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Character Application and Information Sheet

NS Nation Name: Madrinpoor
Character Name: Sal Carmi
Character Gender: Male
Character Age: 65
Character Height: 5'6
Character Weight: 161
Character Position/Role/Job: Candidate for NYC Mayor (2021—)
New York State Senator, District 22 (2016—2020)
United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York (2013—2016)
D.A. of Brooklyn (2001—2013)
Chief D.D.A. for Brooklyn (1995—2001)
D.D.A. for Brooklyn (1983—1995)
Attorney, Williams and Keever Law Firm (1982—1983)
Co-Owner, Macau Rose Bar and Casino (1982—1983)
Busboy/Waiter/Bartender, Macau Rose Bar and Casino, part time (1966—1982)
Character Country/State of Birth: New York, USA
Character State of Residence: New York
Character Party Affiliation: Democratic
Main Strengths: Knows a lot about the law, background as a lawyer who helped bust the Mafia, seen as strong on crime issues, good at winning centrists while not necessarily alienating progressives, built himself up and got away from violence and gangs, unfazed by problems, good at answering tough questions, obsessively determined, down to earth, unfazed by anything, gets stuff done, is a minority which can endear him to progressives, strong with White voters
Main Weaknesses: Politically unknown, his sexuality might estrange him from some religious potential voters (like Italian and Hispanic Catholics), seen as too pliable by some progressives, Eric Adams-type politics which may or may not be a little too centrist depending on the political views of the city at the time of the election, quite robotic, doesn't smile often, and if he does it is quite forced, blunt, can't interact with people, Asperger's*


Biography:

Salvatore "Sal" Carmi was born in Brooklyn, New York, on September 3, 1956. His father owned a small laundromat in Bensonhurst, a working-class neighborhood with a large Italian-American and Asian population. Sal didn't talk until the age of five, and he barely cried. His parents thought that something was wrong with him, but could never afford for someone to see what it was. Eventually he did talk — but he remained a quiet kid all through his childhood years.

Sal had five older siblings, and his entire large family lived in the small two-bedroom apartment above their laundromat. His mother was constantly busy taking care of the rest of the children, and didn't pay enough attention to her youngest, who was well behaved and quiet. Sal's father was a talented saxophone player who never managed to make it successfully, and was miserable with his small apartment, large family, and run-down deli shop. He was generally a very cheerful man, friendly and generous, but as his business declined, he sunk into deeper depression, and began drinking. Overtime he only got worse; squandering his money and his business. When Sal's father got drunk, he never got violent — he became quiet and zoned out and disengaged from the world. He would spend his entire nights passed out behind the counter, forcing Sal's mother to close the shop and clean up and take care of her entire family. Sal also had a lot of trouble making friends in school — his lack of social skills and reclusiveness led to him being bullied and beaten up everyday. He never cried about anything. He just quietly took it in.

One day, when Sal was ten, while going to the grocery store he was jumped by a gang of teenagers. They broke his nose and stole his money, and left him in a bleeding huddle on the side of the road. Sal stayed huddled there for a while, until an older Chinese man came over and helped him up, then helped him bandage his nose. The man owned a dingy bar, which also doubled as a casino. He was one of the first people who Sal actually liked, and who was really kind to him, and they quickly became friends. His name was Mr. Fong — Sal never knew his first name — and he gave Sal a part-time informal job as a busboy and bartender, along with his official employee, a 22-year old Korean stoner kid named Moon. Sal spent a lot of time there, and thought of Mr. Fong as a better father than his own, who grew more and more drunk and desperate each day. He would work for Mr. Fong for many years.

Sal's father started to get into serious financial trouble as Sal got to his teens. He became addicted to gambling, and didn't spend much of his day actually working at this point — instead, he was always at adult movie theaters and strip clubs or casinos. The laundromat fell into disrepair as his wife and older children struggled to keep up with it; but Sal's oldest brother moved to Philadelphia and his second oldest went to prison on felony theft charges, and the laundromat started losing drastically more money than it brought in. It was robbed in early 1970, when Sal was 14, and Sal's father's source of alcohol and gambling money dried up rapidly. He started getting money from loan sharks to pay off the laundromat and his own excesses — when he couldn't pay those, he got new loans from different people until he was thousands of dollars in debt with no way to pay it back.

Eventually, Sal's father's loaners started to get impatient. Many of them were connected to crime syndicates across New York, and wouldn't wait for him to find a way to get more money — members of the Lucchese family, a New York Mafia family to whom Sal's father owed a lot of money, burst into the store, broke his hand and threatened to have Sal's second-oldest brother murdered in prison unless Sal's father could find a way to pay them. Desperate, Sal's father went straight to the top of the Gambino crime family, one of the biggest mafia families in New York, asking for a loan he would pay back right away — the Gambinos didn't believe him. He was horrible at repaying debts, and nobody would loan to him anymore. The Lucchese came back to collect the money, as Sal's father was drunk. He refused to give the money he didn't have, and after the gangsters threatened him again, he grabbed a tie from the dry cleaning rack and tried to strangle one of the gangsters. He was shot dead. Sal was watching through the window of the store. He was 16.

Sal's father's death took a large toll the family. Sal's mother, despite constant fighting with his father, was heartbroken after his death — especially since he had been destroyed by alcohol, and for the last many years was not the charming, kind, and sweet man that he used to be. This was even harder on Sal's two older siblings still living at home, who knew their father better than Sal did. Sal didn't even cry at the funeral. His mother's health rapidly declined after her husband's death, and the next year she was diagnosed with psychosis — she would have hallucinations and fits, and lost her job as a seamstress. Sal's oldest brother, Anthony, wanted her moved to Philadelphia with him so that he could care for her. She lost parental rights over Sal, now 17 and the only one of her children not a legal adult, who was moved to a foster home. However, Sal only spent a few months in the foster home, before he was adopted by Mr. Fong, whom he had continued to work for in an attempt to provide money for his family. Mr. Fong was given third-party custody over Sal.

Sal did very well in school academically throughout his life — he was quite intelligent, and focused on his schoolwork. He graduated from high school a semester early in 1973 and went to Fordham for his undergraduate degree.

In 1975, as Sal was a sophomore in college, his older brother Frank was released from jail, which he had been in since 1968. He had trouble landing a job, as many people were reluctant to hire ex-convicts, but had even more trouble keeping one. He went through five jobs in just six months, and spent a week in prison for disorderly conduct stemming from public intoxication. Sal's brother Anthony, as well as a couple other of his siblings and Sal, held an intervention for him and managed to get him a job at a construction firm. Just a month later, he quit the firm, saying he had gotten another job elsewhere.

In 1977, at a mandatory Humanities course at Fordham, Sal met a man named Pierre Louissaint. Pierre was born in Haiti but immigrated to the U.S. as a child, and was pursuing a degree in the music world. The two hit it off, and quickly became friends — Pierre was one of the few people that Sal felt really comfortable talking to and being around. Sal eventually started to develop feelings for Pierre, which he had never had before — Sal had never fallen in love, nor did he realize that he was gay. He just thought that questions of sexuality never really applied to him. Sal was very scared; brought up a strict Catholic, though he wasn't as religious now, he had been taught that homosexuality was a sin — and as the AIDS epidemic raged, there were even more reasons to be concerned. He tried to just remain friends with Pierre, and suppress his feelings, but it grew harder every day.

One day, as the two studied for their exam, Sal confessed his feelings to Pierre. It just burst out, and felt like a straightjacket being taken off. Pierre was shocked — he was gay, outwardly, and one of the inaugural members of ACT UP, but always had thought of Sal as a friend. Sal was crushed. He missed classes for a week so he didn't have to see or talk to Pierre, until Pierre showed up at his door. They rekindled their friendship, and Sal managed to tamp down his feelings for Pierre. One night, near the end of their college graduation, Pierre revealed that he had developed feelings for Sal over time. They started dating, though secretly, and Sal wouldn't come out for a few years.

