More than a year before it was humiliated by the #Apalachin mob convention, the Mafia-denying #FBI had a valuable #Mafia informant but ignored him. The informant was reactivated a decade later by Agent #Villano, who wrote about the source in a book, giving him the alias "#RicoConte." Combining Villano's descriptions with declassified FBI files, researcher Edmond #Valin determined the true identity of the early informant. #MafiaHistory #Histodons
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https://mafiahistory.us/rattrap/infisabella.html
FBI ignored its first Mob informer Isabella | American Mafia

Edmond Valin deduces that ‘Rico Conte,’ a Mafia informer ignored by FBI in 1956 and reactivated by Special Agent Villano in 1966, was actually Florio Isabella.