Ricchese Crime Family

The **Ricchese Crime Family** is one of the three families in Bordulac.

## Members

* **Salvatore Ricchese di Maggio** - founder and boss from 1904 to 1920. Vito Ricchese's cousin.
* **Vito Ricchese di Maggio** - boss from 1920 to 1953. Uncle of Ercole Ricchese.
* **Ercole Ricchese** - born as Ercole Ricchese di Maggio. boss from 1953 to 1980. He ran his own sub-crew in Sicily along with Stephano Vitale and Vittore Bianco before his uncle's death in 1956, causing him to point Stephano as the new boss of the crew and move to Bordulac with his son, a young Alfonse, to take the place as the boss. When he moved to the United States, immigration officials shortened the name to Ricchese.
* **Stephano Vitale** - He ran a subsidiary crew in Sicily with Ercole Ricchese and Vittore Bianco until 1956 when he became the sole boss of the crew after Ercole became the boss of the whole family. At some point, Stephano's thoughts of Ercole became envious. In 1979, he moved to Bordulac to take the place of acting boss after the hospitalization of Ercole who had cancer. In a swift betrayal, he attempted to take out Alfonse Ricchese, Ercole's son, after his death, in an attempt to wipe out all Ricchese's, this failed however, and he was killed by Alfonse in 1980.
* **Alfonse Ricchese** - boss of the Ricchese family from 1980 to his death in 2012. He was born in Sicily but raised in Bordulac after his father moved to take the place of boss. He is prone to psychopathic tendencies and fully embraces it. He was killed in 2013 by Matthew O'Toole, a former soldier, a year after he ordered the death of his brother, an innocent man, for something he had nothing to do with.
* **James Carbone, Sr.** - as the underboss of Ricchese family, he is a cold-hearted, classic criminal. On the other hand, as a family man, he is sweet to his wife and tries hide that part of his life away from his teenaged/adult children, James Jr. and Stacey.
* **Vittore Bianco** - He ran a subsidiary crew in Sicily with Ercole Ricchese and Stephano Vitale until 1956 when Stephano became the sole boss of the crew after Ercole moved to Bordulac to become the boss of the whole family. Vittore moved to Bordulac shortly after Ercole did and opened a club in Newport called The Vault, which later burnt down in 1979, he was a highly respected captain of the Castello family before Ercole’s death and was on his way to becoming underboss when Stephano became acting boss. However, when Stephano betrayed the family and was promptly killed, that role was instead given to James Carbone, Sr. by Alfonse Ricchese when he became boss, and Bianco resents Carbone to this day for that reason. Before his stroke in 2012 which left him alive but inactive, “Whitey”, as most people called him, was the manager of the Bada-Bush strip club, opened in 1980, where he ran the Ricchese family’s prostitution racket. He was the last link in the Ricchese family to the old country before his cardiac arrest which left him in a *vegetive state*.
* **Giuseppe Pugliano** - Former capo and underboss of the Ricchese family until his death. He originally became second-in-command because Alfonse Ricchese was with his sister, Isabella. He had one son in 1984, Christopher, before his death in 1986.
* **Luca Ricchese** - He is an enforcer of the Ricchese family and is Alfonse Ricchese's son. As the son of Alfonse Ricchese, “Lucky”, as most people call him, is also prone to psychopathic tendencies, though unlike his father he takes measures to “ease it down”, such as painkillers. He is the father of a baby boy, Bruno Ricchese, and lives with his mother, Isabella Pugliano. Mike Pugliano was his uncle and Chris Pugliano is his cousin.
* **Christopher Pugliano** - Son of late capo, Joey "Pugs" Pugliano, he is an enforcer of the Ricchese family like his cousin, Chris, nicknamed "Pugs" similarly to his late father, is a heroin addict. Luca blames this on the fact that his father died when he was an infant.
* **Bobby Ventrulio** - He was an enforcer in 1979 with a typical mobster persona. He came up with the name of Vittore "Whitey" Bianco's new club, the Bada-Bush, in 1980. He is presumed to be currently dead.
* **Anthony Cavalieri** - He was a street soldier who kidnapped Matthew O'Toole from Maury Diamond's office. Later on, he became an FBI Informant and was promptly killed by Luca Ricchese and Matthew O'Toole when they found out under the guise of becoming a made man.

## Associates

* Maurice Rubinstein-Blumenthal - known as "Maury Diamond", he is the lawyer of the Ricchese family under the Diamond Law Firm. He first came in contact with the family when he started representing Alfonse Ricchese in 1979. He later had an overdose, and decided he had to change his persona, so he chose the name "Diamond". Between 1997 and 2012, Vince O'Toole started borrowing money from Maury so he could gamble. When Vince's brother was released from prison, he started working for Maury to pay the debt until Maury showed his true colors and handed him over to Alfonse Ricchese, he had Matthew O'Toole kill Franco Goretti, a rival candidate and member of the rival Attaglia family.
* Violet Johnson - By 2012, she had started running for mayor, and Alfonse Ricchese had Matthew O'Toole kill Franco Goretti, a member of the rivaled Attaglia Crime Family. When she won, she became the first African-American and the first female mayor of Bordulac and was contacted by the Ricchese Crime Family saying that since they did her a favour, she belonged to them.
* Matthew O'Toole - his brother borrowed money from Maury Diamond while he was in prison, and Matthew worked for Maury to help pay his brothers debts, not knowing about Maury's connection with the family until he handed him over to Don Alfonse, who had him kill mayoral candidate, Frankie Goretti, as he was a member of the rivaled Attaglia Crime Family. Matthew then went on to work for the family for a couple of months before the tables turned when, during a meeting, he accidentally killed Joey De Vito, the underboss of the Zoto family, while blind-firing when it turned into a three-way shootout after the Attaglia family ambushed it. The Zoto's then ordered Alfonse Ricchese to kill O'Toole and any known family member. And though Matthew was able to defend himself, his brother was killed. A year later, word got to Alfonse that Matthew had started working for Vladimir Ubiytsov's crime syndicate, and they promptly killed Ubiytsov via car bomb to get to O'Toole. Later on, Matthew, in partnership with the FBI, chased Alfonse down and killed him. Matthew is now living in the suburbs of Las Vivas under an assumed identity, "Nicholas White".