Ray "Rodrigo" Rodriguez

== Disambiguation ==
Ray Rodriquez, or Ray "Rodrigo" as he's commonly called by, is a main character in "The Book About the Under the Table Dynasty," and is the much older brother of Miguel Rodriguez from Heart, and by extension, the cousin of Rose Sanchez.
== History ==
Ray Rodriguez was a police cadet in the San Francisco Police Department, later being promoted to chief. Throughout his life he advanced his career but chose a path that led him to doing bad things for money, eventually making him a criminal. 
This common plot idea is made slightly different when you consider Ray's eventual decision to leave the police force honorably (by all appearances) and keep his criminal connections; he was never found out, and in the present day (the year 2018) he is still a criminal, using his police connections to get more information when necessary.
This position is something Bo Sanderson wants to use.
== Plot in "BATUTTD" ==
Bo Sanderson drives to San Francisco to meet Ray and tell him what's up with his family: that Bo has parted was with them and their criminal black mailing, and wants his help to basically arrest and detain his family and their business. Ray would do this by alerting police departments in South Carolina. Ray wants a favor in return: for Bo to use his family's secret services to clear his record of any criminal activity. 
Now since Bo is a rogue in his family dynasty now, he has to use the connections he has, which are about a fifth of the total people that would be loyal to his father and his business. However, he can still do this for Ray--though it's risky--right after Ray helps to deploy forces against the other Sanderson's. Obviously, since Bo is also involved with every crime under the Sanderson Dynasty umbrella, his initial plan is to use his entire family business as collateral, to save only him and his friend in the business Eagle McGuire, who is a native American and his right hand man. Bo doesn't even plan to save his brother because he couldn't convince him to come to San Francisco with him.
This initial plan is upended when he fails his mission to save Bailey Tremain. To make a long story short, Bailey Tremain is the daughter of a finance mogul who runs several banks in the United States. Mr. Tremain owes a debt to the Sandersons,' and rather than pay it, he keeps putting it off. After prodding by the Sanderson business, he threatens to reveal their business to the powers that be (or rather, the powers that be already know they exist, they just can't do much about it--but Mr. Tremain claims he has the resources to undo them). So the Sandersons' response is quick and they decide to murder Mr. Tremain and effectively make it look like an accident, which they have the ability to do.
They then want to, subsequently, confiscate the life insurance payment that will be available to Bailey Tremain once she turns eighteen, and then get rid of her; right now she is fifteen. This gives him three years to enact his plan of how to do this effectively; Bo is in love with Bailey (even though she's fifteen and he's much older.