Doggerland Mob

The Doggerland Mob, formally the Brink Mob is a mob family that has been active in Doggerland since the 1930s. It first started out as a predominantly Catholic Dutch group of men, but now has members from all backgrounds. They are most active around the southern cities of Mistlân, Rotsibaai, Kensingston, and Graki. They have carried out numerous assassinations and assassination attempts against politicians and other Dogger citizens in their history.

Netherlands
A group of three Dutch Catholic brothers named Johannes, Hendrik and Benjamin Brink, started to do pickpocketing in the early 1920s, when they were kicked out of their home for being disobedient by their mother Ethel. They did not know who their father was. Johannes was born in 1899, Hendrik in 1902, and Benjamin in 1904. They were pickpockets in Amsterdam, but would sometimes work in The Hague or Rotterdam. They were all very good pickpockets, one time even pick pocketing the Netherlands Minister of Finance Dirk Jan de Geer, who would later become Prime Minister. Whenever they would steal something, they would always sell it on the black market, or sometimes jewelers who knew what the brothers were doing but didn't notify the police because it was great for their business. When Hendrik bought a house in the rich Amsterdam neighborhood of Museumkwartier for him and his brothers, the bank had notified the police of such a big purchase. The police came to the house to ask questions to Hendrik and Benjamin who were at the house at the time. Hendrik told the police that they had inherited a large sum of money after their father had passed away a year ago. The police believed them, thought nothing of it, and left the house. A few months later, one of the policeman who had came to the house saw in the newspaper obituaries that the real father of the Brinks had died, and was suspicious about how the Brink brothers had afforded that house if their father actually didn't pass away about a year ago. He notified the other policeman who had gone to the house in Museumkwartier with him a few months earlier, and they both decided to go back for questioning. Again, Hendrik and Benjamin were at the house at the time. They asked about the Brink who was in the newspaper obituaries, and the brothers said that the Brink who had died was their uncle. The obituary said that the late Brink had once been married to someone named Ethel, and one of the policeman noticed a tattoo that said "Ethel" on Hendrik's right forearm. He asked about the tattoo and Hendrik claimed that Ethel was their dead aunt, but the obituary stated that Ethel was still alive. At this point, Johannes walked into the house through the backdoor, and started talking to his brothers about a great pocket watch he had just stole. He then realized the police were there. The police drew their guns on the boys, and Johannes fired at the police with a pistol. He hit one of them who immediately died, and the other policeman started to take cover. Hendrik and Benjamin were hiding under a coffee table while Johannes was exchanging gunfire with the alive policeman, until Johannes eventually killed the policeman. The boys knew they would have to leave Amsterdam, so they gathered as much money as possible and hopped in one of the police cars and started to drive all the way to Westpoort, an industrial area of Amsterdam where cargo ships land. When they were about to get to Westpoort, they noticed a police car chasing them. Benjamin tried to shoot out their tires but failed. Johannes, who was driving, noticed a cargo ship leaving. He drove to the end of a dock and told the boys to run onto the cargo ship while he covered them. Hendrik and Benjamin ran onto the ship with Johannes again exchanging gunfire with the police. Eventually the police ran out of ammo so Johannes ran towards the cargo ship as fast as he could, trying to catch up with it before it left the port. He got onto the ship with barely any time left, and the police had lost the Brink brothers.

Starting out in Doggerland
The cargo ship that the brothers had been traveling on was heading for Nandels Port, Brun-Nord. The Brinks got off at the large port there and decided to head to Mistlân, Zuidvis after hearing about the large Dutch population there. They used the money they had brought with them to rent out an apartment unit. They started to pickpocket again, but this time in Mistlân. They were pickpockets for around a year, but because of the police investigating them in Amsterdam, they decided they must need a legitimate source of income. They started Brinks Dutch Bakery, which became a hub for Dutch immigrants to come to so that they could taste Netherlands again. The brothers saved up enough money to buy a house, but this time they didn't splurge and just bought a townhome. When the store next to them was robbed twice in one week, the brothers thought they could make money if they offered the store owner security services. The store owner agreed, and a few months later someone robbed his store. The Brinks were on vacation in Glavell at the time so they couldn't protect the store. When they heard the news they rushed back to Mistlân to talk to the store owner. He gave them a description of the burglar and the Brinks searched all over town for him. A few days later Johannes found him and asked for the money. He refused and knocked out Johannes with a right hook. Johannes was in the hospital for a few days, and when he got out he found the burglar at the burglars apartment and asked for the money. When the burglar refused Johannes drew his gun and demanded the money. The burglar went inside his house and tossed the money to Johannes. As soon as he threw the money Johannes shot him 6 times in the chest and killed him. After giving the money back to the store owner, the store owner asked Johannes how he got it. Johannes simply said "the burglar now sleeps with the fishes", and the store owner understood. In 1934 word spread that the Brinks would offer protection for a business, and the brothers helped out more businesses, hired people to protect those businesses, and eventually created the Brink Mob.

Early mob
The Brinks opened up more bakeries around town, and got enough money to buy a very nice expensive house. They ran their operations in the basement of the bakery. One day, Hendrik told his brothers that they should expand their activities. The brothers agreed and got involved in drug dealing. They first started to sell cocaine, but expanded into other drugs. They also put cops on their payroll. They used the docks to export drugs to other countries. They also started up prostitution rings, and their mob expanded to other cities, mainly southern cities like Rotsibaai, Kensingston, and Graki. They also did racketeering, extortion, fraud, gambling, money laundering, murder, robbery, and loan sharking.

