FORMER MAFIA ASSOCIATE: This is what 'The Sopranos' got right

Frank DiMatteo, author of "The President Street Boys: Growing Up Mafia," was a close associate of the Gallo crime family in Brooklyn, New York and also drove getaway cars for the Mafia. He explains what "The Sopranos" got right.

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[GerryBolger]

"Let me tell you a couple of three things The Sopranos got right".

[adamspeckert]

I know almost every scene from “The Sopranos”. Nothing in the show about 2 bodies in a coffin.

[BD-xndp]

I call BS. I've seen every episode of the Sporanos 3 times and view YouTube clips almost nightly. There was never a double coffin or double body in a single coffin episode or dialogue within an episode about this.

[bernardcwalsh]

It was in a 1995 movie called "Things to do in Denver when your dead". Treat Williams character worked at a funeral home in the movie and he got rid of two bodies this way. David Chase was not involved in that movie. It was not in the Sopranos.

[troyf.]

Double coffin? Dude, are you sure you was watching the Sopranos? Since that was a dialogue, please find it Thanks

[thecop-arazzi]

an associate, they were talking to made men

[billnolastname]

There were more shineboxes in the 70's.

[mrjackson]

would of been Tony sirco, he had ties with the mob

[markmed]

Seriously? I’ve seen that coffin trick used in old TV shows for years . That’s some wise guy you dug up there … pun intended. Also, never once did they use that scenario on the Soprano’s.

[TomBombadil]

Right away we learn what happened to Jimmy Hoffa lol

[andrewmeadows]

It does make you wonder how Chase made it so authentic

[catchnrelease]

I like how they had to give him subtitles. That heavy Jersey accent, bro. I'm from New York and I only MOSTLY understood him.

[jspin]

Well ya, obviously they’d be different 50 years ago.

[MrBangbangjim]

Here's something I don't feel David Chase got right. In the 70's and decades before that, smoking cigarettes was Everywhere all the time. Eventually smoking was banned here and there but mostly in restaurants, not bars, but restaurants. Today it's not allowed in bars. The time era of The Sopranos was yesterday and today but everyone, I repeat EVERYONE, in that show smokes EVERYWHERE constantly. Even cigars as much as cigarettes. Why did Chase feel it so necessary to make chimneys out of every person on that show even to the point of being grossly unrealistic?

[petrstanovsky]

Dude, what are you doing. Don't talk about it. 😁