The End of Donnie Brasco?

Deep Cover: The Real Donnie Brasco

Jam Street Media

Tv & Film, Film Interviews, True Crime

4.8 • 566 Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2020

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

The FBI now knows there’s a lot of bad blood and enemies turning the mafia inside out and placing Joe Pistone’s life in danger. He’s set to become a made guy, but the FBI wants to close the operation and start convicting with the evidence they’ve collected thus far. The likes of Sonny Black and Lefty Ruggiero wrestle with the realization that Donnie Brasco has been an undercover agent the entire time, but the true is undeniable as Joe (aka Donnie Brasco) begins to testify before the jury in the coming years. 02:25 – Sonny Black resolves Bonanno internal conflict 03:21 – Joe Pistone aka Donnie Brasco is assigned a hit 07:47 – FBI wants to close operation 11:35 – Donnie Brasco is no more 14:43 – Sonny Black’s end https://www.deepcoverpodcast.com/ Deep Cover is on 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	We all love mob movies, Scarface, The Godfather, the list goes on and on.
0:16.0	But there's one movie that speaks to me more than all the others, Donnie Brasco.
0:21.1	It starred Johnny Depp as an FBI agent who went deep undercover in the New York Mafia.
0:26.2	And unlike Scarface or The Godfather, it's actually based on a true story.
0:30.3	And you know what they say?
0:31.4	Truth is stranger than fiction.
0:33.1	I'm Leo Rossi.
0:34.3	I've spent my life behind and in front of the camera creating stories about the mob.
0:39.6	We're going to go off the page and talk to the real life Donnie Brasco.
0:48.2	Welcome back to Deep Cover, The Real Donnie Brasco with Joe Stone and Leo Rossi. This is it. The Donny Brasco, with Joe Stone and Leo Rossi.
0:54.9	This is it.
0:55.9	The Donny Brasco operation is coming to a close.
0:59.1	In this episode, Joe walks us through the events that led up to and occurred after.
1:03.6	The FBI revealed his identity as an undercover agent to the mafia.
1:08.2	Trust broken, legal convictions made, dealing with the consequences.
1:12.8	After all these years, the gears put in place are set into motion for what became one of the biggest
1:18.3	successful undercover operations in FBI history.
1:27.3	All right, they say to the winner goes the spoils, and you certainly won in that sit down.
1:36.8	And Mira has to go away.
1:39.3	Bye, bye, Mira.
1:40.5	Now, there was still, within the Bonano family, trouble brewing, correct?
1:47.2	Correct. There was three capos at fans of Rustelli, who was the boss.
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