Jimmy Pegorino

James 'Jimmy' Pegorino is the head of the Pegorino crime family and a secondary antagonist in Grand Theft Auto IV.

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Taking the gang over from his father, Jimmy Pegorino wanted desperatly to join The Commision, an organization founded by the five original Coas Nostra mafia families. However, his family was still weak and no family had ever been given a seat since The Commission was founded.

When Niko Bellic began working for the Pegorino, Jimmy had him kill members of the Pavano family after a deal with them went awry, as well as Pegorino members he believed were police informants.

Eventually Jimmy allies himself with Dimitri Rascalov, who had prviously worked with Niko and eventually bertrayed him. Despite knowing the tensions between the two, he asks Niko to take part in a heroin deal with Dimitri, promising him a large sum of money. It is the player's choice to go through with the deal or betray Pegorino and exact revenge on Dimitri.