Rocco Scarpa

Rocco Scarpa was the underboss of The Maranzalla Crime Syndicate. Together with his boss, Rocco was considered to be one of the most dangerous and feared men in the British criminal underworld.

"You have any idea what Sal is going to do to you when he finds out about this?"-Rocco Scarpa's last words.

## Rocco Scarpa

### Affiliation

Maranzalla Crime SyndicateRabe Maniels Crime Syndicate

Faustin Mafiya

Maranzalla deceased

Mickey Hamfists deceased

Luigi Goterelli

Tony Ciparini formerly

Derek formerly + deceased

Rabe Maniels deceased

Johnny Buggerton deceased

Mikhail Faustin

Dimitri Rasaclov

## Physical description

### Eye color

Brownish Green

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## Overview

As Maranzalla's underboss, Rocco is involved in running the day to day transactions of The Maranzalla Crime Syndicate. He is responsible for making sure the right people get paid on time. He is close friends with Mickey Hamfists, and the pair scheme to set up Tony Ciparini by making him out to be a rat when in reality he is more loyal than both men combined.

## Background

Rocco Scarpa was the underboss of The Maranzalla Crime Syndicate. Born in Tamborra in 1961, the young Rocco was a career criminal from the age of 10 much like his younger brother Eddie; the pair made themselves a rep doing small town stickups. In 1987, Rocco met Salvatore Maranzalla in a field in Sicily when both men tried to rob each other of some diamonds. Realising each other's strengths, the pair narrowly escaped a run in with the Benilli Crime Family, and went on the run to London where they established The Maranzalla Crime Syndicate. Together, the pair become two of the most powerful and dangerous men in Great Britain. Though at the time Maranzalla was against it; Rocco became involved in drug dealing as it was a highly risky but highly profitable business venture. Due to their control over the drug trade, their gang quickly became the most powerful crime syndicate in Great Britain.

## Framing Ciparini

In August 2020, Maranzalla begins to suspect that someone in his Syndicate is a federal informant after two of his drug dens are raided by FBI agents. Entrusting Rocco to find the rat, Maranzalla fails to realise that Scarpa and rising lieutenant Mickey Hamfists are conspiring together to frame caporegime Tony Ciparini as the rat. That's when Rocco learns from corrupt CLPD Commissioner Archie Colmyer that Ciparini's trusted bodyguard Derek is a police informant. Rocco is given the greenlight by Maranzalla to kill Ciparini and Derek. He succeeds in killing Derek, and has Hamfists kidnap Ciparini bringing him to a Maranzalla controlled construction site in Gampton.

## Death

Rocco interrogated Tony attempting to get him to confess to being a rat, but Tony refused and managed to escape. He killed all of Rocco's crew before confronting Rocco on the rooftop of the site. Furious, Tony killed Rocco by throwing him off the rooftops where his body crashed on top of a car that was being driven by Luigi Goterelli.

## Aftermath

Just like Rocco had forewarned, Tony's actions having killed not just Rocco but a huge chunk of Maranzalla's men puts him on the Syndicate's death list. He is almost killed the same day by two hitmen who had been hired by Maranzalla to whack Ciparini as revenge for killing Rocco. Ciparini manages to kill the two hitmen before going under the protection of The Lost Episode Resistance who take Ciparini on as a trusted lieutenant. At the peace summit, Maranzalla still wanting revenge for the death of Rocco asks for The Shadow Reader to surrender Tony Ciparini, but Shadow lies that Ciparini has fled to Canada to start up a go fund me page.

## Trivia

* Rocco was the older brother of Scarpa Crime Family Don Eddie Scarpa.
* It is unknown how Eddie felt when hearing of his brother's death since he doesn't appear nor is mentioned in The Rabe Maniels Arc.
* Though he worked loyally for Maranzalla according to the CLPD database, Rocco had alleged connections to Mikhail Faustin and Dimitri Rasaclov.
* He had several addresses and he was known to keep his private life separate from his henchmen to avoid the possibility of them ratting him out.