Sal enrolled in law school at Columbia. He could only go to school part time, as he had to continue working at Mr. Fong's casino to pay for it. Fong's casino, the Macau Rose, began to gain more popularity and business as it went from a small group of slot machines in the back of a bar to an entertainment center that swiftly became somewhat of a gathering place for lowlifes around the city. In 1978, Fong built an exclusive nightclub in the basement of the building and moved all of the slot machines and illicit activities there — using the bar as just a legitimate front business. More and more people started to frequent the nightclub regularly; the clientele shifted from people trying to have a night of fun to desperate people who started burning their lives away there, coming every day and ending up wasted on the curb outside the building. People who had families and jobs and lives, but were neglecting all of those as they fell into the vices that the casino offered. Sal stoically watched them as he cleaned the tables in the bar upstairs, and later worked as a waiter and bartender in the casino. Another shift in customers also started to appear — mobsters and criminals started using the casino as a meeting point, a busy place where drugs and illicitness was unnoticed. They discussed deals and had meetings, and more than once Sal had to drag a body into the dumpster after a murder. Eventually he was desensitized to the criminal violence that went on around him, but grew to hate the casino.

Sal finished his J.D. and was admitted to the bar in 1982. By this time, he had come out publicly, and Pierre moved in together. His family did not support it, for the most part, except for his brother Anthony, who spoke on Sal's behalf to the rest of the family. They begrudgingly accepted him — a much bigger step than Sal anticipated — but Anthony was really the only one to ever support him. Mr. Fong died of heart disease just after Sal finished his J.D. — he left the casino to Sal and his brother who moved from Hong Kong a year earlier and barely spoke English. They were to share responsibilities and profits. Fong's brother had spent years working as a casino proprietor in Kowloon and ran the internal operations of the casino, while Sal was the person who maintained the facade of a legitimate business, as well as working as a waiter because they were short on staff.

One day, as Sal was bussing tables near closing time, he overheard two mobsters in a corner booth intimidating a loaner who had yet to pay. He said that he had no money — his construction company was floundering and he just needed a little more time to get the money to pay the loan back. The mobsters weren't forgiving. Most loan sharks by this time didn't use violence to extract payments, instead trying to financially pressure their debtors, but these two were sloppy, and threatened the man with violence. He said that he'd have them arrested if they touched him — one of the mobsters slammed his face into the table. Blood poured out of his broken nose, and he slumped motionless to the ground. Sal dropped to the ground behind a table, so they wouldn't see him, and the gangsters left. Sal ran to the window and took pictures of them as they left, then called an ambulance, but never talked to the police. Nor did the man.

Sal spent that night wandering aimlessly around the park. He felt guilty, like that all the horrible things that happened in his childhood, all the violence and chaos, his father's decline and murder, were rising up in him, like he was finally realizing the magnitude of them — and that those same things were happening again. And he was watching. He wasn't doing anything about them. He watched people, just like his father, stumbling out of the casino, burning their money, wasting their lives, and getting hurt from it. The man who had been assaulted by the mobsters was a regular at the casino. Sal broke down in the park and cried for the first time in years. He just felt guilty that he was watching the horrible parts of lives repeat themselves, and wasn't doing anything about it. He sold his share of the casino to Mr. Fong's brother the next day, and decided to put his law degree to use

Sal spent a time as a personal injury lawyer in a huge firm, but he hated it. He thought that the legal system was too slow and bureaucratic, and that wealthy and powerful people were much more able to escape the punishments of the law. His law firm represented many corrupt businessmen and politicians — in 1983, Sal's law firm deflected a sexual assault case against a prominent tech entrepreneur and noted playboy. Sal personally believed that his client was guilty, but the defense was successful in protecting him.

Sal wanted to — in a way — make up for his father. Find the people responsible, or at least people who do the same things. In the fall of 1993, Sal started on a project that would shape his life. He left the law firm in the end of 1983 and joined the Brooklyn D.A.'s office as an Assistant D.A., the people who do most of the actual lawyering in cases. After a few years of working low-level cases in the Narcotics bureau, he was moved to the Organized Crime and Racketeering Bureau — investigating organized crime rackets and corrupt enterprises, like prostitution rings.

In 1995, Sal was put on a case prosecuting a burglary related to loan sharking and extortion. A business owner had been unable to pay the loan sharks' fees, and his shop had been broken into, destroyed, and robbed. He then went to the police — from his descriptions, the two perpetrators were arrested; Vito Mannecci and Don Di Salvo, both of whom had been arrested in the past and had links to the Genovese crime family. They ran a location of a popular Tri State-wide used car chain. They were alleged to be corrupt — but multiple allegations of fraud, insider trading, and kickbacks against the company had been dropped for various reasons. Sal got curious about any possible connections — he obtained the bank records and transactions from their shop, and compared them with the tax reports of both the shop and the franchise as a whole. He found they didn't add up — the franchise supposedly had a royalty fee of 15%, meaning 15% of profits from each location of the franchise went to them, but they were reporting far less than that. Thousands of dollars had just gone missing for years.

Sal reported this to the D.A. and the police, and they began an investigation. The owner of the franchise, a paunchy entrepreneur named Carl Ramenna, was arrested and released on bail. While on bail, he sold the franchise to another businessman, and most of the owners of the locations sold them or closed — within a few months, the business was deeply in debt, and declared bankruptcy. It was obvious that the business was not surviving only on legitimate operations — it was also being used as a front. Ramenna's trial was delayed as a charge of money laundering was added — meanwhile, the investigation extended to the names of most of the location owners for the franchise, who sold their locations when Ramenna was arrested. Some of them had been arrested previously, and many had suspected mob connections. The NYPD and NJPD carried out a mass arrest; the prosecutor's offices of all five boroughs, along with NYC mayor not-Giuliani, the NY attorney's office, and the NJ attorney's office all cooperated to charge them under the RICO act of 1970. It was one of the biggest mafia busts since the 1980s. Further investigation of many of the criminals showed that they had partaken in other crimes, such as drug dealing, fencing stolen goods, extortion, and burglary, and were using the stores as a way to launder profits.

After this, Sal was promoted to being chief D.D.A. for the whole department. But he wasn't done tracking down the mafia — over the next few years, there were a number of arrests made against the mob, one of which was against his own brother, Frank, who was arrested for extortion and had become a Gambino family soldier. Sal prosecuted his case, and sent his own brother to jail. In 1998, the mob boss of the Bonanno crime family was arrested for contract killing and racketeering — he was released on bail, and a month before his trial, the D.A. was killed in a yacht fire in Montauk. By the time the Coast Guard got there, the yacht was almost entirely destroyed. The trial was postponed to get a new prosecutor — Sal was assigned to the case (he won), and as chief D.D.A. he expected to be made interim D.A. as well, given that he was the chief prosecutor now that the D.A. had died. Instead, governor not-Pataki assigned his personal friend, Republican upstart D.D.A. Robby Lloyd, to be the D.A. Lloyd had less experience and fewer high profile cases than Sal, and received protests from the community given that he wasn't elected, and a Republican. Sal considered being passed over a snub by not-Pataki, and in 2001, he ran against Lloyd in the District Attorney election.

In the election, Sal espoused his strong prosecutorial record, and criticized Lloyd for coming from a wealthy political family, who donated extensively to the Pataki campaign and other Republican causes. Sal viciously denounced him in TV and radio as a partisan hack, bringing an unusual amount of public attention to the case. Governor not-Pataki endorsed Lloyd, but Sal got endorsements from New York senators and representatives. A big endorsement for Sal came in the form of mayor not-Giuliani, who, although a Republican, said that he had "great respect" for Sal's work fighting the Mafia, and had worked extensively with him in the past. Lloyd raised more money than Sal, especially from outside conservative groups, and appeared on Fox news and other conservative outlets. He said that in the future he might eye a possible mayoral or gubernatorial race ("and maybe even farther, who knows?"), and many New York Democrats poured money in to help stop Lloyd before he could gain experience and recognition. Sal told them that if they can "paint him as a loser" no one will vote for him.

A few months before the election, homophobic comments Lloyd had made about Sal surfaced, and Sal used it to paint him as a homophobe. Lloyd went on Rush Limbaugh's show and, instead of retracting the comments, denounced them as "an October surprise" and doubled down, saying that Sal was "sexually immoral" and therefore didn't have the conviction to be mayor. Former NYC mayor not-Ed Koch endorsed Sal, denouncing Lloyd's comments, and Pataki withdrew his endorsement of Lloyd, refusing to endorse either, and lamented the election as "not being about who can best help the people anymore, but instead other cultural issues that have nothing to do with the District Attorney." Later that month, Lloyd fired Sal for "not fulfilling duties" but was widely construed to be about the election, and was criticized by outside groups.

