It was not too soon after Alphonse Vercetti's murder in 1950 that his wife gave birth to their only child, When he was alive it was Alphonse's strange desire for his son to be called after his favourite gun. She named him Thomas or "Tommy" for short, ironically the gun of the same name that he was brutally killed with.
Vercetti's murder sent shockwaves throughout the criminal underworld. The brutal murder of the 8 men on Thanksgiving Day 1950 was dubbed by the media "The Thanksgiving Massacre" – Everyone took notice that Luchiano Sindacco was back.
Marco was furious at the murder. Antonio tried to reason with him but it was hopeless. By this time Marco's uncle who owned the restaurant had decided to retire back to Sicily and so left the place to Marco. Marco renamed it to Marco's Bistro, a nice family restaurant that was actually the HQ for all of Marco's Operations.
Marco decided Sindacco had to be wiped out for good. Antonio rightfully said this could cause another war bloodier than the last. It didn't matter to Marco he had it planned out that the hit on Sindacco would happen within the next 2 years.
It was now 1952 and at the age of 37, Antonio's powerbase was staggering. He has control over nearly half of Sindacco's rackets from when he arrived in Liberty in 1940. The previous year he had even knocked off Liberty City Bank and made a good profit. In one of the few jobs he worked with Marco with he had arranged everything to the last detail. He even has the top safe cracker in the country with him, Cam Jones. Together the gang got away clean with 1.4 Million dollars. This brought down major heat on the 2 families and the newly elected President Edger G Sherman (Who later had a dam in San Andreas named after him) vowed to bring down the Mafia in America.
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It was inevitably in March 23rd 1952 when Sindacco actions once again caught up with him. Marco Forelli has been waiting for the right time to strike and it was now. Luchiano Sindacco took one of his regular visits to his barbershop in Harwood. An unmarked 1951 Glendale pulled up and 2 of Forelli's men burst through the doors of the shop and sprayed Sindacco with a seemingly non-stop tirade of bullets while he was in his chair. One of the men reached into his top pocket and threw a single red rose onto the body of Luchiano and left. The biggest mobster in the history of Liberty City had just been killed.
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The media feared a full scale was about to take place. The death of Sindacco sent shockwaves throughout the entire U.S. His funeral was grand, the streets of St Marks where lined with floral bouquets as the funeral procession crawled through the streets. The streets were awash with tears, Liberty had lost its godfather. Luchiano Sindacco body was sent back to Palermo, Sicily to be buried. The old school mafia ceased to exist when Luchiano died.
Before his death, Luchiano had been grooming his grandson Anthony in the ways of the family business, at the time of his death in 1952 Anthony was only 23. The whole Sindacco Family knew Anthony was the successor to Luchiano and much the distain of his father Anthony took on the role.
Anthony was optimistic, He was young and he knew his grandfather was sick of all the fighting and killing between the families. Anthony had a vision. He called a meeting or "sit down" with all the heads of the families (including Leone and Forelli) at the newly built Visage Casino in Las Venturas in 1953.
He proposed to end all bloodshed; he would forgo the revenge of his grandfather as a gesture of peace. His vision was to form a nation wide crime syndicate, instead of the petty fighting between each other they would divided all the turf. There was plenty money to be made and it if they stuck to the plan everyone would get a piece of the action. Anthony agreed to take most of his operations to Las Venturas where his grandfather had funded the new Visage Casino and to Carcer City.
Liberty City would be divided between the remaining Sindacco, Leone, Forelli, Clericuzio and Santiaro families. Antonio Leone rose from his seat and with a tear in his eye embraced Anthony Sindacco. The heads of the families all applauded and rose to congratulate Anthony, except Forelli.