Organized crime in Milwaukee has never been as infamous as the Chicago Outfit or the New York Mafia. But reputed Milwaukee crime boss Frank Balistrieri was notorious enough by the late 1970s that ...

When my cousin, August "Augie" Palmisano, was killed by a car bomb in Milwaukee in June 1978, there were already two undercover FBI agents working to infiltrate organized crime here. One of them was ...

MYSTERY WIRE — Former FBI agent Joe Pistone had one of the most harrowing assignments ever handed to an agent — infiltrate New York’s feared Bonanno crime family. FBI surveillance photograph of Joe ...

Mafia expert and former undercover FBI agent Joseph Pistone, better known as Donnie Brasco, is expected to share knowledge of the criminal underworld to Montreal officials as early as Monday, the ...

The Hollywood flavor of this FBI/mob trial in Miami only grew stronger today when the legendary “Donnie Brasco” himself refused to testify. MIAMI — Even in shades and a cap, ”Donnie Brasco” would not ...

An account of how FBI agent Joseph D. Pistone, a.k.a. Donnie Brasco, infiltrated the New York mob in the late 1970s. The undercover operation became the subject of a 1997 feature film starring Johnny ...

Organized crime in Milwaukee has never been as infamous as the Chicago Outfit or the New York Mafia. But reputed Milwaukee crime boss Frank Balistrieri was notorious enough by the late 1970s that ...