Joe Pistone was on one of our local radio shows about a month ago. He told the following hilarious story. I forget where he was at, but he was doing some undercover work again (obviously using a different alias), after the entire Donnie Brasco thing was over. I believe that this even happened within the past five years. Anyway, he was meeting with some low-level wiseguy and Pistone was trying to win his trust. The wiseguy was a bit unsure, saying that he wanted to trust Pistone, but also wondered "how do I know you're not like that Donnie Brasco? You know, an undercover fed."

Pistone said it was all he could do not to laugh at how incredibly stupid this guy was, particularly since the wiseguy did make the decision to trust Pistone.