He was perhaps best known for his roles in the Hollywood films City Slickers, When Harry Met Sally ..., Good Morning, Vietnam, The Godfather Part II, and Donnie Brasco.

Napolitano assigned associate Donnie Brasco, who he hoped to make a made man, to kill Indelicato.

All at once, the front door burst open and FBI Agent Brasco, who had pressured Andrews to inform on the Mob, pushed a little fat man into the room.

Brasco started working for Ruggiero, placing bets and helping him make collections for the bookmaking operation in Ruggiero's social club.

Brasco became close with Ruggiero's kids, who would all come to him with their problems.

* In the book Donnie Brasco: My Undercover Life in the Mafia, gangster Benjamin " Lefty Guns " Ruggiero uses hoosier as an epithet.

Many Italian-American mobsters distrusted the Zips, as Bonanno soldier Benjamin " Lefty " Ruggiero explained in a conversation to undercover FBI agent Joseph " Donnie Brasco " Pistone: " Lots of people hate him ...

Napolitano's crew included Bonanno street soldiers Benjamin " Lefty " Ruggiero, Nicholas Santora, Louis Attanasio, John Cersani, Jerome Asaro, Sandro Asaro, John Faraci, Daniel Mangelli, Robert Lino, Frank Lino, Richard Riccardi, Joseph Grimaldi, Nicholas Accardi, Peter Rosa, Patrick DeFillipo, Michael Mancuso, Vito Grimaldi, Anthony Urso, James Tartaglione, Joseph Cammarano, John Zancocchio, Edward Barberra, Frankie Fish, Bobby Badheart, Bobby Smash and his previous capo Michael Sabella, Joseph Puma, Steven Maruca, Salvatore Farrugia, Anthony Pesiri, Antonio Tomasulo, Anthony Rabito, Raymond Wean, Frank DiStefano, Salvatore D ' Ottavio, James Episcopa and Donnie Brasco.

Around the time Ruggiero became a member of the Bonanno family, he met Mafia associate " Donnie Brasco " ( undercover FBI agent Joseph Pistone ).

Anthony Mirra introduced Brasco, an expert jewel thief, to Ruggiero.

Ruggiero mentored Brasco and eventually sponsored him for membership in the family.

Ruggiero developed a close friendship with Brasco, which caused friction with his old friend Mirra, who had originally introduced Brasco to Ruggiero.

Ruggiero and Brasco were in a Miami Beach, Florida restaurant as Ruggiero read a Time magazine containing an article about the infamous Abscam scandal and detailing how FBI agents posed as rich Arab businessmen to catch U. S. Congressmen taking bribes.

Ruggiero recognized the boat, the " Left Hand ", as the same boat Brasco provided several months before for a party.

Fortunately for Brasco, he convinced Ruggiero that he did not know the boat's owner was related to the FBI.

At the same time, Ruggiero and Brasco started a bookmaking operation out of the store.

Ruggiero could not believe that Donnie Brasco was a special agent in the FBI and not his partner in the Mafia.

Ruggiero was portrayed by Al Pacino in the 1997 film Donnie Brasco.

Abscam was also mentioned in the film Donnie Brasco, when an agent suggests that a boat used in the operation be used undercover to impress Mafia kingpin Santo Trafficante, Jr .. A 1981 Bloom County comic strip in which Milo Bloom envisions himself as a senator on trial has him accused of ( among many things ) " taking money from FBI agents posing as Arab camel scalpers ".

Depp has gained acclaim for his portrayals of such people as Ed Wood, in Ed Wood, Joseph D. Pistone in Donnie Brasco, Hunter S. Thompson in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, George Jung in Blow, and the bank robber John Dillinger in Michael Mann's Public Enemies.

* The movie Donnie Brasco, which starred Johnny Depp and Al Pacino, was filmed partially in Clifton in 1996.

Several scenes in the movies Donnie Brasco ( where Dominick Napolitano portrayed as " Sonny Black " by Michael Madsen was born ), Sleepers, Dead Presidents, Romeo is Bleeding, In the Mix, Street Trash and The Siege were also filmed in Greenpoint.

A clip from " What You Won't Do For Love " is heard in the movie " Donnie Brasco ", playing from the car radio as Donnie and Lefty drive home from the house where they had just slaughtered rival gangster Sonny Red and some of his crew.

He has appeared in more than 150 films, most of them small independent films, though he has starred in central roles in such films as Reservoir Dogs, Free Willy, Donnie Brasco, and Kill Bill, in addition to a supporting role in Sin City.

Subsequently, Madsen was cast in a variety of major studio films, including Free Willy, Mulholland Falls, Wyatt Earp, Species and with Johnny Depp and Al Pacino in the critically acclaimed Donnie Brasco.

Donnie Brasco: Unfinished Business, Running Press.

* Pistone, Joseph D .; & Woodley, Richard ( 1999 ) Donnie Brasco: My Undercover Life in the Mafia, Hodder & Stoughton.

Bindiger has recorded for soundtracks for movies such as The Stepford Wives, One Life to Live, Bullets Over Broadway, Everyone Says I Love You, Donnie Brasco, The Hudsucker Proxy, Michael Collins and The Tune.

He is well known for allowing FBI agent Joseph " Donnie Brasco " Pistone to become an associate in his crew and nearly getting him made.

In the hours after the shocking disclosure of Donnie Brasco, Napolitano went to his pigeon coop to think.

The 1997 film Donnie Brasco features " Sonny Black ", played by Michael Madsen.

* Pistone, Joseph, Donnie Brasco: My Undercover Life in the Mafia.

Donnie Brasco: Unfinished Business, Running Press.

* Mandalay Pictures is a film production company whose productions include I Know What You Did Last Summer, Donnie Brasco, Seven Years in Tibet, Wild Things, Les Misérables, Sleepy Hollow, The Score, and Into the Blue.

It was also the site of Johnny Depp's character meeting with an FBI contact in Donnie Brasco.

According to FBI agent Joseph " Donnie Brasco " Pistone, the murderers were Napolitano, John Cersani, Joseph Massino, Indelicato's brother-in-law Vitale, Joseph DeSimone, Nicholas Santora, Vito Rizzuto, Louis Giongetti, Santo Giordano and Sciascia.

The Rastelli faction tasked Joseph " Donnie Brasco " Pistone with finding and killing Indelicato, which quickened Pistone's removal from his undercover operation.

Indelicato was portrayed as " Sonny Red " in the 1997 film Donnie Brasco by Robert Miano.

* Pistone, Joseph, Donnie Brasco: My Undercover Life in the Mafia.

Donnie Brasco: Unfinished Business, Running Press.

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