The Castello Family

The Castello family, also known as the Castello Crime Family, is an influential Italian mafia organization that traces its roots back to the 1920's. The groups activities include labor and construction racketeering, gambling, loansharking, extortion, money laundering, prostitution, fraud, hijacking, drug running, and fencing. It was based out of Liberty City.

The Lorenzo Rule

Lorenzo Castello took over as boss of the Castello family in 1958. He was an old dog with an iron fist. The code of honor and Omerta were enforced with a vigorous passion that earned the family the respect of the ruling families of Liberty City. After Lorenzo's daughter, Sophia, married Carter Knox the family had connections in the US government through the Chambers family as Knox was the bastard of the influential William Chambers.

McClellan Hearings and Beyond
After the McClellan hearings eventually lead to the passage of the 'Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act' (aka RICO) Las Cosa Nostra's activities began to crumble. Omerta, the legendary code of silence, gave way and snitching became all to common. Soon the influential mafia families saw its members either jailed or killed.

In the case of the Castello Family the wall held, but the power vacuum left by the decimation of the primary crime families of Liberty City saw the rise of new money. The new money followed no code and was after power and wealth only. The Romanov family, as well as modern gang groups (not to be confused with the era of Italian gangsters) were among new money groups going after the Castellos. Eventually the Romanovs successfully killed Lorenzo Castello, the Castello family boss, in 2017.

Post Lorenzo Rule
Following the assassination of Lorenzo Castello on November 16 in 2017 his two sons, Antonio and Vincent took over the family together to prevent fighting amongst themselves. With hits now on both of their lives from the same groups that ordered their fathers execution the two brothers took what remained of the family's operations and fled to Los Santos in hopes of growing new roots.