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Dwight Harris (born 1965) was an FBI special agent who was assigned to Mafia boss Tony Soprano's case in 1999.

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Dwight Harris was born in 1965, and he became an FBI special agent. By 1999, he was FBI Supervisor Agent-in-Charge specializing in the investigation of the DiMeo crime family with the FBI's Newark Organized Crime Division Task Force, and he staked out various family members. After 9/11, he was reassigned to counter-terrorism duty in Pakistan, where he caught a bad stomach parasite. Harris then returned to New Jersey, and he later cut a deal with DiMeo boss Tony Soprano: Soprano and Christopher Moltisanti would provide information on terrorism-related organized crime in exchange for banking "goodwill" on possible future RICO trials. Now that Harris was focused on terrorism, Harris and Soprano became friends, as both of them were New Jersey Nets fans. Harris would assist Soprano in exchange for counter-terrorism information, and he later warned him that the Lupertazzi crime family had put a hit on him in 2007. That same year, he gave Soprano Lupertazzi boss Phil Leotardo's location, leading to DiMeo hitmen killing him. Harris was personally happy when Leotardo was killed, jubilantly shouting "We're gonna win this thing!"

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