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Marcone the Informant

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Con:

--- Quote from: Snark Knight on October 25, 2021, 01:01:18 AM --- the extent of his corruption network in-story is probably a lot bigger than any parallels in real-world organized crime subversion of the US judicial and political system.

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Agreed. Which would seem to just support my theory that it's not just corruption but an outright deal.

The US may think it beneficial to have a vanilla human (as far as they know) a player in the Unseelie Accords. One they can use and predict.  US have been dealing with the Mob for a over a century. It's almost ritualistic when it comes to cutting deals.

Mira:

--- Quote ---Agreed. Which would seem to just support my theory that it's not just corruption but an outright deal.
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That is corruption, plain and simple..

seanham:
I like the idea of Marcone being an informant for the government; however, I just don't see it. For instance, what does Marcone get out of the deal? He already has little care for the law, so what can the government offer him to make the deal worth it? Also, if he is an informant and gets found out (which he definitely would), Lara, Mab, and the other signatories would not be happy with him. The one thing we know for sure about Marcone is that Marcone looks out for Marcone and, by extension, his people and property. Mab is much scarier than the US government and would destroy Marcone and his people if need be. Although it's a fun thought, I just don't see it coming true.

vincentric:
What kind of leverage could the government have on Marcone that could compel him to inform? And what government agency could resist using it to take down The Chicago Mob because that's how big Marcone is?

Also informants work for the government so the government can use them to land bigger fish. The only possible bigger fish is Dresdenverse Chicago is Lara/House Raith. She has better government connections than Marcone per the books and no bad public PR. If Marcone were an informant, she's in better position to inform on him. He's local, she's nationwide possibly worldwide in scope with a bigger and richer though not as loyal organization.

Snark Knight:

--- Quote from: vincentric on October 25, 2021, 09:56:47 PM ---Also informants work for the government so the government can use them to land bigger fish. The only possible bigger fish is Dresdenverse Chicago is Lara/House Raith.

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He's got national and international connections - dealings with coastal organized crime, and at least one of the southern organizations per the Grey short story.

In favour of the hypothetical deal argument, the government's interest might not be so much in bigger organizations as worse ones. It's lampshaded multiple times that even those in Chicago he can't bribe are reluctant to try too hard to bring him down just because less organized crime that aren't as concerned with limiting collateral damage or enforcing 'no kids' would just fill the void if they succeeded.

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