"You're a Rat!"-Donnie Brasco

Wife of Crime

Jess & Russ

True Crime, Comedy

4.8 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 6 January 2021

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

On this week's episode I tell Russ the story of the most successful FBI undercover mission in US history... Operation Sun-Apple a.k.a the story of Donnie Brasco! This is such an interesting case because one man went deeper into the Italian mafia than anyone had ever been. It was first time that law enforcement could see and understand the inner workings of the Cosa Nostra. This mission led to the arrest of 230 mafia members and associates and single handily dismantled the Bananno crime family in the early 80's. Russ and I both had mixed feelings about this one. I'm interested to see how you guys feel about how this all went down. Moral of this story... "When they send for you you go in alive, and come out dead, and it's your friend that does it." - Al Pacino as "Lefty Ruggiero" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This podcast is an unscripted, unedited conversation about true crime.
0:05.2	We take the cases very seriously, but I don't take myself seriously at all, and neither should you.
0:10.8	Welcome to Wife of Crime.
0:13.4	So Russ, the story I'm telling you today, it's pretty well known.
0:17.2	I mean, they even made a movie about it.
0:19.5	But it's crazy.
0:20.8	It's a crazy story about how the FBI got way in over their heads when they sent a man
0:28.5	named Joe Pustone to go undercover with the mafia.
0:32.8	He spent six years infiltrating the Bonano crime family.
0:37.2	And what transpired is just too good to not tell you.
0:40.8	This is the case of Donnie Brasco. Hello everyone welcome back to wife of crime believe it or not we're back
1:07.4	We told them we was coming back a previous time and we didn't come back, but now this one's back on time.
1:15.4	Great, I was in the middle of saying this is Jess and you interrupted me.
1:20.3	That's my job. This is Russ and this is Jess and we're back like he said. I have a little bit of a cold today. I'm actually wearing a Breathe Right strip to do this.
1:34.0	Yeah, she looks like she's trying to play in the NFL and score a touchdown over here.
1:38.0	It's just because I didn't want to sound too nasally for this recording.
1:42.0	But, you know know life happens thank God I don't think I have the
1:46.0	Rona I think I just have a regular old cold nice winter cold ain't nobody got time for that
1:51.6	right oh my god that meme was so funny that we did with Sweet Brown. People loved it.
1:57.0	I love Sweet Brown.
1:58.0	Maybe we can get her on the show. If I need one know Sweet Brown, tell her to hit us up.
2:02.0	I tagged her in the meme that we posted but no response.
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