Furio giunta biography of donald

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Archived from the original on April 1, Retrieved March 30, Archived from the original on April 8, Benny and Chris committed the robbery and made a clean escape with Jackie driving. In , Benny was awarded one of the "no-work" United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America jobs at the Esplanade construction site. He was assigned the task of killing two would-be assassins contracted by Tony to whack New York City boss Carmine Lupertazzi after the hit was called off.

In late , Benny was seriously beaten by Lupertazzi capo Phil Leotardo. The crisis brought on by Tony Blundetto was reaching a breaking point and Phil severely beat Benny to send a message to Tony. Tony, feeling guilty about Benny's fractured skull, offered to give Benny his button when he recovered, meaning he would become a made man. Benny is married to Jen Fazio, who is pregnant.

However, Benny began an affair with Martina, a new hostess at Nuovo Vesuvio, much to the irritation of the owner and head chef Artie Bucco who had his eye on her. Benny was involved in Chris's credit card fraud scheme with Ahmed and Muhammad, using his relationship with Martina to get account numbers from Nuovo Vesuvio customers and sell them on through Soprano crew associate James "Murmur" Zancone.

Benny gives Tony a tribute payment. American Express investigated Nuovo Vesuvio restaurant's role in the credit card fraud and pulled the restaurant's authority to accept American Express cards. Artie is able to figure out that Martina is the criminal in his staff through her relationship with Benny. Artie then angrily drives to Benny's home to confront him; the ensuing fight sent Benny to the hospital.

Benny is set on killing Artie, but Tony intervenes, insisting Benny's parents have their anniversary dinner at Nuovo Vesuvio, and that the two make amends. Artie makes a table-side visit during their meal. In front of Benny's pregnant wife, Artie makes an innuendo to Benny's extramarital affair with Martina by asking Benny if he wants a "Martina," explaining that it is an Albanian martini Martina is Albanian and adding "Well, apparently they go down real easy.

Right, Ben? Benny later attended Chris's belated bachelor party, also at Nuovo Vesuvio and hosted by Artie, but the two refrained from initiating further violence. Benny helped guard Tony while he was in hiding from Phil Leotardo. Benny and several of Tony's other crew members were checking gas stations to find Phil Leotardo after being tipped off by Agent Harris that Phil was using a payphone at a gas station in the area.

Germani is thought to be the nephew later revealed to actually be a first cousin once removed and right-hand of Soprano family captain Paulie Gualtieri. Germani regularly hangs out with Christopher and accompanies him on debt collections visits. He was responsible for intimidating Alan Sapinsly after Tony's separation caused him to withdraw from a contract to buy property from Sapinsly.

Paulie and Benny used Tony's home entertainment system speakers on his boat to blast Dean Martin recordings at the Sapinsly home at all hours. In Season 5, Little Paulie holds a "no work" job at the Esplanade construction site and accompanied Chris when collecting a loan from writer J. Early in Season 4, Germani precipitates the crisis between Tony and Johnny Sack, when he hears Ralph Cifaretto make a joke about the obesity of Johnny Sack's wife, and repeats this joke to Paulie Gualtieri, who relays the news of this to Johnny.

In the Season 6 episode " Walk Like a Man ", Little Paulie is badly hurt after being pushed out of a second-story window by Christopher during a feud with Paulie. He suffers six broken vertebrae. He helps in the war with the Lupertazzi crime family, disguising himself as a police officer while searching for Phil Leotardo. Carmine "Little Carmine" Lupertazzi Jr.

He followed in his father's footsteps and became a member of the Lupertazzi family at an early age. Little Carmine also has interests in several legitimate businesses including nightclubs in South Beach , Miami and a scaffolding contractor company in New York and New Jersey with control of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America in addition to receiving proceeds from illicit activities.

He moved with his wife and daughter to Florida in , along with his criminal operations, and splits time between Miami Beach, Florida and New York. While Little Carmine is initially portrayed as a pretentious, spoiled mobster whose constant malapropisms convey poor intellect, he later assumes an elder-statesmen role, frequently mediating disputes that arise in the Lupertazzi crime family.

