- "Through Renewal. Renewal is everything."
"The Renewal fund?"
"Yeah. After Thomas Wayne died, They all went after it like vultures. The Mayor. Falcone. Maroni. Everyone got in on it. It was perfect for making bribes, laundering money. Huge charitable fund with no oversight, everybody got a piece, but Falcone wanted more. So we orchestrated a play to take down Maroni big. He'd rat out his Drops operation, made the careers of everybody that went after him, and install them all as his puppets. You think this goddamn election matters? Falcone's the mayor. He'd been the mayor for the last twenty years." - ―William Kenzie to James Gordon and Batman[src]
The Renewal Conspiracy was orchestrated by Carmine Falcone, Salvatore Maroni, and numerous corrupt city officials to use the Gotham Renewal Corporation as a front to bribe Gotham City officials or launder money following the murder of Thomas Wayne and his wife Martha.
History[]
Renewal Is Everything[]
After the deaths of Thomas and Martha Wayne, the Renewal Fund was left for the criminals and corrupt politicians of Gotham to take for themselves. Crimes lords, such as Carmine Falcone and Salvatore Maroni, and politicians such as Don Mitchell, Jr. and Gil Colson, began using the Renewal Fund as a front for laundering money and making bribes, which was easy to accomplish as the Fund had no government oversight.
Aftermath[]
Eventually, Carmine Falcone wanted complete control of the Renewal Fund. That year, Falcone, with the help of local politicians and GCPD officers on his payroll, orchestrated the arrest of Salvatore Maroni in and many members of his criminal organization through ratting out his Drops operation, resulting in Maroni getting sent to Blackgate Penitentiary to serve a life sentence.
Maroni's arrest allowed Falcone to take complete control of the Renewal Fund, and all of the politicians and cops on his payroll where installed as his puppets. However in 2022, Edward Nashton, a forensic accountant at KTMJ who lived most of his childhoood in poverty as an orphan due to the Renewal Fund being laundered, became a domestic terrorist known as Riddler and began targeting those involved in the conspiracy, which caught the attention of Batman and the GCPD.