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Paulie Pintero - is a secondary antagonist 1998 movie Enemy Of The State. He was portrayed by to the late Tom Sizemore, who also played Chance Wilder in Harley Davidson and Marlboro Man, Max Peltier in Strange Days, DeWitt Albright in Devil In A Blue Dress, Sonny Forelli in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City and Kurt Rossi in Crime Scene Investigation: Miami.
Biography[]
Paulie was an Italian crime mob boss in Baltimore. He has restaurant and car rental company. Even though he was on parole, he was breaking one of his terms, meeting with government people. One of these meetings it was recorder on video tape. The recording was brought by a lawyer Robert Dean. Lawyer played the video and show it Paulie's. Pintero firmly denied that the figure in the recording was him, but asked for the author of the recording under threat of murder. He gave Dean's a week to find out who made the recording. Some time later Dean suspected Pintero for breaking into his house and being framed for foul play during court cases as a result, he was fired from his law firm. Shortly thereafter Dean went to a car rental company owned by Pintero. He wanted to talk to the boss, but he didn't feel like it and watching Dean through the window. Some time later corrupt NSA agent Thomas Reynolds he finally Dean's and accompanying Edward Lyle also knows as Brill caught up. Lawyer came up with a clever plan to get rid of corrupt NSA agents and Paulie's gangsters. Dean convinced Reynolds that the cassette he is interested in is in Pinteros hands. Reynolds so took Dean's, Pratt and Bingham and foursome they entered Pinteros restaurant. The boss agreed to talk to them even though he was eating lunch with his family. Pintero asked his wife and children to leave to talk at Reynolds in peace. He demanded the video tape back, but Pintero flatly refused, saying that he had purchased the tape legally. When Reynolds tried to threaten him, Pintero grabbed him by the face and pushed him away. Reynolds hit his back against the fridge. In response he and Pratt and Bingham they took out their guns. To this Pintero and his men they did the same and all pointed their guns at each other. Trying to calm down the tense situation Dean wanted Pintero to persuade to return the video tape, but the boss told him to keep quiet. At that time in front of the restaurant other Reynolds agents approached alerted by Brill. One of them, Krug armed with a machine gun, he rushed inside and tried force gangsters to give up their weapons, but then one of Pinteros cooks sneaked up on him from behind and he shot the man in the chest. Krug as he was dying, he involuntarily pressed the trigger of his machine gun and so a huge shooting broke out between Reynolds and his agents and Pintero and his gangsters. As a result of the gunfire, most of the participants of the shooting died. The victims included, among others Pintero and Reynolds.