The intensity of the election turned away many voters (few of whom actually voted for the D.A. anyway), and turnout was low on election day — but Sal beat Lloyd by a significant margin. Sal was the first gay District Attorney to be elected in the United States. Lloyd opened a private law firm, and later became a pundit, but his political career was stunted by the loss.

As District Attorney, along with mayor not-Bloomberg, Sal started a program that would, instead of arresting minors with drugs, provide treatment to them and help them with addictions. He said that "a minor using drugs isn't a crime, it's a tragedy. Addiction isn't intentional on the part of the addict, it's a disease they're afflicted by, and locking people up won't solve anything." He started a program that would help people trying to leave gangs or criminal organizations do so, no questions asked (if they don't have an arrest warrant), and he wouldn't prosecute prostitutes but would prosecute people soliciting them, in an attempt to reduce demand.

In 2003, a criminal named Mario Micci, suspected to be an underboss for the Genovese family, was arrested for racketeering and drug smuggling. Micci was a huge man, nearly 250 pounds and 6'4, and accused of different crimes four times but had always ended in a mistrial due to jury deadlock. Sal was persecuting the case, as it was considered high-level enough, but the witnesses that testified he had run a cocaine smuggling racket out of a fish market weren't very credible, and from a different crime family. The cocaine that was found in the fish couldn't be directly traced to him, and Sal thought that the case would be thrown out from lack of evidence. However, a couple days before the trial, Sal got a tip from a woman who claimed to be Micci's wife, who had lots of documents and recordings about Micci's work, including letters and emails about contract killings, confessions he had made of various crimes he committed, and illegal drugs he possessed. She had caught him cheating on her, and wanted to get back at him. Multiple new counts were added against him, and it seemed like Sal might win the trial and put him in jail for the first time. The trial was well-publicized, and garnered national interest. Micci was not released on bail, as he was considered a dangerous criminal.

The last day of the trial, there was an assassination attempt against Sal. He was walking through a run down part of Coney Island, when two armed men at a newsstand turned and opened fire on him. Sal was hit in the shoulder and upper leg, but managed to crawl behind a concrete Jersey barrier blocking cars from road construction while yelling for police. The two gunmen chased after him — but two police officers on patrol down the street, who had witnessed the whole thing, drove over to Sal's position, scattering the gunmen. One ended up getting shot running away, while the other was arrested. Sal was rushed to the hospital, and the trial was postponed. The trial was given to another lawyer so Sal could recover, and Micci was convicted. Sal was given a personal security detail — no more attempts were made on his life, and over time the detail dwindled down to just one bodyguard, which he still has.

The gunman that was arrested testified in a plea deal that he had been hired by the boss of the Genovese family to protect Micci, and that another witness was targeted and to be assassinated after Sal. The boss of the Genovese family was arrested for attempted murder, and Sal went on TV to talk about the mob and his assassination. He said; "There is this perception that the mafia is dead...that isn't, no, that isn't true. They aren't dead. The RICO act, and mayor not-Giuliani, and our work throughout the nineties, we've silenced them...but they aren't gone. The mafia is quiet now. They operate quietly. They pull strings quietly. They buy politicians, and they run businesses, and they even kill people with as little notice as possible. The other gangs, they are easier to hunt down 'cause they aren't as skilled at keeping a low profile. Look at the news, it says, 'gang member injured and three bystanders killed in gang-related drive by' the mafia doesn't do that. They don't talk about their crimes, they aren't flashy, and they try to kill people like me with no one else noticing. So it's even harder for lawyers and the police to track them down. But to all the mafia still out there — we'll find you."

Sal was reelected to the D.A. in 2005, and again in 2009. He was known for taking a very hands on approach — rather than having his underlings prosecute the crimes, he was a very active prosecutor even for cases not considered really important enough to have a D.A. on them. He had a very good record — and as D.A. he wasn't bound to a certain field of cases, like homicide or narcotics, he was able to prosecute all sorts of different criminals.

Sal wouldn't run for D.A. again in 2013 — instead, he got a job offer from President Baharia to be the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York. Sal accepted excitedly, and now with greater resources he began to take on not just organized criminals, but larger financial crimes. Not even a year into his term, Sal brought forth fraud charges for a large investment and stockbroking firm that was embezzling money and lying to their clients.

In 2015, reports surfaced of a NY State Senator, Benjamin Blau, taking money from large campaign donors to further their interests. Blau notably fought against bills to raise taxation on out-of-state companies, supposedly to "bolster outside income in New York" and prevent big businesses from leaving the city. However, reports showed that he fought for these measures around the same time that he began receiving huge campaign donations from corporations and wealthy private individuals fighting tax raises. Blau's district was in Brooklyn, so Sal personally took the case; he brought forth charges of bribery and corruption against Blau, who denied wrongdoing. The jury ended up deciding he was not guilty — although Blau had done something unethical, the evidence did not point strongly enough towards actual lawbreaking. Sal said that he "would not stop here at exposing [Blau's} corruption."

In early 2016, Sal was removed from the position by President Wolf, and denounced the move as "purely political" and accusing Wolf of glossing over his lengthy record of service. Later that year, Sal found out that Benjamin Blau was going to run for State Senate again, even after the corruption trial made him lose credibility. Blau still had a devoted support base in the constituency, especially among older voters, but Brooklyn was changing and the seat was very much a toss-up between him and another candidate. Pierre convinced Sal to run for the seat — if Blau couldn't be defeated in court, maybe in an election. Sal declared his candidacy, and after a tight race, won the Democratic primary against Blau. The seat was pretty safely blue, but Blau ran as an independent. Blau managed to get a surprising amount of fundraising, but Sal painted it as a race between a corrupt politician, and the lawyer that exposed him — and won in a landslide.

The State Senate was Sal's first time in legislative politics. He didn't like Albany, and often commuted back to Brooklyn via Amtrak. He had his chief of staff, a fresh out of grad school PoliSci major named Janet, operate his office in Brooklyn, and have the door open to people at all times for their comments or policy ideas. While in the Senate, Sal sponsored a bill requiring gas stations to include EV charging ports, and another bill that would require developers to include at least one unit of affordable housing for every one hundred housing units built, which ultimately failed, but would remain a priority for Sal. Sal was re-elected in 2018.

Sal knew, halfway through his second State Senate term, that he wanted to run for mayor in 2021. He began tendering a run, and meeting with Democratic donors and activists. He went back and forth on the idea for a while, didn't run for State Senate reelection in 2020, but in early 2021 he decided that he wasn't going to run for mayor and announced his candidacy for Brooklyn Borough President — he then changed his mind, withdrew his candidacy, thought about running for D.A. again, but ultimately, he decided to run for mayor at the convincing of Pierre and began assembling a campaign team. His biggest issues are bringing back the fleeing business from New York, in order to reboot jobs and the economy, increasing accountability in the NYPD after protests broke out due to the death of Marlon Ward, and gradually making NYC more green and sustainable. He says it's time to "reinvest" in New York public transportation, bring back more rent control, stop gentrification and raising housing prices, "reduce the negative effects of historical redlining" and build new public affordable housing, continue the downward trend in NYC crime and keep kids out of gangs. His fiscally liberal plan to "prepare New York City for the future" depends on his success at fixing the pressing economic crisis with pro-business ideas. He says that the other candidates are too ideological and not pragmatic enough, and that their "lofty aspirations" will do nothing for the city.

