i've never watched the full show, only a few episodes and a ton of clips on youtube. i had always assumed jimmy was definitely a rat (especially given the suspicious convo with tony in the basement) but apparently they wacked the wrong guy and big puss was the only one with a wire? what's the consensus these days?
So now that the dust has settled - was he a rat or not?
A good thread died for this shit
a good thread was on Anon Babble
doubt
Known wiseguy who is already out on bail gets pinched for illegal weapons
gets released that same day and immediately goes to Tony's house
starts quizzing him about the Colombian money, seems too desperate, even circles Tony just like feds do
calls a meeting to discuss shit that was already discussed
Why did he reach for his gun so quick in his final scene unless he was on edge because h was worried he was suspected of being a rat?
tries to get uncle jun to slip up and admit to whacking that Brendan kid
Did you even watch the show? It was actually Pussy. The feds had them mixed up they're both two fat guys with dark hair
They were all rats. Even Tony
I always thought him and Pussy were both rats.
They were both rats you doofus
I don't think Chase really gave a fuck if he was a rat or not. He didn't seem to really give a damn about loose ends or follow ups to make things clear.
In fact, he seemed like the kind of dick that would laugh at your ass for spending time trying to make meaning of the show or scenes that needed clarification.
Tony didnt rat anyone out
No it was actually Pussy and Jimmy was innocent. it was even explained in the show. The insider guy had them mixed up. Both were fat guys with dark hair
0 proof he was a rat. the fact is tony killed a captain who was innocent because he couldnt accept that pussy was a rat. alot of people try to cope with things like this anon >210937564 but in reality none of this stuff is proof, only vaguely suspicious actions. every single mobster did things like these or even worse and not all of them were rats.
Feech la Manna says hi
He would have if he hadn't gotten his head blown off first. FBI had a case against him ready to go
Feech. Tips Agent Harris off about some arabs. Agent Harris tells Tony where Phil is
Who could he have ratted against? he is the boss, there was no way the feds would cut a deal with him
NY mob. He could have brought down Phil and the rest of them
At the very least they could've gotten Tony to allocute like Johnny Sack. But Tony being the giant pussy he is probably would've testified against his former crew in exchange for keeping some of his money
He ratted on Junior and as others have already pointed out Feech
yeah because they fucked him over
i've never watched the full show, only a few episodes and a ton of clips on youtube
Why are zoomers like this? Why not just watch the show instead of starting a shitty thread asking to be spoonfed
What is the status on the real life Mafia in America today?
I know they aren't as powerful as in their heyday but are they still around or have they been usurped by someone else and how much power/influence do they have?
Feech insulted him a little bit. He got a little out of order himself.
They’re still active in New York and Jersey and a little in Chicago. It’s basically dead everywhere else.
He could’ve given them the entire Lupertazzi family and his own family and he probably knew some stuff about the other New York families. He might have to do a couple years for appearances but he’d have a lot of value as a witness
There is a scene in the Sopranos of a tour bus going through the NY neighbourhood and the tour guide says ''this is the famous Little Italy, at one point it spanned 40 square blocks but now has been reduced to just one row of shops''
Pretty much describes what happened to the Mafia. Rico and too many snitches due to the threat of long prison sentences of drug traffiking pretty much ended the mob. Not to mention increased competition from Russian and other european mobs, asian gangs, mexican cartels and other Latino gangs who all took a slice away from cosa nostra
But i think the big killer was Italian Americans got educations and had bigger aspirations such as becoming lawyers, doctors etc rather than becoming a soldier in the mafia.
Daily reminder that Tony died in the finale and the entire scene of him entering the diner and getting shot is his purgatory, it keeps repeating over and over just like how we keep rewatching the show.
Stick to LOST, brainlet.
big pussy should have lived for one more season.
The entire show is Tony’s hell, he has to relive his life and family falling apart and him and all his friends getting whacked over and over
Is that Matoush in a hijab?
The arabs don't count.
Tony unironically is the worst boss in the entire show. Guy kills half his captains over trivial shit, gets into a war with NY and by the end is such a miserable pos to his crew that they don't care if he gets whacked.
Degenerate gambler with the stomach
He would have gotten whacked for sure. As the leader of a glorified crew he never coulda ratted on one of the five families and gotten away with it.
Probably the most quotable tv show ever made lol
both of them were
Why don't you get the fuck out of here before I shove your quotations book UP YOUR FAT FUCKING ASS
The mob doesn’t have the reach it used to. They wouldn’t find him if he went in the program. Tony only found that one rat in Maine by pure dumb luck.
It’s still considered a top-tier ethnic criminal subculture in the Northeast and some pockets in Midwest. It made an impressive come back after the major indictments of the 80s and 90s. Its criminal eclecticism ranges from large scale gambling operations to some remnants of labor racketeering.
Since the 2000s not a single year has gone without indictments and arrests showing a constant presence of Italian-American organized crime.
- The last confirmed Mafia murder was in 2013: Michael Meldish, killed by the Lucchese crime family. Before that Gino DiPietro in 2012 and Rocco Maniscalco in 2010, both killed in Philadelphia.
That said, a former Bonanno member active in a Canada testified that the 2018 murder of a Southern Ontario mobster was orchestrated by mob figures in Western NY and NYC.
- In February 2025 the FBI raided the homes of two captains of the Gambino crime family and of a few members looking for further evidence of an upcoming Labor Racketeering trial.
- A dozen of Gambino members/associates are currently on trial for their involvement in extortion, embezzlement and fraud within the NY construction industry spanning from 2013 to 2019, as reported by the NYPost:
“This investigation makes clear that the Gambino family is thriving, earning millions of dollars through various forms of fraud, bribery, money laundering and extortion, particularly in the construction industry, and distributes these illicit proceeds to other members and associates of La Cosa Nostra,” Brooklyn federal prosecutors Keith Edelman and Kayla Bensing wrote.”
- in 2022, 2023 and early 2025 there were several indictments that hit members of Genovese, Bonanno and Lucchese crime families for their involvement in large-scale gambling/loansharking and extortion operations.
- Last month one detective from Long Island and two from NY were put on trial for corruption. They allegedly worked for the Bonanno and Gambino for more than a decade.