Joseph D. Pistone Net Worth, Income, Salary, Earnings, Biography
Joseph Dominick Pistone, alias Donnie Brasco, is a former FBI agent who spent six years undercover infiltrating the Bonanno criminal family and, to a lesser degree, the Colombo crime family, two of New York City’s Five Families of the Mafia. Pistone worked for the FBI for 27 years and is known as an FBI legend. Pistone was a trailblazer in the field of long-term covert operations. J. Edgar Hoover initially opposed FBI agents working undercover because it might be a filthy job that tainted them, but Pistone’s efforts persuaded the FBI that employing undercover officers rather than informants was a vital instrument in law enforcement.
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