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"Mafia is a process, not a thing. Mafia is a form of clan-cooperation to which its individual members pledge lifelong loyalty. Friendship, connections, family ties, trust, loyalty and obedience -- this was the glue that held us together." - Joseph Bonanno

 

Within the sphere of organized crime, the midwest of the United States has always played some sort of role on the west coast. Both Chicago and Kansas City, the more dominant presence of Cosa Nostra in the midwest, have been involved with the illegal skimming of money from casinos in the Las Vegas area. Information from wiretaps and other eavesdropping in the mid to late 1970’s concluded that high level members of Kansas City and Chicago crime families, with assistance from Cleveland and Milwaukee mobsters, were involved with key people of various casinos, one such was the Tropicana Casino.

 

With a foundation already built on the west coast of the United States, the systematic invasion of Los Santos was relatively easy for midwest crime families. While Los Santos’ criminal underworld was and still is more dominated by ethnic street gangs, the traditional organized crime has always had some sort of push and pull on the streets. Textile City located in Los Santos can closely be related to New York City’s garment district and like New York’s garment district, Textile City has had its fair share of organized crime interference. Various law enforcement agencies believe that individuals from the Kansas City based Civella Crime Family have been operating in and around Textile City, extorting local merchants and using fronts to launder the money made from their illicit dealings.

 

Rumours of Kansas City’s interference with the Los Santos underworld have been around since the early 1990’s but were never substantiated with fact. It is however, more apparent now that law enforcement from both Kansas City and Los Santos both have publicly stated that they are aware of several individuals within the Civella Crime Family who have moved from the midwest to Los Santos. Statements have also been made that neither agency knows the exact reason as to why these individuals have transitioned from city to city. The names of the individuals in question have not been made public but there has been major speculation as to these individuals within the cosa nostra expert community. Gary Jenkins, former Intelligence Unit detective with the Kansas City Police Department and now documentarian has publicly stated that he believes that a one, Salvatore “The Cheat” Lena has made his way to Los Santos.

 

Salvatore Lena is a known Captain within the Civella Crime Family and was long suspected to have been “shelved”, or retired. His current status with the organization is in question as a result of the move to Los Santos. Whether this is a move of a retiree pensioner or a move in relation to orders from current Civella Crime Family boss John “Johnny Joe” Sciortino, both Kansas City law enforcement and Los Santos law enforcement do not know.

 

Former Intelligence Unit detective Gary Jenkins has also stated that he believes with Lena’s movement to Los Santos we can expect his son-in-law Carmine “The Pinch” Basciano to follow in suit. Carmine Basciano or The Pinch is a known inductee, or made man, of the Civella Crime Family and is believed to be heavily involved with book making and gambling. Basciano has been suspected on several occasions to have rigged various horse races throughout Nevada and San Andreas. Having his hand in the realm of gambling, Basciano, works closely with his father-in-law, Lena, who had a shylocking operation for more than 30 years.

 

One last individual has been seen and noted on the streets of Los Santos since the original incursion of midwest gangsters, Pasquale Iraci. Iraci was once Acting Captain of the Lena crew in Kansas City, having been personally hand picked by Salvatore Lena before turning himself in to his wife, who in turn brought him to the hospital for surgery. While Acting Captain of the Lena Crew, Iraci consolidated the crew’s extortion operations and strengthened them from collapse. It is believed  that Pasquale Iraci has been heavily involved with the recent extortion of Textile City merchants and businesses, but nothing can be substantiated as of yet.

 

As the midwest invasion of Los Santos continues, both agencies from both cities speculate that the transition for the criminal underworld will be rocky. In recent months individuals from the crew now dubbed after it’s suspected leader, Salvatore Lena, have been seen interacting with known made members of another crew which were active in and around the Los Santos neighborhood, Mirror Park. Their relationship with said crew as of yet is unknown and it is believed that the Mirror Park Crew has evaporated into an empty void with individuals fleeing to their home states or just amalgamating into the Los Santos underworld. No deaths have been tied to the crews disappearing act, only that bad blood between several other unnamed Los Santos based organizations remain.

 

“Yeah, I had the son of a bitch killed. I’m glad I did. I’m sorry I couldn’t have done it myself” - Carlos Marcello

 

Over 80 years of collective commitment to Organized Crime walked down the the stone steps of the Kansas City Courthouse. Salvatore Lena and his close confidant, who also doubled as his son-in-law, Carmine Basciano were free men after spending nearly 10 months on trial for various racketeering charges which were brought forward by Federal Bureau of Investigation shortly after both individuals moved to the West Coast, to San Andreas. 

