Cerberus/3.0/Arcs

=Arcs=
Los Santos Broadcasting Network (LSBN)
Clip 6/8/21
LSBN was secretly founded by Dean and Leslie. Dean and Leslie managed to do this early in 3.0. They offered Ron Otterman the position as head of LSBN, as well as investing a great amount of money into LSBN. They funded the remodeling of LSBN purchased the news helicopter, Bumblebee. They are now the Shadow owners for LSBN along with Nino.
On June 8th, 2021. Dean Watson and Leslie Lingberg called up Lang Buddha to meet up at Grapeseed after getting lost hunting for a wild boar to catch and make their pet. When Lang arrived the cops left, then Dean started off by jokingly stating "We want to invite you into the Illuminati".
Leslie then continued: "So a long time ago when this city started forming and people got on the train and people started populating the city, Dean and I together founded the idea that if you control the media you control the city and you control the politics. That is why we founded LSBN, we monetized it, we created its economy, and we appointed Ron Otterman as the head of LSBN."
Dean: 'We own LSBN, Lang" Leslie: "to its entirety" Dean: "100 percent"
Leslie: "Together with Mr. Chavez, in fact. Now because of our recent business dealing that we've had in the short amount of time and with the recent absence of Mr. Chavez. we..."
Lang shouted: "I accept"
Thus making Lang Buddha the fourth member for this Shadow 'Illuminati" group. They went on to explain how only very trusted people would join, no loose ends. and how the only people who know who owns LSBN is the three of them, Nino, Ron, and one of Ron's staff, Felix Volk (who attended an emergency meeting with Ron and Dean regarding an inflammatory post Ursula made about Denzel during the election and figured it out). They also told Lang that Dean asked Ron Otterman to spread propaganda skewing fake results of the votes to make it seem like Abdul AlRahim was still close in the mayoral race.
Ursula Leichenberg
On August 18th, 2021 Cerberus met with Ursula Leichenberg in response to a text she sent to Dean and Lang. She discussed wanting to cover the upcoming mayoral election in a way that would benefit Cerberus. During this conversation she explained she was coming to them as they were stakeholders in LSBN. The three members were concerned that Ursula knew this and after a sidebar tried to figure out how she knew this was the case.
Lang: "So Ursula, what makes you think we have a stake in the company? Because of the election we ran for Denzel or what?"
Ursula: "Well number one: common sense. We had investors who had to pay for something. Even if certain things hadn't happened by common sense I know based on timing there's no way that you all didn't invest in LSBN. Number two: I had access to the financial logs of the company for quite some time and, yeah, I saw donations and stuff that came in"
This led to a longer conversation between Cerberus and Ursula about her motives and whether or not someone informed her about their involvement with LSBN. Though Ursula denied any external influence on her actions she did admit she was unsure of what she wanted and just wanted to be on the side of those with the power. The meeting ended with Cerberus asking Ursula to think about her goals and to let them know when she knew.
On August 26, 2021 Cerberus met with Ursula once again. Ursula informed the trio that upon thinking about it what she really wanted for Los Santos was a place for those with mental health issues to discuss their problems openly and freely. She noted how Parsons had recently closed and the ongoing need to help people with mental health problems. She also explained that with Ron's intermittent presence in the city she had been assuming many of the responsibilities of CEO of LSBN and deserved to be recognized as such on the books. Cerberus informed her that they felt similarly and were comfortable appointing her the position. Ursula noted that staff at LSBN were aware of Cerberus' influence on the company and that the best way to create distance would be to have the company buy out their investors. Cerberus was in agreement with this arrangement and reminded Ursula that their control over LSBN needed to be kept quiet.
Tuner Shop
After failing to secure an investment into the Tuner Shop. Both Eddie Marshall and Cerberus left off on very bad terms. Cerberus made it a mission to screw over Eddie, the Tuner Shop, and everyone affiliated with them.
Making Cerberus top priority to endorse Denzel Williams into office as the next Mayor of Los Santos as it would put a major damp into the Tuner Shop being able to open anytime soon.
