by rjkarecki | Aug 23, 2021 | News
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...
by rjkarecki | Jul 20, 2021 | News
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,...
by rjkarecki | Jul 17, 2021 | News
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...
by rjkarecki | Jun 25, 2021 | News
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...
by rjkarecki | Jun 22, 2021 | News
“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...
by rjkarecki | Jun 1, 2021 | News
In this compulsively readable mix of memoir and true crime, former undercover FBI agent Rocco (a pseudonym the author is using to safeguard his identity) describes infiltrating a branch of an Italian American mafia syndicate in New Jersey and New York in the...
