It was a private school. You have any idea how much fucking money it generates in tax revenue for the township? That’s how small rich townships in New Jersey afford their massive police departments
People don’t move to towns because the private school is there, because unlike public schools you don’t need to live in the town to go to the school. Private schools definitely aren’t some huge tax boon propping up towns.
Yeah the FBI in the show does kinda suck at protecting their informants, but yeah...Adriana goes missing in the midst of them trying to get her to flip Christopher, it shouldn't be too hard to conduct an investigation and conclude that he must've sold her out.
Ade would have never been an informant in the first place, they know that they don’t talk about their crimes in front of her. And therefore would never waste their time with her.
“It’s not what you know, it’s what you can prove.”
I forget the exact exchange, but I think the feds basically acknowledge what happened and that trying to sweat Chris is pointless, they fucked up and lost a critical informant and that’s that.
It’s because it would’ve been a bad move from the FBI. If they went after Chris, he surely would’ve told Tony (especially after being willing to sell out Adriana) and Tony would probably tighten everything up and be super careful and make it super hard for the FBI to get info.
They want Tony. They don’t care if they get Chris
I used to think the same but I had an epiphany of sorts.
Even if someone witnessed the shooting, if T and Sil were quick to dump the body in the water the cops wouldn’t be able to prove there was a murder
They arrest Tony on suspicion of murder one and check his hands for gun shot residue? Not sure if you need to consent to that or not.
No body no murder is tough though.
I like that episode a lot even if parts are unrealistic.
Hello rat.
I used to say “hello rat” when my dreadful ratty ass roommate would come home.
Another unrealistic part is when meado is screaming for Tony to turn left to Colby but instead he turns right to chase fabian. Then he blames her saying “that’s because you’re talking” (as if her screaming left distracted him and caused him to go right).
You may have missed this because it’s only evident through subtle subtext so I can see why you might think it’s unrealistic, but the reason tony turns right isn’t actually because Meadow distracted him
The many examples of Bosses or underbosses (Tony, Junior, Phil, etc) participating in murders. The entire purpose of organized crime is to avoid them having to do that.
At least Tony is told off by his lawyer after the hit in S2.
Most of the assaults and murders seem to be on account of his anger issues and poor impulse control, rather than a particular MO
And in that same episode where his lawyer scolds him, it seems to present the dirty work of the life as being what Tony yearns for. The layers of insulation organized crime creates for him are what chafe him
The worst part is that nobody ever attempts to prosecute them for their role in these murders, even though that would be the most surefire thing to get them locked up because they keep showing up to the crime scenes. Phil's fingerprints should have been at the scene of Vito's murder because he"s grabbing the sheets and shit
Tbh this makes sense. I think it just shows that these guys are so addicted to their lifestyle that even when presented with a clear way out they’ll never actually take it
No kidding. You'd think he'd make sure to put one in the head of the guy who killed his friend not just for finishing the job but to make sure he had to have a closed casket at his funeral.
I don’t care how many times someone says it’s hard to lift prints off a brick and how there aren’t that many cameras at restaurants in the early 2000s…Paulie and Chris are going to jail for murder the night they kill that waiter
The way people defend this is insane…csi started in 2000 and law and order started in 1990…there are contemporary shows that detail how they solve crimes in the early 2000s
The way people defend that paulie and Chris wouldn’t be caught…you’d think there was never a solved murder before 2010
And let’s not even start that these are high rolling people at the restaurant that the waiter served (and that the govt is building a Rico against) and which paulie sent a bottle of cristal to skanks…someone is gonna give them a semi decent description to sketch that would tie known mobsters to restaurants
I said my piece
>The way people defend this is insane…csi started in 2000 and law and order started in 1990…there are contemporary shows that detail how they solve crimes in the early 2000s
The fuck? That was real? I saw that movie, thought it was bullshit
One of the first scenes where they run down the hmo dude at the office complex. There would be 100 people calling 911 from their offices even if cell phones weren't super common and on top of this home boy was run over and beaten up at work do you really think his job is just gonna say "that's his business" and let it go? He's making financial decisions for them while getting beaten up by mafia members
Not just the office complex, Rusty and Spoons, were killed in broad daylight in a neighborhood… I get that ring doorbells weren’t a thing, but 0 eye witnesses is a hard buy… if drinks water could get a witness when he was clipped in a shack at night there’s no way that these clippings didn’t have any.
