Phil Leotardo

Phil Leotardo was a capo within the lupertazzi crime family sent to prison during the eighties Phil also had a close relationship with his brother Billy who supported Phil,s family while he was in prison .after serving twenty years Phil was released rejoining the lupeteazzis under Johnny Sack.When New jersey boss Tony Soprano discovered Phil had cheated his father,s mistress Fran Feltstein out of money he was furious  which resulted in Phil being forced off the road Tony compensated him for this by having his car repaird free of charge at Angie Bonphenseiro,s body shop which Phil took advantage of trying to wire as much work as possible out of the deal.during John,s conflict with Little Carmine Lupertazzi for control of the family Phil served as a useful hitman first executing Loan Shark Lorraine Calluzo for siding with Little Carmine. in retaliation LittleCarminehired Tony,scousin Blundetto protoge Joey Peeps.in response Phil and Billy murdered Little Carmine,s ally Angelo Garepe.Blundetto was greif stricken by this as he and Angelo had been close in prison and decided to take revenge by killing Billy outraging Phil and John who wanted Tony to turn his cousin over attempting to intimidate him by violently assaulting soprano soldiler Benny Fazio,he refused due to knowing Phil planned to draw out Blundetto,s death and make it as painful as possible.ultimately Tony Killed Blundetto himself to give his cousin a painless death and maintain the loyalty of his men.Phil was beside himself that Tony stole his opprotunity for revenge however when John was arrested making Phil  the family,s acting boss he was forced to work closely with Tony.Phil developed contempt for his wife,s husband Vito Spatafore who was also an underling of Tony,s when his homosexuality was exsposed and frequently harassed Tony over his attempts to find and Kill Vito though Tony didn't have any desire to get rid of Vito as he was a good earner. in spite of their differences Tony and Phil planned a highjacking together and decided to cut John out of the profits .When Vito returned trying to buy his way back into the family  Tony begrudgingly decided it would best if he was disposed of as it would appease Phil and his crew members  and arranged With Silvio Dante to have Vito killed by Carlo Gervasi  however  before thous could be carried out Phil had Gerry Torciano and Fat Dom Kill Vito as he watched showing great disrepect toward Tony. When Dom was killed by Silvio and Carlo for joking about Vito and Carlo being in a relationship it served to furthur the tension While Little Carmine tried brokering peace between the families it fell flat when he made an inappropriate comment about Billy,s death. Phil was seemingly convinced by his consligre Butch Deconcini to target someone important to Tony,s family however soon after this he suffered a heart attack and while Tony was estatic upon hearing the news he visited Phil in hospital relating his own feelings of fear and regret after he came out of his coma sucscessfully persuading Phil to call a truce and even moving him to tears. in Keeping with this sentiment Phil wished to spend more time with his blood family and thought Torciano was a good choice to be his sucscessor.When Torciano was killed by Doc Santoro in a bid for power Phil blamed it on him going too soft and ordered Santoro,s death which thus restablished his power and launched war against Tony when he viciously assaulted one of Phil,s men Co