Jackie Aprile Jr.

Jackie Aprile Jr. was born 1979 into a North Jersey mafia family and raised in Lincoln Park, New Jersey. His father, Jackie Aprile Sr., was once the acting boss of the DiMeo crime family, and his uncle Richie Aprile was a long time capo in the same crime family. However Jackie Jr. himself was kept away from the family business by Jackie Sr. and his father\'s best friend, Tony Soprano. At his wake, Corrado Soprano recalls a story that Jackie Jr. almost drowned in three inches of water at a zoo penguin exhibit. He only began getting involved with the criminal aspects of his family in 2000—season 2 of The Sopranos—after the death of his father and the release of his uncle Richie from prison. Richie speaks of taking Jackie Jr. out to go buy him a Chevrolet Camaro (fourth generation). While out on a date with Meadow Soprano, while inebriated she crashes his Chevrolet Cavalier in a parking lot…