DiMeo crime family

DiMeo crime family

Founded	1950s
Named after	Domenico Ercole DiMeo
Founding location	New Jersey, United States
Years active	1950s–present
Territory	Northern New Jersey and Miami
Ethnicity	Italian and Italian-American made men, with other ethnicities as "associates"
Membership	60 made men (based on 6 crews consisting of approx 10+ men each), 200+ associates
Criminal activities	Racketeering, murder, assault, auto theft, bank fraud, mail fraud, wire fraud, loan-sharking, illegal gambling, drug trafficking, construction management, contract killing, waste management, prostitution, robbery, mortgage fraud, money laundering, extortion, theft, skimming, bootlegging, bookmaking, conspiracy, cigarette smuggling, labor unions, truck hijacking and witness tampering
Allies	Lupertazzi and the other Five Families, the Vittorio-Zucca Camorra clan, Cuban mafia, Jewish mob, Russian mafia, African-American drug gangs
Rivals	New England and Philadelphia crime families, The Vipers MC, Colombian drug gangs, Korean mafia and other New Jersey gangs, including some of their allies at various times

The DiMeo crime family, later referred to as the Soprano crime family, is a fictional Mafia family from the HBO series The Sopranos. It is thought to be loosely based on the DeCavalcante crime family, a real New Jersey Mafia family.

The DiMeo crime family consists of an administration and six crews. The following is a list of fictional characters from The Sopranos that are associated with the DiMeo crime family.

In the series, the DiMeo crime family is believed to have been formed in Northern New Jersey in the 1950s. Ercole DiMeo is believed to have been the first official boss, although according to the book, The Sopranos Family History by Allen Rucker and David Chase, there was an earlier boss named Alfano, but that boss is never mentioned in the series. Key members from the 1960s include brothers John Francis "Johnny Boy" Soprano and Corrado "Junior" Soprano, as well as Raymond "Buffalo Ray" Curto, Michele "Feech" La Manna, Patrizio "Uncle Pat" Blundetto, Robert "Bobby" Baccalieri, Sr., and Giuseppe "Beppy" Scerbo. Herman "Hesh" Rabkin was a key associate, but as a Jew could never become a made man. The Sopranos were a key faction in the DiMeo crime family, running two separate crews led by Johnny Boy and Junior, and also had longstanding ties with the five New York Families (particularly the Lupertazzi crime family led by Carmine Lupertazzi).

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