Richie Aprile

Richie Aprile was a capo with in the dimeo crime family. When Richie,s brother Jackie and his friend Tony Soprano robbed Feech La manna,s card game and Feech wanted them killed Richie stepped in to help them he served 10 years in prison during Richie,s stay there his Jackie(who was the Family boss) passed away  and was sucsceeded by Tony. after being released Richie Confronted Beansie Gaeta demanding money from him Which Beansie refused to do Richie then tracked Besnsie down  ramming him with his car before putting the car into gear and driving over the paryalized Beansie  Tony was furious over this and threatened Richie with severe consuquences .it was around this time Richie  resumed his old relationship With Tony,s sister Janice Richie also loaned money to Tony,s childhood Friend Davy Scatino and in a rare moment of compassion cut him off when he began to miss payments When Richie found Scatino at Tony,s high stakes poker game he was furious and tried to attack Davy causing Tony to intervene as he couldn,t afford to lose face by allowing one of his players to be harmed.Tony also punsished Richie by ruling that he wouldn,t get his money until Tony got his  Richie  had shown disdain for Tony,s protoge  Christopher Moltisanti due to Christopher,s violent relationship With his neice Adrianna beleiving Christopher,s behaviour was inappropriate as they wern,t married which led Matthew Bevilaqua and Sean Gismonte,s attemt to kill Chris in an effor to gain Richie,s favor .When th attempt failed Richie rejected Bevilaqua,s reequests for help and told Tony of his part in Christopher,s hospitalization Which led  to Bevilaqua,s execution at the hands of Tony  and Big Pussy Bonphenseiro .Tony also reprimanded Richie  When and Junior sold drugs along the garbage routes  as it could attract unwanted police attention and was upset by How Richie was allowing Jackie,s son Jackie Jr to watch football  and drink beer instead of focusing on his education as Jackie Sr would have wanted.after learning from Janice that Tony saw him as a violent psychopath and intentionally kept him away from his kids Richie began plotting With Tony,s uncle Junior to over throw him ultimately Junior chose he was better off With Tony and informed him of Richie,s intentions following Richie,s failure to gain Albert Barese,s support Richie