The Sopranos: The FBI Are The Bad Guys

thank you The Sopranos is a show about the mafia we follow the mobsters of the demaio family of New Jersey as they go about their daily lives committing various crimes and as you would imagine the main adversary they face in this Pursuit is law enforcement mainly the FBI throughout the entirety of the show the FBI is trying to build a case against Tony and the other leaders of the mob they engage in a prolonged investigation utilizing not only wiretaps and surveillance bugs but also a network of informants in Tony's crew to try and bring a charge against him however while this might seem like a noble goal the methods they used to go about it are not only deeply destructive to the people they coerce it also blurs the line between who the good guys and the bad guys really are and StayWell Crooks and kill us too but that was a business right the American way all right real quick before we get started I wanted to thank all the supporters who make these videos possible if you would like to support the channel and get early access to videos or a shout out and credits of the video check the links in the video description we're first introduced to the FBI in the first season after the death of acting boss Jackie April it's revealed that they not only know about the organization's structure and members they also have a new Target after Juniors declared boss going after him and later Tony once he takes over unlike the local police who are generally portrayed as either incompetent or actually working for the Mobsters the FBI is a legitimate threat they have seemingly unlimited resources to investigate the mob and they're focused on that goal there's the FBI Tom local cops you buy them a Christmas tree they'll give you the grandmother but you know how tight these fat [ __ ] can keep it one of the big questions of the first season is if big [ __ ] is an informant for the feds a corrupt cop on Tony's payroll tells him that he flipped but Tony doesn't want to believe that his friend would betray him like that Tony eventually comes to believe that one of his capos Jimmy Altieri is actually the rat but meanwhile [ __ ] has disappeared and no one knows why I can't find [ __ ] anywhere however it's eventually revealed that [ __ ] is in fact an informant and has been working with the FBI after he got pinched trying to sell heroin with the threat of 30 to life over his head [ __ ] is forced to rat on his best friend this creates serious psychological distress for [ __ ] who can't deal with the guilty feels over this betrayal to cope he ends up developing an almost stockholm-like syndrome for his abusers the FBI and imagining himself as a law enforcement agent all of a sudden we're the good guys it's the worst case of Stockholm syndrome I see him since Patty Hearst that was sad now I don't want to make it seem like puss is innocent to all of this he's a murderer and a vicious criminal and he arguably has his coming to him but it's clear that the FBI targeted him specifically because he cared about his family as they knew they could coerce him into doing whatever they wanted was this guy [ __ ] huh who is he he's a man who loves his family above all else well guess what that's their favorite Target also for what it's worth there's a deleted scene that actually shows [ __ ] getting arrested for dealing heroin in the scene the FBI ignore his calls for a lawyer and threaten him into making a deal now I'm not sure if it's fair to include a scene it wasn't actually in the show as evidence but it does fit the pattern of the FBI doing whatever it takes to coerce people into becoming informants regardless of what it does to them the same is true of Eugene pod de corvo in the sixth season it's revealed that he actually is an informant as well he ends up inheriting two million dollars from a relative and wants to retire and move to Florida so that he can have a fresh start with his family particularly his son who's a drug addict after being caught between Tony who won't let him retire and the FBI who also forced him to stay and keep informing Eugene feels there's no hope and takes his own life now again Eugene is a murderer so I'm not saying he deserves all the sympathy in the world or anything but it does fit the FBI's pattern of using people who are worried about their families given his son's drug addiction I can't help but wonder if Eugene became an informant to get him out of trouble somehow after all that's exactly why Carlo agrees to cooperate after his son gets picked up on drug charges his kid the imbecile Jason for selling ecstasy this disregard for their informants well-being seems to be centered on one character in particular FBI Chief Frank kubitoso he is the lead investigator in charge of the task force that's trying to take down The Sopranos he also displays what seems to be a personal animosity against Tony and the other Italian mobsters when the FBI bring Tony in to show him the Green Grove tapes not only does Frank go out of his way to distance himself and fellow Italian agent Grasso from Tony he also seems to enjoy rubbing Tony's nose in the fact that his mother wanted him whacked Tony you on the one hand me and agent Grasso on the other even though our ancestors all hail from the same Sunny peninsula what the [ __ ] is your problem now maybe you can say he's just enjoying bringing down a criminal like Tony he later taunts Tony when they arrest him at the end of season two it's Tony Soprano weak in the knees can't stand the heat I got