All FBI informants on the show, ranked

From Big Hole to Jimmy Petril, the stories follow The Sopranos‘ informants and rats made for some of the most intense drama in the series. However, while this was a show about the mafia, it was a show about the criminals on the inside. This means that the protagonists are really the bad guys, with Tony Soprano as the main character that people followed throughout the show. It also meant that the informants and rats – the people who helped the FBI and did the right thing – really came off as villains for all intents and purposes.

When it comes to the US Sopranos Rats, almost none of them were good enough to help the FBI bring Tony Soprano and his crime family down. The Sopranos Allowing Tony to live and continue with his life, although there are several theories that Tony Soprano died – but not to the police or court system. This means that every informant who gave evidence on Tony did so for no reason, and most of them died without giving the police what they wanted.

10

Phoebe Petrulio

Played by Tony Ray Rossi

It’s rare for a character with so little screen time to become so memorable on a show like this The Sopranos. Although he only appeared in the series for a combined total of 15 minutes, Phoebe is remembered as the Turcoat whom Tony Soprano strangled to death In the critically acclaimed episode “College.” Tony saw him at a gas station while he was out looking for colleagues with his daughter Meadow.

Phoebe gave evidence about the DiMeo family to the FBI, leading to convictions. The former magician was the worst FBI informant on the series, because he had a good thing in the witness protection program, but he killed it. He got kicked out of the program possibly for dealing drugs which put him in the public eye, where Tony managed to kill him.

9

“Black” Jack Massarone

Played by Robert Desiderio

Construction company owner Jack Massarone is played by Tony Leech. The map boss orchestrated a protest at Jack’s construction company, forcing him to seek the help of the DiMeo family to stop it. Tony promised to stop the protests if he got a cut of the business. Jack agreed but became disgruntled. It finally started to sneeze. During his meetings with Tony, he wears a baseball cap with a hidden wire in it. However, Jack was not sure enough, and Tony was suspicious, spotting him as an informant as a result.

Tony finally ordered a hit and Massarone’s body was found in the trunk of a car With a message specifically for the FBI. He played a very small role in The Sopranos And the fact that Tony caught him so quickly meant he couldn’t do anything to hurt the Soprano crime family.

8

Eugene Pontecorvo

Played by Robert Funaro

Eugene’s career as a made man was respectable until his dead aunt named him heir to her fortune. His wife saw no need for him to continue being in the mafia. She started pressuring him to leave so they could go to Miami and live a peaceful life. However, his request to Tony was denied, and it soon emerged that Eugene was also working with the FBI. However, it is not clear when he became an informant, and it seemed to come out of nowhere.

The show never wrote him as a rat, and it felt like something was added on just to add tension. The show never revealed anything about his success as an informant. It didn’t help that he wanted out, but the feds also prevented him from driving to Miami with his wife to force him to bring Tony down. Eugene was a poor informant And a poor member of Tony’s family since he felt trapped by both. Instead of moving on, he took his own life to find his way.

7

Jimmy Altieri

Played by Joe Badalucco

Capo Jimmy Altieri’s brief stint as a Sopranos The informant mostly stems from the fact that none of his elders loved him. When a corrupt FBI agent told Tony that Big Pussy was sending, Tony thought that the agent had confused Sal with Jimmy, because the two have similar body shapes. It doesn’t help that Jimmy kept asking too many questions, making Tony suspicious of him.

The FBI agent died without Tony confirming who he thought, so Soprano concluded that Jimmy was the informant and not Sal. It turned out that both were working with the FBI. Silvio and Christopher eventually killed JimmyBut he never did anything that seemed important except as a red herring for Salvatore. Everything he did for the FBI remains a mystery.

6

Salvatore Bonpensiero

Played by Vincent Pastore

Big Pussy was the show’s most popular informant. It took several years before one of his colleagues discovered that he was working with the FBI. It would have continued this way for a while, Tony hadn’t had a strange dream that suggested Big Pussy was rapping. The character initially did a good job of covering his tracks and even killed a fellow mob member who spotted him talking to his FBI handler. And when he disappeared for a while, he lied that he had gone to a foreign country to seek treatment.

Salvatore became an informant when he faced life in prison, and he chose to inform the Soprano crew to stay out of prison. This was a huge shock to fans, as for most of the series, Sal was one of the most popular members of Tony’s crew.

In his last days, he began to enjoy his undercover work a little too much and started following suspects like a cop, which led to his discovery and assassination on the boat. There is no telling how much information he gave the Fed over the years, however The way things ended showed he wasn’t as good as he thought he was.

