Q & A with Leo and Joe, Part 1

Deep Cover: The Real Donnie Brasco

Jam Street Media

Tv & Film, Film Interviews, True Crime

4.8 • 566 Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2020

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Joe Pistone and Leo Rossi sit down to answer some of the listener’s questions. Now that we know the story of how Donnie Brasco came to be, we’re going to dive even deeper into the finer details of the operation. What happened after the operation? What did Lefty Ruggiero do when he got out? What was the most difficult part of being Donnie Brasco? All of these questions, and more, are answered in this two-part Q&A. 01:25 – What happened when the operation ended? 03:24 – Sonny’s culture 04:10 – No mercy for Sonny Black? 05:05 – How did Joe Pistone find out Sonny was dead? 06:50 – What did Lefty do when he got out? 07:55 – $500k contract on Joe 09:15 – Was it difficult jumping in and out of he Donnie Brasco persona? 12:23 – Did anyone try to contact Joe? 15:08 – Would Joe have regretted killing Bruno? 16:48 – How many people were killed? 18:10 – What was the most difficult part about working deep cover? 20:09 – Did anyone from the mob ever come over to Joe’s apartment? Follow Deep Cover on social media Facebook Instagram Twitter Watch on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKeT_Ic27g59iGfh23QoP0xG-6aLodMWg A Jam Street Media Production. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	After 9-11, the CIA director, George Tennant, was attempting to explain his agency's inability to predict the attacks.
0:12.0	Finally, he shrugged his shoulders and said, you want to know why?
0:18.1	We didn't have a Donny Brasco.
0:26.9	Yeah. know why? We didn't have a Donnie Brasco. We all love mob movies, Scarface, The Godfather. The list goes on and on. But there's one
0:33.2	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.
0:42.3	And unlike Scarface or The Godfather, it's actually based on a true story.
0:46.4	And you know what they say.
0:47.5	Truth is stranger than fiction.
0:49.2	I'm Leo Rossi.
0:50.4	I've spent my life behind and in front of the camera creating stories about the mob.
0:55.8	We're going to go off the page and talk to the real life Donnie Brasco.
1:03.3	At the end of the eighth episode, Joe came out from his deep cover, and the repercussions
1:10.1	were many and great over a long period of time.
1:14.5	But before we get to that, this is going to be a special episode. I would like Joe to answer some
1:20.5	of the questions from our listeners. Let's get to the questions. What happened when the operation ended?
1:28.8	I closed up my apartments and I went to Washington, D.C. for a debriefing.
1:34.3	Spent a couple of days at FBI headquarters getting debriefed.
1:38.3	Went down to Quantico, Virginia, to the Behavioral Science Unit.
1:42.1	To give these behavioral science guys a background on each one of
1:48.1	the guys in Sunny Black's crew.
1:50.3	They were going to analyze each guy to see which one would be the best one to target to become
1:56.3	informants, you know, who had the weakest character, et cetera.
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