I just found about this family after watching The Sopranos' episode "The Weight", when Silvio Dante and Christopher go to visit the "Altwell Avenue Boys" in Providence I believe. it's such a creepy, weird, yet funny scene I just had to seek for the background on it and found out they were supposed to be based on the Patriarca Family which used to run the Altwell Avenue area right?

everyone who's watched it will remember what I'm talking about. if you did/do, is there any evidence that the real Patriarca Family is as fucked up as the loosely based on them, fictional Altwell Avenue Boys?