5

Adriana La Cerva

Played by Drea De Matteo

Adriana did not deserve what happened to her. The FBI tried hard to get her to cooperate, but it was unsuccessful. First, the bureau used a female agent to free her, but that failed when Christopher hit the agent, causing the friendship to crumble. The FBI then brought in Adriana to force her to cooperateBut she avoided giving the agents any significant information. When she was threatened with a prison sentence for covering up a murder, she still refused to cooperate.

Adriana tells Christopher, but instead of helping protect her, he tells Tony, and he has Silvio beat her. Adriana never betrayed the Soprano family, and he killed her anyway. This made her story one of the most tragic in the entire show. She never did anything to harm the family, but there were so many informants that they couldn’t take any chances. Adriana never deserved to die, and she was easily the best-told story of any informant because of it.

4

Larry ‘Lorenzo’ Barce

Played by Tony Darrow

Lorenzo is often portrayed as a reserved and humorous member of the Dimeo crime family, That’s why it was a surprise when it was later revealed that he was an informer. The head of the bar crew helped the FBI find the body of a victim that Tony had killed over 25 years ago after they arrested Larry for numerous felony counts.

Because he was able to provide what the FBI wanted and never died, he was more successful than most informants. There are only a few people who turned on Tony who was alive, so the fact that Lorenzo delivered such a small amount of evidence and still managed to make it to the end of the series speaks volumes for his work as a rat. . Anthony Borgse, The Actor who played Larry Barce, was a real-life member of the Gambino crime family (via Reuters).

3

Carlo Gervasi

Played by Arthur J. Nascarella

It is impossible to like the homophobic Carlo Gervasi. He exposes Vito’s sexuality, and the muffin to escape to avoid being killed and despite being given a lot of responsibility, he is not good at his job, as Tony complained that Carlo was a poor earner. Carlo’s case is unfortunate because he was loyal for so long only to turn against his colleagues in the final series.

Garlo decided to cooperate with the FBI in order to cut a deal for his son who was picked up on drug-related charges. This is one of those cases where the viewers can understand a little where he comes from to agree to the deal, even if they didn’t like it. Despite his annoying traits, Carlo never got himself killed, making him one of the most successful of these Sopranos informants.

2

Jimmy Petril

Played by Vinnie Vela

In the season 5 finale, it emerges that the consigliere has been an informant since 1981. Since the events of the episode took place in 2004, Petrile’s status as a rat has spanned 23 years. Petrile’s cooperation gave the FBI plenty of meat to enable them to go after Lupertazzi underboss Johnny Sack. The police raided Johnny’s house when he was with Tony. Fortunately, Tony managed to escape. Tony then learned that Petril was the snitchBut he never gave any information on the Dimeo family.

Petrile was also not killed for a jump, but it was claimed that he entered the witness protection program after the big bust. It seems surprising that there were so many rats in the Soprano crime family, but for Jimmy, he was another surprising revelation. The fact that he did this for over two decades, and was never caught until he was able to go into hiding, shows his incredible success as an informant.

1

Raymond ‘Buffalo Ray’ Curto

Played by George Loros

Ray was the best informant because his snitching activities were never discovered by his fellow mobsters. He died with his secret when he suffered a stroke in an FBI agent’s car. Given his age and many appearances, it is possible that he managed to give the FBI plenty of incriminating information.

His motivations for ratting are never revealed although it is suggested that it has to do with his son’s expensive medical treatment. Ray had to be on the outside so he could keep earning and pay for his son’s medication. Ray was one of the few Sopranos Informants who left the show without anyone knowing what he did.

What FBI informant revelation was the most shocking?

Some of the revelations of The Sopranos The informants really surprised the audience, because there was little indication of them being traitors. This is Certainly the case with Jimmy PetrilleA key mob in its own right. However, the revelation mirrors real-life cases of big-time mobsters acting as informants to help their own criminal enterprise. Buffalo Ray’s was also a nice surprise for the end of the series, showing the audience that there was an informant right in front of them the whole time.

Adriana’s death in The Sopranos Helps add to the shock factor of you being an informant. However, the storyline was drawn out with no big reveal but rather a gradually growing sense of dread and impending doom that eventually led to her death. however, The most shocking of The Sopranos‘ Informants was big hole. The show did a good job of building some suspicion around the possibility, seemingly contradicting the idea with the reveal of Jimmy Altieri as an informant, then revealing Pusey was too.

Like Adriana, there is no dramatic moment of revelation, but it still makes for a shocking twist. This was the first member of the main cast that was revealed to be working against Tony. It provided an exciting threat hanging over the show, as it was clear that Pusey knew enough to do some real damage. It all built up to Pussy’s death which remains an iconic moment The Sopranos.