Continued tales of the Grotavia mob, offers we can't refuse<\/p>\n
The recent news that Tommy \"The Driver\" Soehartito and Bob \"The
\nChainsaw\" Hassano have been enjoying virtually unheard of
\nprivileges in jail -- on the rare occasions they are actually
\nthere -- has come as no surprise to long-time observers of the
\nGrotavia underworld, dominated as it was for over 30 years by
\nTommy's father, Don Soehartito, the former capo di capo of the
\nlocal mob.<\/p>\n
Soehartito's long and steady rise to the top of the steaming
\nGrotavia dunghill really began way back in 1942 when Dutch
\nHolland and his henchmen (the Netherlanderthal Gang), who had
\nlong dominated the city's underworld, were muscled out by the
\nJapanese Yakuza, eager to get their hands on the numbers,
\nprostitution and gambling rackets that were, and still are, such
\na part of the city's vice scene.<\/p>\n
Dutch, however, was not going to give up without a fight, and
\nin 1945, with the help of the British mafia and their Indian
\nsidekicks, he staged a comeback and evicted the Yakuza, who had
\nproven themselves more ruthless and voracious than Grotavia's
\nlong-suffering citizens could ever have imagined.<\/p>\n
Despite this, Dutch's days back at the top were numbered, for
\nthe Yakuza during their short stay had cultivated a new and
\npotentially even more voracious band of up-and-coming gangland
\nleaders.<\/p>\n
Led by Don \"The Architect\" Sukarnino, the new bosses, who up
\nto then had mostly been involved in small-scale protection
\nrackets, quickly saw that a vacuum had emerged, one that they
\nwere all too willing to fill.<\/p>\n
Dutch realized that his days were numbered and that the all-
\nout gangland warfare that had erupted was ruining business for
\neveryone. In a last-ditch effort to save some of his crumbling
\nbusiness empire, Dutch and Don Sukarnino reached an agreement
\nwhereby Dutch was to retain some of his wide-ranging underworld
\ninterests in Grotavia. However, after Dutch had packed his bags,
\nSukarnino soon reneged and seized everything left behind, much to
\nthe joy of the Don's lieutenants and cohorts, all of whom
\nreceived a share of the booty.<\/p>\n
After a long period dominating the Grotavia underworld, by the
\nearly 1960's Don Sukarnino seemed to be at the height of his
\npower. However, corruption had become all pervasive, with the
\nDon's hit men flaunting their ill-gotten gains for all to see.<\/p>\n
The ordinary citizens of Grotavia, reduced by this stage to
\nabject poverty by the Machiavellian machinations of the crime
\nbosses, were powerless to challenge their overwhelming might.<\/p>\n
Despite the fact that initially Don Sukarnino had a soft spot
\nfor the masses, and was even rumored to be genuinely concerned
\nabout their suffering, he had by this stage prostrated himself at
\nthe altar of wealth and power. Fond of dressing up in a flashy
\nwhite uniform, and jingling and jangling with lots of bright,
\nshiny medals, he seemed to be modeling himself on Mussolini, if
\nnot actually Liberace.<\/p>\n
Sukarnino was not the only one who was fond of dressing up,
\nhowever. Another group of dons, who later became known as the
\n\"uniformed dons\", also liked uniforms and medals -- the bigger,
\nbrighter and shinier the better.<\/p>\n
These ruthless crime lords were by this stage desperate to get
\nwhat they regarded as their proper share of the loot, especially
\nwith the threat to the sordid Grotavia edifice of crime from
\nenraged citizens and left-wingers becoming increasingly strong.<\/p>\n
In 1965, following a \"certain\" event (which ... er ... we
\nwon't go into here), Sukarnino saw his power eclipsed by the
\nuniformed dons under the command of the unscrupulous Don
\nSoehartito (later dubbed the \"Godfather of Development\").<\/p>\n
With Sukarnino now confined to his palatial residence, Don
\nSoehartito set about putting his uncompromising stamp on the
\nGrotavia underworld.<\/p>\n
While the early days of the Soehartito reign of terror were
\nmarked by efforts to permit the economy to breathe again after
\nyears of extortion and freeloading, the mobsters soon showed
\ntheir true colors, once again stealing and plundering everything
\nthey could lay their hands on.<\/p>\n
But even by Grotavia's vicious gangland standards, the rise of
\nTommy \"The Driver\" Soehartito marked the opening of a new chapter
\nin brutality and greed, a chapter that ended with Tommy's year-
\nlong flight from justice and the cold-blooded slaying of a
\nSupreme Court judge in broad daylight, a crime for which Tommy
\nreceived a derisory 15-year sentence.<\/p>\n
And now, as we find ourselves in 2003, things have come the
\nfull circle, with old Don Sukarnino's daughter, Donna Megasnotti,
\napparently firmly ensconced as the first female leader of the
\nGrotavia mob.<\/p>\n
But most observers agree that the power of the uniformed dons
\nhas only waned slightly, if at all, and that it is they who are
\nstill running many of the rackets on the mean streets of
\nGrotavia.<\/p>\n
Thus it should come as no surprise to learn that Tommy \"The
\nDriver\" Soehartito and Bob \"The Chainsaw\" Hassano are unlikely
\never to be punished in a manner that would even remotely fit
\ntheir heinous crimes.<\/p>\n
As has always been the way in Grotavia, steal a chicken,
\nyou're a sinner, but steal a country, you're a winner.<\/p>\n
-- Bill Blade<\/p>", "url": "https:\/\/jawawa.id\/newsitem\/continued-tales-of-the-grotavia-mob-offers-we-cant-refuse-1447893297", "image": "" }, "sponsor": "Okusi Associates", "sponsor_url": "https:\/\/okusiassociates.com" }