Matti Scoggins
Matti Scoggins was never the sort of person you’d expect to find working in AEGIS, but the Harvard Business School graduate eschewed a life at one of the Wall Street firms and chose to work in the Financial Crimes Division. It was a strange choice for a man born from money with expensive tastes. He could have been CEO of his family’s Fortune 500, and the FCD was an odd duck outfit that wasn’t sure where it fit in the hierarchy of AEGIS, but Scoggins had dreams of turning it into something else...something profitable. The FCD could cut villains off at the knees—just as the FBI had used tax evasion to finally snare Al Capone—and in all the confusion of the arrest and accounting of assets, Scoggins could help himself to a few of the choice treasures that supervillains tended to collect. While he was a brilliant embezzler, working his scam for years, AEGIS finally tracked missing evidence back to their own agents and Scoggins found himself facing charges of corruption.
Never one to admit defeat, Scoggins heard about the start of Red Group and all but ambushed Chief Administrator Stewart Bonham with a presentation. Scoggins launched into a spiel about how the black market was mirroring the business world, using brand identity, incentives, marketing, international alliances, trade routes, and more to move their product. AEGIS’s only hope was to apply their own shiftless scum, and Scoggins’s corruption charge suddenly became an asset rather than a liability. Bonham was impressed, if wary of the transparent attempt to dodge criminal charges, and expanded the mandate of Red Group to encompass tracking financial crimes.
Scoggins is the money man of Red Group, and since he’s comfortably wealthy in his own right, he’s helping the team establish themselves with their own resources and hidden accounts. None of it ties back to the Scoggins financial footprint, naturally, but in his criminal persona of Rex Tremblay, Scoggins is starting to seed black market businesses in the hopes of hooking an AEGIS talon into them. The addition of Lyla Chen has been invaluable in expanding his understanding of the black markets, and Zarifa has proven instrumental in allowing Scoggins to make a name for himself on the Dark Web. Franks is worried that Scoggins may push the criminal act too far and accidentally seed a devastating attack, but so far, Baker has been able to anticipate the pitfalls.
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Scoggins is a financial mastermind, and his gifts for embezzlement, wire fraud, and tax shelters have provided Red Group with all the operating capital they need—completely divorced from AEGIS’s own finances. In addition to his intellect, he’s a practiced thief, ironically having spent his vacations from law enforcement robbing museums around the world for precious and beautiful artifacts to add to his collection. However, most of his assets and treasures have been seized by AEGIS, and now Scoggins hopes to rebuild.
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