Jay DobynsĪnother AFT agent, Jay Dobyns infiltrated the Mongols’ rivals, the Hells Angels.

Not letting the nickname, ‘Billy the Slow-Brain’ work against him, Queen advanced through the ranks of the gang to become the vice president of his chapter. Like Charles Falco, William Queen infiltrated the Mongols Motor Cycle Gang whilst working for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (AFT) in 1998 an operation it later described as “its most successful penetration.” Posing as a Sicilian jewel thief (his Cuban ethnicity going unnoticed), Joaquín García infiltrated the Gambino family in New York, working undercover for almost three years.Īs with Pistone, the operation ended (March, 2005) before García could become a made man, but his work led to the arrest and conviction of 32 people, including two of the top ranking members of the family. Pistone’s work led to over 200 indictments, more than 100 convictions and nearly destroyed the Bonanno family. After his identity was revealed to the Mafia, two family members were murdered, a $500,000 contract was put on Pistone’s life and the Bonanno family were removed from the Commission. The operation was closed before Pistone could be ‘made’ and become a fully initiated member.

Pistone went so deep that even other federal agents and the NYPD believed him to be a real member.

Including the following: Joseph Pistone AKA Donnie BrascoĪ pioneer of long-term undercover work, FBI agent Joseph Pistone spent six years with two American Mafia crime families, infiltrating the Bonanno family and the Colombo family in the 1970s. In Gangland Undercover, former gang member turned infiltrator Charles Falco recounts his time working undercover in some of the most notorious motorcycle gangs, joining the ranks of undercover agents who did exactly that.

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