Carmine Lupertazzi

Carmine Lupertazzi
First appearance	"Fortunate Son" (episode 3.03)
Last appearance	"The Test Dream" (episode 5.11)
Created by	David Chase
Portrayed by	Tony Lip
Information
Full name	Carmine Lupertazzi, Sr.
Occupation	Mafia boss Union leader Restaurateur Businessman.
Title	Boss of the Lupertazzi crime family
Spouse(s)	Violet Lupertazzi (wife)
Children	Carmine Lupertazzi, Jr. (son) Unnamed daughter
Religion	Roman Catholicism

Carmine Lupertazzi, Sr., played by Tony Lip, is the fictional boss of the Brooklyn-based Lupertazzi crime family on the HBO TV series The Sopranos.

Carmine Lupertazzi was an old-school mafioso of Corrado "Junior" Soprano's generation. He kept a low-profile for most of his criminal career while operating out of his social clubs and restaurants. Carmine was arrested and acquitted of labor racketeering charges in the 1980s. It was around this time that Carmine's longtime consigliere, Angelo "Angie" Garepe and longtime Lupertazzi family captain Philip "Phil" Leotardo were convicted of various racketeering charges and sent to prison for 20 years each. During Carmine's tenure his family was the largest and wealthiest of the Five Families in New York City. They maintained close ties to New Jersey's DiMeo/Soprano crime family.

Carmine was calm and ruthless, a true opportunist and still sharp even in his old age. Despite being a loving father and grandfather, grooming his own son, namesake "Little" Carmine Lupertazzi, by making him a capo in the crime family that bears his name and allowing him to run the family's business in Florida, he remained foremost a violent mobster, making threats and ordering various murders. He had a sometimes contentious relationship with his underboss John "Johnny Sack" Sacrimoni: during different episodes in the fourth season Johnny and Carmine each authorized Tony Soprano to put a "hit" on the other, although in neither case was the killing actually carried out, due to Tony not wanting to get involved in another family's business.

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