• Born Sept. 3, 1956 (age 66)
• Huge family, quite poor, father owned a laundromat
• Father became an alcoholic, gambling addict, etc., and needed to keep borrowing money from seedy people
• Sal was socially awkward and bullied as a kid, but got a job (at age 10, so probably an informal job) working for a Chinese man named "Mr. Fong" who owned a bar/restaurant
• Sal's dad defaulted on debts — mafia-affiliated loaners came to collect them, he was drunk and tried to strangle one of the collectors with a necktie and was shot dead, Sal was watching, only 16
• Mother eventually developed psychosis, and lost custody over Sal (only kid not a legal adult) who was put in a foster home before being adopted by Mr. Fong.
• Sal is very smart — went to Fordham for undergrad
• Sal's brother Frank bounced in an out of jail and in and out of jobs, Sal's family held an intervention and got him a job, which he left because he got a job elsewhere
• Met a Haitian guy named Pierre Louissaint, fell in love, confused about his sexuality and convinced that being gay is wrong. Eventually he accepted it, and after a while the two started dating
• Went to Columbia law, while working part time at Mr. Fong's bar/restaurant, now bar/restaurant/casino where lots of lowlifes came
• Finished his J.D., came out (unsupportive family except older brother Anthony), Mr. Fong died and left the casino to his brother and Sal, his adopted son
• Sal witnesses loan sharks beat up someone just like they had his dad a long time ago, felt guilty for not doing anything, wanted to do something, sold his part of the casino to Mr. Fong's brother
• Joined a private injury law firm, hated it, left it and joined the D.A.'s office (as a D.D.A.)
• Spent a while in lower-level cases, until 1995, where he uncovered a mafia racket hidden by a failing used car sale chain, busted a whole bunch of people, promoted to Chief D.D.A.
• Over the next few years, arrested a lot of mobsters (including his brother, who became a mobster)
• D.A. killed in a yacht fire, that was probably caused by a crime boss they were persecuting, but Sal (chief D.D.A.) was passed up for the position by not-Pataki in favor of a Republican upstart lawyer with less experience, which pissed Sal off
• Sal ran against him in the next election, it was a vicious campaign and more publicized than most D.A. elections
• Sal got endorsements from surprising people, like not-Giuliani, and homophobic comments that Lloyd said resurfaced and he doubled down on them, but in the end Sal won and became first gay D.A. in the US
• As District Attorney, along with mayor not-Bloomberg, Sal started a program that would, instead of arresting minors with drugs, provide treatment to them and help them with addictions. He said that "a minor using drugs isn't a crime, it's a tragedy. Addiction isn't intentional on the part of the addict, it's a disease they're afflicted by, and locking people up won't solve anything." He started a program that would help people trying to leave gangs or criminal organizations do so, no questions asked, and he wouldn't prosecute prostitutes but would prosecute people soliciting them, in an attempt to reduce demand
• Big 2003 trial against a mobster named Mario Micci, who had never been caught before but his jealous ex-wife gave a bunch of tips to Sal and he arrested Micci, but last day of the trial hitmen paid by Micci's boss tried to kill Sal — they failed, but he had to drop the case to recover from wounds and got a personal security detail. One of the gunmen who was arrested gave a testimony against the person who hired him, Genovese family boss, and he was arrested too
• Reelected to the D.A. twice, in 2005 and 2009, but in 2013 President Baharia gave him a job offer as US Attorney for the Southern District of New York
• As US Attorney for Southern District of NY, he persecuted a corrupt State Senator named Benjamin Blau, though the evidence against him was big, he didn't break enough actual laws (just a lot of unethical stuff) and wasn't impeached or arrested.
• In 2016, Wolf removed him from the US Attorney position in a political move, and Sal found out that Benjamin Blau was running for State Senate again, so he ran against him.
• He won the Democratic primaries, so Blau ran as an independent, but Sal beat him by a landslide (it was corrupt politician versus lawyer who exposed his corruption).
• First time in legislative politics, as State Senator Sal sponsored a bill requiring gas stations to include EV charging ports, and another bill that would require developers to include at least one unit of affordable housing for every one hundred housing units built, which ultimately failed, but would remain a priority for Sal. He was re-elected in 2018. He had his chief of staff, a fresh out of grad school PoliSci major named Janet, operate his office in Brooklyn, and have the door open to people at all times for their comments or policy ideas.
• Knew halfway through second Senate term he was going to run for NYC mayor, but went back and forth for a while, eventually deciding to run.
• His biggest issues are bringing back the fleeing business from New York, in order to reboot jobs and the economy, increasing accountability in the NYPD after protests broke out due to the death of Marlon Ward, and gradually making NYC more green and sustainable. He says it's time to "reinvest" in New York public transportation, bring back more rent control, stop gentrification and raising housing prices, "reduce the negative effects of historical redlining" and build new public affordable housing, continue the downward trend in NYC crime and keep kids out of gangs. His fiscally liberal plan to "prepare New York City for the future" depends on his success at fixing the pressing economic crisis with pro-business ideas. He says that the other candidates are too ideological and not pragmatic enough, and that their "lofty aspirations" will do nothing for the city.

Other Info:

A Catholic, as is his husband, although his wedding was nondenominational because no priests would bless a same-sex marriage

Married to Pierre Louissaint (2011—)

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Sal has Aspergers, which I'm planning to make a pretty central part of his character IC. This is very downplayed, and Sal keeps it a very close secret to almost everybody because he feels like it could seriously derail his future political career, and he's probably right. It would likely undermine public confidence and support and change people's perceptions of him.

Asperger's symtoms range dramatically between individuals. For Sal, it means he gets very invested in projects to the point of obsession — it's hard for him to do or think about or focus on anything else besides the project that he's working on at the moment. He also isn't great at talking to people — he's naturally very blunt and tactless. So, basically, a jerk that gets things done.

However, he does realize when he says something he isn't supposed to because it's mean or something like that. He is not averse to apologizing, though he hates being told he did something wrong. When faced with a ton of stress he will just stop doing what he is doing, and sit perfectly still until he can sort through it and people stop bothering him.

Family:
Father - Angelo Carmi (deceased, 19872)
Mother - Sofia Noronno Carmi
Siblings, by age - Anthony Carmi
- Frank Carmi
- Mary Carmi Algunio
- Beatrice Carmi Hemmstein
- Joe Carmi

F.H. Fong (deceased, 1982)




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I have been working on this forever and I'm finally done! My favorite character I've ever made.

Also, I've been pretty inactive recently cause of school stuff, but now that the first trimester is over for me and I have some more time I'll be more active in this RP again.

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Character Application and Information Sheet

NS Nation Name: Madrinpoor
Character Name: Sal Carmi
Character Gender: Male
Character Age: 65
Character Height: 5'6
Character Weight: 161
Character Position/Role/Job: Candidate for NYC Mayor (2021—)
New York State Senator, District 22 (2016—2020)
United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York (2013—2016)
D.A. of Brooklyn (2001—2013)
Chief D.D.A. for Brooklyn (1995—2001)
D.D.A. for Brooklyn (1983—1995)
Attorney, Williams and Keever Law Firm (1982—1983)
Co-Owner, Macau Rose Bar and Casino (1982—1983)
Busboy/Waiter/Bartender, Macau Rose Bar and Casino, part time (1966—1982)
Character Country/State of Birth: New York, USA
Character State of Residence: New York
Character Party Affiliation: Democratic
Main Strengths: Knows a lot about the law, background as a lawyer who helped bust the Mafia, seen as strong on crime issues, good at winning centrists while not necessarily alienating progressives, built himself up and got away from violence and gangs, unfazed by problems, good at answering tough questions, obsessively determined, down to earth, unfazed by anything, gets stuff done, is a minority which can endear him to progressives, strong with White voters
Main Weaknesses: Politically unknown, his sexuality might estrange him from some religious potential voters (like Italian and Hispanic Catholics), seen as too pliable by some progressives, Eric Adams-type politics which may or may not be a little too centrist depending on the political views of the city at the time of the election, quite robotic, doesn't smile often, and if he does it is quite forced, blunt, can't interact with people, Asperger's*


Biography:

Salvatore "Sal" Carmi was born in Brooklyn, New York, on September 3, 1956. His father owned a small laundromat in Bensonhurst, a working-class neighborhood with a large Italian-American and Asian population. Sal didn't talk until the age of five, and he barely cried. His parents thought that something was wrong with him, but could never afford for someone to see what it was. Eventually he did talk — but he remained a quiet kid all through his childhood years.

Sal had five older siblings, and his entire large family lived in the small two-bedroom apartment above their laundromat. His mother was constantly busy taking care of the rest of the children, and didn't pay enough attention to her youngest, who was well behaved and quiet. Sal's father was a talented saxophone player who never managed to make it successfully, and was miserable with his small apartment, large family, and run-down deli shop. He was generally a very cheerful man, friendly and generous, but as his business declined, he sunk into deeper depression, and began drinking. Overtime he only got worse; squandering his money and his business. When Sal's father got drunk, he never got violent — he became quiet and zoned out and disengaged from the world. He would spend his entire nights passed out behind the counter, forcing Sal's mother to close the shop and clean up and take care of her entire family. Sal also had a lot of trouble making friends in school — his lack of social skills and reclusiveness led to him being bullied and beaten up everyday. He never cried about anything. He just quietly took it in.

