Forelli Crime Family

Overview

The Forelli Crime Family is a Liberty City Mafia family led by Sonny Forelli. In GTA Vice City it is the organization Tommy Vercetti starts out working for and the one he ultimately destroys in the south.

History

Fifteen years before the game, Sonny sent Tommy on the Harwood job that landed him in prison. In 1986, wanting a piece of the Florida drug trade, the family sends Tommy and lawyer Ken Rosenberg to Vice City to make a deal with the Vance brothers. The ambush on that deal costs the family its money and its drugs, and Sonny spends the rest of the game demanding repayment.

Territory

The family is based in Liberty City and has no turf in Vice City. Its members appear only in a handful of missions.

Leadership and members

• Sonny Forelli: the don.
• Tommy Vercetti and Ken Rosenberg: the family's representatives in Vice City at the start.
• Two family soldiers, Harry and Lee, are killed in the opening ambush.

Role in the story

The Forellis are the overarching antagonists. When Tommy's businesses start making money, Sonny sends collectors to tax them; Tommy kills them in Cap the Collector. In Keep Your Friends Close..., Sonny arrives in person and attacks the Vercetti Estate, and Tommy kills him.

Relations with other gangs

The family is allied with Lance Vance in the finale and is the main enemy of the Vercetti Gang.