User blog comment:M(G)P/Alternate Universe Challange No 5/@comment-4652104-20130207184603

OK, my turn. I'll start by admitting something: this time these characters are not particularly original - most of them are recycled from other sources.

On this particular alternate Earth THE KINGPIN is a bit of a legend. Nobody knows who he is, but most people agree that he exists. Here is what the best informed people know: Crime in NY is divided between a number of bosses, who control gangs or mafias of particular nationality. There is an organization, usually referred to as "the Board" which mediates between these bosses and allows them to collectively influence crime beyond NY (in fact their influence extends to most of the USA and abroad). The Board rarely meets in person, but uses modern communication technologies instead. The bosses suspect that the board meetings are being rigged somehow - that someone manipulates at least some of the messages to control the Board. None of them knows who might be doing it (indeed, who is powerful/influential enough), but they all suspect that it is one of the other bosses. The crime bosses of NY are:

Wilson Fisk - an Afro-American businessman, who has a number of legit businesses but also controls most of the black gangs in NY (drugs, prostitution, guns)

Chadnofsky - not much is known about him, apart from the name. The cops have only one blurry photo of him. He controls the Russian mob (prostitution, people trafficking, extortion)

Pap Joe - runs the Italian Mafia - the oldest and most respected crime organization (black market, brothels, hazard). He has the largest number of crooked cops and judges on his payroll and is often paid by other bosses to use them.

Mr Negative - controls all the organisations of Asian descent - the Tongs, the Triads and the Yakuza (human trafficking, drugs, smuggling)

the Hood - Parker Robbins - not your typical crime boss, he controls most of NY's minor supervillains, whom he hires out to other bosses. (robberies, extortion)

Machete - the new guy in town, controls Latino gangs. (drugs, human trafficking, prostitution)

Now here is what people don't know: the KINGPIN is in fact a rogue AI (created by AIM, but not subservient to them), which manipulates the Board, in order to control crime in NY and beyond.