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Part 1: Former FBI Agent Seamus McElearney on Investigating DeCavalcante Mafia AKA Real Sopranos
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In a revealing interview, FBI Agent Seamus McElearney discussed his role in dismantling the notorious DeCavalcante crime family in New Jersey, the real-life inspiration behind the hit HBO series *The Sopranos*. Beginning in 1998, McElearney’s team secured 71 convictions and solved 11 murders, using groundbreaking tactics that saw members across all mafia ranks testify against one another.
The parallels between the DeCavalcante family and *The Sopranos* are striking. Both feature a mob boss who dies of stomach cancer, control over unions, illegal strip clubs, and even internal scandals involving a gay mobster’s murder. The DeCavalcante's involvement in stock fraud and their frequenting of a local meat market also found their way into the show’s plotlines.
Most notably, in 1999, FBI wiretaps captured mobsters discussing the freshly premiered show—testimony that proved invaluable in court. McElearney notes that while *The Sopranos* mirrors reality closely, unlike the fictional Tony Soprano, real mob bosses would never confide in therapists,