Little Carmine is introduced in Season 4 when Tony Soprano visits him in Miami to seek his counsel in settling a dispute between Carmine Sr. In the beginning of Season 5, Carmine Lupertazzi Sr. Little Carmine immediately comes up to New York from Florida to see his father before he passes, and quickly becomes embroiled in a power struggle with Johnny Sack.

Since Little Carmine is the son of the former boss, he has de facto claim to the throne, much to Johnny's anger as he has been Carmine Sr. However, after a cycle of bloodshed that escalates into war, Little Carmine ultimately finds it difficult to stomach the continuing violence and abdicates. His decision is heavily influenced when the Leotardo brothers assassinate Angelo as retaliation for the death of Joey Peeps.

After this, Little Carmine keeps a low profile and is no longer seen as a threat. Johnny is arrested soon after by the FBI, who are acting on information given to them by Johnny's trusted ally and long-time Lupertazzi Captain Jimmy Petrille. With Johnny in federal custody during his federal racketeering trial, Phil Leotardo becomes the acting boss in New York.

By season six, Little Carmine is brought in as an investor on Christopher Moltisanti 's movie project, Cleaver. Little Carmine is instrumental in organizing a meeting with Sir Ben Kingsley in Los Angeles to court his interest in the project, but Kingsley eventually passes on the lead role. Little Carmine had helped Kingsley's booking agent out of some trouble he had down in the Florida Keys.

Little Carmine continues to get involved in crime family affairs. He tries to help resolve a longstanding feud between the Lupertazzi crime family and the Soprano crime family. After Phil becomes boss, tensions escalate between the two crime families and Little Carmine makes a last effort to resolve it. Phil is less generous in business dealings with the New Jersey family and still harbors anger over Tony's cousin killing Phil's brother Billy.

When the conflict eventually escalates into a war between the two families, Little Carmine and Tony both turn to a neutral party, George Paglieri, to broker a negotiation between Tony and Butch DeConcini , the street boss for Leotardo while he is in hiding. At a sitdown with Little Carmine, Butch, Albie Cianflone , Tony, and Paulie Gualtieri , everyone agrees that the war has gone too far and that Phil's decisions have led to negative consequences on both sides.

Butch agrees to back off while the Soprano family hunts down Phil. Carlo Gervasi is played by Arthur J. Carlo was a capo in the DiMeo crime family. He was promoted to caporegime of James "Little Jimmy" Altieri's crew after Jimmy was murdered on suspicion of being an FBI informant, and was put in charge of obtaining grey-market goods from container ships docking at the Newark ports.

He is introduced in Season 4. In Season 6, Carlo begins to emerge from the background and become a more prominent character. Carlo took over Vito Spatafore 's construction business in addition to the ports, after the revelation of Vito's homosexuality, his subsequent disappearance, and later his ultimate fate. When Tony decided that Spatafore had to be killed to appease acting New York City boss Phil Leotardo, and Silvio Dante asked if the hit should be assigned to anyone in particular, Soprano suggested Carlo for the job.

Carlo later avenged his family's honor by stabbing Fat Dom four times with a large chef's knife for making jokes about Spatafore's murder and implying that Carlo was also homosexual. The killing occurred in the back room of Satriale's pork store, with Silvio taking part. Tony Soprano later discovered them waiting to dispose of the body and was angry because of the murder's possible repercussions.

Carlo took charge of disposing of Gamiello's body and drove to Connecticut to deposit his head in a storm drain, phoning Silvio to confirm that the last part was safely away and to ask about Tony's plans to blow up Phil's wire room. Carlo's son Jason attends Rutgers University , where he is involved in gambling and loansharking. In the series finale , Carlo's son was said to be arrested by the FBI for drug dealing.

