Somewhere in New Jersey, late 1999. Two men are sitting in a room watching television. The show is new. HBO. A mob boss in therapy running a garbage company out of New Jersey. Caught between his crime family and his suburban life. The two men watch in silence for a moment. Then one of them turns to the other.
Hey, what’s this thing, Sopranos? Is that supposed to be us? The other one leans forward. You are in there. They mentioned your name in there. Other voices join in. Someone warns, “Watch out for that guy.” Someone else says, “Watch that guy.” The second man sits back. He watches a little more. Then he says, “What characters? Great acting.
” What those two men didn’t know, what they couldn’t have known was that the FBI was listening to every single word. Because here’s the thing about the Decavalcante crime family. They didn’t just inspire the Sopranos. They were the Sopranos. The strip clubs, the garbage routes, the imprisoned boss running the family from a federal prison cell.
The acting boss murdered for reasons that had never once happened in the history of the American Mafia. All of it. Real, documented, captured on tape. And by the time those two men were sitting in that room watching themselves fictionalized on cable television, the FBI informant sitting right next to them had already been recording [music] for almost 2 years.
This is the true story of the Decavalcante crime family, New Jerseyy’s only homegrown mafia Borgata. How they clawed their way to a seat at the most powerful criminal table in America. How they built an empire worth tens of millions of dollars a year out of garbage trucks and union halls and plumbing offices.
How their own men destroyed them from the inside out. And how in one of the strangest ironies in organized crime history, the story that finally made them famous was a story they couldn’t stop. Simone Paul Rizzo de Cavalcante was born on April 30th, 1913 in Brooklyn, New York. He grew up in Trenton, New Jersey. He ran a plumbing and heating supply company called Kennallworth Heating and Air Conditioning in a small town outside Newark. He wore [music] suits.
He smiled easily. He had a wife named Mary and three sons. He seemed on the surface like exactly what he was pretending to be, a successful small businessman [music] in the suburbs of New Jersey. He was not that. His neighbors called him Sam the plumber. He did not love that. He preferred the count. He claimed descent from Italian nobility, a detail that said everything about the man.
But the nickname that followed him through the underworld was the one that mattered, the claw. For the way he collected debts. for the way once he had his hand around something he never let go. Sam D. Cavalcante inherited a mess. His uncle Nick Delmore had run a small mafia crew out of Elizabeth, New Jersey, the second largest city in the state, right across the harbor from Staten Island for decades.
Delore died in 1964. And what he left behind was not exactly an empire. It was, in the words of one historian, a dysfunctional group of ever waring factions. Rival crews, old feuds, no real leadership, no real direction. Sam took that and built something the five New York families had never expected from New Jersey.
A fully autonomous mafia borata with a seat at the commission table. He doubled [music] the membership. 30 made men became 60. >> [snorts] >> He enforced discipline in a way the outfit had never seen before. Every member held a legitimate job. Every member wore a suit. [music] No one discussed business on the phone. No one made a move without permission.
He modified the initiation ritual, abolished the burning holy card and the knife [music] because he called them unnecessary and replaced the old ceremony with something more clinical and more professional. He did not want theater. He wanted an organization. And then he made himself indispensable to New York.
When the Banano family imploded into the bloody internal war known as the Banana War, a conflict that consumed the late 1960s and threatened to spill across all five families. It was Sam D. Cavalcante who mediated. When the gallow and prophecy factions tore each other apart in Brooklyn, it was Sam who sat across the table from both sides and kept the peace.
He became the diplomat of the American mafia, the man the bosses called when they needed someone to solve a problem without making it worse. In return, he wanted recognition. He wanted a seat at the commission. He almost got [music] it. Almost. When Carlo Gambino handed the available commission seat to Joe Colo instead, a decision Sam viewed as a direct insult, he was furious.
The FBI’s listening devices captured him pacing his plumbing office talking to associates, his frustration barely contained. He said, “Kosenra is Kosanostra and Amikon Nostro is an amonostro.” There should be no difference between his family and the New York organizations. None. And he could not understand why they refused to accept that.
If you have watched The Sopranos, you have heard this speech before. Tony Soprano spends six seasons fighting for respect from the New York families, arguing that New Jersey deserves to be treated as an equal, furious at being condescended to. That was not fiction. That was Sam D. Cavalcante, 40 years before the show aired.
