The Leones began to have bad terms with the Triads sometime during the events of Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories when the Triads blew up a Leone warehouse (which then became the Turtle Head Fish Factory, a front for the Triads). They were trying to push out the Leones for the Sicilian Mob. Later on in 2001, during the mission Farewell 'Chunky' Lee Chong, Joey Leone sent Claude to kill Lee Chong for selling cheap SPANK in his noodle stand.