Background
Matthew Bevilacqua, a.k.a. Matt Drinkwater, was Sean Gismonte's partner-in-crime and an associate in the Soprano Crime Family. Matt and Sean were from West Orange, New Jersey. Matt wanted to move up in the ranks along with his best friend, Sean. He earned his brokerage license from Pace University and first sold shares in Webistics through a stock brokerage operated by Christopher Moltisanti. The Webistics scam was a typical pump and dump exercise. They got into trouble with Chris for stealing cars and beating up a broker who recommended the purchase of other stocks. Matt and Sean helped the Sopranos at the Massarone Construction site. Matt worked at the executive card game along with Sean. Matt finally did some burglary jobs with Chris and Sean. While collecting money, Furio together with an associate, took extra money from them when they came to pick up Tony's cut from the burglaries. Because of their lower status, Matt and Sean could not refuse them. They wanted to move up rapidly in the ranks of the family, so they planned a hit on Chris in order to get recognized by Richie Aprile, who disliked Christopher Moltisanti for hitting his niece, Adriana. Before attempting the hit on Christopher, Matthew once mentioned that he went to Pace College and is the holder of a stockbroker license.
Matt and Sean attempted a drive-by hit on Chris which resulted in Chris shooting and killing Sean in self defense. Chris was seriously wounded in the attack. Matt ran away from the scene and went to Richie seeking help. Richie refused because he knew Tony would kill anyone involved in the attack. Richie chased Matt away with a baseball bat and Matt went into hiding. Eventually, Pussy learned of Matt's whereabouts. Pussy and Tony dragged a beaten Matt to a locked refreshment shack and after interrogating him to make sure that he and Sean were acting on their own, and not for someone else, shot him 21 times in the chest, stomach and head. He was killed on April 29, 2000.
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