Brink crime family

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The Brink crime family, also known as the Mistlân Mob and the Zuidvis Mob, is an organized crime family that has been active in Doggerland since the 1930s. It first started out as a Calvinist Dutch group of men, but now has members from other backgrounds. They are most active around the southern cities of Mistlân, Rotsibaai, Kensingston, Graki, Voostkreek, Toiburg, Tynfirth, Lijke Oere, Longport, and Abester. They have carried out numerous assassinations and assassination attempts against politicians and other Dogger citizens in their history. The Brink crime family was founded in 1934 by Johannes Brink and his two brothers Hendrik and Benjamin. The Brinks reached their height in the mid 1950s and started to decline in power in the early 1970s. Their current leader is Issaac Lievendag, who is currently a fugitive from the National Dogger Security and Protection Force after escaping prison. He was in prison for his planning of the assassination attempt on Robert La Follette.

Netherlands
A group of three Dutch Calvinist 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 to flee the country, 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 "Brink's 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 crime family.

Early family
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 crime family 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 Brink crime family 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 crime family could be ran again, but Johannes was determined to rebuild it. With many street gangs rising to prominence after the absence of the Brink crime family 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 crime family, but Johannes wanted to crush them. The two brothers took out all of the leaders of the street gangs in just four months, and the other gang members decided to join the Brink crime family. With so many new members to the Brink crime family, the Brink crime family quickly rose to prominence.

Height of the family
After expanding territory all the way into Port Nandels, the Brink crime family became a very large presence in southern Doggerland. While expanding their territories and activities, the Brink crime family 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 family at the height, with his brother Hendrik being the underboss and Kasper Preuter being the advisor. They had 30-40 captains, and around 750 soldiers. They had many other associates, such as lawyers, policemen, dockworkers, and politicians.

Since the Brinks were almost all Dutch Calvinist in the 1960s, they would generally support Dutch Calvinist politicians. In 1964 they thought that the Dutch Calvinist with the best shot at becoming the new Prime Minister was Jeroen Kost, so they threw their full support behind him and donated lots of money to him. Kost accepted lots of the money from the Brinks but did not keep it on the books, fearing his opponents could use it against him. The Brinks extorted many TV channels to show advertisements of Kost, and many believe the advertisements of Kost led to his 1964 victory. In the 1968 election, the Brinks didn't have to extort any TV channels to win because of Kost shutting down polling places in majority Dogger places.

Decline in power


In early 1975, the Brinks decided to lower the amount of politicians and cops on their payroll to save some money, but that would eventually backfire. On August 27, 1975 Johannes Brink was arrested for his involvement in the hijacking of a truck that was carrying 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 attempted bribery. Overall his penalty totaled out to 15 years in prison, and he was set to be released in October of 1990. The Brinks were convinced that the NPD had told law enforcement that Brink was behind the hijacking, even though the police would never talk to the NPD or vice versa. The Brinks subsequently had their crews in Glavell, Bloca and Crohall go after the NPD in those areas, even doing terrorist attacks on Dogger Catholic churches. The NPD revolted back at the Brinks, but the fighting would only last 2 months. Brink later 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 Brinks shrunk in size and started to lose territory. They 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 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 ordered 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 from colon cancer.

A young man named Issaac Lievendag took over as boss. President of United Dockworker's Union and later Prime Minister of Doggerland Mel got rid of Brink corruption in the docks, so the Brinks lost control of the docks. The Brink crime family continued to decline in power and was almost completely dissolved when Mistlân District Attorney 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 Brink sniper named Lourens Platenkamp shot La Follette in the right shoulder. He was rushed to the hospital, and Lievendag sent soldiers there to finish the job but they were stopped by police. La Follette was in a week long coma until he woke up. La Follette did not go after the Brinks after that, and the Brinks didn't go after him either. Platenkamp was arrested and convicted, and while being questioned he squealed on Issaac Lievendag. Both men went to prison, and Lievendag almost beat Platenkamp to death after a few weeks in prison. Lievendag escaped from prison after serving just two years, and Platenkamp is serving a life sentence. La Follette's son, Robert La Follette Jr., succeeded his father as Mistlân District Attorney, but was not as hard on the Brink crime family as his father has. Many speculate it was because La Follette Jr. thinked the Brinks would try to kill him like they did with his father.

Current day family
According to a 2015 police report, the Brink crime family shrunk to an estimated 50 made men. The current boss is most likely Issaac Lievendag, who is a fugitive from the National Dogger Security and Protection Force. The Brinks barely have any action, but in 2021 the crime rate in Mistlân increased significantly, and the Brinks may have had something to do with it. Their only known presence is in South Doggerland.

They have many allies all around the world, but they have strongest ties with other European crime groups such as the Penose in Netherlands, the Clerkenwell crime syndicate in London, the Irish Mob in Ireland, the Corsican mafia in France, and the 'Ndrangheta and Camorra in Italy, despite some of those groups being predominantly Catholic groups of men. The only enemies they have are the NPD and various street gangs in Doggerland.