The Sopranos could get a little careless with the plausibility of some of its story lines. It's hard to believe an owner of a mobbed up waste management company wouldn't let an adult son, who he plans on leaving the company to, in on the business environment they were involved in. Not sure how fast the Lou Gehrig's disease killed Dick Barone, but how shitty of him to leave the biz to his kid without telling him how things worked. Could have gotten him killed.

"...the successful annihilation of organized crime's subculture in America would rock the 'legitimate' world's foundation, which would ultimately force fundamental social changes and redistributions of wealth and power in this country. Meyer Lansky's dream was to bond the two worlds together so that one could not survive without the other." - Dan E. Moldea