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| {{Gang box|
| | #REDIRECT[[Vercetti Crime Family]] |
| | title = Vercetti Gang
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| | image = VercettiGang.jpg
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| | type = Business/Criminal Organization and Drug Cartel
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| | appearance = ''[[Grand Theft Auto: Vice City| GTA: VC]]''
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| | turf = Vercetti Businesses and [[Vercetti Estate]]
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| | color = Blue Shirts or Yellow Hawaiian Shirts<br>Long Pants<br>Sunglasses
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| | cars =
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| | enemies = [[Haitians]], [[Sharks]], [[Patrol Invest Group]], [[Diaz's Gang]]
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| | Leader = [[Tommy Vercetti]]
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| | weapons = [[Pistol]], [[Uzi]]
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| | fronts = [[Kaufman Cabs]], [[InterGlobal Films]], [[Cherry Popper Ice Cream Factory]], [[Pole Position Club|Pole Position]], [[Malibu Club]], [[Vice City Boatyard|Boatyard]], [[Vice City Print Works|Print Works]], [[Sunshine Autos]].
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| | businesses = Protection, armed robbery, counterfeiting, drug dealing/trafficking, blackmailing, auto-theft ring, , pornography, arms dealing, extortion,prostitution
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| | members = [[Lance Vance]] (Associate, 1986), [[Ken Rosenberg]] (Lawyer, 1986 - 1992), [[Avery Carrington]] (Property Magnate, 1986 - 1998), [[Cam Jones]] (Associate, 1986), [[Hilary King]] (Driver, 1986), [[Phil Cassidy]] (Arms Supplier, 1986 - ?), [[Delores]] (Front Operator, 1986 - ?), [[Maude Hanson]] (Front Operator, 1986 - ?), [[Earnest Kelly]] (Front Operator, 1986 - ?), [[Steve Scott]] (Front Operator, 1986 - ?), [[Mercedes Cortez]] (Associate, 1986 - ?), [[Mike]] (Bodyguard, 1986 - ?), [[Mario]] (Bodyguard, 1986 - ?), [[Umberto Robina]] (Ally, leader of [[Cubans]], 1986 - ?), [[Big Mitch Baker]] (Ally, leader of [[Biker Gang]], 1986 - ?), [[Kent Paul]] (Associate,Street Informer 1986 - ?)
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| | affiliation = [[Cubans]], [[Vice City Bikers]]
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| The '''Vercetti Gang''' is a very powerful underworld outfit that is based in and around [[Vice City]]. The Vercetti Family is headed by [[Tommy Vercetti]], a renegade [[Forelli Family|Forelli family]] member who has assumed control of many businesses and property ventures during the events of [[GTA Vice City]], circa 1986. The organization is known to be involved in various illegal enterprises, including extortion, drug dealing and organized crime. Though some might consider the Vercetti Gang a [[Mafia]] family, due to being led by a former mafia member, it cannot be a true mafia family because there are members, such as [[Lance Vance]] and [[Ken Rosenberg]], who are not Italian. However; it does appear that Tommy structured it to resemble a mafia family.
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| Tommy Vercetti was originally dispatched by the Forelli family to Vice City to oversee a drug deal funded by Forelli family money; the drug deal was supposed to be the beginning of the Forelli expansion down south towards Vice City. After the deal was ambushed by Diaz's gang members, Vercetti was forced to start over with no money or property and aided only by Ken Rosenberg, a bent lawyer with Forelli connections. He eventually killed the perpetrator of the drug deal attack, [[Ricardo Diaz]], aided by his new friend [[Lance Vance]]. Following the killing, he seized many properties and businesses assets in the city, with no assistance from the Forelli family, forming the "Vercetti Gang" in the process.
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| The expansion of the Vercetti's throughout Vice City made Tommy a very rich, powerful, and influential man, infuriating [[Sonny Forelli]], the Don of the Forelli family circa 1986, who was demanding his cut of the profit. Tommy's refusal to give in led the Forelli family to send collectors to Vice City to attempt to cut into the profits of Tommy's businesses by attempting to take over Tommy's businesses he bought. The Forellis' efforts were thwarted, and Sonny Forelli eventually confronts Tommy in person, which leads to a massacre, resulting in the death of many Forelli members, including a recently defected Lance Vance, and Sonny himself in the Vercetti Estate. Following Sonny's death, the Vercetti Gang is assumed to have total domination of Vice City.
