Joey Bennett

Joey was the head of his family’s crime syndicate, which he had taken over when his father died.  His father had started the drug trafficking syndicate, which grossed one hundred million dollars a year, after immigrating from Eastern Europe and headed the outfit until his death.

Joey’s younger brother Frank had chosen to distance himself from the family business and had become a promising young architect. When a young associate from Frank’s office died of a drug overdose, Frank tried to persuade Joey to shut down the business but he insisted that he could not be held accountable since he simply provided a service to addicts who would acquire the drugs anyway.

When Joey learned that Frank was considering taking up Federal Marshal Andrew Wiley’s request to testify before the Crime Commission about his drug operation, Joey sent his henchmen, Max and Tommy, to abduct his brother while he was meeting with MacGyver to discuss his placement into a witness protection program.  They took him to a lumber warehouse where Joey and his attorney, Vincent Ivory, confronted him. Frank’s knowledge of the family business made him a liability, and when Joey could not convince him to remain loyal to the family, he was prepared to kill him to prevent his testimony. MacGyver was able to help Frank escape from the lumbar yard and the confrontation with his brother convinced Frank to go ahead with the testimony, and he gave his deposition before the Crime Commission.

Joey got a second chance to kill his brother when their dying mother, Caterina Bennett, wanted to see Frank one more time. Joey arraigned for his mother to be discharged and brought back to the family home, where he planned to let Frank visit her for one last time and then kill him. Knowing it was a trap, but counting on protection from the federal marshals outside the house, Frank went to the Bennet home and was able to be with his mother one last time before she peacefully passed away. Meanwhile, Joey had used the similarity of the brothers’ voices to lure Wiley and the marshals away from the house leaving Frank unprotected from Joey’s murderous intentions.

His plan, however, was thwarted when MacGyver broke into the Bennet home and rescued Frank via a zip-line escape over the fence just as Wiley and his marshals were returning to the house.