Chapter 996

Marion’s men rounded up all the customers from the back rooms and brought them forward.

“Take them to the police station. Have Mr. Hardy interrogate them thoroughly,” Marion ordered.

“Yes, sir.”

Watching batch after batch of customers being led away, Marion turned his attention to the staff pinned to the ground. “Are you going to talk, or do I need to make you?”

“I’ll talk,” one of them blurted out, lifting his head. “Sir, some of us dockworkers just wanted to make extra money. Someone said businessmen were investing in arcade centers. All we had to do was pay a franchise fee, and we could run our own business. The setup and machines were all taken care of. But there was a rule. Only locals with connections could join.”

Marion’s eyes narrowed. “Connections? You mean my people?”

the man stammered. “The Potter family, the Osborne family, the Mathis family, and

directly, they’d start from the bottom, using their people to make money and then forcing them to clean up the mess. It was a

they just let you run the

much we made. Inspectors came

“What’s your monthly turnover?”

Our shop is small, so we make around 100 thousand dollars a day, sometimes more. Monthly, it’s in the

was raking in millions. Larger operations would

20 thousand dollars with just

because he played big. But here, even with smaller bets, the variety of

half or a third of

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