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| The Vercetti Gang, or at least Tommy Vercetti himself, is presumed to remain in power for an undisclosed time. In [[The Introduction]], the prequel film to [[GTA San Andreas]], Ken Rosenberg, who was also initiated into the Vercetti Gang in 1986, is assumed to have been abandoned by Tommy after Ken is forced into rehabilitation for prolonged cocaine abuse. Following his release, Vercetti no longer takes his calls and their relationship is dissolved. This led to Ken's subsequent assignment as a middleman for the [[Leones]], [[Forellis]] and [[Sindaccos]] over [[Caligula's Casino]] in [[Las Venturas]] and then employment as an accountant to rapper [[Madd Dogg]].
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| ===Known Territory As Of 1986===
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| *'''[[Starfish Island]]''' - [[Vercetti Estate]]
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| *'''[[Vice Point]]''' - [[Malibu Club]]
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| *'''Vice Point''' - Stores in [[North Point Mall]]
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| *'''[[Ocean Beach]]''' - [[Pole Position]]
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| *'''[[Prawn Island]]''' - [[InterGlobal Films]]
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| *'''[[Little Haiti]]''' - [[Kaufman Cabs]]
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| *'''[[Little Havana]]''' - [[Print Works]]
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| *'''Little Havana''' - [[Cherry Poppers]]
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| *'''[[Viceport]]''' - [[Sunshine Autos]]
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| *'''Viceport''' - [[Boatyard]]
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| ===Known Fronts as of 1986===
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| *'''[[Boatyard]]''' - Business by bought by Tommy Vercetti. Front for smuggling drugs into Vice City.
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| *'''[[Cherry Popper Ice Cream Factory]]''' - Business bought by Tommy Vercetti. Front for drug distribution.
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| *'''[[Pole Position Club]]''' - Business bought by Tommy Vercetti. Front for prostitution racket and drug distribution.
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| *'''[[Kaufman Cabs]]''' - Business bought by Tommy Vercetti. Front for protection racket.
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| *'''[[InterGlobal Films]]''' - Business bought by Tommy Vercetti. Front for drug distribution.
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| *'''[[Vice City Print Works]]''' - Business bought by Tommy Vercetti. Front for money counterfeiting racket.
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| *'''[[The Malibu Club]]''' - Business bought by Tommy Vercetti. Front for gambling racket and drug distribution, base of operations for a bank heist.
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| *'''[[Sunshine Autos]]''' - Business bought by Tommy Vercetti. Front for auto theft racket.
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| ===Known Members As of 1986===
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| *'''[[Tommy Vercetti]]''' - Don of the Vercetti Gang
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| *'''[[Lance Vance]]''' - Underboss of the Family. Known as Tommy's impulsive sidekick, shot dead by Tommy Vercetti.
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| *'''[[Ken Rosenberg]]''' - Tommy's Consigliere and lawyer. Eventually fired due to drug abuse.
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| *'''[[Phil Cassidy]]''' - Works with Tommy in robbing a bank, supplied Tommy with weapons. Eventually quits to run his own gun shop in [[Liberty City]].
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| *'''[[Mike ?]]''' - Made man, runs *'''[[Kaufman Cabs]]''' illegal operations.
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| *'''[[Mario]]''' - Made man, runs illegal operations at the *'''[[The Malibu Club]]'''.
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| *'''[[Earnest Kelly]]''' - Front operator. Runs the [[Print Works]] for Tommy
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| *'''[[Dwaine]]''' -Front operator. Co-runs the [[Boatyard]] for Tommy. Eventually moves to [[San Fierro]] to work for a Vehicle reparist at a Gas Station.
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| *'''[[Jethro]]''' - Front operator. Co-runs the [[Boatyard]] for Tommy. Eventually moves to [[San Fierro]] to work at a Hotdog stand.
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| *'''[[Avery Carrington]]''' - Associate. Estate guru, advisor to the family. Eventually killed by [[Donald Love]] and [[Toni Cipriani]] in 1998.
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| *'''[[Colonel Juan Garcia Cortez]]''' - Associate. Tommy get off his feet, possible gun supplier for the Family.
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| *'''[[Steve Scott]]''' - Front operator. Runs the [[InterGlobal Films]] studio for Tommy
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