The many fans of “The Sopranos” TV series might be interested in reading about a cop who infiltrated the real deal. Giovanni Rocco, a New Jersey police officer, detailed as an FBI undercover operative, infiltrated the notorious DeCavalcante Cosa Nostra crime family in...
The undercover FBI agent who brought down the “real life Sopranos” thought his ordeal was over when a mafia boss and nine mobsters were arrested. In fact, it had only just begun. The fear of reprisal made nervous wrecks of Giovanni Rocco and his wife and children,...
After the feds arrested a capo and nine other goodfellas from New Jersey’s DeCavalcante crime family in 2015, the undercover FBI agent who’d infiltrated their outfit looked forward to his next assignment. Instead, Giovanni Rocco went into hiding. Some of...
Little shocked Douglas Schofield when he sat down to record and then write the true story of a former FBI undercover agent who infiltrated New Jersey’s DeCavalcante crime family – said to be the inspiration for The Sopranos. Schofield had already spent decades as a...
“Giovanni’s Ring: My Life Inside the Real Sopranos,” written by Giovanni Rocco with Douglas Schofield, covers the true story of a former FBI undercover operative and his successful infiltration of the DeCavalcante Cosa Nostra crime family. Rocco was a New Jersey...