But to understand where Sam came from, to understand what he was building on, you have to go back further. Much further. The Decavalcante family didn’t emerge from nothing. It grew out of two separate criminal factions that had been operating in northern New Jersey since the 1920s. Each had its own history, its own loyalties, its own blood.
The first was centered in Newark, led by a Sicilian immigrant named Stephano Badami, born in Corleone, the same town that gave the world the real life Corleó family that inspired Mario Puzo’s novel. Badami built a criminal crew in Newark during Prohibition and positioned himself on the winning side of the Castella war, the brutal internal conflict that restructured the entire American mafia between 1930 and 1931.
When Salvator Marano emerged victorious and organized the commission system, Badami was appointed boss. 3 days after Maranzano was assassinated, Badami’s under boss and top associate were found floating in Newark Bay. The message was clear. Badami fled. His successors tried to hold things together. They failed.
And by the late 1930s, the commission had disbanded the Newark family entirely, declaring the territory an open city. Badami returned in his old age, ran a diminished crew, and on March 31st, 1955 was stabbed 40 times at a Newark clam bar. No arrest was ever made. The second faction was different, stronger, more rooted.
It was based in the Peterstown section of Elizabeth, New Jersey, a tight-knit Italian neighborhood where nearly everyone had come from the same small Sicilian town, Rivera. The name would define the family’s identity for a century. The early leadership included men whose families would still be prominent in the organization 60 years later.
The Majaries, the Riggies, and a man named Lewis Larasso, who they called Fatloo. These were not strangers thrown together by circumstance. They were a community. That is what made them dangerous. In 1957, the Elizabeth faction’s boss at the time, Nick Delmore, attended the Appalachin Convention, the infamous mafia summit in upstate New York that ended in disaster when local law enforcement stumbled upon it and sent bosses fleeing through the woods.
Delmore was there. So were his under boss Frank Majuri and Capo Laraso. Their presence confirmed for anyone who needed confirmation that the New Jersey outfit was real, was organized, and was significant enough to warrant a seat at the national table. 7 years later, Nick Delmore was dead, and his nephew, the man who preferred to be called the Count, was in charge.
What Sam Davalcante built in the years that followed was a criminal empire that generated an estimated $20 million a year in illegal gambling alone. That figure comes not from speculation, but from his own guilty plea. Attorney General John Mitchell in 1969 called the ring one of the largest gambling syndicates in the United States.
$20 million per year in 1969 money. But gambling was just the foundation. The organization ran on three separate power systems that reinforced each other in ways law enforcement struggled for years to untangle. The first was money. The second was labor. The third was violence. Strip away [music] the suits, the plumbing fronts, and the social clubs.
And that’s what you had. Money, labor, violence. At the top sat the boss, always theoretically Sam D. Cavalcante. then his successor John the Eagle Riggy who became the official boss around 1980 and held that title for 35 years. Below the boss was an underboss and a consiguary. Below them a tier of captains each running their own crew in their own territory.
Below the captains soldiers made men formally inducted and bound by oath. Below the soldiers, associates, a much larger pool of men who worked alongside the family without ever being officially part of it. Orders flowed one direction, money flowed the other. Nobody spoke to anyone more than one level above them. Everybody knew their part.
What is remarkable about the Decavalcante structure and what the FBI confirmed after years of surveillance was how disciplined it was. Made members were required to hold legitimate jobs. They dressed professionally. They did not throw money around. They did not make a scene. The whole operation was designed to look invisible. Sam D.
Cavalcante sat in a plumbing office and talked to people about pipe fittings. Underneath that surface was a financial empire. The gambling operation was the beating heart of it. Sports betting, numbers, card games running across New Jersey, Staten Island, and Queens. Joint operations with the Gambino [music] and Columbbo families in New York.
$20 million a year documented under SAM. The numbers only grew under Riggy. Loan sharking ran parallel to gambling as it always does in organized crime. You take someone’s money at the table, they lose, [music] they need more money, you lend it to them at 2% per week, the loan doubles in roughly a year. Then you collect.
Decavalcante soldier [music] Anthony Capo ran a lone sharking partnership with a Gambino associate named Joseph Watts between 1986 [music] and 1994. Court testimony documented that operation generating more than $12 million over 8 [music] years. Sam’s personal nickname, the claw, said everything about the collection philosophy.
