

Frank uses an Elling 9mm pistol in combat.The backstory: The Italian anti-Mafia squad made headlines in January after busting the elusive "godfather" of the Sicilian Mafia, Matteo Messina Denaro.The man had challenged Frank to a race for pink slips, and when he backed out and didn't show, Frank ran the guy over. Frank bought his De'Leo Traviata after killing a man with his previous car.

Frank's father was a bank robber, earning a living at it for 20 years.According to Vito, he and Frank played cards together, and he considers Frank a stand-up guy.Frank's dossier in the Assets and Kill List unlocks after starting Hot Rubber & Cold Blood.Before Lincoln could get any more information out of Frank, he died of his injuries. When questioned where the money plates came from, Frank lets it slip that they were stolen by Giorgi during their Federal Reserve heist, something Lincoln had not known until now. When questioned about the location of Alvarez, Frank says that Tommy Marcano came to pick him up shortly before Lincoln's attack. The operation was set up by Sal, but the counterfeiting was all wrong, so Sal delegated the project to Tommy, who had Frank bring in Alvarez, a printer who worked for Castro, to get the counterfeiting done right. Using that as leverage, Lincoln gets Frank to open up. When confronted by Lincoln, Frank's first concern was his wife and three little girls. Frank was hiding out at his garage in Tickfaw, where Marcano had been attempting to counterfeit the money he needed for his casino. On his most recent excursion, he brought back a man to take over Sal's counterfeiting operation, which was previously being run out of Pagani's Fine Motors.Īfter Lincoln dismantled Pagani's Auto Theft and Smuggling rackets, he tracked him down using a device he had planted on his car. Lately he's been making trips to Cuba to salvage card tables, slot machines and like gambling devices for Sal's Paradiso Hotel & Casino project in North Lake. When Frank isn't running Tickfaw Harbor, he uses his ship The Tanager to traffic goods in and out of Cuba for the Marcanos. He settles down, gets remarried, even has a couple of daughters. Frank balks at first, but wises up once he realizes he can still head out to sea whenever the mood hits him.

It's Frank who gets Tommy out of there in one piece, something that Sal never forgets.Īs a reward, Sal gives Frank control of the rackets in Tickfaw Harbor. Everything goes great until Castro rides into town and shoots the hell out of the place. When Sal opens up his casinos in Cuba, he turns them over to the youngest Marcano brother, Tommy, and asks Frank to keep an eye on him. They work him like a dog, but he doesn't mind, as long it keeps his mind off his grief. This is how he ends up moving contraband for the Marcanos. From then on out, Frank's a man with a death wish, taking any job that'll keep him out at sea. Unfortunately, both her and the child die during labor, so Frank hops on a boat and never looks back.

He controls the high-end contraband and car theft rackets for Sal Marcano out of Tickfaw Harbor, and is the family's main connection to Cuba.įrank's criminal career starts in 1939, working the docks of River Row with a wife who has a baby on the way. Frank Pagani is a lieutenant for the Marcano Crime Family.
