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The Salieri Crime Family is a criminal organization in Mafia: Definitive Edition.

History[]

Background[]

The family was formed by Ennio Salieri in 1921 after the murder of Lost Heaven's first major crime boss, Don Peppone. Salieri and his rival, Marcu Morello, divide up Lost Heaven between themselves, with the Morello family controlling North Park and the Salieri family controlling Little Italy. The family runs several rackets, including gambling, bootlegging (until 1933), protection, prostitution, smuggling of luxury goods, and auto theft. Salieri's Bar in Little Italy was used as the family's offices and as a front for a number of illegal operations.

For much of the 1920s and early 1930s, the Salieri family maintains an uneasy peace with the Morello family. Both sides occasionally target the other's rackets and men, but for the most part, they stick to their own territories and focus on making money. However, by 1933, Don Morello begins taking steps to weaken the Salieri family's interests, even cutting a deal with the Federal Bureau of Investigation to help them build a case against Don Salieri himself.

By 1935, both families are at war after Salieri survives an attempt on his life at Pepe's Restaurant. The tables soon turn with both Morello's close ally Roberto Ghillotti and his trusted underboss and brother Sergio slain by Salieri's best triggerman, Tommy Angelo. Salieri then puts out a hit on Morello himself, resulting in his death. For the next two years, the Salieri family slowly takes over every criminal racket in Lost Heaven, making Salieri the city's undisputed kingpin.

Downfall[]

In September 1938, Tommy, having been betrayed and marked for death by Salieri, meets with Detective Norman of the LHPD and offers him information on the inner workings of the family in exchange for protection for his wife and daughter. The deal succeeds, resulting in many notable figures within the family - such as Vincenzo Ricci and the Don himself - being arrested and imprisoned.

By 1951, Tommy Angelo and his family are living in Empire Bay under assumed identities. While doing some lawn work, Tommy is shot and killed by Vito Scaletta and Joe Barbaro of the Falcone family as a favor to the dying Salieri.

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Trivia[]

  • While it's unknown what became of the Salieri crime family after the conviction and imprisonment of Don Salieri, the Don still held enough influence to order the murder of Tommy Angelo in Empire Bay in 1951, suggesting that some remnants of the family continued to hold out and maintain their grip on Lost Heaven's criminal underworld.
  • According to a personal set of rules laid down by Don Salieri, members of the Salieri family are expected to avoid cursing whenever possible, behave in a respectful manner while dealing with outsiders, and never get mixed up in dealing drugs.
  • According to Sam Trapani, the family doesn't directly control crime in Chinatown but does offer "protection" to several local businesses as a means of indirectly keeping the Chinatown gangs in line.

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References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Appear in A Trip to the Country
  2. Appear in Great Deal
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