2018 New York City Crisis

### Result (Outcome)

The Sacchitello Crime Family is dissolved and it's allies and conspirators become public fugitives.
 Jacob Delsin is killed.
May Lawson is arrested taken into government custody.
The Delsin leaks are published online.
Stansfield Industries faces bankruptcy and government-enforced shutdown, all its assets are thereafter liquidated.
uD0gs are voluntarily disbanded.

The **2018 New York City Crisis** was a two-week long series of conflicts that occurred between the Sacchitello Crime Family (backed by Stansfield Industries, the New York City Police Department and M) and a coalition between individuals Jacob Delsin and May Lawson with the aid of the Hades Legion Motorcycle Club, anarchist hacker organization uD0gs, and the East Village Vice Kings street gang.

## History

### Precursor

In 1990, Michael Sacchitello, a successful business executive and billionaire entrepreneur had several meetings behind closed curtains with the head of a mysterious firm known only as 'M' who was seeking to gain "legitimate" influence in New York City following the , the few entered a partnership alongside the youthful philanthropist Ryan Stansfield who co-owned Stansfield Industries with his brother.

By 1993, in only a short few years, 'M' had helped elect [[]] to the position of Mayor of New York City and Weston Harringfield as the new and ruthless commissioner of the NYPD, worked to pass the 'Broken Windows act of 1994', increasing the militarization of the police in New York. While, through Sacchitello's name and influence, 'M' had managed to funnel money and influence into local news media and made thousands of illicit business dealings with the remaining powers of the Five Families, the Hades Legion Motorcycle Club, and by association various street gangs operating in the Five Burroughs, gaining their unwitting cooperation and continued silence.

Through growing connections in the United States government and it's intelligence agencies, 'M' had learned of a highly-classified military bioweapon with origins as a Nazi viral experiment in World War II. More immediately, a sample of the virus had gone missing from the CDC facility in and had ended up in the hands of Pedro Gomez, knowing the importance of the weapon, Sacchitello used a mole within the Boston to secure the sample, while simultaneously 'M' hired an assassin to dispose of Pedro and his associates, resulting in the 1993 Baskerville incident.

While 'M' sought out potential business applications for an anti-personnel weapon that could destabilize international communities and insurgent civilians and militias by turning them on one another, the infectious and viral nature of the bioweapon made it unreasonably dangerous and uncontrollable. Thus, over the remainder of the decade, 'M' would pour massive funds and research into developing a new drug at a facility in upstate New York, with the goal of replicating similar psychiatric outcomes: extreme levels of aggression, paranoia, hallucinations and irreversible brain damage to those affected.

Unfortunately, the drug in question would require mass testing and trials on live human subjects to prove it's ultimate viability and effectiveness, all without drawing attention to the project's existence. A wish that would be morbidly granted in the wake of the September 11th attacks, as the chaos granted the cover needed for 'M' to greenlight a mass-kidnapping, as well as to test the more extreme lengths of loyalty among Stansfield and Sacchitello, the latter of whom had lost his wife in the attacks.

Sacchitello would go on to manipulate the situation to his own political advantage, on several occasions, he oversaw the intentional release of several exposed subjects into predominately low-income and colored communities, where they would almost immediately lash out violently, usually against sought-after loved ones, this increase in "violent crimes" allowed Harringfield and to drastically increase police presence in impovershed neighborhoods and . Sacchitello was able to use his financial influence in both local liberal and conservative public media as well as independent far-right media to promote conspiracy and direct public opinion against immigrant communities and opposition far-left union organizations.

This also benefitted Stansfield and several large real estate firms with the approval of demolition and gentrification of neighborhoods that were seen as potentially high-value. Then, with the assistance of police lieutenant Weston Harringfield, who would frequently drop missing person cases, cover-up investigations into these violent crimes, and give false public testimonials; Sacchitello was able to use the police as a way of more strictly monitoring, enforcing and oppressing in areas that were of contention between himself and the Hades Legion Motorcycle Club or the East Village Vice Kings, often using plants within the aforementioned gangs to avoid violent conflict and swing disputes in his favor.

### First Blood

In early 2016, Ethan Lawson a young poverty-stricken runaway was hired by Logan Benson for an under-the-table but extremely high pay wage job, being hired for $20/hr under special detail by Stansfield Industries. Over the next year and a half, Ethan would be responsible for opening several local "support groups" for struggling addicts, severe alcoholics and homeless eldery, where (unbeknownst to Ethan) the attendees were monitored, often kidnapped and trafficked to an upstate facility where they were subject to experimentation. Ethan, while in the dark as to the true nature of his position and of his employers, had become aware fairly quickly of the disappearances.

Over the course of the following year, Ethan's guilt grew, and in November, he finally reached out to Lyla Painter, a private investigator, to look into the disappearances, but she was ultimately unable to find any leads. Thus, Ethan resolved to go deeper into the rabbit hole himself. Reaching out to his employers and requesting to be shown what he had been a part of; Ethan's commitment was noted, but his loyalty was easily doubted. Nevertheless, Ethan managed to catch glimpse of a transit itinerary which he memorized and followed to 369 57th Avenue, capturing footage of several armed men loading and securing people onto a truck and transporting them to a well-secured facility.

Ethan considered this enough to blow the whistle on the company and warrant a full-blown investigation into their activities and he returned to his apartment with the intent of sending the files to Lyla through email before he was intruded upon by several police officers, who falsely arrested him on suspicion of terrorism. His effort was not in vain though, as a six-second remnant of the video was intercepted and recovered by the hacker group uD0gs due to his usage of an unprotected public network to upload the video file.

Taken in cuffs to the local station and harassed by several officers on Harringfield's payroll, Ethan was faced with the very real understanding of the scope of Stansfield Industries corruption, yet, still resolved to expose them, while the officers threatened to doctor evidence on Ethan of being an extremist terrorist who planned to bomb Times Square, he was dismissed shortly thereafter by Harringfield himself.

In the period afterward, Ethan became disturbingly paranoid and began driving to the facility every day in hopes of witnessing more incriminating behavior. Returning to his apartment, Ethan was confronted by a friend, Sarah Hamilton, who had managed to escape from the facility and sought refuge with nowhere else to turn. Explaining the nature of the experiments the others had been subjected to. Ethan reached out on a phone call to Logan Benson, explaining the weight of his discovery and his plan to expose what he had found to the public, confiding in Logan to take care of his sister, May, should he disappear. Logan would betray his friend's trust almost immediately, reaching out to Sachitello with the information, who in-turned hired Vincent Akiyama to dispose of him.

That night, Ethan and Sarah were fired upon by Akiyama almost immediately after leaving his apartment to meet with Lyla in person and record Sarah's testimony. Sarah was mortally injured by the first shot attempting to shield him. Ethan, panicked, made his way to a phone booth where he had enough time to make a final call to his sister, attempting to apologize for his actions and explain his situation. He was shot mid-call by Akiyama, with a sniper round that entered the back of his head and exiting through his throat, killing him almost immediately and traumatizing May for the rest of her life.

### Declaration of War

On December 18th, 2018, May arrived at Gordon's Bar and Grill where she had eyed out Jacob.