Episode 31: Operation "Donnie Brasco"

The Sit Down: A Crime History Podcast

Jeff Nadu

True Crime, Society & Culture, History

4.5 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 3 November 2021

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

On Episode 31 of the Sit Down, Jeff delves into the biggest FBI infiltration of the Mafia ever, as agent Joe Pistone transforms into "Donnie Brasco" and becomes an associate in the Bonnano Crime Family. He makes his way through making money, connections and more but also providing the FBI with loads of info. It would be bad for the people involved, we discuss what actually happened and what about the major motion picture was true and false. Brasco story begins around 17 min mark As always thanks for listening and if you enjoy the show, please give us a deserved rating and leave us a comment! FOLLOW US ON YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMYV0eyKQFhNZwLXpx7I0Ng FOLLOW US ON TWITTER: @thesitdown7 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Sit Down, a Mafia History Podcast.
0:16.9	Here's your host, Jeff Nado.
0:20.6	That's up everybody and welcome in to another edition of this Sit Down, a Mafia History
0:26.8	Podcast.
0:27.8	And a great day wherever you are, I am Jeff Nado.
0:31.2	We are back here live with another episode.
0:34.6	It's Wednesday and that means one thing to sit down is out.
0:38.7	We got a great show planned for you today.
0:40.7	We're going to talk about Operation Donnie Brasco.
0:44.7	Obviously, one of the great mob films ever is Donnie Brasco.
0:49.1	We're really going to go into the film.
0:51.5	We're going to go into the whole story surrounding Agent Joe Pastone and his infiltration
0:57.2	into the initial Colombo crime family and then mostly to the Banano crime family.
1:05.1	So a lot to get to, a lot to talk about.
1:07.7	We're going to go in detail involving everything.
1:11.6	But before we do that, I actually had a pretty cool DM I got the other day from one of our
1:16.7	listeners, Guy J. Thomas Ganser, he's an attorney and he's a fan of the show.
1:23.2	And he got to asking me about, he came up with these hypotheticals, mafia hypotheticals
1:29.9	and how I would answer them, what I would do if I was in these situations.
1:34.1	Now, obviously, I'm not in the mafia.
1:37.9	So they're really just, again, hypotheticals.
1:41.2	But we're going to get to them first, we're going to go through them a little bit, should
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