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, and Jackie Jr. falsely reports it as having been stolen and leaves the scene of the accident. Despite attempts to succeed at Rutgers, Jackie Jr. drifted towards a life of crime as he began helping his uncle Richie in the Aprile crew.\n', '

His mother Rosalie Aprile began a romantic relationship with Ralph Cifaretto. Ralph was more of a mentor in Jackie\'s attempt to follow in his father\'s footsteps and was not actively involved with his life or development as a young man. It was Ralph\'s bad influence, Jackie Jr.\'s own faults, and finally Tony\'s insistence that Jackie Jr. not become involved in organized crime that were the contributing factors that propelled Jackie Jr. into a brief and humiliating career as a criminal.\n', '

Working alongside his friend Dino Zerilli, he began small by selling ecstasy to college kids. They often hung out at the Ooh Fa pizza restaurant which brought them into contact with Christopher Moltisanti. He was a linebacker for his football team at Boonton High School and was All-State by the end of his semester. Jackie planned the robbery of a Jewel-Amnesty International benefit concert at the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University and drove the getaway car for Christopher and Benny Fazio. While waiting in the car Jackie urinates in his pants. Later Jackie tried to use his \'influence\' with Christopher to help a drug dealer associate from college named Matush sell ecstasy at the Crazy Horse club in West Long Branch, New Jersey, owned by Christopher and Furio Giunta and fronted by Adriana La Cerva. Matush had been thrown out of the club by Giunta once already and Jackie met with him at a "sit-down" and agreed to take his case up with Chris; Chris refused to grant any favors because estacy would bring attention of the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force but Jackie told Matush it would be alright to work outside the club anyway - resulting in a severe beating for Matush.\n', '

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