One day, when Sal was ten, while going to the grocery store he was jumped by a gang of teenagers. They broke his nose and stole his money, and left him in a bleeding huddle on the side of the road. Sal stayed huddled there for a while, until an older Chinese man came over and helped him up, then helped him bandage his nose. The man owned a dingy bar, which also doubled as a casino. He was one of the first people who Sal actually liked, and who was really kind to him, and they quickly became friends. His name was Mr. Fong — Sal never knew his first name — and he gave Sal a part-time informal job as a busboy and bartender, along with his official employee, a 22-year old Korean stoner kid named Moon. Sal spent a lot of time there, and thought of Mr. Fong as a better father than his own, who grew more and more drunk and desperate each day. He would work for Mr. Fong for many years.

Sal's father started to get into serious financial trouble as Sal got to his teens. He became addicted to gambling, and didn't spend much of his day actually working at this point — instead, he was always at adult movie theaters and strip clubs or casinos. The laundromat fell into disrepair as his wife and older children struggled to keep up with it; but Sal's oldest brother moved to Philadelphia and his second oldest went to prison on felony theft charges, and the laundromat started losing drastically more money than it brought in. It was robbed in early 1970, when Sal was 14, and Sal's father's source of alcohol and gambling money dried up rapidly. He started getting money from loan sharks to pay off the laundromat and his own excesses — when he couldn't pay those, he got new loans from different people until he was thousands of dollars in debt with no way to pay it back.

Eventually, Sal's father's loaners started to get impatient. Many of them were connected to crime syndicates across New York, and wouldn't wait for him to find a way to get more money — members of the Lucchese family, a New York Mafia family to whom Sal's father owed a lot of money, burst into the store, broke his hand and threatened to have Sal's second-oldest brother murdered in prison unless Sal's father could find a way to pay them. Desperate, Sal's father went straight to the top of the Gambino crime family, one of the biggest mafia families in New York, asking for a loan he would pay back right away — the Gambinos didn't believe him. He was horrible at repaying debts, and nobody would loan to him anymore. The Lucchese came back to collect the money, as Sal's father was drunk. He refused to give the money he didn't have, and after the gangsters threatened him again, he grabbed a tie from the dry cleaning rack and tried to strangle one of the gangsters. He was shot dead. Sal was watching through the window of the store. He was 16.

Sal's father's death took a large toll the family. Sal's mother, despite constant fighting with his father, was heartbroken after his death — especially since he had been destroyed by alcohol, and for the last many years was not the charming, kind, and sweet man that he used to be. This was even harder on Sal's two older siblings still living at home, who knew their father better than Sal did. Sal didn't even cry at the funeral. His mother's health rapidly declined after her husband's death, and the next year she was diagnosed with psychosis — she would have hallucinations and fits, and lost her job as a seamstress. Sal's oldest brother, Anthony, wanted her moved to Philadelphia with him so that he could care for her. She lost parental rights over Sal, now 17 and the only one of her children not a legal adult, who was moved to a foster home. However, Sal only spent a few months in the foster home, before he was adopted by Mr. Fong, whom he had continued to work for in an attempt to provide money for his family. Mr. Fong was given third-party custody over Sal.

Sal did very well in school academically throughout his life — he was quite intelligent, and focused on his schoolwork. He graduated from high school a semester early in 1973 and went to Fordham for his undergraduate degree.

In 1975, as Sal was a sophomore in college, his older brother Frank was released from jail, which he had been in since 1968. He had trouble landing a job, as many people were reluctant to hire ex-convicts, but had even more trouble keeping one. He went through five jobs in just six months, and spent a week in prison for disorderly conduct stemming from public intoxication. Sal's brother Anthony, as well as a couple other of his siblings and Sal, held an intervention for him and managed to get him a job at a construction firm. Just a month later, he quit the firm, saying he had gotten another job elsewhere.

In 1977, at a mandatory Humanities course at Fordham, Sal met a man named Pierre Louissaint. Pierre was born in Haiti but immigrated to the U.S. as a child, and was pursuing a degree in the music world. The two hit it off, and quickly became friends — Pierre was one of the few people that Sal felt really comfortable talking to and being around. Sal eventually started to develop feelings for Pierre, which he had never had before — Sal had never fallen in love, nor did he realize that he was gay. He just thought that questions of sexuality never really applied to him. Sal was very scared; brought up a strict Catholic, though he wasn't as religious now, he had been taught that homosexuality was a sin — and as the AIDS epidemic raged, there were even more reasons to be concerned. He tried to just remain friends with Pierre, and suppress his feelings, but it grew harder every day.

One day, as the two studied for their exam, Sal confessed his feelings to Pierre. It just burst out, and felt like a straightjacket being taken off. Pierre was shocked — he was gay, outwardly, and one of the inaugural members of ACT UP, but always had thought of Sal as a friend. Sal was crushed. He missed classes for a week so he didn't have to see or talk to Pierre, until Pierre showed up at his door. They rekindled their friendship, and Sal managed to tamp down his feelings for Pierre. One night, near the end of their college graduation, Pierre revealed that he had developed feelings for Sal over time. They started dating, though secretly, and Sal wouldn't come out for a few years.

Sal enrolled in law school at Columbia. He could only go to school part time, as he had to continue working at Mr. Fong's casino to pay for it. Fong's casino, the Macau Rose, began to gain more popularity and business as it went from a small group of slot machines in the back of a bar to an entertainment center that swiftly became somewhat of a gathering place for lowlifes around the city. In 1978, Fong built an exclusive nightclub in the basement of the building and moved all of the slot machines and illicit activities there — using the bar as just a legitimate front business. More and more people started to frequent the nightclub regularly; the clientele shifted from people trying to have a night of fun to desperate people who started burning their lives away there, coming every day and ending up wasted on the curb outside the building. People who had families and jobs and lives, but were neglecting all of those as they fell into the vices that the casino offered. Sal stoically watched them as he cleaned the tables in the bar upstairs, and later worked as a waiter and bartender in the casino. Another shift in customers also started to appear — mobsters and criminals started using the casino as a meeting point, a busy place where drugs and illicitness was unnoticed. They discussed deals and had meetings, and more than once Sal had to drag a body into the dumpster after a murder. Eventually he was desensitized to the criminal violence that went on around him, but grew to hate the casino.

Sal finished his J.D. and was admitted to the bar in 1982. By this time, he had come out publicly, and Pierre moved in together. His family did not support it, for the most part, except for his brother Anthony, who spoke on Sal's behalf to the rest of the family. They begrudgingly accepted him — a much bigger step than Sal anticipated — but Anthony was really the only one to ever support him. Mr. Fong died of heart disease just after Sal finished his J.D. — he left the casino to Sal and his brother who moved from Hong Kong a year earlier and barely spoke English. They were to share responsibilities and profits. Fong's brother had spent years working as a casino proprietor in Kowloon and ran the internal operations of the casino, while Sal was the person who maintained the facade of a legitimate business, as well as working as a waiter because they were short on staff.

One day, as Sal was bussing tables near closing time, he overheard two mobsters in a corner booth intimidating a loaner who had yet to pay. He said that he had no money — his construction company was floundering and he just needed a little more time to get the money to pay the loan back. The mobsters weren't forgiving. Most loan sharks by this time didn't use violence to extract payments, instead trying to financially pressure their debtors, but these two were sloppy, and threatened the man with violence. He said that he'd have them arrested if they touched him — one of the mobsters slammed his face into the table. Blood poured out of his broken nose, and he slumped motionless to the ground. Sal dropped to the ground behind a table, so they wouldn't see him, and the gangsters left. Sal ran to the window and took pictures of them as they left, then called an ambulance, but never talked to the police. Nor did the man.

