The Donnie Brasco Days: Belinda Rossetti Q&A
We present here a Q&A with Belinda Rossetti, who knew former Bonanno capo Nicky Santora intimately... Joe Pistone surveillance photograph. Santora, as noted, died recently . And we've written about Belinda previously ... July 26, 1981, was D-Day for Dominick “Sonny Black” Napolitano, and he probably knew it. He and his crew had learned that a small time burglar and jewelry thief who'd been hanging around with them for years -- Donnie Brasco —a man Napolitano had put up for membership, was actually FBI Agent Joe Pistone. Pistone had fooled them all since 1976. He had popped up in Little Italy one day in New York City as a stranger and outsider, a man claiming to have been an orphan. He started meeting a series of mobsters, gaining their trust by appearing to be a part of their life. All the while he was secretly gathering vital intelligence. Pistone had to be sharper than sharp to do what he'd done for six long years. The most difficult part of his con...
