Albert "Al" Kirkoff was a detective working on behalf of the New York Mafia along with his partner Mark Virgini.
Background[]
Kirkoff was married and had two children, a girl and a boy. He and his wife eventually divorced, and she apparently gained custody of their kids as he was paying her child support. After the divorce, his children had noticeably sad eyes, even when taking official school photos. At one point, Kirkoff fell behind on his child support payments which resulted in his wages being garnished. Eventually, Kirkoff started working for crime underboss Peter Taglioti of the Masucci Crime Family in order to supplement his income and better support his children in the hopes of keeping their affection.
After five years of trying, Kirkoff successfully was accepted into the Organized Crime Investigative Division, where his access to wiretaps and confidential police information made him invaluable to the mafia. When Taglioti was the target of a failed assassination attempt orchestrated by bookie George "Big Georgie" Branson, Taglioti hired Kirkoff and Virgini to kidnap Branson and deliver him to him. They did so, and Kirkoff and Virgini brutally tortured Branson until he gave up the name of the hitman he hired to assassinate Taglioti, Joe Long, along with the day and month of his birthday.
Unchained[]
However, Kirkoff hastily used the NYPD database to pull up info on Joe Long and found the address and info of the wrong Joe Long, a different mechanic who was the son of an NYPD patrolman. Kirkoff passed off this bad info to two of Taglioti's hitmen Phil Bartoli and Tommy Delano, resulting in them kidnapping and murdering this Joe Long. Virgini then hatched a plot to kill Bartoli and Delano so that the mistaken-identity murder could not be traced back to Taglioti, and Taglioti approved the plot. Kirkoff and Virgini drove up to the car Delano and Bartoli were in at a street corner under the pretense of a meeting. Virgini shot Delano as he exited his car, and Kirkoff rode up to the passenger's side and shot Bartoli twice. Bartoli managed to jump to the driver's seat and escape in the car.
Detectives Logan and Barek later tracked Bartoli down and convinced him to testify, resulting in the arrest of Kirkoff and Virgini. Gunshot residue was found on Kirkoff's jacket, further implicating him. Kirkoff refused to flip on Virgini during his interrogation. Virgini later implicated himself during a wiretapped conversation with his daughter, who the detectives convinced to turn on her father. Virgini was thus re-jailed after he made bail and went to prison for life, with the same fate following Kirkoff. It is presumed that both detectives then flipped on Taglioti.