CERASANI v. SONY CORP.

No. 97 Civ. 2372(DC).

991 F.Supp. 343 (1998)

John CERASANI, Plaintiff, v. SONY CORPORATION, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Tristar Pictures, Mandalay Entertainment, Peter Guber, Mark Johnson, Barry Levinson, Gail Mutrux, Patrick McCormick, Alan Greenspan, Mike Newell and Paul Attanasio, Defendants.

United States District Court, S.D. New York.

January 15, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Slotnick, Shapiro & Crocker, L.L.P. by Barry I. Slotnick, J. Lawrence Crocker, Michele Levy, New York City, for Plaintiff.

Parcher, Hayes & Liebman, P.C. by Jonathan Liebman, Orin S. Snyder, New York City, for Defendants.


OPINION

CHIN, District Judge.

In 1976, FBI Agent Joseph D. Pistone assumed the identity of Donnie Brasco, a jewel thief and burglar, and infiltrated the Bonanno Crime Family. Remarkably, he remained undercover for some six years.

Pistone told his story from the witness stand in a series of organized crime cases, beginning with the 1982 trial of United States v. Napolitano here in the Southern District of New York. Pistone's efforts...

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