The former FBI agent who revealed the Mafia family, which inspired the open soprano death for three years, as he sent a very dangerous investigation one of the most violent criminal organizations in the world.
The New Jersey Giovanni Rocco policeman was withdrawn in the depth of an integrated world and violence by the FBI – one admitted that it was almost impossible to stay away from it, thanks to the continuous adrenaline rush.
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Rocco's descent was placed to the underworld at the age of nine years only.
His father, a meaningless policeman from Elizabeth, New Jersey, is used to bringing pictures of home bodies dissection from murder cases.
Rocco said: “My old man was a strong man who raised us strongly.” “We have always mentioned that he was raising men.”
He is now grateful. “She kept me alive later. I knew how a body looks like.”
In 2015, the Charlie Horses operation was completed, and the game ended for the strong Decavalcante Crime family-a source of inspiration for the real life of the suprano.
In the midst of the investigation, Charles “Charlie Hat” Stango, a notorious mob.
Rocco was a deep secret, as he was wearing a daily wire and risks his life to bring down the family.
“The soprano was very realistic in life,” Rocco told the United States newspaper, speaking under the name of falsehood while protecting the witnesses.
“What people were watching on TV, I was already living.”
He grew up around the families associated with Al -Ajal and the solid criminals gave Rocco a seat in the front row in the streets.
It was not surprising, then, to be Chuck and Benger-Ruki, the realistic-from alive.
“The place was a mixture of families and gangs that work hard,” said Roko.
At fourteen years of age, he was loading trucks with his uncle Beit, and working alongside formerly the conditional release. Meanwhile, the presence of mobs on the horizon was on every block.
“We were surrounded. I touched everything – politics, law, companies, and families,” he said.
Crime life
Rocco went to school with the children whose parents were in prison for murder. Some were the beating men. Some have simply disappeared.
On one day of Christmas, his father missed dinner – he was chasing a mob suspect for murder.
While working in a local restaurant, Rocco once saw a man's face opened with a fillet knife.
“There was no shock,” confess, “I was already dipped in that life.”
These early experiences prepare for him for life.
According to Rocco, the FBI believes that its best customers come from the street – people with turbulent past chose to do good health.
“The common denominator is that we all face a dark childhood,” he said.
Rocco as a policeman started on the streets, spinning a night on a patrol.
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But one night in 2012, he installed his motorcycle to work-his mother had a gangs of a motorcycle passenger-and she got angry clothes from his boss.
After weeks, he was resetting to the secret work targeting local bike gangs and coke dealers called Jimmy Smalls.
He was working under the name Giovanni Gatto, a fake river rider who turned into a gym.
He gained confidence from men, including Stango himself.
Rocco said: “This was my role. Adrenaline. From the first time I went to secrecy, I was a drug addict.”
Live a lie
He had multiple identities, fake social security numbers, and false childbirth dates, which helped work on simultaneous operations targeting other drug gangs, including triads.
He was wearing a wire every day. To this day, he shakes his head in the lack of believing that he survived.
In 2014, Rocco had a documentary call, which was almost carried out.
While attending his daughter's football match, he was recognized by Danny “Gomess” Bertely, one of the mobs associated with the Gambino Mafia family.
Rocco was wearing cross -pants and shirts, and he was not like a solid gangsist in Giovanni Gato who spent in agriculture.
“They call you to their homes. They show you love. But at the end of the day, I was a policeman. I did my work.”
Giovanni Rocco on his quick life in New Jersey Mafia
I think quickly, he was about a lie about helping his ex -girlfriend who was imprisoned.
“I left my shoes down,” Rocco later admitted. “At that moment, I put the whole process – and my family – in danger.”
His marriage, in the meantime, collapsed under pressure.
“You are changing without correct training, without psychological support,” he said.
He welcomed the mob in their homes and worked like a family. But with the passage of months, the stacked evidence – Rocco may feel nervous.