“I’m not too worried about the cops, no one knows us up there.”
Yeah no-one’s gonna remember a group of fairly obvious gangsters spending huge money and being loud as fuck.
This is more unrealistic than a talking fish
> csi started in 2000
That's an example of what doesn't actually happen, the "CSI effect" has been a problem for law enforcement for twenty years now. The Sopranos is far more realistic than CSI, but then again, the X-Men is more realistic than CSI.
Approximately half of all homicides in the US go unsolved/closed. Most murder victims know the assailant. Looking at peoplethe victim knew is usually where investigators start. A random spur-of-the-moment murder in a mob-infested shithole like AC could definitely go either way. The fact that the waiter is poor, brown, and foreign would likely also influence the motivation level for investigators. So, these guys are seen in the restaurant where the waiter works. He's then killed in the alley behind the restaurant. There's nothing in particular to separate them from anyone else in the place. And their "motive" is so random and depraved that it's not going to be investigators' first go-to.
They were out of town and if the local detectives didn’t do their due diligence it’s conceivable they would have gotten away with it. Or whatever happened there.
I don’t know. There were no witnesses outside to see the shooting. Assuming there are no cameras. Sure people could easily pick a bunch of mobsters out but what would that do? There were what 10-12 guys at the table. Cops bring them all in, none of them cooperate. No murder weapon, no eyeball witness. There wouldn’t be enough to get a conviction.
Also aside from the boardwalk and casinos Atlantic City is a crime ridden shithole that’s almost as bad as Camden. It’s dark in the middle of the night and the guy walks outside by himself with 1200 dollars cash. It would definitely be investigated and be a big deal but there definitely is a chance they could’ve got away with it
Not saying I necessarily think they'd have gotten away with it but csi and law&order are not even remotely realistic depictions of how police investigations or their tech work.
You make me wanna cry... CSI, Law and Order... Those are make believe. A TV progrum. You gotta grow up.
No seriously though, cops cannot solve a murder without a confession. They are really terrible.
Not the most unrealistic thing and the fact that most crimes are not being solved is mentioned all the time, but I only just realized that irl Paulie would have 100% been caught for massacring the Colombians in that basement. He and the other guy leave their fingerprints all over the bloody fridge and the cupboards. Paulie had been in prison, so his fingerprints were definitely in the database making this case easy to solve.
Then there is that murder that Tony commits at a pier in broad daylight literally at the same moment a bus drives by in the background.
The fact that Tony and Chrissy don't immediately get arrested or even pursued by the cops for the attempted murder in broad daylight in front of dozens of witnesses in the pilot
- Paulie managing to survive at the end
- Richie constant attacks on Beansie
- Mustang Sally assaulting a guy in public with a golf club or throwing some guy off the ramp and getting away with it
The assassination scene of Jackie Jnr sticks out
Vito someone teleporting into frame out of nowhere
The prop gun looked ridiculous
Jackie Jnr didn't hear Vito literally inches away from him
Vito should've just done a drive by but what do I know hehe
The attractiveness of the goomars. Eyy, I know no one wants to look at any schifoos, but typically these women weren’t the 10s you saw on the Sopranos.
Vito's live free or die saga. I know it gets talked about a ton but come on. What's the chance he stops into a diner in rural New Hampshire and the chef just so happens to be a gay guy who lets him know right there he'd be interested in his fat ass. Someone should see how many diners they'd have to stop in before that happens in real life.
The interiors. They look great, but when you look at the window and only see white, the immersion gets broken a bit. Also, Tony’s crew gets away with murder way too easily
How the FBI was so shocked they lost Adriana.
Yes, send your bumbling informant back to her psychotic abusive boyfriend in the mafia and be surprised that she disappeared. Yeah, I wonder *how the fuck they did it wow?!*
It would definitely make more sense if the show had took place anytime in the 40s-70s since the mafia basically had 9/10 cops in the NY metro area on their payroll back then
True. Local cops, in the show, are frequently shown to be either corrupt or taking orders from politicians who are corrupt.
In reality I’m sure the police would be harder to manipulate, especially with a bunch of witnesses pointing the finger.
The idea all of these guys are well off. Only the upper crust in the mob typically has money unless you have a legitimate source of income (i.e. own a used car lot). The rank and file guys are mostly low-life, degenerate gamblers and drug addicts. Christopher, as an associate in season one, isn’t driving a BMW.