Gervasi failed to show up for a meeting with Paulie Gualtieri , which worried Tony that he may have been cutting a deal with the police. Tony's attorney confirmed that someone was going to testify before a grand jury and that indictments were forthcoming. In the final scene, Tony told Carmela that Carlo was testifying, confirming that he had turned informant, likely in a deal to keep his son out of jail.

Phil Leotardo is played by actor Frank Vincent. Phil is a high-ranking member of the Lupertazzi crime family and the primary antagonist of the final two seasons of the show. Originally a captain, following the death of the original boss, Carmine Lupertazzi , the imprisonment and death of his successor Johnny Sacrimoni , and a brief power struggle with would-be boss Faustino "Doc" Santoro , Phil becomes the boss of the family.

His inability to forgive the death of his brother at the hands of Tony's cousin, Tony Blundetto—even after Blundetto's own murder—forms one of the central conflicts of the series, with Leotardo aiming to kill Tony and cripple his entire organization in revenge. Leotardo had an alleged 27 hits to his credit. He quickly rejoined the Lupertazzi crime family, of Brooklyn , New York, once he was released from prison.

Phil was married to Patty Leotardo and was a second cousin of Marie Spatafore. Leotardo claims that when his grandfather immigrated from Sicily, officials changed their last name at Ellis Island from Leonardo to Leotardo. Following Carmine Sr. One side was led by Carmine's underboss, Johnny Sack , while the other was ostensibly led by Carmine's only son and Miami capo Little Carmine Lupertazzi.

Phil became Johnny's right-hand man during the war and carried out murders in order to weaken Little Carmine's resolve. Phil performed a mock execution of Lorraine Calluzzo, while she was tightly taped and gagged, shooting at her while holding a phone book in the path of the bullet, to persuade her to redirect her payments from Little Carmine to Johnny Sack.

When she failed to comply Phil returned with his younger brother, Billy Leotardo, and Joey Peeps, who killed Lorraine. Phil became personally involved in the war when his brother Billy was murdered by Blundetto as revenge for the hit the Leotardo brothers carried out on Angelo, who was Blundetto's close friend. Little Carmine ultimately found it difficult to stomach the continuing violence and abdicates.

After Little Carmine's capitulation, Johnny Sack becomes the boss of the Lupertazzi crime family and Phil becomes his underboss. Johnny Sack was arrested soon after by the FBI who were acting on information given to them by Johnny's trusted ally and consigliere Jimmy Petrille. With Johnny in federal custody during his federal racketeering trial, Phil Leotardo became the acting boss in New York.

Soprano initially protected Blundetto against Phil. When it became clear that Tony's men would not allow themselves to be imperiled for no good reason, Tony was forced to act. Tony ultimately murdered his own cousin to save his family and give Blundetto a quick and painless death after Johnny Sack had made it clear that Phil would torture Blundetto if he found him.

Phil was angered that his opportunity for vengeance was stolen. At a meeting between the two bosses, Johnny and Tony made peace, but the moment was interrupted by Johnny's arrest by the FBI, while Tony escaped. With Johnny in federal custody, Phil became acting boss of the Lupertazzi family. When Vito's homosexuality was publicly revealed in Season 6, Phil visited Marie to try to find out if she knew where Vito was he had gone into hiding in New Hampshire.

When she pleaded for mercy for her husband, he told her they just wanted to get Vito help. Phil also harassed Tony about his efforts to find Vito. Vito later returned to New Jersey after he could not adjust to life outside of the mob, and met Tony to offer to buy his way back into the family. Tony refused but did not attempt to harm Vito.

Tony had arranged for Carlo Gervasi to execute Vito at the mall early in the morning on the pretense that Vito was supposedly meeting up with Tony, to straighten out the situation, however when Vito returned to his motel, Phil's soldiers Gerry Torciano and Dominic "Fat Dom" Gamielleo ambushed him as he walked through the door. Phil emerged from the closet, slowly walked up to Vito who was being held by Gerry and Fat Dom, and sits down on the bed.

