In the wake of his death, it was revealed that DiPietro, a convicted narcotics distributors, had been an FBI informant and helped put his cousin and mob associate Victor DiPietro behind bars by wearing a wire in the 2000s to get out of a cocaine conspiracy case he took in 2004 when he was already on parole from a late-90s coke-peddling bust that he was forced to serve time for.
