Joe Pistone

• Usm Wrestling Coach Pouring Life Into the Sport That Saved His

Unable to watch his friend and teammate get pinned, Joe Pistone acted. Which is to say he lost control. Pistone ran onto the wrestling mat that afternoon many years ago to pull a startled opponent off his teammate. The mat official's whistle blew furiously.

• Portland Press Herald
• February 02, 2006

• 'Hollywood At Large' Spends Time With the Real Donnie Brasco, Joe Pistone, as He Comments On the Sopranos Season Premiere.

Entertainment Editors NEW YORK--(ENTERTAINMENT WIRE)--March 7, 2001 On this week's Hollywood At Large (Friday, March 9th at 6:00 PM ET/PT), former...

• Business Wire
• March 07, 2001

• Young Wrestlers Get Back to Basics

SOUTH PARIS - The importance of learning the fundamentals in wrestling was stressed at the second annual Oxford Hills Area wrestling camp University of Southern Maine coach Joe Pistone was the instructor for the three-day commuter camp. The Huskies coach issued a challenge to those young wrestlers who are willing to work toward future goals.

• Sun-Journal Lewiston, Me.
• June 29, 2006

• New Local Fbi Head Happy to Be Home

The new head of the FBI Pittsburgh Field Office unarguably is a tough guy. He rocked the Cleveland Police Department in an undercover sting operation that brought 46 convictions -- and death threats for him. He protected former FBI Director Louis Freeh on overseas trips, and impressed the agency's most famous agent, Joe Pistone, a.k.a. Donnie Brasco, who infiltrated and then brought down a New York mafia family.

• Tribune - Review / Pittsburgh Tribune - Review
• August 30, 2006

• Developing an Attitude of Winning

Joe Pistone firmly believes you can learn from the past. And he's using his personal history to help turn around the University of Southern Maine wrestling program. The Huskies are 5-1 at the semester break, which already ties the school record for wins in a season set in 1998-99 and equals the number of victories over the last three seasons combined. USM is ranked 10th among New England Division III schools.

• Portland Press Herald
• December 15, 2004

• Ex-Mobster, Ex-Fbi Man Pen Vivid Novel About Mafia

THE GOOD GUYS BILL BONANNO AND JOE PISTONE WITH DAVID FISHER

• The Virginian-Pilot and The Ledger-Star, Norfolk, VA
• February 08, 2005

• Writers Have Lived Thrillers

Among new thrillers are those that feature an assistant district attorney, a mobster and an undercover FBI agent, and the head of Britain's Security Service not as characters, but as authors. Linda Fairstein, Bill Bonanno and Joe Pistone, and Stella Rimington all of whom have since left their respective professions have written books that are among the latest hardcover novels of mystery and suspense, which also include works by John Grisham, and Lilian Jackson Braun.

• The Columbian
• January 24, 2005

• River Vale Rallies in Ninth Inning

WEST WARWICK, R.I. - Its perfect season in jeopardy and facing the prospect of dropping into the losers' bracket of the American Legion Northeast Regional tournament, River Vale responded Thursday just as coach Joe Pistone anticipated it would. The Ravens rallied for two runs in the top of the ninth for a 2- 1 win over Cumberland, R.I., in a first-round regional game.

• The Record, Bergen County, NJ
• August 12, 2005

• Mpd in Revamp of Covert Operation -- Unit Dismantled

Memphis Police Director Toney Armstrong told undercover officers this week that their program in the Organized Crime Unit was being eliminated, law enforcement officers say. However, city officials deny that the unit is being eliminated, instead saying that restructuring is under way.

... around the country, according to Joe Pistone, the legendary FBI agent who infiltrated the New Y...

• The Commercial Appeal (2007-Current)
• June 22, 2011

• Worthy Critics for Mob Flicks

At an interview session recently for the National Geographic Channel's forthcoming "Inside the Mafia" documentary, Joe Pistone, the former FBI agent who went undercover as "Donnie Brasco," and ex- mobster Dominick Montiglio were asked what mobster movies and TV shows were the most realistic and the most ludicrous. Both men praised the truthfulness of "Goodfellas," "Casino" and "Donnie Brasco," movies that, according to Pistone, "showed these guys are just common street thugs." He said "The Godfather" romanticized mobsters unforgivably. "Don Corleone? I've been with a lot of mob bosses at sit-downs, and these guys are not philosophers," Pistone said.

• The Record, Bergen County, NJ
• January 21, 2005