You borrowed from this family, you paid back. But neither gambling nor lone sharking was the family’s [music] deepest source of power. That was labor. John Riggy served for years as business agent for laborers local 394 of the International Association of Laborers and HOD carriers. His father, Emanuel Riggy, had held the same position before him from 1942 to 1959.
The union was a family inheritance. And through that inheritance, the Davalcante family controlled something more valuable than cash. They controlled the workforce. Not a nail goes through a wall that we don’t get a piece of, riggy reportedly said. He was not exaggerating. Any contractor operating in New Jerseys construction industry who refused to negotiate with the family faced violence, job site shutdowns, or picket lines.
The New Jersey State Commission of Investigation documented the arrangement across multiple reports spanning decades. They also ran a fraudulent asbesto certification school where members sat in class, slept through the instruction, and had someone else take the test. Every single one of them received a valid state certification. Soldier Anthony Capo testified to this at trial. He slept through class.
Someone else took the test. He got the certificate. He used it for years. The waste hauling was the same story. Before New Jerseys reform legislation, the mob controlled all municipal and private solid waste carting across the state. The Decavalcante and Geneva’s families used front companies, fake dump truck decals, and real estate maneuvers to conceal ownership.
The state commission put it bluntly. If you bid on someone else’s territory, your life expectancy was drastically reduced. In the Sopranos, the fictional Tony Soprano runs Baron Sanitation. In the real world, the Davalconte family ran New Jerseys garbage. That was not an artistic choice. That was journalism. The strip clubs were Vincent Polalmo’s domain. More on him shortly.
Polarmo’s Queens Club, Wiggles, sat at the Fulton Fish Market. And it was so well known in the Davalconte [music] organization that David Chase essentially lifted it whole for the Sopranos. The bada bing was wiggles. The garbage company was Baron Sanitation. And the imprisoned boss, Eric Colola Eckley Deo, running the fictional Deio family from federal prison through a succession of acting bosses was John Riggy, [music] who did exactly that for over two decades.
The show’s writers were not being creative. They were paying attention. In the 1990s, a new revenue stream appeared that no one in the traditional mob had anticipated. The Decavalcante family had a captain named Philip Abramo. Some people called him the king of Wall Street. He controlled a string of micro cap brokerage firms, Sovereign, [music] Falcon Trading, Tuca Pacific Securities, Greenway Capital, and ran pump and dump stock schemes through them with surgical efficiency. Hundreds of victims.
One documented fraud in Florida yielded over $4.7 million. A 2000 indictment sought forfeite of up to $20 million in assets. By the time the government caught up with Abramo, he had moved money through the Bahamas. He was eventually [music] convicted in 2004, forfeiting $1.1 million in previously seized assets.
He received a life sentence. He was the family’s Wall Street arm operating out of Florida, three states away from Elizabeth, generating millions nobody in the organization could have imagined a generation earlier. And then there was the matter of political protection. Sam D.C. Cavalcante was careful about corruption. He did not advertise it.
He did not put politicians on a payroll. [music] He cultivated relationships. He did favors. And from time to time, politicians came to him. On October 23, 1964, 8 days before election day, the mayor of Elizabeth, New Jersey, Thomas G. Dunn, walked into Sam D. Cavalcante’s plumbing office. The FBI was listening.
Dunn wanted two political opponents silenced before the vote. He told Sam that if you have any way of getting to them, tell them to keep their lousy mouth shut because this thing could cream me at the last minute. Sam asked about city work. The mayor replied that maybe a US congressman was also implicated. Joseph Bion Joe Zicarelli suggested approaching Congressman Cornelius Gallagher for help with a deportation case, a conversation the FBI captured in full. None of it could be used in court.
The recordings [music] had been made without warrants. In 1969, Attorney General John Mitchell released approximately [music] 2,300 pages of transcripts, the so-called Davalcante papers, to the public. A Justice Department official described them as just as crucial as Velace’s disclosures. Velace had been the first major mob insider to testify before Congress about the existence of the American Mafia.
These tapes confirmed [music] everything he had said and more. They also captured Sam D. Cavalcante’s nightmares. In one recording, he told his secretary about a dream. Cops, chaos, screaming, everything screwed up. She was in it, [music] wearing pearls. He woke up and could not get back to sleep. He talked about retirement.