He looks Vito in the eye and says, "You're a fucking disgrace. Subsequently, with having made his cousin Marie a widow, Phil balks when Tony tries to reach out to him for restitution for Marie and refuses. Phil tells Marie that her husband was probably killed by two homosexual transients Vito had picked up at a bar. Fat Dom was murdered by an enraged Carlo Gervasi during a visit to Satriale's after making repeated wisecracks, in the wake of Vito's death, about the sexual orientation of New Jersey mobsters.

Leotardo, while on a date with his Ukrainian housemaid Yaryna Kastropovich , approached one of his Brooklyn businesses, only to be blown off of his feet by a bomb planted in the building. After an unsuccessful attempt by Little Carmine Lupertazzi to broker peace between the families, Leotardo and his crew plotted revenge. Although Phil balked at the idea of killing Tony himself, captain Butch DeConcini seemingly persuaded him to target someone important to the DiMeo family.

However, their planning was cut short when Phil suffered a late-night heart attack and was hospitalized during Christmas Yet Phil did not strongly back Torciano as successor, and Lupertazzi underboss Doc Santoro soon made his own bid for power by having Torciano murdered. After deciding to get back in the game, Phil waited, working under Doc Santoro until the old man's arrogance got too much to handle.

As Phil sat down to dinner with Doc to acknowledge him as boss, Doc humiliated Phil by literally taking food from his plate. Knowing that he had broad support, including Tony's, Phil ordered a hit on Santoro. Driven by Butch DeConcini, Phil's crew murdered Santoro and an associate outside a massage parlor, leaving him dead on the sidewalk.

After the assassination, Phil was permanently elevated to boss of the Lupertazzi family, with Cianflone cemented as consigliere and DeConcini as underboss. After Tony viciously beats one of Phil's men, Coco, for making lewd comments to his daughter Meadow , Phil refuses to meet with Tony and then launches a war against the DiMeo family. Fluent in Italian, Corky assigned Neapolitan hitmen, Italo and Salvatore, but the hit was botched when they mistake Alec Kastropovich , the father of Leotardo's Ukrainian mistress for Leotardo.

Leotardo's order is that New York is to "decapitate" New Jersey and do business with what's left. Bobby is killed and Silvio is wounded badly and left in a coma. Tony goes into hiding with the remainder of the family. In the Sopranos series finale , " Made in America ", Butch DeConcini and Albie Cianflone arrange a sit down with Tony and Paulie, where they express their dissatisfaction with Phil's leadership and agree to a ceasefire of the war.

Butchie says he will not reveal the location of Phil but then says, "You do what you got to do"—this following a recent phone conversation with Butchie and Phil, where Phil implies a threat to Butchie over his inability to find Tony Soprano. Shortly thereafter, the location of Leotardo is made known to Tony by information from Agent Harris in exchange for terrorism information on Ahmed and Muhammad.

Hiding in Oyster Bay, Long Island , Leotardo is shown talking to his wife through a car window at a gas station when he is suddenly shot in the head by Walden Belfiore , a soldier in the Gervasi crew of the DiMeo family. Leaving their grandchildren in her Ford Explorer , Leotardo's wife rushes to Phil's side in a panic. Unattended and still in drive with the engine running, the car idles forward, and a tire rolls over and crushes Phil's head.

Leotardo's murder was the 92nd and final death in the series. The following is a list of characters that are, or at one time were, recurring guests on the series; they are listed in the order that they first appeared on the show. Many characters have had storylines that have spanned multiple seasons, while the others are restricted to arcs that occurred during a single season of the show.

Herman "Hesh" Rabkin is played by Jerry Adler. In June , casting directors Georgianne Walken and Sheila Jaffe said that Jerry Stiller had been originally set to play Hesh, but due to scheduling issues, Adler was cast quickly. He first appeared in " The Sopranos " "Pilot". Hesh is thought to be a composite character , inspired by real life music mogul Morris "Mo" Levy , [ 17 ] [ 18 ] the founder of Roulette Records with connections to the Mafia, who owned a string of racehorses.