 

Nearly a year ago both the Los Santos authorities and Federal Bureau of Investigation speculated that Salvatore Lena, once a feared Caporegime or Captain, of the Kansas City Crime Family, also known as the Civella Family, was ordered to expand and protect the interests of the Family. While the move to San Andreas was a suspicious one, informants claim that Lena was put on the shelf after requesting to retire and that Basciano was actually the one tasked with planting the Civella Family flag in Los Santos. Both situations are mere speculation and hearsay and neither Los Santos authorities nor the FBI can back the claims.

 

Shortly after the migration to the City of Saints both Lena and Basciano were arrested on gambling, loan sharking and for the murder of Civella Family associate, Joseph “Joey Fingers” Mezzasalma. Mezzasalma was reported missing to the Kansas City Police Department by his fiancé in July of 1991 and he was not found until October of 2017. Retired FBI Agent Nicholas Callahan, who was assigned to investigate the Civella Crime Family around the time of the Mezzasalma hit, has stated numerous times to both his superiors and the press that Salvatore “The Cheat” Lena had Mezzasalma murdered for selling his daughter various illicit drugs over the span of three months.

 

The bones of the forgotten associate were found three days before Halloween and would not have been noticed if it wasn’t for a runner who routinely ran the route where he was buried. The runner, who has to remain anonymous for fear of mob retaliation, has stated to the media; “It was just like any other morning, I was running with my dog along the side of the road, we were about to turn onto the trail when he ran over to me with a bone. Yeah, it sounds like something you’d see in a movie, but that’s what happened. My dog found a bone”. Quickly throwing up the cliche yellow police tape, which forbid the entry of any person other than law enforcement and medical personnel, the Kansas City Police Department were quick to beckon the assistance of the now retired Senior Special Agent Callahan.

 

It took twenty-six years to find the remains and only mere weeks to connect them to a name and conclude that foul play was involved. After four months of reviewing decades old case files, investigating new leads and grilling the criminal underworld of Kansas City, Law Enforcement believed they had enough evidence to target and arrest the individual or individuals they believed were responsible. Evidence revealed in the near year long trial, which was presented by the District Attorney to the twelve person jury, dated back to Salvatore Lena’s teenage years and expanded through to the 1991 murder of Mezzasalma. The District Attorney walked the jury, judge and present media through the various arrests, rackets and suspected murders which Lena and Basciano had either committed, assisted with or ordered. 

 

Photographs of both defendants with the victim and testimony from several informants which Senior Special Agent Callahan had cultivated over the years was the only evidence the District Attorney had when it came to the murder of Mezzasalma. When questioned about the clear lack of concrete evidence, the flamboyant twenty-two year veteran stated to the media that they’ve convicted wiseguys on less and that he had faith in the twelve jurors. He also reminding the interviewer that this is part of a bigger and more elaborate case which spanned decades. Defense Attorney William Goldstein, known in to many of prosecutors as a mob lawyer, was hired by both Lena and Basciano shortly after their arrest. Goldstein stated to the media that this attempt to convict his clients by the District Attorney was nothing more than a media stunt and a Hail Mary to finish off a very poor career.

 

The Jury agreed. After three weeks of deliberation after the closing arguments the Jury came back. When the forewoman was asked by Judge Ralph Martin, she stated that the Jury was unable to come to a unanimous decision. Deadlocked. Judge Martin ordered the Jury to try once again to come to a conclusion, but once again, after two weeks of deliberation the Jury returned and was once more deadlocked - ten guilty, two innocent. The forewoman stressed that unfortunately if they were to return for a third attempt, it would come out the same, deadlocked. Judge Ralph Martin concluded the trial with a bang of his gavel. Mistrial. 

 

It can only be assumed that both Salvatore “The Cheat” Lena and Carmine “The Pinch” Basciano will return to the warm temperatures and tanned women of Los Santos. Retired Senior Special Agent Nicholas Callahan has made it clear that the haste, lack of tack and investigatory tactics of the DA was the reason Lena and Basciano were not convicted, but he has not ignored or refuted the fact that the grasp of Organized Crime could of influenced the outcome of the trial as Lena remains a strategic and critical part of maintaining the KC Family’s interests in San Andreas.   


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