{{Short description|American law enforcement officer & politician (born 1937)}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = | birth_name = Edgar Straessley Robb | honorific_suffix = | image = Donnie Brasco.jpg | caption = An FBI surveillance photograph of Joseph D. Pistone (aka Donnie Brasco), Benjamin "Lefty" Ruggiero and Edgar Robb (aka Tony Rossi). | office = 55th Sheriff of Albemarle County, Virginia | term_start = January 1, 2000 | term_end = January 1, 2008 | preceded = Terry W. Hawkins | succeeded = J. E. Harding | state_senate2 = Virginia | district2 = 25th | term_start2 = January 8, 1992 | term_end2 = January 10, 1996 | preceded2 = Tom Michie | succeeded2 = Emily Couric | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1937|12|23}} | death_date = | birth_place = {{nowrap|Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.}} | party = Republican | spouse = | children = | alma_mater = | signature = Edgar S Robb signature.png | occupation = {{ubl |Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent (1969–1990)}} | committees = | website = | allegiance = {{flag|United States}} | branch = United States Army | service_years = 1962–1969 | rank = Captain | unit = | commands = | battles = Vietnam War | mawards = <!-- for military awards - appears as "Awards" if |awards= is not set --> }}
'''Edgar Straessley Robb''' (born December 23, 1937) is an American law enforcement officer and politician. As an FBI agent, he went undercover as Tony Rossi.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Highsmith |first1=Al |title=The Golden Badge - A history of the Albemarle County Sheriff's Office |url=http://www.albemarleso.org/Ngoldenbadge.html |website=Albemarle County Sheriff's Office |accessdate=2019-12-28 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110724232210/https://albemarleso.org/Ngoldenbadge.html |archivedate=2011-07-24 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Carozza |first1=Adam |title=Club in Holiday Became Focus of FBI Probe |url=http://www2.tbo.com/news/pasco/2007/oct/20/pa-club-in-holiday-became-focus-of-fbi-probe-ar-173113 |accessdate=2020-02-01 |work=The Tampa Tribune |date=20 October 2007 |archiveurl=https://archive.today/20130208200105/http://www2.tbo.com/news/pasco/2007/oct/20/pa-club-in-holiday-became-focus-of-fbi-probe-ar-173113/ |archivedate=2013-02-08}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Lubasch |first1=Arnold H. |title=Agent Tells of Posing as a 'High-Rolling Hoodlum' |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1982/08/17/nyregion/agent-tells-of-posing-as-a-high-rolling-hoodlum.html |accessdate=2019-12-29 |work=The New York Times |date=17 August 1982 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140812205820/https://nytimes.com/1982/08/17/nyregion/agent-tells-of-posing-as-a-high-rolling-hoodlum.html |archivedate=2014-08-12 |url-status=unfit}}</ref> As Tony Rossi, and alongside agent Joseph Pistone (Donnie Brasco), Robb infiltrated organized crime in Miami, Florida.
==Sources== * D. Lea Jacobs. ''Friend of the Family: An Undercover Agent in the Mafia'', Howells House {{ISBN|0-929590-19-8}} * Pistone, Joseph D.; & Woodley, Richard (1999) ''Donnie Brasco: My Undercover Life in the Mafia'', Hodder & Stoughton. {{ISBN|0-340-66637-4}}. * Pistone, Joseph D.; & Brandt, Charles (2007). ''Donnie Brasco: Unfinished Business'', Running Press. {{ISBN|0-7624-2707-8}}. * DeStefano, Anthony. ''The Last Godfather: Joey Massino & the Fall of the Bonanno Crime Family''. California: Citadel, 2006.
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