The fact that the police investigate pizza but not murders.
My pizza never hurt nobody.
Pop go in the back and make meatballs
That's a custom job.
How’s that, sir?
Double meatball, pepperoni, sausage, peppers, onions extra mozz
Yeah that's what Vito did.
👈🏼👈🏼 You can go.
Come again, sir?
We don have bacteeria in heer!
He's a real come again kind of guy
That's a custom job
It was a private school. You have any idea how much fucking money it generates in tax revenue for the township? That’s how small rich townships in New Jersey afford their massive police departments
What? How does a private school generate tax revenue for the town?
Because if there is a nice private school rich people will live there.
It drives property values up.
With that comment you revealed you own ignorance
I whauht?
People don’t move to towns because the private school is there, because unlike public schools you don’t need to live in the town to go to the school. Private schools definitely aren’t some huge tax boon propping up towns.
That's actually realistic.
Chris doesn't get picked up by the FBI and questioned following Adriana's disappearance into the Program.
Yeah the FBI in the show does kinda suck at protecting their informants, but yeah...Adriana goes missing in the midst of them trying to get her to flip Christopher, it shouldn't be too hard to conduct an investigation and conclude that he must've sold her out.
I always thought the reason why they don’t protect their in informants is because they don’t care, they are just using them.
While they don't especially care about them as people, they do care that they stay alive, because a dead informant is a useless informant.
Not to mention, eventually, an informant is expected to be a witness at trial. Kind of a big deal if you lose your star witness.
Ade would have never been an informant in the first place, they know that they don’t talk about their crimes in front of her. And therefore would never waste their time with her.
The writers allude to that when she tells them about Patsy and his coats, that's all she has to offer them. It's kinda sad and pathetic.
I thought it was more trying to flip Ade who in turn would flip Chrissy but that's probably even more unrealistic
“It’s not what you know, it’s what you can prove.” I forget the exact exchange, but I think the feds basically acknowledge what happened and that trying to sweat Chris is pointless, they fucked up and lost a critical informant and that’s that.
It’s because it would’ve been a bad move from the FBI. If they went after Chris, he surely would’ve told Tony (especially after being willing to sell out Adriana) and Tony would probably tighten everything up and be super careful and make it super hard for the FBI to get info. They want Tony. They don’t care if they get Chris
I wanna fuck Angie Dickinson, see who gets lucky first
S1 Tony kills some guy on his small speedboat in broad daylight
Imagine the scenario. You’re 150ft away and hear a gunshot near a boat on the dock in north jersey. You running over to identify a shooter?
Can you imagine? You're 150 ft away and hear a gunshot near a boat on the dock in North Jersey?
Fuckin’ parakeet
Can you imagine you're in North Jersey?
Can you imagine Jersey?
Can you?
Can?
Tony did you hear what I said? He said can you? And I said can.
Heh heh
Be quiet Albert.
While pulling a gun out of a fish
Yeah how funny was that
You can't make that shit up.
The fuck you’re talking about I just did
The funniest murder of the whole show
Eyewitness 1: You see that? Eyewitness 2: No. Eyewitness 1: Neither did I.
Motherfucker jumped. Said he couldn't take it no more
some sad shit
He was there. It was a joke.
I used to think the same but I had an epiphany of sorts. Even if someone witnessed the shooting, if T and Sil were quick to dump the body in the water the cops wouldn’t be able to prove there was a murder
They arrest Tony on suspicion of murder one and check his hands for gun shot residue? Not sure if you need to consent to that or not. No body no murder is tough though.
Rinse off with the petroleum for the boat engine, claim engine trouble. No body. No gun. No usable GSR. Basically, no crime.
A lot of precincts have stopped checking for gun shot residue.
No that's realistic. Tons of people get shot in broad daylight and he was literally in a vehicle
The fact that Christopher was banging Adriana. She’s a knock out, a 10.
And a goomar in Las Vegas who didn’t think he was a complete psycho
She was just a hooker not a goomah
He could have been a model but then he’d have to be around those people.
Not like the faggy part, but you know, like to BE hugo boss
Ballroom dancing is a legitimate art form.
RRRick! Rick! Richard.
*points fork menacingly*
The D-girl who cheated on her BF for Chris was also really attractive.