The Plane Ride
The plane ride between Lang Buddha, Dean Watson, Harry Brown, pilot Tony Corleone, and Cerberus' NPA CEO Nancy Drew on September 17, 2021--where Lang weighed throwing her out of the plane if she continued to side with her crew The Stable against Cerberus--changed the trajectory of her life forever. Lang had demanded that The Stable reimburse him $250,000 for accidentally cancelling his and Denzel Williams' first cocaine job in the city, but Nancy found the demand unreasonable and refused to back down despite Lang's threats to her life and everyone she loved. Although Dean wanted Nancy fired and replaced with Bunny, Leslie Lingberg mediated an agreement where Nancy would repay Lang $100,000 or she and her crew would lose everything that they ever worked for. Nancy acquiesced and paid Lang the $100,000 out of her own life savings, against the wishes of her best friend at the time Mick Jhonson. When Lang immediately returned her money and left, Nancy realized it had all been a loyalty test.
Despite Lang's sentiment at the time that he would only trust Nancy with the NPA and nothing else, they eventually rebuilt the trust between them. Lang gave her full ownership of the Cerberus Arena and Orpheus Entertainment. After Nancy left The Stable on November 26, 2021, Lang recruited her into his cocaine empire on December 3, 2021. Nancy eventually worked her way up to Vice-President of Operations at Cerberus alongside Eve Summers.
The Weeb Accountant
Alex Datum who had been trying to hang out with Leslie Lingberg do bank jobs and be his accountant for weeks since late quarter 2021. Finally got the chance to prove himself by doing the books for Burger Shot. After proving himself successful with Burger Shot he was finally hired onto Cerberus as their Accountant Mid-February 2022. He is tasked with running the books for most of Cerberus Businesses and that included paying out Cerberus Executives weekly.
Cerberus Vinewood Gang Control
Last days of February - March 1st, Cerberus friends and close acquaintances like Eve Summers, Xavier Sin, and The Guild started seeing a bunch of graffiti tagged around the Guild Hall, Rooster's Rest, The Gentry, and Vinewood in general. When they soon came to the realization that a bunch of "Not good enough for the southside" Gangs, as Dean Watson said, started moving up claiming Northside because they couldn't claim territory in the south. This gangs include ZooMafia, JustUs, Rollin' Heights Crew, Mortelle, Natural Born Crackheads, & Balbani Crime Family. The next day Cerberus had a meeting on how to start removing gangs out of Vinewood because they want to own everything in that Vinewood area and now that Hero Wine is starting they want no gangs to start snooping around and also hate the idea that the gangs are trying to move up into an area they feel safe as opposed to The Southside. Aside from the gang arc Lang also wants to own The Comedy Club from Shelly Smith because it is right next to the Hero Wine location.
===ZooMafia===
The reason Cerberus went hard in this new Arc was mainly because of ZooMafia. They moved directly next to Rooster's Rest in the The Gentry. Not only did they move in but started tagging up and down Vinewood. Also warned Eve Summers if she bought property in The Gentry it would go very badly for her. Cerberus were not happy. Cerberus previous to the meeting had found out a therapist by the name of Chloe Waldorf had put in a business proposal for a new Spa business within the Gentry. Where in turn they thought that meant her business proposal was to own the Gentry. Come to the day of the meeting, Dean Watson & Cassie Cupcake realized she only wanted a Spa not the building. Within the meeting, they quickly wrote up a proposal and submitted it to the mayor Emma Gaine who accepted the proposal and then since Dean owns the SA State Contracting company he told Andi Jones to have Construction accept the proposal. Meaning it made it official that Cerberus owns The Gentry now. That day they all went over to meet with Sidwig Crawshank from ZooMafia, Bubbles Smith was there too, and basically told them there was a misunderstanding between Cerberus and the old tenants. Rooster's Rest owns the Gentry and no rooms or houses should have been sold. At this point ZooMafia owned 3 out of the 8 apartments and none of the 2 houses. Dean told them it was a misunderstanding and they will all now be evicted.
===Natural Born Crackheads===
Cerberus was okay with Natural Born Crackheads being in the location they claimed because they are behind the Guild Hall, a bit south, and away from Vinewood. Dean even through out the idea maybe they worked with NBC and if any gang tried to claim territory up north. He would call NBC to clap them until they moved out.