He was getting a regular salary while risking his life, while the agents in the office were running out of what might be a bust of work.
I caught almost
Near the end of his mission, things almost collapsed.
Without his knowledge, the FBI had put a tail on Rocco – who continued and then in a federal building.
The mob grows suspicious.
“They didn't think I was secret. They thought I was a mouse.” “And if they think you are a mouse, you are dead. Do you kill mice, right?”
The mob face. Accused of wearing a wire, he had to cancel the escalation of the situation immediately.
“I took a step and saw his body reaction. At the end of the day, everything is related to money and greed,” he said.
Stango, fresh from prison for previous murder, re -inserted the image. Rocco was afraid that if Word reached him, he would shoot first, and ask questions later.
Fortunately for him, he did not reach it. He operated the situation with experience.
The nearby shave continued to come, though.
One night at a gas station, Ibn Stango approached Rocco while he was giving up the wires.
Rocco barely managed to hide the registration equipment under the car seat before seeing it.
He admitted, “I was very up. I thought this was.”
The investigation was enlarged – as well as the levels of danger.
Rocco felt abandoned and exposed. He began to fear the safety of his family.
“I could have pulled the plug at any time,” he said. “But my addiction to work will not allow me to do so.”
Everything reached his head when Rocco was about to make the history of the mafia: He was about to become the first secret agent to become a man.
But there was hunting – he had to kill another member to make him win his lines.
Stop for several months.
“What are you waiting for?” They kept asking.
Ultimately, the Federalists were afraid that Stango would deal with it himself – greatly blowing everything. Meanwhile, a leak within the application of the law added urgently.
Rocco was transferred to Las Vegas and swimming the sitting at a time when the FBI carried out the arrests.
He did not see Stengo again.
But as the authorities are closed, his colleagues heard starting to assemble the Stango men. More than one mob asked to keep Rocco in the episode as it was pent -up and took away.
They still believe that he was one of them and wanted to protect him – he even helped them topple them.
Stango was arrested at his home in Henderson, Nevada, and he was charged with consuming a murder, among other crimes.
Explosive
Rocco's secret recordings were the nail in the coffin.
In 2016, Stango took a call, acknowledged the murder plot.
He was sentenced to 10 years imprisonment in the Federal Prison in Jessoub, Georgia, with a launch date on March 21, 2024. All of the conspirators also approved guilt.
After a bust, the Rocco world collapsed.
For nine months, he could not work or leave the house. Patricia, Stango's girlfriend, lived near his home – very close to him, his wife and three children.
The Federal Investigation Office had no transfer plan. Then the call came: He had four hours to be firm and disappeared.
He trained six years old in basic operational security. The government built a safe room in its new home. He felt wasolated and only.
“We left the games on the ground,” he said. “My family did not register this. It was a nightmare.”
Despite the celebration of “some of the best times” with mobs, Rocco does not feel guilty.
“They call you to their homes.” “They show you love. But at the end of the day, I was a policeman. I did my work.”
Rocco says that the iconic soprano seized it well.
“The mafia men can be good fathers. Some of them are loyal to their wives. Some of them have ten friends. As well as policemen.” “This is a real life. I went through some funny moments inside this. It was not all of killing and chaos.”
Today, Rocco tells his story through a new podcast, which was launched in conjunction with the museum of the mobs in Las Vegas, and his memoirs, Giovanni's ring: my life inside the real superstar (2021).
He and his host is the Dutch Mcalpin interview with former mobs, FBI agents, and other organized crime world.
It moves freely and is not afraid of revenge – although it “still looks as it is.”
He said, “I do not sing their praise.” “But I think they are respecting the truth.”
Rocco will never forget the life he lived – and he will never forget what happened on the day when the myth of the Sopranos James Gandolvini died in 2013.
“I have played the TV, and all I saw is the soprano and the people who are sad for his death,” he said.
Everyone was sad for a fake personality. But for us, it was real.
“This was not just HBO – it was my life.”