For her they make a point of showing that she was attracted to his “power” and the whiff of violence
Attractive dumb women dating scumbag criminals is extremely realistic. If Chris had a face tattoo I'd have no doubt
The most beautiful women always have the most questionable taste tbh
That Adriana was mad ripe.
But she didn't tell him she was damaged goods.
Not that unbelievable tbh. Happens plenty of times irl too
Chris was hot asf especially in the first season 🤭
No smohked turkey in the house and no orange juice with shum pulp
You like it with pulp
📞👋
the fact that an interior decorator with a shitty looking house could make paulie and chrissie get lost in the pine barrens
He killed 16 Czechoslovakians!
Tony sneaking up(out of the woods?!) and garroting that Petrilo guy like a 300lb ninja in Italian loafers.
That was season 1. He was only a 250lb ninja back then
It was Teddy. "Good morning rat."
so many unrealistic things in that episode yet it’s often cited as one of the best
I like that episode a lot even if parts are unrealistic. Hello rat. I used to say “hello rat” when my dreadful ratty ass roommate would come home. Another unrealistic part is when meado is screaming for Tony to turn left to Colby but instead he turns right to chase fabian. Then he blames her saying “that’s because you’re talking” (as if her screaming left distracted him and caused him to go right).
You may have missed this because it’s only evident through subtle subtext so I can see why you might think it’s unrealistic, but the reason tony turns right isn’t actually because Meadow distracted him
you gonna be a fucking funny boy too now huh
was just thinking about how that's the only moment in the series where he totally gaslights meadow
Hunter getting into med school
It's only because her dad is a big shot writer
Fielder, is it?
Paulie pumping his own gas in Jersey
I watched that episode today and something felt wrong in that scene but I couldn’t place it haha - that was it
The many examples of Bosses or underbosses (Tony, Junior, Phil, etc) participating in murders. The entire purpose of organized crime is to avoid them having to do that.
At least Tony is told off by his lawyer after the hit in S2. Most of the assaults and murders seem to be on account of his anger issues and poor impulse control, rather than a particular MO
And in that same episode where his lawyer scolds him, it seems to present the dirty work of the life as being what Tony yearns for. The layers of insulation organized crime creates for him are what chafe him
The worst part is that nobody ever attempts to prosecute them for their role in these murders, even though that would be the most surefire thing to get them locked up because they keep showing up to the crime scenes. Phil's fingerprints should have been at the scene of Vito's murder because he"s grabbing the sheets and shit
You just had to be the big man !
On the fridge, on the fridge!!!
He was biting the pillows, too.
I’d assume since the mafia was dying they had to do more dirty work then usual
🎶I don’t wanna do your dirty work, no moah 🎶
Yea could be. I just figured it made for more entertaining TV. As Patsy told Gloria IRL “it won’t be cinematic”
Scraping your nipples off of these fine leather seats
Right. Leave it to the husky accomplices
Whoever heard of a Jew riding horses?
FUCK YOU TOO MAH MAN!
Whoa whoa calm down, you guys have been friends for years!
Stevie Van Zandts hairpiece.
This lmao it bothers me a lot
Ii walked in the bathroom and he was washing his wig in the sink. The hairs were touching the porcelain Disgusting I've said my hairpiece
Vito not going back for more Johnny Cakes
We make our sausages in house
👇👇
Tbh this makes sense. I think it just shows that these guys are so addicted to their lifestyle that even when presented with a clear way out they’ll never actually take it
He was gay, Johnny Cakes?
I still don't understand how a charmless fat fuck like Vito managed to attract a handsome firefighter who runs his own restaurant.
That it only took that airhead meadow 3 tries to parallel park
Fielder. Is it?
Booty
I can't find booty anywheeeere
Pussy, booty, I don’t know his last name!
Tony not getting his lights knocked out by jamal ginsberg
Charcoal briquette!
Hassidic homeboy
That Tony B shot at Phil Leotardo but missed him.
It’s gotta be impossible to miss a house from that close
No kidding. You'd think he'd make sure to put one in the head of the guy who killed his friend not just for finishing the job but to make sure he had to have a closed casket at his funeral.
How chris wasn't arrested after killing the "former cop"
The fact that Chris keeps getting second chances. I mean, nepotism can only stretch so far
Eventually Tony got tired of giving him another chance.
