Stock in Trade
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Summary
A financial services firm loses a wealthy client, and the catches wind of his unexpected stock market success. They hire shadowrunners to look into the matter, who end up uncovering a network of insider traders and tip-sellers.
Background
Miles Carruthers is a Stuffer Shack franchise owner, hustle culture guru, and Tacoma A-zone resident. He formerly entrusted a financial services firm, Michaels & Michaels, with managing his investment portfolios - that is, until recently. Recently, he stopped using their services, and almost immediately began making a number of highly profitable trades on the stock market. He's publicly very proud of this, posting all over P2.1 about it and advertising his own services as a financial advisor, adding himself to the long and proud (?) legacy of hustle culture grifters that populate the 21st century.
Michaels & Michaels is suspicious, and decide to do a bit of investigation of their own. With some cursory calls, they manage to get their hands on some interesting Matrix footage: a mysterious woman dropping an equally mysterious suitcase in a Downtown alleyway, and then, about a half hour later, Miles himself going into that alleyway and coming out with the briefcase.
They contract a Johnson to hire a team of infiltrators, faces, and matrix specialists to investigate this further.
The Meet
The team meets the Johnson at a Tacoma restaurant, Margarita's. There, he intimates to them the parameters of the job, as well as the basic information the runners have available - including the information that