Richard "Richie" Aprile is played by David Proval. Richie is the older brother of acting DiMeo crime family boss Jackie Aprile Sr., and was a capo in the DiMeo crime family before being sent to prison for ten years.
Maranzano reorganized the Italian American gangs in New York City into the Maranzano, Profaci, Mangano, Luciano, and Gagliano families, which are now known as the Bonanno, Colombo, Gambino, Genovese, and Lucchese families.
Ercole DiMeo is believed to have been the first Official Boss of the family. Key members from the 1950s include brothers John Francis "Johnny Boy" Soprano and Corrado "Junior" Soprano, as well as Michele "Feech" La Manna and Raymond "Buffalo Ray" Curto.
Giacomo "Jackie" Aprile, Sr., played by Michael Rispoli, was a fictional character on the HBO original series The Sopranos. He was the first Acting boss of the DiMeo Crime Family, after longtime reputed Boss Ercole 'Eckley' DiMeo was sent to prison in 1995.
Crime journalist Herbert Asbury affirmed: "As an organizer and administrator of underworld affairs, Johnny Torrio is unsurpassed in the annals of American crime; he was probably the nearest thing to a real mastermind that this country has yet produced".
Ray Curto was the one informant on The Sopranos that never got caught and was never at risk of being exposed. He was careful, matter-of-fact, and didn't let himself get stressed into making a mistake. Only the viewers knew that every time he appeared on-screen, there was a chance he was recording the mob's business.
With Junior and his main supporters either in jail or dead, Tony takes full control of the family. He lets Junior keep the title of boss while Tony runs everything as the street boss. Junior is allowed to run his old crew but must give 95% of the proceeds to Tony.
Formally known as capicola, gabagool is by no means the most trendy or popular of the Italian cold cuts, but it is, just on the mouth, the most fun to say.
Charles "Lucky" Luciano was an Italian-American mobster, considered the founder and father of organized crime in America and the most powerful Mafia boss of all time.
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Phil Leotardo says that Carmine Lupertazzi Sr. always considered the Soprano family a "glorified crew". Carmine Lupertazzi Sr. called the Soprano family a glorified crew in the fourth season episode "Eloise".
Peter Paul "Paulie Walnuts" Gualtieri is a character on the HBO series The Sopranos. He begins the series as a soldier, but later becomes a caporegime and eventually underboss of the DiMeo crime family, led by Tony Soprano.
Bobby Baccala
Bobby doesn't love violence (he only kills one person the entire show) but he is the only man to ever beat Tony in a fight.
Johnny Sack. John Sacrimoni, better known as Johnny Sack, is played by Vincent Curatola. Johnny Sack was the longtime underboss and later the boss of the Brooklyn-based Lupertazzi crime family.
Robert "Bobby" Baccalieri, Jr. - Soldier and driver for Junior Soprano, later promoted to captain after Murf Lupo's retirement in 2002. Promoted to underboss in 2006, Murdered in 2007.
Tony also upset Junior by placing his mother, Livia Soprano, widow of Junior's brother Johnny, into the Green Grove retirement community. Resentful, Livia tried to take advantage of both of their grudges and gave Junior the go ahead to kill Tony.
David Chase instead offered him the role of playing Paulie Gualtieri, Sirico agreed under the condition that his character would not "become a rat". Paulie begins the series as a soldier, later becoming a caporegime in the DiMeo crime family. He is violent, impulsive, and paranoid.
Christopher was enraged, beating and almost strangling her to death, before breaking down crying. His loyalty to his crime family turned out to be greater than his love for her as he revealed Adriana's status as an informant to Tony Soprano.
Richard "Dickie" Moltisanti, was a Soldier and later Capo in the DiMeo Crime Family, and the main character of The Many Saints of Newark. He married Joanne Moltisanti (née Blundetto) and they had a son, Christopher. Dickie was also a cousin of Carmela Soprano (née DeAngelis).
Upon his death from a torturous, four-day bout with pneumonia in 1932, Frank McErlane was described by Chicago Police as the “toughest gangster of them all.” His ruthless bootlegging peers in the Windy City feared him so much they reportedly paid him a “pension” of hundreds of dollars a week just to stay out of town.