Ralph Fiorini

Ralph Fiorini is one of the three members (including Giorgio Modafferi and Marius Modafferi) of the Modafferi padrino. Next to that of the clans successor Fiorini is the third most important person within the padrino and is known as La Valigetta (the briefcase). As well as serving as the clans main legal representative and advisor he also oversees the funds coming from illicit activities. His father, Tolio Fiorini, was Bruno Modafferi's brother-in-law and one of the founding members of the Modafferi 'ndrina.

Ralph's Father Tolio Fiorini
Ralph's father, Tolio Fiorini, was born in Plati, Calabria in 1903. He traveled with his mother and father to Australia in 1910 to seek a new life in the canefields of Queensland. In 1912 Tolio's mother gave birth to their second child, a daughter named Maria Fiorini (who would later go on to become a young Bruno Modafferi's wife). In 1923 Tolio married a young Italian girl who and in 1924 she gave birth to their first son Ralph Fiorini. But just a year later the first tragedy struck the Fiorini family when Tolio's mother died when she was bitten by an Eastern Brown snake.

The next couple of years were a struggle as old-man Fiorini fought hard to secure a loan to buy land in order to start his own canefield until 1929 when his dream was realized. After the death of Maria Fiorini to a bomb blast in 1933 Tolio and Bruno hunted down all Black Hand members and eventually took over the void in Queensland mafia activities. They abandoned old-man Fiorini's farming legacy and instead found power and small growing wealth as they turned to a life of crime.

Education
Fiorini studied law Sydney university and worked for a number of law-firms in his younger years before officially entering the Modafferi clan's padrino in the position known as La Valigetta.

Personality
Ralph is extremely reserved partly due to his strong university education in law. This serves as the glue to keep the clan bonded together throughout its times of leadership rivalry (such as the feuding between Marius and Giorgio Modafferi in the late 1960s and early 1970s). His brilliant understanding of the Australian legal system allows him to represent the Modafferi interests in business and in any legal matters that may arise.