heard anything.

Bonanos couldn't get in touch with the balustraries

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