THE BLACK HAND FORUM

Don't think he was labeled as associate but Gail Cobb went undercover in Milwaukee to bust Frank Balistrieri in 1978. This UC operation overlapped the Donnie Brasco investigation.

There was an FBI undercover who went by the name of Steve that acted as a fence and used informant Sonny Visconti to open a social club and ingratiate himself with Louie Facciolo, Nicky Corozzo, Lenny DiMaria and co. They all ended up in prison in the mid 90’s.

Also agent Giovanni Rocco who infiltrated the DeCavalcante especially capo Charles “The Hat” Stango who was living in Las Vegas in that operation named “Charlie Horse” was arrested also Consigliere Frank “Shipe” Nigro they were charged for conspiring to kill Luigi “The Dog” Oliveri a family soldier for being disrespectful to the family acting boss and because he abused Joseph “Tin Ear” Sclafani.

FBI agent Ed Robb, who went undercover in FL as “Tony Rossi” in conjunction with the Brasco operation. He got himself put on record as an associate withe Lucchese member Vincent “Jimmy East” Ciraulo and wound up partnering with Lefty Ruggiero in a FL club. Also dealt with Chicago affiliates in FL as a Lucchese associate. Interesting guy who hasn’t been as hyped up as Pistone but who probably would’ve also wound up getting proposed for membership I’d think, if the operation hadn’t ended.

Can I get a list of all the undercover law enforcement’s agency’s ANY of them that actually got labeled as a associate and not like a fence per say


Donnie Brasco
Jack Falcone
are two best known

Bobby covert who got involved with Tino fiumera in NJ in the trucking industry- might not be considered a associate tho

Cop Rick Owens (??) from TAKEDOWN who was involved with the garbage industry and took down Allie shades Malagone (excellent book)

The agent in Philly who took on the Sicilians bc the informants were scared of the Philly family (assuming Scarfo fam) so they introduced him to the cherry hills
I forgot his name but he has a VLAD TV interview and was written about in Octopuse. Real interesting interview and should be it’s on topic on why was he scared of Philly more then the INTERNATIONAL DRUG TRADE group lol

The newest UC was the one that was with the Genovese right? Any more clear info on this yet???

What else am I missing???