Vinnie “The Chopper” Falcone was a captain in one of the New York mafia families sent to Gotham during Prohibition to oversee liquor smuggling through the port. He created a new, efficient gang that was very profitable. When the East Siders Italian gang refused to join the national mafia organization, the Falcone crew was promoted to a Family and their boss was given joint authority with their rivals the Moronis. The Falcone Family is closely allied with the Sons of David gang.

At first Falcone Family and Moroni Family were violent adversaries, but with the advent of Lucky Luciano's national Mafia Commission, the two crews were promoted to families and ordered to make peace. Since then, the two groups of mobsters have brokered an uneasy truce, dividing up “districts” throughout Gotham.