During World War II, Johannes and Hendrik were both drafted in to the Dogger military, with Johannes going to the army and Hendrik going to the navy. Benjamin had to lead the Doggerland Mob while they were gone. Benjamin messed up lots of the operations, with many of their men being arrested and convicted. One day, while walking home from work, Benjamin was shot in the face by a deranged store owner who asked for protection from them but was denied. His store had been robbed a week prior to him killing Benjamin. When Benjamin died, both Johannes and Hendrik got discharges from the military. Hendrik did not think that the Brink Mob could be ran again, but Johannes was determined to rebuild it. With many street gangs rising to prominence after the absence of the Brink Mob in Mistlân, Johannes knew to rise to power again he would have to crush or control those street gangs. Hendrik wanted to convince the gangs to be part of the Brink Mob, but Johannes wanted to crush them. The two brothers took out all of the leaders of the street gangs in just two weeks, and the other gang members decided to join the Brink Mob. With so many new members to the mob, the Brink Mob quickly rose to prominence.

Height of the mob
After expanding territory all the way into Port Nandels, the Brink Mob became a very large presence in southern Doggerland. Eventually they earned the name Doggerland Mob. While expanding their territories and activities, the Doggerland Mob had to have many policemen on their payroll. They even had some police chiefs on their payroll at times. When they started a crew in Glavell, they officially had crews in every province. They even had some local and federal politicians on their payroll. They had an estimated 800 members at their peak, and generated almost €200,000 in revenue in 1955. Johannes was the boss of the whole mob at the height, with his brother Hendrik being the underboss and Kasper Preuter being the consigliere. They had 30-40 caporegimes, and around 750 soldiers. They had many other associates, such as lawyers, policemen, dockworkers, and politicians.

When there were rumors that Jeroen Kost, a Dutch man, could become Prime Minister, the Doggerland Mob threw their full support behind him and his party. When Jeroen Kost became Prime Minister of Doggerland in 1964, he pledged to crack down on the Doggerland Mob. He passed a stop-and-frisk law, which was were any citizen could stop and frisk anyone they wanted to. The law was passed, which led to many lower class young Dutch Catholics being ethnically profiled. Lower class Dutch Catholics were disproportionally stopped and frisked at an alarming rate, but Kost did not try to repeal the law, saying that "those thugs that look suspicious deserved to be stopped and frisked". Barely any mob members were arrested during the stop and frisk years. When the Doggerland Mob realized that it was a grave mistake to help Kost get elected, they called him a "traitor to the Dutch people of Doggerland". They also said he only had "the interest of rich Dutch Catholics in his mind". The laws passed by Kost did not hit the mob that hard, but it definitely hurt them. They considered assassinating him, but that was off of the table after Private VeAnndrais, an NPD-sympathizer and Dogger military member, shot and killed Kost.

Decline in power
On August 27, 1975 Johannes Brink was arrested for his involvement in the hijacking of a truck that was transporting bank money. He pleaded innocent, but was found guilty. He also tried to bribe one of the jury members, so he was also charged with extortion and bribery. Overall his penalty totaled out to 15 years in prison, and he was set to be released in October of 1990. He died in prison on April 3, 1987 at the age of either 87 or 88 from a heart attack.

Hendrik took over as boss when Johannes went to jail, and because Johannes was such a great boss compared to Hendrik, the mob shrunk in size and started to lose territory. They were unable to control the docks in some places, and became horrible at covering up their tracks of certain crimes. They tried to get involved in the cocaine trade going on in Latin America and Miami during the 1980s, but when Pablo Escobar heard about them wanting involvement in the cocaine trade he reportedly laughed and said "I only deal with people who are from countries with over 10 people". When a soldier for the mob talked to someone on the streets of Mistlân trying to sell him some marijuana in 1994, he was arrested because he was talking to an undercover cop. When he was at the station he squealed and admitted Hendrik told him to sell it. Hendrik was arrested on March 19, 1994 and was charged with intent to sell drugs. He pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 5 years in prison. He died after a few months in prison on June 22, 1994 at the age of either 92 or 91.

A young man named Issaac Lievendag took over as boss. The mob continued to decline in power and was almost completely dissolved when Mistlân District Attornet Robert La Follette went after them hard. They decided to fight back, so on January 20, 2013 while La Follette was stepping out of his car, a Doggerland Mob sniper shot La Follette in the right shoulder. He was rushed to the hospital, and Lievendag sent soldiers there to finish the job but were stopped by police. La Follette was in a week long coma until he woke up. La Follette did not go after the mob after that, and the mob didn't go after him either. La Follette resigned a few years later to run for city council, and his son Robert La Follette Jr, succeeded him as Mistlân District Attorney. The sniper was arrested and convicted, and while being questioned he squealed on Issaac Lievendag. Both men went to prison, and Lievendag beat the sniper to death after a few weeks in prison. Lievendag is now serving a life sentence.

Current day mob
The Doggerland Mob has shrunk to a police-estimated 50 people in size as of 2015. The current boss is unknown, and the mob barely has any action. Their only presence is in Zuidvis province.