Giovanni Russo

"I have much respect for your family."

- Russo to a Tattaglia mobster

Giovanni Russo was an Italian tailor and a mobster who was affiliated with Marco Cuneo and his family, becoming initiated into his family in 2010 after the death of Bobby Marcolini. Russo was involved in several attacks on Corleone businesses during the mob war of 2012, and was killed in retaliation.

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Owner of Russo Garments, Giovanni Russo did most of his work with the Tattaglia made-men in Crazy Town. And his loyalty to them was strong and he supported both, Tattaglia and Cuneo families during small time-from-time mob wars. During his tenure in his shop, Barzini lawyer Tony Bianchi established an illegal boxing ring in the backroom of the shop, being lead by Tattaglia's boxer and capo, Kelly Berry. This ring continued to operate even after Russo became allied to the Corleones by force. But he finally could break off of their alliance in late 2011 after his shop was taken over by the Cuneos.

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Giovanni was born in Sicily to Italian parents and was the twin brother of Giuseppe and Giorgio Russo. When he was sixteen, his family and him moved to France. At the age of seventeen he was charged with robbing a bank in Midtown, and was on the run for a few years. In 2010, he stopped fleeing the FCPD when he was initiated into Phillip Cuneo's criminal organization in Old Town, and became a Soldier. Russo fought in the mob war with the Corleone Family in the year 2011, and was hospitalised after being shot twice with a shotgun in a failed attack on Russo Garments on February 15, 2011. All of his enforcers were wet with blood in the attack, most of them killed. He was discharged from the hospital on February 20, returning to his duties as a mobster.

In 2012, FC gambler Lewis Mozai met with Corleone Soldato Dominic when encountered him while driving to the Cuneo Mansion, and Dominic beat down Lewis' old grumpy grandfather in exchange for the knowledge of Russo's location: The casino beneath The Peak hotel. Dominic murdered Giorgio Russo, Giovanni's brother, and threw Russo over the fence on the second floor causing him to fall down to the first, killing him.