Main Office: Lexington, Kentucky
Regional Offices: New Orleans, LA; Las Vegas, NV; Seattle, WA; Night City, CA; Chicago, IL; Washington, DC.; Atlantic City, NJ
CEO: William James Douglas Jr.
Major Share holders: William James Douglas Jr. (40%), Maria Nelson-Martinez (30%), Carl Einmann (20%), and Mary Ann Douglas (8%)
Total Employees: 140,000
Troops: 30,000
Covert Operatives: 2,000
Overview: Casinos, Gambling, Lotteries, Moving into Professional Sports and Entertainment

History: RiskTec Inc. started with (of all things) a poker game. William James Douglas Sr. was a horse trainer in Lexington, Kentucky when he won partial ownership of a struggling racetrack. Through careful control and outrageous (yet calculated) risks, his enterprise, now named Racing Unlimited, expanded. Soon, he hit upon a stratagem that would launch him higher than anyone expected; he met with various underground figures. What made him different was that he managed to play all the sides at the same time. He dealt with everyone, Mafia, Triad, Yakuza, and Organitskaya. This gave him security and a hefty bargaining chip in any negotiation. Within a decade, he controlled most of the racetracks (horse, greyhound, and anything else) on the Eastern seaboard. Many aspiring mobsters were 'apprenticed' to him to learn the numbers and mechanics of racing, and Racing Unlimited enjoyed a profitable run as a neutral zone, like Switzerland, between all the members of the underground. The standoff insured that there were very few attempts to muscle into the action; also, it insured that fixes were either rare or well-hidden. While William Sr. was amassing his empire, his children were not idling their time. Under his father's watchful eye, William Jr. received a tremendous education receiving degrees in mathematics and industrial psychology. Meanwhile, Mary Ann Douglas received training in both veterinary and human medicine. In 2017, William Sr. died, drowned in his swimming pool. As according to his will, his son inherited the family business.
        William Jr. assumed his father's role and worked on expanding his empire and keeping all the organized crime syndicates assured of his lack of bias. While his sister worked on advancing their sports betting assets, William began to work his way into the government. This action made many of the families nervous, but he was able to appeal on their patience. Soon, he was able to create a subsidiary named Lotto Partners, Inc., and through it began to run lotteries for the financially strapped states. It was about this time, he began to attract unwanted attention from some of the larger corporations. His strategy was termed insane. He let some of his more profitable tracks and arenas be stolen from him, then he would wait for the gang wars to begin. After a few months of ever declining income, the corporation would let Racing Unlimited buy it back. Most of them decided it just wasn't worth the hassle and that a buffer company between them and organized crime could be very useful. So it continued, until shortly after the chaos of 2020.
        Maria Nelson-Martinez had inherited two moderately successful casinos from her parents. When everything cut loose in CyberPunk revolution, she made her casinos a haven for the tired and scared. Soon her casinos' reputations as the calms within the storm attracted more paying customers. Quickly, she had expanded as far as they would allow her in the confines of Nevada (and that wasn't very far). She moved in an snatched up floundering casinos in New Orleans and Atlantic City. By now, her small casino operations had expanded into a full-grown corporation, Double Eagle Consolidated. Unfortunately, she attracted too much attention to remain unmolested. She saw her holdings in trouble and lacked the resources to defend them. There were only two options, give up or find some big friends. She found a very big friend, William Douglas Jr. They hurriedly pushed the merger through, and RiskTec was born. Using underground assistance and sporting connections, Maria was able to expand her holdings tenfold. With Las Vegas as a base of operations, William began swallowing the West Coast. Meanwhile, organized crime was glad to be able to move back into Las Vegas where they could control loan sharking, prostitution, and all the other things that made the city great.
        The Second American Revolution hit RiskTec very hard. The chaos, fighting, and division destroyed many of their carefully laid plans. After a number of narrow escapes and daring reversals, RiskTec managed to survive. Realizing the weaknesses inherent in the business, William strengthened both his ties to the underworld (through continued non-interference) and the new government (by continuing the lotteries). In order to protect himself further, he formed a union with a game manufacturing firm named Three Cherries Technologies with its CEO Carl Eimann. Besides adding influence to the gambling scene, this also helped increased the conglomerate's ability to design, implement, and control internal and Net security.

Today: RiskTec is slowly becoming a nuisance to the media corps. As their influence creeps into more and more areas of entertainment and sports, the larger corporations are becoming upset, but don't know how to handle the problem...yet. The other corps would love a piece of the pie, but aren't sure they could manage the balancing act.

Corporate relations: Their underworld connections have held back most of the aggression, but their profits are a tremendous lure to every corp. One corp in particular wants to take them down, Net 54. As RiskTec slowly expands into professional sports and concerts, the entertainment industry is getting very crowded.
Subsidiaries: Racing Unlimited: Sports betting, arenas, and racetracks; Double Eagle Consolidated: casinos; Lotto Partners Inc.: Lotteries; Nickel and Dime Associates: Accounting, Investments, Research (Mathematics); Three Cherries Technology: Slot machines, net security, and security technology; Star Power Entertainment: Talent Agency; Palatial Industries: Hotels/motels
GM use: They always need bouncers, couriers, bodyguards, stars, and security. Also, if you want to steal cold hard cash, here's the company where money isn't counted, it's weighed. In addition, they are always on the lookout to widen its interests in entertainment, both the legal and illegal. Finally, many underground figures will work here and throw their family's influence whenever possible. Unfortunately, anyone who could disrupt their empire and games (C-Gen: think of a Scanner at poker, an Alchemist at craps, or a Wizard at the Net Casinos) will be crushed legally or otherwise.