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The Buschettas

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The reason they call Las Venturas “Sin City” dates all the way back to what most anti-mob experts would call the great mob immigration, the time of mobsters settling in Las Venturas to expand their ventures. One of the most notorious crews responsible for making Las Venturas what it is today was known as "The Buschettas", led by Benjamin Senior & Frank Buschetta. In their heyday throughout the late 1970s to early 2000s, they ran the town dry through their Redsands East drug distribution ring, gambling institutions, prostitution, money laundering schemes, and various other nefarious operations. The Buschettas were initially formed out of a bunch of small-time loose gangsters in 1960, led by the notorious mobster, Sylvester Buschetta. Who at the time, had received a promotion, and was commissioned to conduct business in Venturas by a Liberty City based family, called “The Messina Crime Family”. Their primary source of income is believed to have consisted of loan sharking, bootlegging, and shylocking. They later began working in a more organized manner, expanding into Redsands East, starting off with various schemes, most notably fixing baseball matches. It was an open secret, the only thing that stayed in Las Venturas.

 

Sylvester was arrested during a raid at a local gambling parlor located on Escalante Ave called "The Sandpiper" while playing poker at the executive table; The parlor was later discovered to be one of the many establishments being extorted by The Buschettas. Sylvester was found guilty of numerous of murders, tax evasion, and perjury cases and was sentenced to life at a maximum-security federal penitentiary, starting his sentence in the summer of 1979. A few years later it was generally thought that skimming in Las Venturas had been defeated, with the successful prosecution of Sylvester Buschetta. Benjamin Senior and Frank Buschetta, the sons of the now “life time convict” Sylvester Buchetta, managed to come to an agreement with The Messina Crime Family and continued with their father’s operation but in a more vicious way, later getting their buttons sometime around 1986.

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Raymond Malasso, the up and coming nephew of the Buschetta brothers was amongst the most ambitious to work with the brothers, earning his keep as the top earner. Frank, and Raymond were the two new sheriffs of the baseball stadium, cashing nearly millions with fixed baseball match bets. However, a racial war broke out, between the Italians and Hispanics in the eastern territory of Venturas. An internal dispute between the Redsand Sore community concerning the variety of drug territories around the baseball stadium, and Redsand East. The Redsand area turned into a killing field, making it home now to the deadliest mass shooting in modern history of the city. Although Benjamin Sr, and Frank were warned not to sell any narcotics in the late eighties, because the commission of the five families in Liberty City passed on a rule that nobody’s entitled to distribute narcotics, because of the major threats they were facing by the government. It was at that time that surveillance bugging devices, Rico laws, and other methods were actively used by the FBI to target the mobs. Benjamin Sr’s drug operations that he ran in the shadows were compromised by none other than his own organization, and this lead him to his own demise. He was killed ironically at the very same gambling parlor and table where his father was arrested, receiving a bullet to the head after just having cleaned up the table. By that time, Frank had realized an uprising by the federal government to pull the rug from under the many mobs that had infested Venturas and invested a great sum of his money into various establishments scattered around Kansas, San Fierro and mostly the state of San Andreas, including Los Santos for money laundering purposes.

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The colorful mob era of Venturas has long since passed. Most wise guys lost their dignity and honor. Rico laws were passed on, surveillance bugging devices, all those things were constantly utilized against the mob, and it left the variety of criminal Italian American organizations severely vulnerable. Most mobsters felt they were being targeted by the government on daily basis, and most started confessing on each other, just to get a new identity and disappear with their loved ones. After long years of fighting, kidnappings, and homicides. The Hispanics vanished and abandoned their drug schemes around the baseball stadium in Rockshore  East. The racial conflict was not much a thing any longer, and it was not for very long before either the DEA or FBI had busted down the doors of now small-time gangsters like Raymond Malasso, Christopher Fali, and Lorenzo Bunenno. Those three who were amongst some of the known cronies of The Buschettas, were imprisoned with drug trafficking, assault, and kidnappings charges. At the dawn of the new decade, Frank Buschetta was diagnosed with lung cancer, and the crew was somewhat left to dissolve after that, vanishing entirely by 2012. Frank was now considered a shredded member by The Messina Crime Family. A shredded member is what other anti-mob experts would call a retired mob member.

 

After long years of spending thousands and thousands of dollars he had earned throughout the years on his cancer treatment, and suffering, Frank was left with nothing but a small book-keeping office on The Old Strip. With the hopes of re-establishing himself once more, and putting his brother’s son, Benjamin Junior through college, he reaches out to Raymond Malasso, who had just finished serving his jail sentence, to have him collect his laundered money from the establishments around the state of San Andreas in return for a percentage of the money. Raymond was quick to accept Frank’s idea and took the train to Los Santos to lookout after Frank’s business. Frank was hospitalized after a fatal lung failure due to his cancer in the summer of 2020, Benjamin Junior headed to Los Santos shortly after with the excuse of continuing education at ULSA, while in reality he got mixed up in Raymond’s business under Frank’s radar. During this time, Benjamin got to learn the ropes of the business thanks to Raymond. Benjamin was determined to live the high life, getting his hand on money with any means necessary. While earning a great sum of money, after an unexpected incident, Raymond Malasso is murdered by a local mob during a botched hit, sacrificing himself to save Benjamin. Following this incident, Benjamin had some of the key figures who were involved in the botched hit viciously killed. Raymond’s lack of presence began to become more and more obvious to the point where Frank was forced to head down to Los Santos to continue the business by himself. Frank knew what really drove him to stay in this line of work, his greed, and desire for money. Upon finding himself in the city of Los Santos, Frank began to round up the remnants of The Buschettas to try his path to glory once more.

A collaborative effort between BadassBaboon & Jimmynutts

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