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The Falcone crime family (previously the Moretti crime family) is a crime family in the 2010 video game Mafia II. In the game, the family is one of the three Empire Bay Families, the others being the Clemente and the Vinci crime families.

History
The family was founded by Tomaso Moretti, who was later assassinated during the Vinci-Moretti War. The family then became headed by Carlo Falcone. During Falcone's reign, the Falcone's became a ruthless rising star in the Empire Bay underworld. They became the second most powerful family in Empire Bay and were the family that Vito Scaletta and Joe Barbaro would eventually join. However, due to the death of Falcone and many of their men, they were weakened significantly. As Eddie Scarpa was Falcone's underboss, it is possible that he became the new boss after Falcone's death.

Clemente-Falcone drug war
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.

Bosses

 * Tomaso Moretti: 1913-1933 - Boss; born in ?, died in 1933 (aged ?).
 * Carlo Falcone: 1933-1951 - Boss; born in ?, died in 1951 (aged ?).
 * Eddie Scarpa: 1951-Unknown - Boss (possibly); born in ?, age ? (as of 1951).

Underbosses

 * Eddie Scarpa: 1933-1951 - Underboss; born in ?, age ? (as of 1951).

Caporegime

 * Carlo Falcone: 1913-1933 - Caporegime; born in ?, died in 1951 (aged ?).
 * Rocco: 1933-1950 - Caporegime; born in ?, died in 1950 (aged ?).

Soldiers

 * Vito Scaletta: 1951 - Soldier; born in 1925, 26 years old (as of 1951).
 * Joe Barbaro: 1951 - Soldier; born in 1924, died in 1951 (27 years old).
 * Henry Tomasino: 1951 - Soldier; born in 1910, died in 1951 (41 years old).
 * Eddie Scarpa: 1913-1933 - Soldier; born in ?, age ? (as of 1951).
 * Antonio "Tony Balls" Balsamo: 1913-present - Soldier; born in ?, age ? (as of 1951).
 * Rocco: 1913-1933 - Soldier; born in ?, died in 1950 (aged ?).

Associates

 * Jack Olivero: 1913-present - Associate; born in ?, age ? (as of 1951).