animatronic
Senior Member
I always like the connections to the mafia' angle when things get slow.
That seems to be the true, underlying story of how things are run here in the GTA.
The Fords are probably too stupid to be seriously connected. But Deco might be involved somehow, transporting goods under the guise of shipping labels etc.
More likely the other way round. Given that the family can't walk and chew gum without falling into a vat of crack, it's unlikely that they could have turned their dad's little business into Los Etiquetas Hermanos. The complexity of successfully mixing legitimate and illegal business just doesn't hold water - plus, if they were screwing around then Brazen II would have turned something up by now.
On the other hand, the Ford brothers hanging around mafia types like moths to a flame is highly believable. With their obvious self-worth and self-aggrandization issues, combined with a cash-generating business and political connections, they would be easy pickings for mafia types. If that were the case then a lot of Rob's friends would probably have Italian and Eastern European names...