Pistone spent six years posing as a mobster named Donnie Brasco inside the Bonanno crime family.
After growing up in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, Pistone joined the FBI in 1969 and in 1974 was transferred to the office in New York City, home of the five main Mafia families — Bonanno, Gambino, Colombo, Genovese and Lucchese.