Hesh first appeared while working with Tony on setting up a scam to defraud HMO medical insurance companies through their debtor, Alex Mahaffey. Hesh accompanied Big Pussy to a waterfall to intimidate Mahaffey into participating. Later, Hesh advised Tony against getting involved with the Teitlemanns, a family of Hasidic Jews , in a dispute over ownership of their hotel.

Hesh's predictions of their obstinacy proved correct. Hesh was able to help Tony end a particularly arduous "negotiation" with a threat of castration. Chris made contact with Hesh on behalf of Massive Genius, a rapper who claimed Hesh owed compensation to the widow of a black musician he allegedly defrauded. In the final season premiere, " Members Only ", Hesh and his son-in-law, Eli, were attacked by members of Phil Leotardo's crew.

They targeted Eli because they thought he was making collections on their turf without permission, so they set fire to Eli's gas tank to get him and Hesh out of the car, and then set about beating Eli. Eli was then seriously hurt in a hit-and-run accident, while trying to escape the mobsters, and Hesh was punched in the face. This is Hesh's last appearance on the show.

Alex Mahaffey is played by Michael Gaston. Tony concocts a scheme for Mahaffey's company to make insurance claims payable to non-existent clinics in order to pay off his debts. Realizing that he would die if he refused, Mahaffey complies with the fraud. Jackie and Tony, along with Silvio Dante and Ralph Cifaretto , belonged to a small crew moving weed and stolen goods.

Around this time, Jackie had the idea to rob a card game held by capo Michele "Feech" La Manna in order to make a name for themselves. Jackie's star rose considerably in the intervening years, during which he started a family. He married Rosalie Aprile , and they had three children together. Jackie never wanted his son Jackie Aprile Jr. He and Richie appointed Aprile crew associate Peter "Beansie" Gaeta to peddle heroin for them, taking the largest cut for themselves.

Aprile was the acting boss of the family from , when boss Ercole DiMeo went to prison, until when he dies of stomach cancer in the fourth episode of Season 1 , and is succeeded by Junior. Michael "Mikey" Palmice is played by Al Sapienza. Mikey starts out as a soldier in Corrado "Junior" Soprano 's crew as his driver and bodyguard. After Jackie Aprile Sr.

In Tony's brief and bloody war with Junior's crew, following Junior's attempt on Tony's life, Paulie Gualtieri is assigned the hit on Mikey, along with Christopher Moltisanti. Chris' friend Brendan Filone had previously been killed by Mikey while in his bathtub on orders from Junior in retribution for Brendan stealing his merchandise. Tony decides to confront his uncle and Mikey by beating Mikey to the ground and stapling his jacket to his torso.

He then goes to have a sit-down with Junior. Later, in retaliation for the attempted hit on Tony, Mikey is killed in the woods after Chris and Paulie chase him down while he is jogging. In the episode " From Where to Eternity ", when Chris becomes clinically dead for a few minutes after his heart stops while in his comatose state, he has a morphine-induced dream in which he visits Hell and sees his deceased father "Dickie" Moltisanti along with his deceased friend Brendan Filone and Mikey Palmice.

Chris informs Tony and Paulie that Mikey had a message for them: "Three o'clock". Paulie subsequently begins to have nightmares of being dragged to Hell and, at the recommendation of his mistress, he goes to see a medium in Nyack, New York. Much to Paulie's chagrin, the authenticity of the medium is confirmed when he apparently begins communicating with people that Paulie has killed, with Mikey apparently giving details of his murder.

Paulie remains unsettled and paranoid, as he feels he is being haunted by Palmice and others he had murdered throughout his criminal life. Agent Dwight Harris is played by Matt Servitto. He approaches Christopher, and eventually Tony, for information on terrorism-related organized crime from his criminal connections at the Port of New York and New Jersey in exchange for banking "goodwill" in possible future RICO trials.

