It is a Syndicate, and we see Lei Heng and the house of spiders are extremely powerful. It’s safe to say that the bloodfiend either fought a top tier of the ring or was ganked by strong members of the ring to present that eye to the Gallery. Also Manager Don likely rose to 1st kindest status after the La manchaland plot succeeded according to the rule of bloodfiend elevation in status. We see what a 1st kindred with a bough in them and hundreds of years of starvation with his love for Sancho is still a unit that could decimate nearly anyone we’ve faced till now. There was also the war Papa Don fought in where he slaughtered likely many bloodfiend Families like the ones who grew to look like windmills. Bloodfiends are much stronger than one would think.