Joseph Sasso

Should we have seen more of this character?

who was he?

Ubderboss in season 1. Gets indicted with Junior.

You're not Joe Pucillo by any chance are you?

No, i'm a new member

ok, its been a while since ive seen the series.

Yeah really there's not much to this, the dude is on screen for about 2 seconds lol.

Yeh but underboss is No 2 in the family he could have been juniors protege for all we know and they bring a random actor in for 2 seconds

He looked as bout as old as junior at the time so i doubt he was his protege, most likely he was his closest and most trusted soldier and was awarded underboss when junior became boss. Or he could have already been underboss to Jackie and did not want to fight junior and tony for the job.

How did Junior (A capo) bypass the Underboss?

He looked as bout as old as junior at the time so i doubt he was his protege, most likely he was his closest and most trusted soldier and was awarded underboss when junior became boss. Or he could have already been underboss to Jackie and DID NOT WANT TO FIGHT JUNIOR OR TONY FOR THE JOB.

If he didn't want to fight over boss position he would have stepped down from underboss

Really, guess Neil Dellacroce didnt get your memo.

Neil Dellacroce was one occassion give me 3 others where that has happened.

First one i can think of is that Catena didnt fight for the job with Tony Ryan when Vito died, he was the underboss when Genovese went to jail

In the news report for his arrest, they said Sasso was "ailing". So he was sickly. With Jackie just dying from cancer and it nearly causing a war, the Capos would never back an old, sickly man for Boss, whether he was Underboss or not. And given that he was sickly, he probably didn't want the job.

Dont know exactly how everything went down within the Genovese family between 1980 to 1982, nor does anyone else that would talk about it, but there defiantly wasnt a war.

In 1967 when Luchesse died Carmine Tramunti was named the boss and i dont know if he was even a capo at that time. Anyway Stefano LaSalle was the underboss at the time of Luchesse's death. No war. Thats makes four so far.

Anything else you need cleared up Phil? I never mind helping folks figure stuff out.

Explain to me how you've already lasted nine days here.

I promise you sir from now on when i dont get a response for 3 day on a topic i wish to discuss i will just let it go, only want discussion not to upset anyone, just my way of getting someone to say something about the topic to get back at me. No longer will i do it SC.

Do any of you remember in Tony's flashback, his father is arrested for running a scam at an amusement park and there was a guy called Francesco "Cicci" Sasso who got shot in the kneecap? He was allegedly a member of the DiMeo crime family back in the 70s. I really wondered if they were brothers or cousins but nowhere does it state they were actually related. Based on the timeline, Joseph and "Cicci" must have both made their bones in between 1970-1995.

Anyway, back on topic -- I don't think Joey should have had more screen time, Chase couldn't possible focus on every single inducted member of the family, even if this wiseguy was the underboss at one time.

Pax Soprano. Hes playing cards with tony Pussy and georgie

He is also seen outside the courthouse next to Junior during the trial, right before Junior falls down the steps.

A lot of characters need more screen time.