Joaquín "Jack" García (born 1952) is a Cuban-American retired FBI agent, best known for his undercover work infiltrating the Gambino crime family in New York City.
[2] In the late 1970s Joseph D. Pistone became the first during his infiltration of the Bonanno crime family under the alias Donnie Brasco.
In the end, the FBI produced sufficient evidence to convict DePalma at trial while the others defendants took plea deals.
In 2008, García released Making Jack Falcone: An Undercover FBI Agent Takes Down a Mafia Family, a book detailing some of his undercover cases and experiences with the FBI, including his successful infiltration into the Gambino crime family.
A movie based on the book and García's life was announced in 2010, with actor Benicio del Toro cast to play the lead role and Steven Soderbergh, Michael Shamberg, Stacey Sher and John Henson as producers.