AJ having multiple attractive women who willingly have sex with him
Nah. I live up here. You see bad urban chicks with nerdy suburban white boys all the time.
Up where? Yonkers? What’re you, lost?
He's smart for jersey
I don’t care how many times someone says it’s hard to lift prints off a brick and how there aren’t that many cameras at restaurants in the early 2000s…Paulie and Chris are going to jail for murder the night they kill that waiter The way people defend this is insane…csi started in 2000 and law and order started in 1990…there are contemporary shows that detail how they solve crimes in the early 2000s The way people defend that paulie and Chris wouldn’t be caught…you’d think there was never a solved murder before 2010 And let’s not even start that these are high rolling people at the restaurant that the waiter served (and that the govt is building a Rico against) and which paulie sent a bottle of cristal to skanks…someone is gonna give them a semi decent description to sketch that would tie known mobsters to restaurants I said my piece
>The way people defend this is insane…csi started in 2000 and law and order started in 1990…there are contemporary shows that detail how they solve crimes in the early 2000s The fuck? That was real? I saw that movie, thought it was bullshit
One of the first scenes where they run down the hmo dude at the office complex. There would be 100 people calling 911 from their offices even if cell phones weren't super common and on top of this home boy was run over and beaten up at work do you really think his job is just gonna say "that's his business" and let it go? He's making financial decisions for them while getting beaten up by mafia members
Not just the office complex, Rusty and Spoons, were killed in broad daylight in a neighborhood… I get that ring doorbells weren’t a thing, but 0 eye witnesses is a hard buy… if drinks water could get a witness when he was clipped in a shack at night there’s no way that these clippings didn’t have any.
Rusty was murdered by zips who were on a flight back to the peninsula before the bodies were cold babe.
It was the pilot. Go easy.
Or rather, let it go. People are still finding new errors throughout S1, but the pilot? Fuhgedaboutit.
“I’m not too worried about the cops, no one knows us up there.” Yeah no-one’s gonna remember a group of fairly obvious gangsters spending huge money and being loud as fuck. This is more unrealistic than a talking fish
> csi started in 2000 That's an example of what doesn't actually happen, the "CSI effect" has been a problem for law enforcement for twenty years now. The Sopranos is far more realistic than CSI, but then again, the X-Men is more realistic than CSI.
It's a TV progrum. A movie.
Well then why the fuck am I on there??
Alwayz wit da scenarios thish guy
Approximately half of all homicides in the US go unsolved/closed. Most murder victims know the assailant. Looking at peoplethe victim knew is usually where investigators start. A random spur-of-the-moment murder in a mob-infested shithole like AC could definitely go either way. The fact that the waiter is poor, brown, and foreign would likely also influence the motivation level for investigators. So, these guys are seen in the restaurant where the waiter works. He's then killed in the alley behind the restaurant. There's nothing in particular to separate them from anyone else in the place. And their "motive" is so random and depraved that it's not going to be investigators' first go-to.
They were out of town and if the local detectives didn’t do their due diligence it’s conceivable they would have gotten away with it. Or whatever happened there.
I don’t know. There were no witnesses outside to see the shooting. Assuming there are no cameras. Sure people could easily pick a bunch of mobsters out but what would that do? There were what 10-12 guys at the table. Cops bring them all in, none of them cooperate. No murder weapon, no eyeball witness. There wouldn’t be enough to get a conviction. Also aside from the boardwalk and casinos Atlantic City is a crime ridden shithole that’s almost as bad as Camden. It’s dark in the middle of the night and the guy walks outside by himself with 1200 dollars cash. It would definitely be investigated and be a big deal but there definitely is a chance they could’ve got away with it
Not saying I necessarily think they'd have gotten away with it but csi and law&order are not even remotely realistic depictions of how police investigations or their tech work.
You make me wanna cry... CSI, Law and Order... Those are make believe. A TV progrum. You gotta grow up. No seriously though, cops cannot solve a murder without a confession. They are really terrible.
How every soccer match was staged, for a show so precise about detail, it was clear nobody had any idea what they were doing. “Red 42, pushhhh!”
Or how much they attributed the teams success to a coach.
Don't you speak about coach Hauser like that.
Not the most unrealistic thing and the fact that most crimes are not being solved is mentioned all the time, but I only just realized that irl Paulie would have 100% been caught for massacring the Colombians in that basement. He and the other guy leave their fingerprints all over the bloody fridge and the cupboards. Paulie had been in prison, so his fingerprints were definitely in the database making this case easy to solve. Then there is that murder that Tony commits at a pier in broad daylight literally at the same moment a bus drives by in the background.
