Russo Family

The Russo Family is a mafia family based in Chicago, Illinois.

In December 1931, Nader Schasschule of the Lemures contacts don Placido Russo and promises to sabotage the Lemure terrorists in exchange for him and his allies joining the Russo Family. The month turns out to be problematic for the Family: Nader's plan fails; two thieves steal the Family's entire "astronomical earnings" of the month from one of the Family's cars on December 30; and several Russo capos are found in charred bits on the town outskirts (the work of Jacuzzi Splot's gang; the Russos have a bounty on Jacuzzi's head to the tune of $5,000 (almost $80,000 today)).

The family's best hitman Ladd Russo leads a hijacking aboard the transcontinental express Flying Pussyfoot on December 30 and 31, though Placido commands him to do it separately and not associate it with the family.

In 1934 Renee Paramedes Branvillier (a scientist working for Nebula) makes an alliance with the Russo Family in hopes of using them to acquire Huey Laforet's immortals so that she could experiment on them in the pursuit of understanding the immortality elixir. She gives Placido Russo and several of his executives the incomplete immortality elixir that she had salvaged from Szilard Quates' work.

The Russos fail to capture the homunculi in question; Renee turns against them and subsequently devours Placido. She and her allies target all the Russo executives who were either incomplete immortals or otherwise knew of their alliance, and the Family crumbles as a consequence.

Placido's grandchild Ricardo Russo takes up the reins of the Family and eventually restores it to power.

Heads

 * Ricardo Russo (current don)
 * Placido Russo (former don; deceased)

Members

 * Klik (capo; deceased)
 * Ladd Russo (formerly; hitman)
 * Vicky (deceased; associate of Ladd)
 * Dune (deceased; associate of Ladd)

Affiliates

 * Graham Specter and co. (formerly; to Ladd)
 * Who (formerly; to Ladd)
 * Christopher Shouldered (Ricardo's friend and bodyguard)
 * Nader Schasschule (briefly)