Whose corruption is worse Tommy or Michael's? I am prejudiced, always in Michael's favor! But Tommy pretends, or maybe even believes that he is good and straightforward and doing the right thing! Tommy does not seem to realize that he has indeed become the bad guy, two-faced-double-talker, and typically he works in two categories most Americans of any thoughtful ideals realize are the worst in our nation--politicians and real estate developers. See Tommy cheating and ratting and undercutting his fellow politicians, as in his promise to the black legislator "I slip the knife in and you heart will be dead before you know it!" Now that is really evil! And all done for the sake of controlling Rhodes Island! Tommy--shame on you! And buying up real estate with cheat-earned money promising it to a bigger rat in the cheater real estate developing business really makes him a low-down snake. The cheating on Eileen just because she confessed to cheating on him is..... well, unbelieveably low! Despite all this he tries to actually beat Mike drunkenly attacking, and realizing what danger there is in his attack just in time not to be killed by Mike! Tommy deserves every punishment he gets from the politicians, the realestate thieves, and women he uses just as punishment against a woman he has never treated properly.