MAFIA

MAFIA was a criminal organization operating in the city of Blue Coasts. It constituted one of the main plot lines of the Evergreen Tops district, and kept being brought up throughout the whole season.

Details
MAFIA was founded over a hundred years ago in the city of Blue Coasts, more precisely in Evergreen Tops. The founder and leader of said organization was Reuben Thacks. Their only activity was organized crime, usually to make a profit out of it, but after Reuben's death their goal became to unravel the truth behind his cold case. They were eventually brought down after the Blue Coasts Police Department (with the player's help) found a list of all of their members and sent them to different federal prisons all throughout the country, except for Gary Perkins (with whom the police made a deal) and Bella Matthews.

Evergreen Tops: Bringing down the organization
The player's first murder investigation in the city was the death of Mark Hilton, co-owner of the Hilton & Hilton Club alongside his wife Vaninna Ballaffinte. The killer turned out to be a man called Clive Goldman, who admitted that a secret society had ordered the hit on Mark and since he was one of its members, he had no choice but to obey. That society was MAFIA and Clive revealed that they had a password to see if someone else was a member. After saying "It never rains but it pours", a MAFIA member would answer "of course it does, my very dear fellow". The execution order was given to Clive on the back of a speeding ticket issued to Montgomery Appleton, but he didn't reply to the MAFIA password so the team assumed that it was just a coincidence.
 * A Snob Case, Case #1 in Blue Coasts:

The player and James Robert also went back to the Hilton & Hilton Club after Clive's arrest to investigate break-in. They confirmed that Gary Perkins, who had either entered the city illegally or with a fake identity, was the one who had broken into the club. Vaninna neglected to show the police the contents of the safe that Perkins had tried to open, and said that she would just sell the club and move all of their stuff away. Later on, Thomas Ravens saw that Vaninna had mailed all of the things that were in the club over to more than 100 different addresses. This meant that she had no interest in moving or keeping those things, but rather just hiding from the police whatever stuff she was keeping there.

Members

 * Reuben Thacks (founder, former leader)
 * Vaninna Ballaffinte (last leader)
 * Clive Goldman
 * Gary Perkins