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The Clemente crime family is a crime family in the 2010 video game Mafia II. In the game, the family is the youngest of the three major families in the fictional city of Empire Bay. It gained its place on the Commission in 1929, and later gained considerable power after the two major families were weakened as a result of the Vinci-Moretti War.

History
Alberto Clemente began his life in organized crime working for his uncle Silvio, who was head of a Mafia faction in Palermo, Sicily. After moving to Empire Bay in 1926, Clemente established his own crew and made his mark smuggling liquor into the city. Throughout the next few years, his faction had strengthened and developed, therefore he was invited to join the Commission at some point during 1929.

Before and during the Vinci-Moretti War, the Vinci crime family controlled over 80 percent of Mafia businesses in the city. After the war, the Vinci family was considerably weakened, Clemente took advantage of this and obtained ownership of multiple businesses the Vinci family had owned.

The family was viewed as second rate by the other families due to the way that Clemente operated it.

Fall
During 1951, Luca Gurino, a capo of the family, met with Frank Vinci and Leo Galante at Vinci's Mansion. Luca tried to turn Vinci against the Falcone crime family, claiming that Falcone was involved in the drug trade, knowing that Vinci was strongly against drugs. Gurino says that something should be done about it. The Clemente family was already involved in drug trafficking at the time, Gurino and Clemente were attempting to get rid of the competition.

On May 6, 1951, the Clemente family is the first to act on Falcone as Clemente orders Gurino to kidnap Carlo Falcone's accountant Harvey Beans and his bodyguards Antonio "Tony Balls" Balsamo and Frankie the Mick to try and get information about Falcone's drug business; they are taken to Clemente's Slaughterhouse where they are tortured. Falcone's underboss Eddie Scarpa sends Vito Scaletta to find and save Falcone's men before they are killed. At the end of it, Frankie the Mick, Luca Gurino, and many other Clemente soldiers perish in the slaughterhouse and Falcone turns on Clemente.

On June 15, 1951, Falcone orders Joe Barbaro and Vito Scaletta to assassinate Clemente at his gang summit at the Empire Arms Hotel. Scaletta and Barbaro placed a bomb under the table in the conference room. The bomb kills all of Clemente's top men but not himself as he was in the bathroom at the time, he flees and more of his gangsters and the hitmen's driver, Marty die. It results in a car chase, which ends down the street from the hotel, Clemente is gravely wounded and Barbaro, angered over Marty's death, walks up to the Don's broken down limo and blasts him in the face and chest with his Thompson 1928, killing Clemente and crippling his family. The main reason Falcone killed Clemente was because he was stealing his dope customers and losing him money. Many Clemente members leave and join other families; for example, Henry Tomasino moves to the Falcone family after the fall of his family.