Violi Family

The Violi Family is an Italian mafia organized crime syndicate residing in San Lorenzo County.

Background
The Violi Family was founded in the 1930s during the Great Depression by by mafia members from big cities throughout the United States that wanted to escape the hardships that the major cities they had previously resided in brought onto them. Soon, new faces would join the group who had previously resided in other cities or where new immigrants who had arrived from Italy and Sicily. The group's numbers rose significantly in the 1960s-1990s as many other crime family members from Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York City, and eventually Chicago escaped to San Lorenzo County due to crackdowns in collaboration between federal officers and local police officers to ensure the safety of civilians residing in these cities.

The group operates differently compared to the other organized crime syndicates that have called the SLC their home, they work more in the shadows in the underbellies of society to prevent mass publicity from the public eye. While they have made a number of public appearances, enough to garner attention and create a name for themselves to the point of becoming known to many residing in the region; they still usually carry out their activities in secrecy most of the time, including the business deals they struck with from individuals, small businesses, chain stores, to even major corporations. Over the past decade the Violi Family, including its two factions, have been conducting ongoing business in South America, specifically Brazil in collaboration with the Arvelop group syndicate which is a well known organization operating in the city of São Alfonso.

Various individuals have become a part of the crime family throughout the years, while many have departed either out of choice or had passed away, the organization's numbers are still strong to this day. While many of its members are of Italian descent, there are also other European-descent members who fit right in with everyone else; these range from Irish, Scottish, English, French, Romanian, and Greek. There are as well a good number of members of Spanish and Portuguese descent, however many have joined the La Realezas syndicate due to a shared common ground in culture between the Iberian Europeans and Iberian Latin Americans. Decades ago however, it was decided upon that the Violi Family will have two factions added to assist with its activities and businesses that spread outside of the general West Coast and Northwest/Southwest regions of the United States.

The Parrotta Family Faction
The Parrotta Family Faction takes on side work that is focused on other locations throughout the country outside of the West Coast and Northwest/Southwest, and throughout the state if the mainline Violi Family is too preoccupied to take care of the requested business at hand. It's common to see faction members head up north to Los Angeles and Seattle or head east towards New York City and Miami. At times, business and other opportunities pop up in locations outside of the US such as in Vancouver and Toronto in Canada.

The Nosella Family Faction
The Nosella Family Faction takes care of the side work that is present in areas outside of North America entirely. These varying locations members are often traveling to are areas in Europe such as all of Italy all the way from the peninsula to Sicily and Sardinia. Others include the Iberian peninsula and France, as the Violi Family has managed to create friendly relations with other Latin European crime organizations operating in their respective countries. As previously mentioned, Brazil has become the newest area where opportunities have spawned for the benefit of both groups involved, and there is a rumor that business has also appeared in Argentina, however only members who are in the know can truly confirm this.

Activities
The Family has a list of crimes that can be deemed as natural for just about any organized crime syndicate to perform.

Their actions include


 * Arms trafficking
 * Fraud
 * Theft
 * Extortion
 * Bribery
 * Kidnapping
 * Assassination
 * Human trafficking
 * Cybercrime

The family's rise to fame was from the practice of arms trafficking, as they have a history of trading all sorts of weapons with other organized crime families operating in Italy and Sicily. Over the years they have traded with gangs of varying origin throughout the country and in Canada and Mexico, where they had previously conducted business with a cartel gang operating out of several Northern Mexican states. As of the past couple of years, much like every other organized crime group in San Lorenzo County, the Violi Family has gotten their hands on a number of Mage Technology accessories, which they use to their advantage by training a special class of members that use the item to become experts at whichever source of magic the item in particular is geared towards.

Cybercrime had also become the newest one on the list, having it seen a boom over the past two decades or so. The annual major leaps in technology has caused the Family to invest in cybercrime such as credit card fraud, with the help of their own team of hackers and other computer professionals they had sought and hired.

Known Members

 * Charles Rossi

Gunman
The most standard and common type of Family member. They're commonly known as the foot soldiers of the group and are well equipped with pistols, SMGs, machine pistols, shotguns, and a retractable melee weapon. Some also have access to frag grenades and will use their supply if necessary.

Marksman
Gunmen who are trained at using sniper rifles. They're often used in areas with visible rooftops and general higher locations to help them take down anyone causing any trouble to the area their group is occupying at that moment. They can usually be seen hiding in one spot either out in the open or behind cover, their usage of red sight can make them easy to target and take out.

Prosecutor
A more experienced and well prepared gunman. Prosecutors wear tactical body armor and are equipped with stronger weapons such as different types of high-power automatic weapons.

Pyromaniac
A soldier wearing a full body fireproof protective suit and gas mask, while they wield an average sized powerful flamethrower. They wear a gas container on their back to help fuel their flamethrower, however if they're not careful, their gas tank can implode if shot at enough times. They may be one of the more slower moving class of soldiers, but their flamethrower range, damage, and capacity certainly helped them become a menace in battle.

Constrainer
The strongest and one of the more rarer type of soldiers that come out when needed in dire situations. They're equipped with a full body heavy armor suit and use heavy weaponry including powerful machine guns and shotguns. They're also equipped with a stronger version of a frag grenade that is able to cover more ground when blown, and are able to use sticky bombs as they can detonate them any time they're placed onto a surface unless they get taken down first. Some Constrainer soldiers can use grenade launchers in addition to their high power automatic weaponry.

Summoner
The most powerful of any foot soldier in the organization. Summoners are members who not only have access to a number of weapons at their disposal, but also wield Mage Technology making them able to use magic to fight back. However, some Summoners are natural born mages themselves who were assigned this position once they confessed about their ability. The best way to fight back summoners is by using magic against them or endure the battle using powerful weaponry or machinery at hand. These soldiers have barely any constraint towards themselves and are prepared to go all out on any target they're assigned to for the sake of not only their own safety, but for the safety of their fellow peers, even if it means causing civilian harm and property damage.

Medic
One of the less powerful in terms of weaponry, but most useful in terms of support. Medics are similar to Gunmen as they're equipped with pistols and SMGs, however they have body armor which helps them be able to take care of and heal any incapacitated members. Medics are able to fully recover injured soldiers in a matter of seconds, and on occasion are able to assist them by feeding them a performance enhancing drug that increases their accuracy and damage towards their target. They're seen as one of the main backbones of the organization's armed forces.

Vehicles
The Family uses a range of standard vehicles, performance cars, and sports cars. Most of the time they can be seen using standard vehicles ranging from SUVs, pick-up trucks, and minivans. They decided to not add any paintjobs on their vehicles so they can easily blend in with the traffic often seen in daily life throughout the cities and suburbs.