In the Season 6 episode " Kaisha ", Harris appears at Satriale's Pork Store to inform Tony that someone in his crew could be in danger, although he has no specific details. While investigating the murder of Gilbert Nieves at the Crazy Horse and Matush, with the possible terrorism links, he takes over the investigation from Long Branch, New Jersey police.

Later, Agent Harris and his partner, Agent Goddard, approach Tony at his home, requesting that Tony inform them should he come across any terror-related information in his line of work. Later, he suspects that two Muslim former patrons of the Bada Bing Ahmed and Muhammad , who had been paying Christopher Moltisanti for stolen credit card numbers, were involved in terrorist activity.

Tony provides their names and a cell phone number to Agent Harris, who is appreciative. In return, Agent Harris promises to write a letter detailing Tony's assistance that will be placed in Tony's FBI file for a judge to consider in sentencing should Tony ever be convicted of a crime. Harris later tells Tony at Satriale's that an informer among Phil Leotardo's crew told them that Tony is being targeted by the Lupertazzi family.

Agent Harris meets with Tony, and Tony offers him the name of the Muslim men's bank. When Agent Goddard later reports Leotardo's murder, Harris exults in the success of his ploy, stating "we're gonna win this thing! Father Phil is the priest at the Sopranos' local Catholic church. Initially, Father Phil and Carmela Soprano have a robust friendship based on a mutual interest in romance films and Italian culture.

Carmela's husband, Tony, finds their friendship—and Father Phil's constant, uninvited visits to their home for Carmela's home-cooked food— irritating. Carmela describes Father Phil as a "spiritual mentor" she utilizes "to become a better Catholic", and the rare male friend who appreciates things that the ultra-masculine Tony finds to be unmanly.

One rainy evening, with Tony and Meadow in Maine and AJ at a friend's house, Father Phil visits a sick Carmela, and the two share ziti and wine together. After much wine and watching a film together, the two come very close to kissing. He sleeps over without having sex with Carmela, resulting in an awkward feeling between the two the morning after.

Carmela gets jealous when she makes a surprise visit to the church to bring Father Phil home-cooked food—only to see him already being fed a home-cooked dish by her friend, Rosalie Aprile , and him having the same chemistry with Rosalie that she thought he only had with her. Soon after, Carmela confronts Father Phil and ends her friendship with him, accusing him of developing para-romantic relationships with women parishioners to gain gifts and other favors.

Although Father Phil was mostly seen ministering to female parishioners, he also counseled men. He repeatedly invited Tony to attend church and confession more often in order to reduce his anxiety attacks by improving his relationship with God. He counseled Artie Bucco when he was told about Tony burning down his restaurant by Livia.

Father Phil encouraged Artie to go to the police and to tell Charmaine about the arson, which Artie ultimately didn't do. He counseled Ralph Cifaretto when he came to him devastated and perplexed by his teen son's life-threatening injury after an accident whilst playing bow and arrows with a friend. Father Phil encourages Ralph to view the tragedy as an opportunity to change his life's course; he also gently rejects Ralph's assertion that God allowed his son to be injured in order to punish Ralph for his criminal sins.

Later in the series, Carmela and Father Phil seem to be on good terms again until she confesses an act of adultery to him. He turns cold and is clearly disappointed, as he'd always urged Carmela to work on her marriage and had dissuaded her from considering divorce. He orders Carmela to do a penance by way of doing something nice for Tony, which she later does.

In Season 6, when Tony is comatose after being shot, Carmela was again dependent upon Father Phil, who comforts her and the Soprano children at Tony's hospital bedside. Vin Makazian is played by John Heard. Vin was a Newark, New Jersey police detective who worked on narcotics and vice squads and fed information to Tony Soprano. He was raised by an abusive alcoholic father who beat him as a child and his mother.

Tony also used Vin as a personal private investigator , engaging Vin to find information about his psychiatrist Jennifer Melfi when Tony first started therapy in One night he tailed her and pulled her car over under the ruse that the vehicle was seen leaving a crime scene earlier in the day. He then questioned Jennifer's date, a lawyer, under the suspicion that he was driving drunk, and beats him unprovoked.

