The Howard Connection (ハワード・コネクション) is the self-founded enterprise of Geese Howard. On the surface, it is a powerful protection agency that strives to help the people of South Town. Its well-meaning portrayal in the media is mainly a front to deter investigators from the kingpin's connections with the mafia. Thanks to his years of work, it controls all of South Town and some parts of the globe. Its headquarters is Geese Tower and there is another branch located near the famous skyscraper.
After Geese's death, the business is run for a time by his brother-in-law, Kain R. Heinlein, ten years later (in the FF universe).
Geese's crime syndicate's businesses often overlap with Howard Connection, and most of his underlings pose as employed by the company as personal security.
The members of Howard Connection/Geese's crime syndicate (between active and hired) are the following:
Active Members[]
Leaders[]
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Character
Status
Geese Howard, owner, founder and CEO of Howard Connection; ringleader of the crime syndicate underneath, host of several King of Fighters tournaments (in the Fatal Fury universe) and sponsor of some teams in the KOF universe.
Billy Kane, personal security and Geese's main protector and bodyguard, trusted right-hand man and field operative in the most of the tournaments.
Alive in both timelines.
Ripper and Hopper, Geese's secondary personal security men. Never appeared as field operatives in the tournaments.
Alive in both timelines.
Hired (or Former) Agents[]
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Character
Status
Raiden, hired henchman and a world-famous professional wrestler with violent tendencies. Has reformed as Big Bear after being defeated by Geese.
Alive in both timelines.
Hwa Jai, hired henchman and a Muay Thai fighter of renown (also a former Muay Thai champion). No longer connected.
Alive in both timelines.
Blue Mary, has been hired by a front owned by Howard Connection in the past (in both timelines). She becomes his sworn enemy after she learns the company's true nature (and the enterprise being, somehow, the responsible for her grandfather and boyfriend's death).
Alive in both timelines.
Ryuji Yamazaki, has been hired by a front owned by Howard Connection in the past (in both timelines), and in the current times in the KOF tournament. Hired by Hein to replace him in Team South Town in the XV tournament (and for monetary gain), and currently missing along with Geese's former butler.
Alive in both timelines.
Gato, has been hired by Geese in the KOF 2003 tournament to form a team with the two other assidous members, Billy (Geese's main bodyguard) and Yamazaki (a frequent contact), and for prevent Hotaru Futaba (his probable sister) from being harmed. Left the company after loathing his teammates.
Alive in both timelines.
Hein, Geese's former personal butler and a disguised secret agent who aimed to take down his former boss, allied with Luong, another undercover secret agent. Currently missing after the ultimate scuffle with Geese, after the events of the XV tournament.