If I can continue for 2 or 3 years, he said, I will be able to show $40,000 or $50,000 legitimately and can walk out. He never walked out, but he did avoid prison for most of his life. He pleaded guilty [music] to the gambling charges in 1969 and received a 5-year sentence. He was released in the mid 1970s on good behavior, citing heart problems.
He appointed John Riggy as acting boss and moved to Florida. He tried to build a legitimate casino resort. It did not happen. He formally retired around 1980. He died on February 7th, 1997 in Miami of natural causes at age 84. He died before the arrests. He died before the show. He never knew that decades after his death, a television character named Tony Soprano would carry his anxieties, his resentments, and his nightmares into the homes of millions [music] of people who had never heard of Elizabeth, New Jersey. But before any of
that, there was John Damato. And what happened to John Damato tells you more about how this family operated, about its rules, its logic, and its limits than anything else in its history. In the early 1990s, with Riggy serving federal time on labor racketeering charges, the family needed an acting boss.
Riggy, under pressure from New York, appointed a man named John Damato. Damato was wellconed. He had ties to Gambino boss John Gotti. He was aggressive, capable, and trusted. And then in 1991, his girlfriend talked. She revealed to Daval Conte Captain Anthony Ratando, who was also involved with her, that Damato had been visiting Manhattan swingers clubs.
She said that at those clubs, Damato had engaged in sexual activity with both men and women. Rotando [music] brought the information to acting under boss Jake Amari and consiliary Stefano Vitabille. They discussed [music] it. They made a decision. And in November of 1991, the authorization was given. On January 6th, 1992, Soldier Anthony Capo and associate Victor Diara picked up John Damato near his girlfriend’s Brooklyn apartment.
They said they were going to lunch. Damato climbed into the back seat. He looked at the two men in front of him and said, “Let’s go eat.” Capo turned around and shot [music] him twice. Damato said, “Oh no.” Capo shot him twice more. The body was driven to the home of a captain named Rudy Tootsie Ferrron in Mill Base [music] in Brooklyn where they searched Amato’s pockets.
They found $8,000 in cash and an FBI agent’s business card. The body was later moved to a farm in Newberg, New York. It was never recovered. John Damato was 50 years old. He was the first known American mafia boss murdered for his sexuality. The murder also violated commission rules because it was carried out without authorization from New York.
But that detail barely registered. [music] What mattered inside the organization was the reason. At trial on May 1st, 2003, Anthony Capo testified [music] plainly, “Nobody’s going to respect us if we have a gay homosexual boss sitting down discussing Lakosa Nostra business.” He added, “When I got straightened out, they didn’t tell me don’t be a homosexual, but that was a rule.” There were other grievances.
Damato was seen as God’s man. He was accused of stealing. [music] He was believed to have overreached while Riggy was imprisoned. But it was the revelation about his private life that sealed it. Not the theft, not the power grab. That in The Soprano season 6, a Cappo named Veto Spataphor is discovered to be gay. He flees.
He tries to build a new life. He’s eventually found and beaten to death. When that story line aired in 2006, viewers who did not know the Davalc story thought David Chase had invented something shocking. He had not. He had documented something that had happened 14 years earlier in a car in Brooklyn on a January night when a man asked to go to lunch and did not make it out of the back seat.
By the time The Sopranos premiered, the Decavalcante family was already coming apart at the seams. But it had taken more than a decade to get there. And the years between Damato’s murder and the mass arrests of 1999 were among the most violent and chaotic in the family’s history. Jake Kamari stepped into the acting boss role after Damato’s death.
He was bold, maybe too bold. He opened a social club in Manhattan’s Little Italy, began recruiting members in New York City, and essentially dared the five families to stop him. They called a sitdown. They told him to withdraw. [music] He withdrew, but the defiance was noted. Mari was the man who refused to accept that New Jersey would always be second.
He died on June 14th, 1997 of stomach cancer. He was 52 years old. Jackie Arrial Senior, [music] the acting boss of the fictional Soprano family, the man who dies of stomach cancer early in the first season and whose death triggers the central power struggle of the show, was Jay Kamari. The name is even similar.
Jakamo Jackie. The cancer, the age, the timing, [music] the power vacuum that followed. After Amari’s death, Riy tried to maintain control from prison by creating a three-man ruling panel. Vincent Vinnie Ocean Polarmo, [music] a man named Jimmy Polarmo and Charles Big Ears Majuri. It did not hold.
