Alfonse Ricchese

Alfonse Ricchese in 2012

Alfonse Ricchese in 1979

**Alfonse Ricchese** was the boss of the Ricchese Crime Family. He is the antagonist of **To Live & Die In Bordulac** and the protagonist of **The Sicilian Connection**.

## Biography

### Early life

Alfonse Ricchese was born in 1949 in Sicily, Italy to Ercole Ricchese and Mrs. Ricchese. His father, along with Stephano Vitale and Vittore Bianco ran a small-time subsidiary crew of the Castello Crime Family, a family operating in Bordulac that was run by his uncle, Alfonse's great-uncle. In 1953, when Alfonse was four years old, he moved with his mother and father to Bordulac as his father was to take over the Castello family after the death of his uncle.

### Life Pre-**The Sicilian Connection**

Alfonse Ricchese eventually became a soldier of the Castello Crime Family, performing small time tasks for his father and his friends starting at the age of 13. In 1972, he became a made man after his son was born.

### Events of **The Sicilian Connection**

In late 1979, Jimmy Carbone is made into the Castello crime family at 21 years old, and it explained that Alfonse became a made man 6 years before in 1972.

Meanwhile, a war is raging between Attaglia capo, Donald Cifarelli and his brother, Raymond Cifarelli, who wants to work with the Castello family, and Ercole Ricchese sends Jimmy and Alfonse to try to kill Donald so that Ray can become the boss, but Donald ends up escaping and the duo end up having to kill their way out of the abandoned factory. Later on, Ray Cifarelli is killed by his brother in retaliation for the attack and he becomes the boss, starting a war between the two families.

He also helps Vittore by helping him take care of his club, the Vault, until it is burnt down by men secretly sent by Stephano Vitale.

Meanwhile, and Alfonse goes to a newly upcoming lawyer named Maurice Rubinstein-Duval to help Vittore Bianco after the Vault was burned down. Though Maurice says that he isn't an insurance lawyer but is still threatened by Alfonse, who's father helped put in him law school. Alfonse does some jobs, or "favors" for Maurice to help make sure that Maurice stays loyal loyalty and helps with Vittore's problem.

Meanwhile, Isabella Pugliano, Alfonse's newly ex-wife who just recently changed back to her maiden name, is taking care of Luca, and calls Alfonse to warn him not to come around her or Luca because she doesn't want him to become a mobster.

Later, it is now 1980 and Alfonse's father was shot and hospitalized by Sicilian hitmen under orders of Stephano Vitale, an old friend who wanted him dead so he could become the boss. The next day, Alfonse and Vittore "Whitey" Bianco went to pick up Stephano from the airport, unknowing of his betrayal, and he became the acting boss. Alfonse then went on to do jobs for Stephano, such as working with unfamiliar soldiers from Sicily and picking them up from the airport.

Meanwhile, and Alfonse also does jobs for Stephano by taking out some bikers and stealing a large sum of cocaine that was mysteriously brought into the city and then plant bags of it into garbage bags along the La Rotta Sanitation Company routes with Jimmy Carbone.

Later on, the crew, including Stephano, is watching after Ercole in the hospital, and Stephano sends Mike "Pugs" Pugliano, who had a newly born son, and Alfonse, to pick up the cocaine from the garbage route and then go on a deal to sell the cocaine to some small-time Russian gang, but the Russians claim that it was stolen from them and the deal goes badly and ends up getting Michael killed. Maurice starts getting threatening calls from and is later kidnapped by them as ransom.

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