Watch: Johnny Sack: Pride, Ginny, and the Fall of a Boss

John "Johnny Sack" Sacrimoni was the smoothest operator in New York, unmade in the end by the two things he couldn't separate: his pride and his love for his wife. Watch the video above, then read his fall.

Vincent Curatola plays Johnny as velvet over steel: the underboss who becomes boss, who nearly starts a war over a joke about Ginny's weight, and whose devotion to her is the most genuine marriage in the series. That devotion is also his ruin: the joke, the vendetta it starts, the allocution he eventually gives in federal court to shorten his sentence and protect his family's money. A boss admitting the existence of the Mafia on the record was the one unforgivable act, and Johnny dies in federal prison having traded his name for fifteen years he doesn't live to serve.

Quick answer: Johnny Sack rose to boss of New York and fell through pride: the Ginny joke feud, an arrest, and an allocution that broke omerta forever.

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