Originally Posted By: Binnie_Coll
Originally Posted By: Sonny_Black
Originally Posted By: Binnie_Coll
and I have always said that he picked the right family to infiltrate, he could never have gone that deep in any other family except the bonannos


Please elaborate.


the bonannos were the littlest family, and I don't believe they were as strong as any other family.

when piston went under. Im assuming the FBI had a very good reason for infiltrating that family. I can't see him getting very far in the Gambino's, or any of the other families that had an acting boss, wasn't rastelli in prison when pistone first went undercover?

wasn't there a lot of confusion in that family at that time?


The Colombos were the smallest family, followed by the Luccheses. Pistone did not have the option to choose a family. His mission simply was to infiltrate any of the Five Families, not a particular one. He first hang out with Colombo guys before affiliating himself with Mirra and Ruggiero, which was purely coincidental.

"It was between the brothers Kay -- I had nothing to do with it."