Vin frequented an illegal brothel and had a relationship with the madam there. He was arrested at the brothel along with Soprano crime family capo Raymond Curto during a police raid.

Furio giunta biography of donald

Vin later committed suicide, by leaping off the Donald and Morris Goodkind Bridges into the Raritan River shortly after he was released from jail and suspended from the police force. Tony later visited the madam Debra with whom Vin had a therapeutic relationship, and she divulges to Tony that Vin viewed him as a friend, and was prone to depression.

This leaves Tony with guilt because he had always treated Vin with disdain and never showed him any respect or kindness. Dick Barone is played by Joe Lisi. Dick owned and operated Barone Sanitation, a container and trash removal service, and front business for the Soprano crew. The company handled their legitimate garbage hauling routes across New Jersey, including an illegal medical waste dumping site in Dayton, New Jersey , an asbestos removal project in Corning, New York , a weigh station in Dayton, New Jersey and a landfill in Pennsauken Township, New Jersey.

Dick is involved in price-fixing and bid rigging of waste hauling contracts in New Jersey and New York. Dick's son Jason works as a ski instructor at Deer Valley in Summit County, Utah and knew little about the waste management business. Dick Barone was part of the crews' discussions about the problem and was at Satriale's when Christopher Moltisanti took it upon himself to deal with the issue and murder Emil Kolar.

Chris' action led to the Kolar Bros. He worried about Richie Aprile due to Aprile's and Junior Soprano's front business, Zanone Bros, carting cocaine on his garbage association routes because he could lose his "", saying that he can handle the Department of Sanitation due to having a contact inside the Environmental Protection Agency , but not the Drug Enforcement Administration.

Dick died in from Lou Gehrig's disease. His funeral was attended by many members of the DiMeo crime family. Dick was survived by his wife, Helen Barone, and son, Jason. Following his death, Barone Sanitation was bought out by Lupertazzi crime family firm, Cinelli Sanitation. He agreed to lower the sale settlement by staying on the payroll and lowering the skim profits.

James "Jimmy" Altieri is played by Joe Badalucco. In the episode " Nobody Knows Anything ", Jimmy was arrested for gun charges while running an illegal card game. The FBI found pool tables full of guns. Big Pussy Bonpensiero was also present and arrested but was already working for the feds at this point. Agent Skip Lipari stated he had been with them since , although Tony thinks Pussy "flipped" in Vin Makazian, Tony's inside detective, who works clandestinely for Tony, informs Tony that Big Pussy Bonpensiero is "wired for sound" — that he is an informant.

Tony finds this very difficult to believe. Shortly after Jimmy's arrest, he is released. Both Furio and Carmela silently grappled with the strong feelings between them but never opened up a real conversation about the obvious sexual and romantic tensions between them. Realistically, there was no reason for them to do so — there was no way for them to pursue one another in the context of the Soprano crime family, and expressing their mutual longing would end only in disaster.

Furio's uncle said as much when he approached him for advice, pointing out that Furio would either have to kill Tony to be with Carmela or just move on. Furio wrestled with this up until the day he returned to Italy. On the night when he accompanied Tony and some of his fellow enforcers to the casino, he witnessed Tony's infidelity firsthand as he spent the evening heavily drinking and flirting with other women with seemingly no regard for his wife back at home.

This pushed Furio to a breaking point ; while waiting to board a helicopter, Furio grabbed Tony's lapels and nearly shoved him into the chopper's spinning tail blades. At that moment, he made his decision. He released the boss with the muttered excuse that Tony was standing too close. He flew back to Italy the next day without saying goodbye to anyone.

He simply could not be party to Tony's mistreatment and brazen disloyalty to Carmela, but was unwilling to take such drastic action against him that he removed himself from the situation in an attempt to move on. When Carmela eventually revealed her attraction to Furio to her husband, Tony swore that the Neapolitan mobster could never come back to the States again, thus cutting Furio off completely and throwing away any future chance of seeing him.

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