Sal spent that night wandering aimlessly around the park. He felt guilty, like that all the horrible things that happened in his childhood, all the violence and chaos, his father's decline and murder, were rising up in him, like he was finally realizing the magnitude of them — and that those same things were happening again. And he was watching. He wasn't doing anything about them. He watched people, just like his father, stumbling out of the casino, burning their money, wasting their lives, and getting hurt from it. The man who had been assaulted by the mobsters was a regular at the casino. Sal broke down in the park and cried for the first time in years. He just felt guilty that he was watching the horrible parts of lives repeat themselves, and wasn't doing anything about it. He sold his share of the casino to Mr. Fong's brother the next day, and decided to put his law degree to use

Sal spent a time as a personal injury lawyer in a huge firm, but he hated it. He thought that the legal system was too slow and bureaucratic, and that wealthy and powerful people were much more able to escape the punishments of the law. His law firm represented many corrupt businessmen and politicians — in 1983, Sal's law firm deflected a sexual assault case against a prominent tech entrepreneur and noted playboy. Sal personally believed that his client was guilty, but the defense was successful in protecting him.

Sal wanted to — in a way — make up for his father. Find the people responsible, or at least people who do the same things. In the fall of 1993, Sal started on a project that would shape his life. He left the law firm in the end of 1983 and joined the Brooklyn D.A.'s office as an Assistant D.A., the people who do most of the actual lawyering in cases. After a few years of working low-level cases in the Narcotics bureau, he was moved to the Organized Crime and Racketeering Bureau — investigating organized crime rackets and corrupt enterprises, like prostitution rings.

In 1995, Sal was put on a case prosecuting a burglary related to loan sharking and extortion. A business owner had been unable to pay the loan sharks' fees, and his shop had been broken into, destroyed, and robbed. He then went to the police — from his descriptions, the two perpetrators were arrested; Vito Mannecci and Don Di Salvo, both of whom had been arrested in the past and had links to the Genovese crime family. They ran a location of a popular Tri State-wide used car chain. They were alleged to be corrupt — but multiple allegations of fraud, insider trading, and kickbacks against the company had been dropped for various reasons. Sal got curious about any possible connections — he obtained the bank records and transactions from their shop, and compared them with the tax reports of both the shop and the franchise as a whole. He found they didn't add up — the franchise supposedly had a royalty fee of 15%, meaning 15% of profits from each location of the franchise went to them, but they were reporting far less than that. Thousands of dollars had just gone missing for years.

Sal reported this to the D.A. and the police, and they began an investigation. The owner of the franchise, a paunchy entrepreneur named Carl Ramenna, was arrested and released on bail. While on bail, he sold the franchise to another businessman, and most of the owners of the locations sold them or closed — within a few months, the business was deeply in debt, and declared bankruptcy. It was obvious that the business was not surviving only on legitimate operations — it was also being used as a front. Ramenna's trial was delayed as a charge of money laundering was added — meanwhile, the investigation extended to the names of most of the location owners for the franchise, who sold their locations when Ramenna was arrested. Some of them had been arrested previously, and many had suspected mob connections. The NYPD and NJPD carried out a mass arrest; the prosecutor's offices of all five boroughs, along with NYC mayor not-Giuliani, the NY attorney's office, and the NJ attorney's office all cooperated to charge them under the RICO act of 1970. It was one of the biggest mafia busts since the 1980s. Further investigation of many of the criminals showed that they had partaken in other crimes, such as drug dealing, fencing stolen goods, extortion, and burglary, and were using the stores as a way to launder profits.

After this, Sal was promoted to being chief D.D.A. for the whole department. But he wasn't done tracking down the mafia — over the next few years, there were a number of arrests made against the mob, one of which was against his own brother, Frank, who was arrested for extortion and had become a Gambino family soldier. Sal prosecuted his case, and sent his own brother to jail. In 1998, the mob boss of the Bonanno crime family was arrested for contract killing and racketeering — he was released on bail, and a month before his trial, the D.A. was killed in a yacht fire in Montauk. By the time the Coast Guard got there, the yacht was almost entirely destroyed. The trial was postponed to get a new prosecutor — Sal was assigned to the case (he won), and as chief D.D.A. he expected to be made interim D.A. as well, given that he was the chief prosecutor now that the D.A. had died. Instead, governor not-Pataki assigned his personal friend, Republican upstart D.D.A. Robby Lloyd, to be the D.A. Lloyd had less experience and fewer high profile cases than Sal, and received protests from the community given that he wasn't elected, and a Republican. Sal considered being passed over a snub by not-Pataki, and in 2001, he ran against Lloyd in the District Attorney election.

In the election, Sal espoused his strong prosecutorial record, and criticized Lloyd for coming from a wealthy political family, who donated extensively to the Pataki campaign and other Republican causes. Sal viciously denounced him in TV and radio as a partisan hack, bringing an unusual amount of public attention to the case. Governor not-Pataki endorsed Lloyd, but Sal got endorsements from New York senators and representatives. A big endorsement for Sal came in the form of mayor not-Giuliani, who, although a Republican, said that he had "great respect" for Sal's work fighting the Mafia, and had worked extensively with him in the past. Lloyd raised more money than Sal, especially from outside conservative groups, and appeared on Fox news and other conservative outlets. He said that in the future he might eye a possible mayoral or gubernatorial race ("and maybe even farther, who knows?"), and many New York Democrats poured money in to help stop Lloyd before he could gain experience and recognition. Sal told them that if they can "paint him as a loser" no one will vote for him.

A few months before the election, homophobic comments Lloyd had made about Sal surfaced, and Sal used it to paint him as a homophobe. Lloyd went on Rush Limbaugh's show and, instead of retracting the comments, denounced them as "an October surprise" and doubled down, saying that Sal was "sexually immoral" and therefore didn't have the conviction to be mayor. Former NYC mayor not-Ed Koch endorsed Sal, denouncing Lloyd's comments, and Pataki withdrew his endorsement of Lloyd, refusing to endorse either, and lamented the election as "not being about who can best help the people anymore, but instead other cultural issues that have nothing to do with the District Attorney." Later that month, Lloyd fired Sal for "not fulfilling duties" but was widely construed to be about the election, and was criticized by outside groups.

The intensity of the election turned away many voters (few of whom actually voted for the D.A. anyway), and turnout was low on election day — but Sal beat Lloyd by a significant margin. Sal was the first gay District Attorney to be elected in the United States. Lloyd opened a private law firm, and later became a pundit, but his political career was stunted by the loss.

As District Attorney, along with mayor not-Bloomberg, Sal started a program that would, instead of arresting minors with drugs, provide treatment to them and help them with addictions. He said that "a minor using drugs isn't a crime, it's a tragedy. Addiction isn't intentional on the part of the addict, it's a disease they're afflicted by, and locking people up won't solve anything." He started a program that would help people trying to leave gangs or criminal organizations do so, no questions asked (if they don't have an arrest warrant), and he wouldn't prosecute prostitutes but would prosecute people soliciting them, in an attempt to reduce demand.

In 2003, a criminal named Mario Micci, suspected to be an underboss for the Genovese family, was arrested for racketeering and drug smuggling. Micci was a huge man, nearly 250 pounds and 6'4, and accused of different crimes four times but had always ended in a mistrial due to jury deadlock. Sal was persecuting the case, as it was considered high-level enough, but the witnesses that testified he had run a cocaine smuggling racket out of a fish market weren't very credible, and from a different crime family. The cocaine that was found in the fish couldn't be directly traced to him, and Sal thought that the case would be thrown out from lack of evidence. However, a couple days before the trial, Sal got a tip from a woman who claimed to be Micci's wife, who had lots of documents and recordings about Micci's work, including letters and emails about contract killings, confessions he had made of various crimes he committed, and illegal drugs he possessed. She had caught him cheating on her, and wanted to get back at him. Multiple new counts were added against him, and it seemed like Sal might win the trial and put him in jail for the first time. The trial was well-publicized, and garnered national interest. Micci was not released on bail, as he was considered a dangerous criminal.

The last day of the trial, there was an assassination attempt against Sal. He was walking through a run down part of Coney Island, when two armed men at a newsstand turned and opened fire on him. Sal was hit in the shoulder and upper leg, but managed to crawl behind a concrete Jersey barrier blocking cars from road construction while yelling for police. The two gunmen chased after him — but two police officers on patrol down the street, who had witnessed the whole thing, drove over to Sal's position, scattering the gunmen. One ended up getting shot running away, while the other was arrested. Sal was rushed to the hospital, and the trial was postponed. The trial was given to another lawyer so Sal could recover, and Micci was convicted. Sal was given a personal security detail — no more attempts were made on his life, and over time the detail dwindled down to just one bodyguard, which he still has.

