The Milwaukee Tapes

Deep Cover: The Real Donnie Brasco

Jam Street Media

Tv & Film, Film Interviews, True Crime

4.8 • 566 Ratings

🗓️ 15 November 2022

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Following last week’s focus on the casino deal between Traficante, Sonny Black, and the Bonnano family– in this episode, stakes are raised even higher as Donnie Brasco finds himself in a bit of a pickle between in Milwaukee with Tony Conti and Lefty Ruggiero. Joe takes us through several FBI tapes detailing the ins and outs of their biggest target on the Milwaukee crime scene: Frank Balistrieri, boss of the Milwaukee, Wisconsin family. As Joe begins to fight an internal battle between family and work, we hear how he's at risk of creating distrust from Lefty Ruggiero as he continues to keep the many stories he's crafted and his real identity a secret as he continues to help the FBI collect evidence. If you want more tapes and videos of the show, you can sign up to become a member of The Motion Lounge HERE. Not ready to become a friend of ours? Stay connected via social using the links below: Instagram: @deepcoverpod Facebook: @deepcoverpodcast 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.
0:12.4	But there's one movie that speaks to me more than all the others, Donnie Brasco.
0:17.5	It's actually based on a true story, and you know what they say.
0:20.5	Truth is stranger than fiction.
0:22.3	I'm Leo Rossi.
0:23.5	I've spent my life behind and in front of the camera creating stories about the mob.
0:28.8	We're going to go off the page and talk to the real life, Donnie Brasco.
0:36.9	This is Deep Cover, The Real Donniebraska, with Joe Pistone and Leo Rossi.
0:46.3	Hello everybody, our loyal listeners. This is Leo Rossi and Joseph D. Pistone, aka Donnie Brasco, saying we're ready to go with another tape.
1:04.6	Good morning, Joe.
1:05.6	Good morning, Leo.
1:06.5	We've got some things here, Joe, that we're going to ask your expertise, as we always do.
1:13.4	But there's, like Ricky Ricardo would say, there's a lot of spaining to do here, Joe.
1:19.1	A lot of spaining.
1:20.8	This is an operation by the FBI.
1:25.1	Is that what you call it, Joe, an operation?
1:27.1	Yeah, an undercover operation. Okay. Do they give it code names or not? Yeah, each one has a code name. And this code name, the Milwaukee one? Well, the Milwaukee one was timber. Timber. Okay. I guess they got a lot of trees there, yeah. Well, you know, a big guy, boss of the family, timber, he falls, bang.
1:47.3	Oh, see, see. You got to lay it out for you, buddy, because I'm going, what is it big trees?
1:53.5	I didn't think there's trees. Good, okay. And we're going to play a nice chunk of the tape. Tony Conti.
2:01.6	Now, he's not an informant.
2:03.8	He's a what, Joe?
2:05.1	He's a FBI undercover agent.
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