Jake Randolph in "Bourbon On The Rocks" Pt. 116

I was curious. “Who are these people?”

He shook his head, “Just people. Some people you helped get sent up. Some people you helped out of a jam. Just people. The biggest one is Sharkey Russo.”

“Sharkey? How do you know him?” I asked. Sharkey was a Vegas gangster that I thought was going to be an enemy who turned out to be a friend. He helped me with my very first case. But that’s another story.

“I took out a loan from him.”

“I didn’t know he was loan sharking in this area.”

“Yeah. He branched out from Vegas.”