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Five almost untouchable Mafia families held the city of New York in their hands in the 70s and 80s, running almost every aspect of the city, that is, until federal agents decided to intervene and take them down. Netflix’s ‘Fear City: New York vs the Mafia’ gave us a look into how they did so.

Rather than catching just one of the members of the mob red-handed, the FBI used a plethora of surveillance transcripts and screenshots to slowly dismantle the vast criminal organizations from the very top, breaking their hierarchy and exposing their ties to the Manhattan industries.

We saw a lot of agents and law enforcement officials in the limited series, but an important figure was missing; one, who had a big hand in bringing down these families by collecting evidence straight from the source, Joseph D.

Pistone. Joseph, more commonly known by his undercover alias, Donnie Brasco, spent six years with the mob and lived to te Toggle share options DANE