food poisoning you think this bothers me you [ __ ] but other agents like Harris don't seem to share this animosity in fact Harris looks sad for Tony as kubitoso plays the tapes for him I've done a whole video on the friendship between Harris and Tony which you can check out here but it's clear that the FBI don't necessarily need to hate their targets the way that kubatoso does and Frank's disregard doesn't just apply to Tony he warns agent lapari against being too sympathetic towards Big [ __ ] as he wants to keep them at a distance emotionally so that they can continue to use him for their own benefit I'm kind of worried about Sal with these fantasies of law enforcement these things can work two-way skin you can find yourself getting too close kubitosa reminds me of melfy's ex-husband Richard who despises Mobsters because they give Italians a bad name people like him in the recent Italian Americans have such a bad image I agree I wonder if the reason he shows so little regard for their Cooperators is because of this bias now again you can make the case that all of these guys are scumbags so there's no need to be concerned about their well-being after all if the FBI hadn't gone to them they would have just continued their crimes without a care in the world but that justification goes out of the window when it comes to Adriana yeah yeah go ahead and make your jokes we all know that I'm a simp for Adriana but the way that the FBI treat her really gets under my skin in the third season after having lost [ __ ] as an informant the FBI try a new strategy they identify Adriana as a potential weak point and send an undercover agent Danielle to make friends with her Adriana being the trusting naive girl that she is not only confides in Danielle about her personal problems but also even brings her around into Tony's house eventually Adriana ends the Friendship after Christopher makes a move on her the FBI then bring her in and threaten her into becoming an informant in particular they threaten to reveal that she brought an undercover FBI agent into Tony's house which would almost certainly get her killed after you make bail you can explain to Tony Soprano why you brought an undercover federal agent into his home during Sunday dinner we'll probably never hear about it though chances are you and Christopher just disappeared though they have no substantive charges on her at this time they know they can manipulate her because she's naive and inexperienced in dealing with law enforcement know him not only do they strong-arm her into cooperating they also allow her to be killed after a murder happens in Adriana's Club the FBI officially take the kids gloves off and threaten her with a charge unless she wears a wire you've been giving a [ __ ] and I've had it I want you wire it up I want Tony Soprano on tape your boyfriend too no I'm not doing it then you're all out of options this convinces Adriana to come clean with Christopher and try to get him to flip on Tony he considers it but after realizing what life without the glamor of the mob would really be like he turns Adriana over to Tony who has her killed her life ends with her crawling away on her hands and knees before being shot by Silvio now the FBI say that they can't offer her surveillance or protection because she refused to wear a wire but is that really true I mean they had no problem sending multiple agents to watch Tony's children on the off chance that they would return home while they were putting the bug in his house I feel like if they wanted to they could easily post One agent to watch the apartment in case something went wrong you could make the argument that this takes place after 9 11 and thus resources are being taken away from organized crime division to focus on counter-terrorism maybe they don't have as many agents working on a task force and it's true we are missing some agents like skip lapari but we also have multiple new agents like cicerone and San Severino and Harris hasn't even been transferred to counter-terrorism yet so I don't think Manpower is the issue I think it's the general apathy the FBI feel towards their informants to the feds they're Expendable just another tool in their Arsenal for getting their targets and again I'm not saying they shouldn't be going after Mobsters that's their job but the way that they do it is absolutely destructive to all those involved and seems unnecessarily so I mean they blow through at least five informants over the course of the show and don't really have anything to show for it it's only Carlo who flips in the very last episode that seems to yield any real evidence against Tony somebody's giving grand jury testimony on something so Carlo has flipped maybe if the FBI took better care of the people working for them they'd be around longer and be in a better position to provide information the FBI is a business after all and they need to invest in their assets if they want to see a return on investment the feds were a business Anthony millions of tax dollars invested in watching your ass sooner or later just like you they're going to want to return on that investment but that's just one YouTuber's opinion let me know what you thought about the FBI in the comments and stay tuned for more Sopranos content coming soon defund the FBI upsgracing media Daz J kit Sam cedarland Celery Man Jenna Marie Johnson Brad Smith Studios Uncle Mike Shane Boyce Matt 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Length: 12min 25sec (745 seconds)

Published: Fri Apr 28 2023