Legal Opinion
Cerasani v. Sony Corp.
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided January 15, 1998No. 97 Civ. 2372(DC)PublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
CHIN, District Judge.
In 1976, FBI Agent Joseph D. Pistone assumed the identity of Donnie Brasco, a jewel thief and burglar, and infiltrated the Bonanno Crime Family. Remarkably, he remained undercover for some six years.
Pistone told his story from the witness stand in a series of organized crime cases, beginning with the 1982 trial of United States v. Napolitano here in the Southern District of New York. Pistone’s efforts led to more than one hundred convictions. He told his story again in the 1987 book “Donnie Brasco: My Undercover Life In the Mafia.” And last year, his story was…
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