How did everyone arrested at the club get out of jail? I would've assumed they were looking at serious charges.
How did the cops in Florida get away with vandalizing the business?
How did Donnie get the 300k (later stashed in his home) if he put it in the car for Sonny Black, and then was arrested?
Why did no one believe Donnie was a rat immediately?
And Lefty really had dick cancer?
Q1) Bail.
Q2) Common for cops to bust up stuff during a raid. Though a bit dated I remember watching on local news authorities smashing slot machines with sledgehammers at an illegal club/casino in Hot Springs, Arkansas.
Q3) I thought the $300K was probably seized during the marina bust. I don't remember it being explained otherwise.
Q4) No reason to suspect Donnie being a rat initially. Lefty approached Donnie first and soon after Jilly semi-vouched for him. (If you mean immediately after the FBI visited the club then it was a matter of denial on the part of Sonny and Lefty.)
Q5) In the film Lefty said he had "cancer of the prick" and was in "the medical books" suggesting he really had a rare disease, penile cancer. In real life Lefty died of lung cancer though also had testicular cancer, fairly common malignancies that won't put you in the medical books. You be the judge.
He killed sixteen Czechoslovakians. Guy was an interior decorator.
Thanks for the response. I'm just curious how Donnie had that 300k in his house?
And my bad, I phrased my fourth question wrong. I meant: why didn't anyone believe the agent when he told them Donnie was an undercover?
Regarding the $300K, I don't recall it explained though it's plausible that Donnie was saving his cash made from mob activities while he and his family mostly lived off his FBI salary.
After the FBI visited the club and gave the bad news, Sonny and Lefty seemed not sure, like they did not want to believe what they were told (denial). Since Donnie never resurfaced, reality had to set in sooner than later.
He killed sixteen Czechoslovakians. Guy was an interior decorator.
Why did no one believe Donnie was a rat immediately?Well they wouldn't necessarily believe it immediately just because the Feds said so. Another line of thought could be that knowing their fate if it were true they couldn't bring themselves to believe it.
donny hid the 300k in the car & it was never found by the police. he then hid the cash at home with lefty in mind...
shareI want to know-- what happened to the lion?
Did I miss something?
http://i.imgur.com/MlDTGQu.jpg
The film never explained what happened to the lion though it's fair to assume that what was not destroyed was confiscated during the Florida casino raid. Thus the caged lion likely ended up in the hands of whatever appropriate animal control agency in the area.
As far as real life, I read what's below on http://www.chasingthefrog.com/reelfaces/donniebrasco.php.
Did Al Pacino's character, Lefty Ruggiero, really receive a lion?
Yes, he did. In reality the lion was still somewhat of a cub, and it could be handled more easily than the adult lion depicted in the film. Donnie Brasco and Lefty fed the lion twenty to thirty steaks a day, and Lefty could at times be seen walking the lion up and down the street. When the lion became too big for them to control, they took it to a park, tied it to a tree, and had the police called to come take the animal.
He killed sixteen Czechoslovakians. Guy was an interior decorator.
Thank you!
I don't know why I fixated on the lion, but I do appreciate the info.
http://i.imgur.com/MlDTGQu.jpg