Vincenzo Falcone was a capo in the Columbo Crime Family in New York city, but was sent with his crew to Gotham to set up a bootlegging operation. It was immediately successful and caused Al Capone to send Tony "Two Bits" Maroni to set up a rival operation.

Vinnie is called “The Chopper”, but no one in Gotham now knows why. The two theories are that he used to commit assassinations from the back of a motorcycle or that he had the job of disposing of inconvenient corpses.

While more than willing to engage in violence (as is witnessed by his relatively successful war with the Moronis), Vinnie craves respectability more than anything. He sponsored the updating of the Gotham Opera House, and is always looking for opportunities to advance among the social elite. He lives in a pleasant, but modest house in Little Italy.