Marvin Goodman is a mobster, a member of the Capiletti crime family, and was heavy into handling loan sharking and gambling, keeping a detailed book of his debtors. In 1989 Goodman wanted to merge with another gambling heavy, Chi-Chi, making him an "offer he can't refuse", but Chi-Chi did refuse, and he paid for that decision first by losing his operation when Goodman tipped the police to his rolling gambling den, then with his life as Goodman's muscle killed him, and took over his accounts, including that of football player Kevin Mulhern (aided by Goodman's relationship with Kevin's agent Jerome Horowitz) and Detective Stan Switek (who owed a combined total of $350,000 to Chi-Chi, then to Goodman), and Goodman sent his muscle to collect from both, demanding that Mulhern throw his playoff