The gunman that was arrested testified in a plea deal that he had been hired by the boss of the Genovese family to protect Micci, and that another witness was targeted and to be assassinated after Sal. The boss of the Genovese family was arrested for attempted murder, and Sal went on TV to talk about the mob and his assassination. He said; "There is this perception that the mafia is dead...that isn't, no, that isn't true. They aren't dead. The RICO act, and mayor not-Giuliani, and our work throughout the nineties, we've silenced them...but they aren't gone. The mafia is quiet now. They operate quietly. They pull strings quietly. They buy politicians, and they run businesses, and they even kill people with as little notice as possible. The other gangs, they are easier to hunt down 'cause they aren't as skilled at keeping a low profile. Look at the news, it says, 'gang member injured and three bystanders killed in gang-related drive by' the mafia doesn't do that. They don't talk about their crimes, they aren't flashy, and they try to kill people like me with no one else noticing. So it's even harder for lawyers and the police to track them down. But to all the mafia still out there — we'll find you."

Sal was reelected to the D.A. in 2005, and again in 2009. He was known for taking a very hands on approach — rather than having his underlings prosecute the crimes, he was a very active prosecutor even for cases not considered really important enough to have a D.A. on them. He had a very good record — and as D.A. he wasn't bound to a certain field of cases, like homicide or narcotics, he was able to prosecute all sorts of different criminals.

Sal wouldn't run for D.A. again in 2013 — instead, he got a job offer from President Baharia to be the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York. Sal accepted excitedly, and now with greater resources he began to take on not just organized criminals, but larger financial crimes. Not even a year into his term, Sal brought forth fraud charges for a large investment and stockbroking firm that was embezzling money and lying to their clients.

In 2015, reports surfaced of a NY State Senator, Benjamin Blau, taking money from large campaign donors to further their interests. Blau notably fought against bills to raise taxation on out-of-state companies, supposedly to "bolster outside income in New York" and prevent big businesses from leaving the city. However, reports showed that he fought for these measures around the same time that he began receiving huge campaign donations from corporations and wealthy private individuals fighting tax raises. Blau's district was in Brooklyn, so Sal personally took the case; he brought forth charges of bribery and corruption against Blau, who denied wrongdoing. The jury ended up deciding he was not guilty — although Blau had done something unethical, the evidence did not point strongly enough towards actual lawbreaking. Sal said that he "would not stop here at exposing [Blau's} corruption."

In early 2016, Sal was removed from the position by President Wolf, and denounced the move as "purely political" and accusing Wolf of glossing over his lengthy record of service. Later that year, Sal found out that Benjamin Blau was going to run for State Senate again, even after the corruption trial made him lose credibility. Blau still had a devoted support base in the constituency, especially among older voters, but Brooklyn was changing and the seat was very much a toss-up between him and another candidate. Pierre convinced Sal to run for the seat — if Blau couldn't be defeated in court, maybe in an election. Sal declared his candidacy, and after a tight race, won the Democratic primary against Blau. The seat was pretty safely blue, but Blau ran as an independent. Blau managed to get a surprising amount of fundraising, but Sal painted it as a race between a corrupt politician, and the lawyer that exposed him — and won in a landslide.

The State Senate was Sal's first time in legislative politics. He didn't like Albany, and often commuted back to Brooklyn via Amtrak. He had his chief of staff, a fresh out of grad school PoliSci major named Janet, operate his office in Brooklyn, and have the door open to people at all times for their comments or policy ideas. While in the Senate, Sal sponsored a bill requiring gas stations to include EV charging ports, and another bill that would require developers to include at least one unit of affordable housing for every one hundred housing units built, which ultimately failed, but would remain a priority for Sal. Sal was re-elected in 2018.

Sal knew, halfway through his second State Senate term, that he wanted to run for mayor in 2021. He began tendering a run, and meeting with Democratic donors and activists. He went back and forth on the idea for a while, didn't run for State Senate reelection in 2020, but in early 2021 he decided that he wasn't going to run for mayor and announced his candidacy for Brooklyn Borough President — he then changed his mind, withdrew his candidacy, thought about running for D.A. again, but ultimately, he decided to run for mayor at the convincing of Pierre and began assembling a campaign team. His biggest issues are bringing back the fleeing business from New York, in order to reboot jobs and the economy, increasing accountability in the NYPD after protests broke out due to the death of Marlon Ward, and gradually making NYC more green and sustainable. He says it's time to "reinvest" in New York public transportation, bring back more rent control, stop gentrification and raising housing prices, "reduce the negative effects of historical redlining" and build new public affordable housing, continue the downward trend in NYC crime and keep kids out of gangs. His fiscally liberal plan to "prepare New York City for the future" depends on his success at fixing the pressing economic crisis with pro-business ideas. He says that the other candidates are too ideological and not pragmatic enough, and that their "lofty aspirations" will do nothing for the city.

• Born Sept. 3, 1956 (age 66)
• Huge family, quite poor, father owned a laundromat
• Father became an alcoholic, gambling addict, etc., and needed to keep borrowing money from seedy people
• Sal was socially awkward and bullied as a kid, but got a job (at age 10, so probably an informal job) working for a Chinese man named "Mr. Fong" who owned a bar/restaurant
• Sal's dad defaulted on debts — mafia-affiliated loaners came to collect them, he was drunk and tried to strangle one of the collectors with a necktie and was shot dead, Sal was watching, only 16
• Mother eventually developed psychosis, and lost custody over Sal (only kid not a legal adult) who was put in a foster home before being adopted by Mr. Fong.
• Sal is very smart — went to Fordham for undergrad
• Sal's brother Frank bounced in an out of jail and in and out of jobs, Sal's family held an intervention and got him a job, which he left because he got a job elsewhere
• Met a Haitian guy named Pierre Louissaint, fell in love, confused about his sexuality and convinced that being gay is wrong. Eventually he accepted it, and after a while the two started dating
• Went to Columbia law, while working part time at Mr. Fong's bar/restaurant, now bar/restaurant/casino where lots of lowlifes came
• Finished his J.D., came out (unsupportive family except older brother Anthony), Mr. Fong died and left the casino to his brother and Sal, his adopted son
• Sal witnesses loan sharks beat up someone just like they had his dad a long time ago, felt guilty for not doing anything, wanted to do something, sold his part of the casino to Mr. Fong's brother
• Joined a private injury law firm, hated it, left it and joined the D.A.'s office (as a D.D.A.)
• Spent a while in lower-level cases, until 1995, where he uncovered a mafia racket hidden by a failing used car sale chain, busted a whole bunch of people, promoted to Chief D.D.A.
• Over the next few years, arrested a lot of mobsters (including his brother, who became a mobster)
• D.A. killed in a yacht fire, that was probably caused by a crime boss they were persecuting, but Sal (chief D.D.A.) was passed up for the position by not-Pataki in favor of a Republican upstart lawyer with less experience, which pissed Sal off
• Sal ran against him in the next election, it was a vicious campaign and more publicized than most D.A. elections
• Sal got endorsements from surprising people, like not-Giuliani, and homophobic comments that Lloyd said resurfaced and he doubled down on them, but in the end Sal won and became first gay D.A. in the US
• As District Attorney, along with mayor not-Bloomberg, Sal started a program that would, instead of arresting minors with drugs, provide treatment to them and help them with addictions. He said that "a minor using drugs isn't a crime, it's a tragedy. Addiction isn't intentional on the part of the addict, it's a disease they're afflicted by, and locking people up won't solve anything." He started a program that would help people trying to leave gangs or criminal organizations do so, no questions asked, and he wouldn't prosecute prostitutes but would prosecute people soliciting them, in an attempt to reduce demand
• Big 2003 trial against a mobster named Mario Micci, who had never been caught before but his jealous ex-wife gave a bunch of tips to Sal and he arrested Micci, but last day of the trial hitmen paid by Micci's boss tried to kill Sal — they failed, but he had to drop the case to recover from wounds and got a personal security detail. One of the gunmen who was arrested gave a testimony against the person who hired him, Genovese family boss, and he was arrested too
• Reelected to the D.A. twice, in 2005 and 2009, but in 2013 President Baharia gave him a job offer as US Attorney for the Southern District of New York
• As US Attorney for Southern District of NY, he persecuted a corrupt State Senator named Benjamin Blau, though the evidence against him was big, he didn't break enough actual laws (just a lot of unethical stuff) and wasn't impeached or arrested.
• In 2016, Wolf removed him from the US Attorney position in a political move, and Sal found out that Benjamin Blau was running for State Senate again, so he ran against him.
• He won the Democratic primaries, so Blau ran as an independent, but Sal beat him by a landslide (it was corrupt politician versus lawyer who exposed his corruption).
• First time in legislative politics, as State Senator Sal sponsored a bill requiring gas stations to include EV charging ports, and another bill that would require developers to include at least one unit of affordable housing for every one hundred housing units built, which ultimately failed, but would remain a priority for Sal. He was re-elected in 2018. He had his chief of staff, a fresh out of grad school PoliSci major named Janet, operate his office in Brooklyn, and have the door open to people at all times for their comments or policy ideas.
• Knew halfway through second Senate term he was going to run for NYC mayor, but went back and forth for a while, eventually deciding to run.
• His biggest issues are bringing back the fleeing business from New York, in order to reboot jobs and the economy, increasing accountability in the NYPD after protests broke out due to the death of Marlon Ward, and gradually making NYC more green and sustainable. He says it's time to "reinvest" in New York public transportation, bring back more rent control, stop gentrification and raising housing prices, "reduce the negative effects of historical redlining" and build new public affordable housing, continue the downward trend in NYC crime and keep kids out of gangs. His fiscally liberal plan to "prepare New York City for the future" depends on his success at fixing the pressing economic crisis with pro-business ideas. He says that the other candidates are too ideological and not pragmatic enough, and that their "lofty aspirations" will do nothing for the city.

