Family Business: Former FBI Agent Giovanni Rocco

The Dossier by Criminal Minded Media

Mar 5, 202532:30Society & Culture

We interview the former FBI undercover task force officer and author of Giovanni’s Ring: My Life Inside the Real Sopranos, who spent 26 years undercover penetrating New Jersey’s DeCavalcante crime family, the criminal or...

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