Yeah, someone that close (a consigliere at that point?) would never do something at that point. Put it down to a lack of characters written for the pilot.
To add a little side note to that Capo, several years back I read or heard somewhere that in the original script for the Sopranos there was no such character as Silvio Dante.
Supposedly David Chase was watching or attending a music award show and when he heard Steven Van Zandt (who was accepting some kind of an award), speak, he ( Chase) was amazed at the way that Van Zandt spoke and also at the way he shrugged his shoulders while making these awkward bodily expressions at the same time! It was then that Chase supposedly decided to re-write the script creating a character in it for Van Zandt to play.