Majuri was furious he had not been named sole acting boss. He contacted a soldier named James Gallow and contracted a hit on Vinnie Polalmo. Gallow betrayed Majuri. He warned Polalmo instead. Polalmo organized a counter hit on Majuri. A team sat outside Majuri’s house waiting. A police car appeared. Majuri did not come home. The hit was eventually called off.
The family that had once been disciplined enough to earn a commission seat was now ordering hits on its own acting boss. By the late 1990s, the FBI had been watching for years, but they were missing something. They needed someone on the inside. On January 20th, 1998, an associate named Ralph Guino was arrested for his role in a $1.
6 million Bank of America heist at the World [music] Trade Center. The case was overwhelming. He was facing 20 years. He made a different calculation. Guino agreed to cooperate. For nearly 2 years, he wore FBI issued recording equipment, modified cell phones distributed to davalconte members, and made approximately 300 consensual recordings.
The lead agent on the case was Sheamus Malerni of the Newark field office. Malernie had spent 20 years building toward this moment. He later described what followed as the most productive organized crime investigation in FBY history. What Guino captured was extraordinary. murder conspiracies, [music] extortion payments, lone sharking transactions, drug deals, and in 1999, something [music] no one had planned for.
He captured Decavalcante soldiers watching The Sopranos. The recordings were later featured in court proceedings and in a 2006 Channel 4 documentary called The Real Sopranos. The FBI confirmed that agents [music] frequently heard gangsters talking about the series in wiretaps. The recordings, in a circumstance almost too strange to process, became evidence against the very men who had inspired the show.
The feedback loop was complete. The family had inspired the fiction. The fiction had been watched by the family and the FBI recording of the family watching the fiction was used to help convict them. On December 2nd, 1999, the FBI moved. Vinnie Polarmo and more than 30 members and associates were arrested in a coordinated sweep.
The charges included murder, murder conspiracy, RICO violations, extortion, lone sharking, gambling, drug trafficking, securities fraud, and labor racketeering. The full weight of the modern federal racketeering statute landed on a family that had spent decades hiding behind plumbing offices in union halls. Polarmo did the math.
He was facing capital exposure, four murders and seven murder conspiracies. In October 2000, he pleaded guilty to all of it. And then he agreed to testify. He told the FBI about the Weiss murder. Fred Weiss shot seven times outside his Staten Island girlfriend’s condo on September 11th, 1989. [music] As a personal favor from Riggy to John Gotti, who feared Weiss would cooperate with federal investigators.
Polarmo and James Gallow had pulled the trigger. Anthony Capo drove the car. He told them about the Misella murder. Joseph Misella shot at a Marine Park golf course in Brooklyn in October 1998. He told them about the attempted hit on Majuri about every captain’s racket, about every revenue stream.
[music] He was joined at the witness table by Anthony Capo and Anthony Rotando. Three cooperating witnesses, all former insiders, all willing to testify in detail against their own men. The trial testimony that emerged, particularly Capo’s account of the Damato murder delivered on May 1st, 2003 in a Manhattan federal courtroom, was as complete a picture of mafia operations as any jury had ever heard.
Between 1999 and 2005, Sheamus Malerni’s team secured 71 convictions and solved 11 murders. Concigier Stephano Vitabille received a life sentence. Philip Abramo, the Wall Street captain, received a life sentence, later partially overturned on appeal. He was [music] released in January 2018 in his 70s whereabouts now unknown.
Seven copos went to prison at the same time. John Riggy, already imprisoned, admitted in 2003 to ordering the Weiss murder and received 10 additional years. He was released November 27th, [music] 2012 and died at his Edison, New Jersey home on August 3rd, 2015 at age 90 of prostate cancer.
He was the last of Sam’s generation, the last man who had known what the family was supposed to be. Vinnie Polalmo entered the Federal Witness Protection Program under the name James Cabela. He relocated to Houston, Texas, where he did what he had always done. He opened strip clubs, the Penthouse Club, the All-Star Men’s Club.
In September 2009, the New York Daily News identified him and published his location. Houston police had conducted seven sting operations at his clubs between 2006 and 2007. He later filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy. His current whereabouts are unknown. [music] He would be 81 years old in 2026. Anthony Kappo died of a heart attack at age 52 [music] in witness protection in 2012.
