Russo Family

The Russo Family, is a mafia family like the Gandor and Martillo, unlike the latters however, the Russo Family is far more of a traditional mafia family that focuses on immoral acts for income and has no regard for their employees or allies. In 1931 Ladd Russo led a small group of the family to hijack the transcontinental express the Flying Pussyfoot, where they were identified as the White Suits because they all had on white suits, when asked Ladd replied "Even though we are going to take dozens and dozens of lives wearing white will make the blood look so pretty". During Ladd's incarcertaion in 1934 Renee Paramedes Branvillier of Nebula made an alliance with the Russo family in hopes of gaining Huey Laforet's immortals for "the other half" of the immortality formula, and gave Placido Russo and many of his higher and trusted executives the partially immortal Cure-All Elixir that had been salvaged from Szilard Quates's experiments. However when the Russos failed to capture the hommunculous, Renee betrays them and devours the Family don and all of higher power of family hunting them down one by one until only those ignorant of the alliance and without the partial-immortality remain, effectively the family falls apart.

However later on Lydia Russo takes up the reigns of the family to return the family to power.

Abilities
The Russo family had several experience hitmen and assassins within their ranks, chefly being Ladd Russo, one of the strongest characters in the series. However after the events of the Flying Pussyfoot, most of their greatest assists where taken away from them and the family suffered heavily for it. However None outside of Ladd Russo and Graham Specter are really above average in this aspect. Without Ladd, Graham felt no loyalty to the organization and was only called back when the Don required his ability to bring in someone alive, and even this was nothing short of an extension of his loyalty to Ladd.

Under Placido Russo's alliance with Nebula a few of the mafiosa gained partial immortality, however once Renee betrayed them and devoured them, the Family became practically inactive.

Under Lydia Russo Graham and Christopher have returned to the fold of the family, and now includes another Hommunculous, Sickle.