Court Monitor Bashed by Team Trump Praised by Everyone—Even Rudy
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 the Bonanno crime family, has only good things to say about her.“All I can tell you is she prepped me for all my cases in New York and she is straight, honest, direct,” Pistone told The Daily Beast on Tuesday. “She calls it as it is. She doesn’t try to bend the facts, or go around the facts. Whatever the facts are, that’s what she calls.”Read more at The Daily Beast.