The man who pulled the trigger on John Damato, who drove the car in the Fred Weiss murder, who testified against the men he had worked alongside for decades, did not make it to old age either. The show, meanwhile, ran for six seasons. It ended in 2007. It became, by most measures, the most celebrated dramatic series in the history of American television.
David Chase has spoken about his inspirations carefully over the years. In a 2002 interview with New Jersey Monthly, he acknowledged that the show drew from real New Jersey mob figures and geography. Former FBI agent McClernney confirmed what researchers had long suspected. The Dicavalconte family was the primary template.
Chase grew up in North Caldwell, New Jersey, close enough to the real world of the show that the geography was not invented, it was remembered. Tony Soprano is a composite primarily of Vincent Polalmo, the deacto boss who ran a strip club and wrestled with FBI informants, but also of Sam D.C. Cavalcante, whose nightmares, whose fury at New York’s condescension, and whose extrammarital affairs are documented on FBI recordings from the 1960s.
Even the therapy was real. Not for Sam, but for Tony Boyardo, another New Jersey mob figure from Chase’s childhood neighborhood who reportedly saw a psychiatrist for what would today be called PT, says D. Urk Deo, the imprisoned boss of the fictional Deo family who ran operations through a chain of acting bosses, was John Riggy.
Jackie Ale senior, [music] the acting boss whose stomach cancer created a power vacuum was Jay Kamari. Veto Spataphor, the closeted capo who was exposed and murdered, was John Damato. The Bada Bing, the strip club at the center of the show’s world, was Wiggles Polarmo’s Queen’s operation at the Fulton Fish Market. Baron Sanitation, the waste hauling company Tony Soprano used to launder money, was the Decavalcante family’s actual garbage roots.
Former Columbbo Captain Michael Franesi, who knew the real world the show depicted, gave it a 7 out of 10 accuracy rating and called it the most consistently accurate account of life in the mob on television. The FBI confirmed the structural detail was so precise that agents reportedly wondered at times how the writers knew what they knew.
What the show changed was mostly surface. The therapy premise, Tony Soprano seeing a psychiatrist without consequence, was nearly impossible in real mafia life. As one former undercover FBI agent put it, “If a real mob boss visited a psychiatrist, he would be in the trunk of a car by the end of the week along with the psychiatrist.
” The frequency of open criminal discussion was somewhat compressed for dramatic effect, and certain informant arcs were tidied up in ways that real cases never are. But the bones were real. The bones were always real. The Decavalcante family still exists technically. Charles Big Ears Majuri, born December 28, 1940, son of the Conciglier who served under Sam the plumber, has reportedly been stepping aside as of late 2025, transitioning authority to a longtime member named Dominico Marzulo.
Charles Beeps Stango, who was released from federal prison in July 2022 [music] after serving a decade for conspiracy to commit murder, was promoted to under boss in 2024. Estimates put current active membership at fewer than 20 made men, down from 60 at their peak. The last major federal prosecution naming Decavalcante members with significant charges [music] concluded in 2021 for cocaine distribution.
Relatively minor by comparison to what came before. The five families have quietly absorbed the New Jersey rackets the Davalcontes once bled to protect. Paulo Fina, one of the last old guard members, died [music] at age 96 on January 2nd, 2023. Joseph Merllo, the street boss who held the operation together through its final decline, died on June 3rd, 2021.
Sam the plumber had built his family [music] with one ambition above all others, to be recognized as an equal by the New York families who treated New Jersey like a tributary. He spent his career fighting for a seat at a table that would never fully accept him. He was right that his family deserved respect.
He was right that what he built was real and significant and worth acknowledging. He could not have known the acknowledgement would come 50 years after his retirement from a television writer in the form of a fictional New Jersey mob boss who carried his anxieties and his resentments and his nightmares into living rooms across America.
He [music] could not have known that the FBI recordings of his own men sitting in a room watching that fictional boss on a television set and asking whether it was supposed to be them would be played in open court in federal proceedings as evidence of a criminal enterprise. There are 26 officially recognized mafia families in the United States.
Most of them have never been adapted into a television show. Most of them have never had their own soldiers captured on FBY tape, watching a dramatization of themselves and debating which character was based on whom. The Davalcante family got something the five families with all their power and all their history never quite managed.
They became the story everyone [music] knows. They just did not realize it was happening until it was too late to stop it.
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