The Loanshark
I knew I shouldn’t have done it, but when you’ve lived in a small New York apartment most of your life, you get desperate to have something better. My wife is a very beautiful, but somewhat aggressive woman, always asking for more things, always spending to the limit of my paychecks, so that I had to work two jobs to keep up. So, when a chance to make an investment that would bring me a lot of extra money came along, well, I took a chance. The banks aren’t going to lend you money for the stock market though, and hell, I had an inside edge: a person inside the company who knew about an upcoming merge and the fact that it would make their stock skyrocket. So I went to Gino. Gino handled the …