Board Thread:Role Plays/@comment-26130256-20150806184438/@comment-26130256-20150902181745

"Investment banking," Azulius used the "official story" he had employed since starting at Beacon. "Basically, they take piles of money, and turn them into bigger piles of money."

Azulius took another bite of bread, successfully hiding his pang of guilt. Why did he always feel rotten after lieing to Shani? In a manner of speaking, running a Mob family and investing weren't all that different. Both were concerned with taking a quantity of money and turning it into more money. But where most investment firms used stocks and bonds, the Cardamom family did it through protection rackets, smuggling, theft, and other methods of varying degrees of legality. Even after years of reforms, most of the family income came from sources that were "shady" at best.

"And your folks are ranchers, right?  I want to say llamas..."