After years of investigating Tony Soprano (at one point trying to turn him into an informant) and failing to connect him to the murder of associate Matthew "Matt Drinkwater" Bevilaqua (which was tossed out when an eyewitness retracted his statement upon learning one of the shooters may have been Tony Soprano), the FBI arrested Tony in 2000 when it was discovered that he had been extorting Davey Scatino.
Nakon nekoliko godina istraživanja Tonyja Soprana tijekom kojih su ga pokušali povezati s bilo čime (najbliže su bili pri povezivanju s ubojstvom Matthewa Bevilaque, što je odbačeno kad je svjedok povukao svoju izjavu otkrivši da bi jedan od ubojica mogao biti Tony Soprano), FBI je 2000. uhitio Tonyja kad je otkriveno da je reketario Daveyja Scatina.