Just finished Donnie Brasco: Unfinished Business.

Not the best book by Mr Pistone in my opinion. This book was full of personal attacks and unprovable innuendo against any and all enemies of one former agent namely Lindley Devecchio. In my humble opinion there might be a very high likelihood that the charges against Devecchio had a basis in fact and that he may indeed have been in league with Gregory Scarpa.

Other than that, the book was supremely entertaining almost throughout. Pistone's own natural dialect comes through. You feel like your old friend is telling you the best stories in the world while sitting at a bar or by a campfire. Enlightening about the corruption in our society. This book highlights the fact that organized crime has tentacles into the federal government and police departments, but only to certain corrupted individuals. The closest organized crime comes to merging with the federal or local governments is when the highest official of such protects the bosses of the syndicates or if that boss is a confidential informant themselves with a degree of immunity against prosecution from other law enforcement agencies. But there was never an omnipotent all seeing Mafia fully merged with government.

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