Dr. Ira Fried is a recurring character portrayed by Lewis J. Stadlen. He is a player in the "executive game" and a doctor who specializes in treating erectile dysfunction.
Biography[]
Fried is one of the players at DiMeo crime family street boss Tony Soprano's "executive" poker game, previously ran by DiMeo boss Junior Soprano, who is under house arrest. Other players in the "executive game" include Frank Sinatra Jr., David Scatino, Johnny Sacrimoni, Silvio Dante and Paulie Gualtieri.
He also performs emergency surgeries for mob-related injuries.
He is a urologist, who specializes in treating erectile dysfunction with penile implants. In 2002, Dr. Fried acted as the initial property buyer in Tony's HUD scam using $500,000 of Soprano family money to buy several homes on Garside Street in Mount Pleasant, Newark, New Jersey and on Frelinghuysen Ave in Weequahic, Newark for $125,000 each which would then be falsely appraised at $300,000. He would then sell the properties on to Maurice Tiffen who would claim the project a financial failure and the loan would be approved through Maurice's organization. In 2004, Fried and numerous others were the victims of a large-scale car robbery at his daughter's wedding in Ringwood, New Jersey and sold them to a chop shop in Newburg, New York that worked with Johnny Sack instead of using Tony's connections in Brookdale, New Jersey. He reached out to Tony about the theft. It turned out that Feech La Manna had organized the car theft scheme.
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