Colombo Crime Family

With ‘The Godfather,’ Art Imitated Mafia Life. And Vice Versa.

A table for five at CaSa Bella in Little Italy in the late 1970s included a few mobsters, a girlfriend and the man they knew as Donnie Brasco, actually an undercover F.B.I. agent. There was business to discuss, but then the mood lightened. “The restaurant’s strolling guitarist came to our table,” the agent, Joseph Pistone, […]