I've noticed some inconsistencies from the History Channel Documentary on Donnie vs. the movie.
In the documentary, It IS NOT Lefty that presents Pistone with the diamonds. Its an earlier crew he was with. Lefty didn't come along until after Pistone had been under for awhile with "a different" "low time" mob family.
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You have to read the book, Tru.
It was Jilly Greca's Brooklyn crew that you're referring to. And no one "presented" Donnie with the diamonds to fence. What happened was, Donnie didn't like the guy who stole it (from a home invasion if I remember correctly).
Anyway, the guy was showing it off at the club and Donnie was able to detect a flaw of some kind (Pistone took jewelry classes during his FBI training), and Donnie took great pleasure in telling him it was a fake. The guy had it checked out, and it turned out that Donnie was right.
