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Joe Pistone<br />

34 play<br />

Pretty ballsy, right? How’d he pull it off?<br />

How to survive the streets… and to live life.<br />

1. Play the part. Think, eat, sleep and breathe the world.<br />

2. Live honorably. Your reputation is everything.<br />

3. Don’t let them see you sweat. Even during a six-hour grilling.<br />

4. Know when to talk and when to shut up. The walls have ears.<br />

5. Don’t be a wise guy. Be wise.<br />

By Joe Pistone<br />

35<br />

Joe Pistone knew that nothing could be won if nothing was at<br />

stake. And what was at stake was his life. In 1976, undercover<br />

FBI agent Joe Pistone assumed a secret identity and infiltrated the<br />

New York City Mafia as small-time jewel thief Donnie Brasco. Over<br />

time he rolled with gangsters and earned the trust of the mob. In<br />

fact, he was so damn convincing that they wanted to induct him<br />

as a member of the family.<br />

When he got pulled out in 1982, Pistone put more than 100<br />

Mafiosi behind bars, single-handedly broke up the ‘Family’, and<br />

took down much of New York’s underworld. Thirty years on, he still<br />

travels in disguise and under an alias. There’s a mob contract out<br />

on him with a reward of $500,000 USD.<br />

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