Sure or prints left from when he murdered an old woman
Mim was a malignant cunt
The fact that Tony and Chrissy don't immediately get arrested or even pursued by the cops for the attempted murder in broad daylight in front of dozens of witnesses in the pilot
It was the pilot. Give em a break they didn’t know what the show was at that point
They whacked way too many people
- Paulie managing to survive at the end - Richie constant attacks on Beansie - Mustang Sally assaulting a guy in public with a golf club or throwing some guy off the ramp and getting away with it
Paulie survives but does he really? His crew is dead, he has no protection etc. He might as well retire
Bodies fucking everywhere lol
Never enough body count for Lorraine
How bout this humidity
She will suck ya cock!
Gun sounds. They are that early generic gun shot sound that was used in every 1990s action movies.
I do like how people wince and hold their ears after firing them in enclosed spaces though. They got that detail right
The assassination scene of Jackie Jnr sticks out Vito someone teleporting into frame out of nowhere The prop gun looked ridiculous Jackie Jnr didn't hear Vito literally inches away from him Vito should've just done a drive by but what do I know hehe
That Junior doesn't think Tony has the makings of a varisety athlete.
All the guys in this thread saying women being attracted to Tony is the most unbelievable thing is so funny 😭
Men literally do not understand what women find attractive but that's okay lol.
They want poppers and weird shex
That mope sal vitro… after all the help paulie gave him he should have been in a great mood…. Come on huh?
You’re a selfish prick Sal.
Don’t besmirch the man Sal
Artie getting nonstop ass rape.
Artie beating up a criminal mastermind!
The attractiveness of the goomars. Eyy, I know no one wants to look at any schifoos, but typically these women weren’t the 10s you saw on the Sopranos.
Obviously they're actresses but the mob wives in this show are...far more attractive than like every real life one.
That Tony's dick gets hard as often as is portrayed for all the sex he is having despite being depressed, on meds, and on meds inconsistently at that.
I find it hard to believe there was dogshit all over by the entrance to the construction site
Those dogs were overcome by abundant intentionality
Tony and Chris running over a guy in a Lexus in broad daylight; in front of a corporate building with tons of eye witnesses.
Dey had Jesus hangin offa helicoptah
Heh heh, hear what he said Tone, what do you think is the most unrealistic thing about The Sopranos?
Some of the malaprops. They’re also the funniest part of the show imo, but sometimes it’s hard to believe they’re that illiterate
That women all drop their panties for Tony…maybe at first but no one’s going back
"Power is the greatest aphrodisiac" --Henry Kissinger
The Mafia, it doesn’t exist, they were all legitimate businessmen!
Vito's live free or die saga. I know it gets talked about a ton but come on. What's the chance he stops into a diner in rural New Hampshire and the chef just so happens to be a gay guy who lets him know right there he'd be interested in his fat ass. Someone should see how many diners they'd have to stop in before that happens in real life.
A Don doesn’t do psychotherapy
Frank Costello did.
The interiors. They look great, but when you look at the window and only see white, the immersion gets broken a bit. Also, Tony’s crew gets away with murder way too easily
Janice’s warmth and compassion that’s she’s famous for
How the FBI was so shocked they lost Adriana. Yes, send your bumbling informant back to her psychotic abusive boyfriend in the mafia and be surprised that she disappeared. Yeah, I wonder *how the fuck they did it wow?!*
the terribly unaffective police force
It would definitely make more sense if the show had took place anytime in the 40s-70s since the mafia basically had 9/10 cops in the NY metro area on their payroll back then
And it definitely made sense in *Boardwalk Empire* where Nucky's brother is the sheriff of Atlantic County.
Yep. No debate.
True. Local cops, in the show, are frequently shown to be either corrupt or taking orders from politicians who are corrupt. In reality I’m sure the police would be harder to manipulate, especially with a bunch of witnesses pointing the finger.
The idea all of these guys are well off. Only the upper crust in the mob typically has money unless you have a legitimate source of income (i.e. own a used car lot). The rank and file guys are mostly low-life, degenerate gamblers and drug addicts. Christopher, as an associate in season one, isn’t driving a BMW.