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Podcast: Darkness Radio
Episode: TCT:Giovanni's Ring: My Life Inside the Real Sopranos w/Giovanni Rocco
Description: True Crime Tuesday presents Giovanni's Ring: My Life Inside the Real Sopranos with guest Giovanni Rocco
Giovanni Rocco, a New Jersey police officer, known undercover as “Giovanni Gatto,” was the mysterious agent at the epicenter of Operation Charlie Horse, a federal undercover operation that ultimately brought down ten members and associates of New Jersey’s DeCavalcante Mafia family, the criminal organization known as “the real Sopranos.”
Giovanni spent nearly three years working his way into the DeCavalcante hierarchy. That lethal assignment brought the undercover operation to an end in March 2015, and the resulting string of high-profile arrests eviscerated the criminal organizati...