[i]"The Corrupt Cop"[/i]...

[hider=Benny La Guardia][color=00aeef][b]Name:[/b][/color] Benedetto Giovanni La Guardia "Benny" or "Johnny"
[color=00aeef][b]Age:[/b][/color] 31
[color=00aeef][b]Description/Appearance:[/b][/color] Benny La Guardia stands 5'6" tall and weighs 155 Lbs. He has short cropped black hair, brown eyes and a distinctive barrel chest along with an oversized nose, often referred to as his "Shnoz". He has dark bushy eyebrows and very Italian features. Benny is in decent shape, can be seen with a black eye or some other such injury as a result of fighting. He enjoys boxing.
[color=00aeef][b]Occupation:[/b][/color] Police Officer, NYPD
[color=00aeef][b]Affiliation:[/b][/color] Receives a regular stipend from [i][b]The Scarpello Family[/b][/i] in order to look the other way.
[color=00aeef][b]Skills:[/b][/color] 
[list]- Small unit tactics from time spent in the Infantry (US Army)
- How to operate rifle (M1903 Springfield) and machine gun (Chauchat 1915 MG)
- .38 cal Revolver (NYPD)
- Criminal Law
- Constitutional Law
- Boxing[/list]
[color=00aeef][b]History:[/b][/color] Benedetto Giovanni Laguardia grew up in the Bensonhurst section of Brooklyn, what is commonly referred to today as "Little Italy", spending much of his youth on the ball fields playing baseball with the neighborhood boys. He received his secondary education at the New Utrecht Technical School where the students mockingly stated, "you have to be NUTS to go to New Utrecht Technical School." The school is located on 80th Street in Brooklyn. 

Benny's cousin Fiorello Henry La Guardia was quite active in student government at New Utrecht School. The older cousin was elected to the US House of Representatives in 1917, but his term of office was interrupted during the Great War. While Fiorella went off to Caproni CA.5 bombers with the Army Air Service in Italy, Benedetto was drafted into the 308th Infantry Regiment of the 77th Infantry Division, a unit made up primarily of draftees from New York City.

The 308th acquired some notoriety while serving in the Argonne Forest in early October, 1918. Under the command of Major Charles Whittlesey, a Harvard Law Graduate, who practiced law in NYC. Benny's company along with five other companies of the 308th found them stranded behind enemy lines and fought a last stand battle for six days in the French forest. Their courage and determination earned them the moniker of "The Lost Battalion".

In 1920, Benny's cousin Fiorello was appointed as President of the New York City Board of Alderman. With an influential cousin and his status as a veteran and member of the famed, Lost Battalion, Benny found himself employment with the New York Police Department. He enjoyed his work on the Police Department and saw no problem in accepting free gifts from an appreciative constituent. 

Benny earned a reputation as a scrapper, someone who dropped the gloves, using his fists to dole out punishments for misdemeanors instead of dragging the culprit before the courts. For felonies, he felt obligated to make an arrest. As time wore on, the act of taking "gifts" became lucrative for Officer La Guardia and he soon found himself making out pretty well economically by avoiding certain areas if the price was right.

In the world of syndicated crime, Benny was considered to be on certain gang's payroll, receiving a regular stipend for turning a blind eye or keeping other police officers away. There were more than a handful of NYPD officers in the 1920s who found additional income in this manner.

Benny's cousin, Fiorello was re-elected to the House of Representatives in 1923 and would later go on to be elected Mayor of New York City in the 1934. North Beach Airport in East Emhurst near the confluence of the East River and Flushing Bay was named after Mayor LaGuardia, Benny's famous relative in 1953.[/hider]