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Benjamin "Lefty" Ruggiero (April 19, 1926 – November 24, 1994 [nb 1]) was an American mobster in the Bonanno crime family. He is well known for his friendship and mentorship of FBI undercover agent Joseph D. Pistone , who Ruggiero knew as Donnie Brasco.
Benjamin Ruggiero, "Lefty", "Lefty Guns", "Lefty Two Guns" (1923–1995) Angelo Ruggiero, "Quack Quack" ... List of Mafia crime families; List of mobsters by city;
Angelo Salvatore Ruggiero Sr. (Italian: [ˈandʒelo rudˈdʒɛːro]; July 29, 1940 – December 4, 1989), also known as "Quack Quack", was an American gangster.He was a member of the Gambino crime family and a friend of John Gotti's.
Pistone was later portrayed by Johnny Depp in the 1977 movie “Donnie Brasco," which also starred Al Pacino as New York crime family member Benjamin “Lefty” Ruggiero. The other was Gail T ...
He went with New York Mafia member “Lefty” Ruggiero, who was helping him work out an arrangement between the New York and Milwaukee crime families over vending machine profits with the help of ...
In 1978 New York City, Lefty Ruggiero, an aging enforcer in the Bonanno crime family, meets Joseph D. Pistone, a young undercover FBI agent posing as jewel thief "Donnie Brasco". Donnie insists that a diamond that Lefty has acquired from a strip club owner is fake; when the two confront the owner, Donnie beats him up and takes his car as repayment.
This list includes Italian American mobsters and organized crime figures by region and by American Mafia ... Angelo "Quack Quack" Ruggiero ... Lefty Guns" Ruggiero ...
Joseph Dominick Pistone (born September 17, 1939) is an American former FBI agent who worked undercover as Donnie Brasco between September 1976 and July 1981, [nb 1] as part of an infiltration primarily into the Bonanno crime family under the tutelage of Anthony Mirra and later Dominick Napolitano, and to a lesser extent the Colombo crime family, two of the Five Families of the Mafia in New ...