Other Info:

A Catholic, as is his husband, although his wedding was nondenominational because no priests would bless a same-sex marriage

Married to Pierre Louissaint (2011—)

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Sal has Aspergers, which I'm planning to make a pretty central part of his character IC. This is very downplayed, and Sal keeps it a very close secret to almost everybody because he feels like it could seriously derail his future political career, and he's probably right. It would likely undermine public confidence and support and change people's perceptions of him.

Asperger's symtoms range dramatically between individuals. For Sal, it means he gets very invested in projects to the point of obsession — it's hard for him to do or think about or focus on anything else besides the project that he's working on at the moment. He also isn't great at talking to people — he's naturally very blunt and tactless. So, basically, a jerk that gets things done.

However, he does realize when he says something he isn't supposed to because it's mean or something like that. He is not averse to apologizing, though he hates being told he did something wrong. When faced with a ton of stress he will just stop doing what he is doing, and sit perfectly still until he can sort through it and people stop bothering him.

Family:
Father - Angelo Carmi (deceased, 19872)
Mother - Sofia Noronno Carmi
Siblings, by age - Anthony Carmi
- Frank Carmi
- Mary Carmi Algunio
- Beatrice Carmi Hemmstein
- Joe Carmi

F.H. Fong (deceased, 1982)




I have read and accept the rules of the roleplay: Madrinpoor

Do Not Remove: DRAFT87421

Ok everyone, the moment you've been waiting for!

I have been working on this forever and I'm finally done! My favorite character I've ever made.

Also, I've been pretty inactive recently cause of school stuff, but now that the first trimester is over for me and I have some more time I'll be more active in this RP again.

Damn, how long did that bio take?

[Alozia]

How do I join

There is an application template in the opening post of this thread, The nation of major poo.

[Latvijas Otra Republika]

How do I join

There is an application template in the opening post of this thread, The nation of major poo.

Oh dear, egregious miss-spelling
*The nation of Lana Del Ray

[Alozia]

There is an application template in the opening post of this thread, The nation of major poo.

Oh dear, egregious miss-spelling
*The nation of Lana Del Ray

idk who Lana Del Ray is, try again next time.

[Latvijas Otra Republika]

Oh dear, egregious miss-spelling
*The nation of Lana Del Ray

idk who Lana Del Ray is, try again next time.

Whatever you say sweaty

[The Sarangtus Lands]

Slight error: there is no 29th of February in 2021.

[Lavan Tiri]

Slight error: there is no 29th of February in 2021.

that is, however, the amount of men your mother did in February in 2021

[Madrinpoor]

snip

Damn, how long did that bio take?

Waaaaaay too long. Almost a month, I think.

[Latvijas Otra Republika]

Damn, how long did that bio take?

Waaaaaay too long. Almost a month, I think.

It's very nice, bud!

[Madrinpoor]

Waaaaaay too long. Almost a month, I think.

It's very nice, bud!

Thank you!

[Hanovereich]

Waaaaaay too long. Almost a month, I think.

It's very nice, bud!

Agreed! Now that's dedication.

[Dentali]

REMINDER

After the debate question is asked then discussion on the previous question must cease otherwise we start having multiple running conversations at once and no one wants that. You will likely not get in everything you want to say each question, that’s part of the challenge

[Madrinpoor]

It's very nice, bud!

Agreed! Now that's dedication.

Thank you, haha!

[Emazia]

My apologies, I didn't see the new question before posting.

[Latvijas Otra Republika]

hmmm
sus

[Meretica]

Okay, I'm back, and my posts were not finished, so I'm doing a short burst of Mattox posts this evening before working on his others later.

[The Free Territory of Makhnovia]

Wow, did stuff change around here . Is there room for another Washington RP veteran? Did anyone grab Democratic Senator of Georgia? If that's unavailable, I'll play whatever is needed.

[Latvijas Otra Republika]

Wow, did stuff change around here . Is there room for another Washington RP veteran? Did anyone grab Democratic Senator of Georgia? If that's unavailable, I'll play whatever is needed.

SJW!?
Where have you been, buddy. Been years

[The Free Territory of Makhnovia]

Wow, did stuff change around here . Is there room for another Washington RP veteran? Did anyone grab Democratic Senator of Georgia? If that's unavailable, I'll play whatever is needed.

SJW!?
Where have you been, buddy. Been years

Was finishing my PhD. Then getting used to new job. Then moving and getting married. Then lockdown and Earthquake chaos...It's been a busy couple years. Still are, but I'll manage to contribute, with one character at least...

What happened with Washington? People got tired of over the top characters? I see this is a bit more down to Earth. Although Mississippi is still crazy...

[Latvijas Otra Republika]

SJW!?
Where have you been, buddy. Been years

Was finishing my PhD. Then getting used to new job. Then moving and getting married. Then lockdown and Earthquake chaos...It's been a busy couple years. Still are, but I'll manage to contribute, with one character at least...

What happened with Washington? People got tired of over the top characters? I see this is a bit more down to Earth. Although Mississippi is still crazy...

Oh damn, don't flex on me too hard. Congratulations anyway, nice to hear you've done great.

No, it was sort of stagnant with the 2017 date and a lot of other controversies and stuff. People just started a new RP here which went great but then it got lightly rebooted which is what you're posting in now. I think the Sippi' stuff (Congresswoman Durant) gets ignored now because the RPer got banned and retconned. One of my Dem characters actually won the gubernatorial there (last RP) which has been my crowning achievement, so I'd say it's sane.

What character are you thinking of doing?

[The Free Territory of Makhnovia]

Was finishing my PhD. Then getting used to new job. Then moving and getting married. Then lockdown and Earthquake chaos...It's been a busy couple years. Still are, but I'll manage to contribute, with one character at least...

What happened with Washington? People got tired of over the top characters? I see this is a bit more down to Earth. Although Mississippi is still crazy...

Oh damn, don't flex on me too hard. Congratulations anyway, nice to hear you've done great.

No, it was sort of stagnant with the 2017 date and a lot of other controversies and stuff. People just started a new RP here which went great but then it got lightly rebooted which is what you're posting in now. I think the Sippi' stuff (Congresswoman Durant) gets ignored now because the RPer got banned and retconned. One of my Dem characters actually won the gubernatorial there (last RP) which has been my crowning achievement, so I'd say it's sane.

What character are you thinking of doing?

I don't know if I can be considered "experienced" or not, and if I am allowed Senators. If I am then I think I'll try with African-American Democrat from Georgia. I gave him labor union background and made him kinda centrist, leaning prog.

[The Free Territory of Makhnovia]

If not, I'll see what's needed in the House.