Barbara Jones, Monitor Bashed by Team Trump, Praised by 'Donnie Brasco' and Giuliani
Forty years ago, Barbara Jones prosecuted the Donnie Brasco case. She was all about the facts then—and now.
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Forty years ago, Barbara Jones prosecuted the Donnie Brasco case. She was all about the facts then—and now.
Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/GettyFour decades before her attention to factual detail as the court-appointed monitor in the Trump fraud trial prompted his attorney to compare her to the obsessed fictional detective Javert from Les Miserables, Barbara Jones was the prosecutor in the real-life case involving the undercover FBI agent later played by Johnny Depp in the movie Donnie Brasco.Retired agent Joe Pistone, who went by Donnie Brasco for six years while infiltrating t
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