He's a smart guy and tries to do the right thing, but those Taurons are a shady lot, and it's hard for him to stay out of the mafia-like crime organization that his brother does some work for. In fact, the mob boss paid Joseph's way through law school so that he'd have an attorney in his pocket, but Joseph doesn't want to play ball; he is trying to stay out. He's happily married with a wife, a teenage daughter, Tamara, and an 11-year-old son, William.