The Family

Ashton Summers 33 stories

Summary

The Family—a coalition of 5 crime families—runs Valiant City with an iron fist. The Blanchards mainly launder money and operate the treasury of The Family. The Raines handle weapons shipments and ensure each crime family gets what's owed to them every month, forcing all of the families to rely on them for access to all of the latest arms to hit the Black Market. The Huángs traffic all of the drugs to distribute to the families, acting as the source of the different families' lifeblood in addition to whatever side hustles they operate. The Solomons mainly act as the public relations and lawyers for the other families, providing them with political power in the form of elected officials who mysteriously turn a blind eye to their crimes and with the new medium of social media, running the socials for all of the families to market them as the perfect American dream elsewhere, masking their crimes from the general public. They also handle any legal proceedings that may occur, criminal or civil, in order to ensure an outcome that benefits all of the 5 families. The Flaminio's, the most powerful of the families, dispense armies to the other families and train the bodyguards of the Heads of each family, as well as overseeing the operations of the families. But now, with two Heads suddenly and mysteriously dead, a war is brewing that will shake of Val City forever...