Nothing New: Sensationalizing the American Mafia
The huge bust netted 127 mobsters. On occasion, while researching one story, another story raises its head and says "howdy".... One such story greeted me today courtesy of the New York Post website; it puts an interesting spin on 2011's infamous " Mafia Takedown Day ," when 127 gangsters were hauled off to jail. The story's juiciest stuff is based off anonymous sources. But it also features "on the record" sources, including Joe Pistone (aka Donnie Brasco) and JoaquÃn "Jack Falcone" GarcÃa , the renowned former FBI agent who worked as many as five separate undercover cases simultaneously. During Operation Jack Falcone, Garcia infiltrated Greg DePalma's Gambino crew . Garcia authored a book about it: Making Jack Falcone: An Undercover FBI Agent Takes Down a Mafia Family . He told me he chose the name based on the Italian magistrate killed by the Sicilian Mafia .