Burger Shot Franchise
After trying multiple times to get Burger Shot CEO Shelly Smith to change her ways and actually make progress within the Burger Shot restaurant. Lang tried to marry her off with Raymond Romanov. Although she went as far as divorcing Jeffrey Price, Ray only asked her to not see Jeffrey anymore She couldn't do resist and started secretly seeing Jeffrey again. They placed her in Parsons but it changed nothing about her. She constantly failed and throughout her time running Burger Shot. She eventually found out Lang Buddha now owned the restaurant. She went to Dean Watson and Cassie Cupcake pleading to not include Burger Shot in the Cerberus Umbrella or to somehow cut out Lang. Eventually she decided to quit Burger Shot. Opening the possibility for new beginning in the restaurant for Cerberus. They thought maybe Corpo Kid 2.0 for a new CEO or just putting in a new CEO but then they eventually came up with the idea to franchise both restaurant locations for up and coming food companies who still operate in Dean World and Andi Jones Farmers Market. The way it works will be that 2 locations are open to be franchised. Both main BS location and Dean World location. One new company will come in with new food and work out of one of this locations. 4 slots are open, 1 company for each location and for each tsunami time. It will be franchise (or leased) for a certain amount each week. If the company fails to do weekly payments they will be open to forfeit the contract letting a new company come in. On March 25, 2022 Cerberus closed the deal to sell Burger Shot to Shelly Smith for $2,500,000 and Split Sides. After the deal was sealed Dean expressed his desire to blow up Burger Shot with Lang & Leslie in full agreement.
Chang Gang vs. Cerberus Mayoral Election
The mayoral race between Cerberus and Chang Gang was a chaotic circus from beginning to end. It started on March 16, 2022 during CERB-CON (a Cerberus Business Seminar) when Chang Gang mayoral candidate Ramee El-Rahman twatted to a disgruntled attendee how bad Cerberus was at business. Lang Buddha twatted back about how Ramee had hired their Clean Queens to save his failing Vultur Lé Culturé business. Ramee denied knowing that the Clean Queens were all Cerberus CEOs and cut ties with them. Later that day based on Nancy Drew's recommendation, Cerberus revealed that they would back the mayoral campaign of Clean Queen Sabith "Bunny" Cohen.
As Bunny's new campaign manager, Nancy helped her canvass voters from gang members to police officers. The two of them secured the endorsements of incumbent mayor Emma Gaine and former mayors Andi Jones and Denzel Williams. At a contentious press conference in the Cerberus Business Center on March 22, 2022, Bunny officially announced her run for mayor. Bunny's performance at the conference made Cerberus concerned about her lack of political experience. They felt like she was too honest, and tried unsuccessfully to coach her into overpromising for votes. Leslie Lingberg and Dean Watson were also concerned by her revelation to the police that she was staunchly anti-violent.
Although both Bunny and Cerberus wanted to run a clean campaign (Lang used LeBron James as an example of not responding to critics), Ramee's aggressive stumping and loud Twatter presence made both Bunny and Nancy second-guess Cerberus' measured approach. Then after both Ramee and Bunny stumped at a Davis PD meeting, Senior Deputy William Gunner warned Bunny that a body double had been trying to frame her for terrorism. Afterward thanks to a flagged plate alert from Sgt. Sexton Hardcastle, Nancy discovered a hot uzi that Mr K had planted in Bunny's Range Rover. Hardcastle gave Nancy and Bunny car bomb detectors, and Bunny subsequently had to avoid taking out her Range Rover and being alone without an alibi.
Cerberus began to bristle at the Ramee campaign's growing anti-Cerberus movement. At the mayoral debate, the other candidates and Bunny's most vocal critics ganged up on her as a "corporate puppet" to Cerberus. Both Nancy and Leslie took note of all of the anti-Cerberus supporters at the debate and on Twatter, some of whom included Cerberus Business Center tenants and Cerberus' Pride liaison Ricardo Perez. A Rooster's Rest employee even showed up to a filmed anti-Cerberus protest outside of the Cerberus Business Center. Despite Cerberus' concerns that they were now hurting Bunny's image rather than helping it, Bunny asked Leslie for more visible support from them rather than less. In an effort to secure the Lifer vote, Lang and Harry Brown got caught smuggling weapons into Bolingbroke Penitentiary. Lang also asked Curtis Swoleroid's girlfriend Penny Farthing to advertise Bunny at the Rooster's Rest, but she was reluctant.
On the first day of voting on March 28, 2022, Bunny's campaign billboards (that Michael Simone had set up) loomed over the Alta Street Apartments, the City Vault, and Dean World. Chang Gang tried to vandalize them with "VOTE 4 RAMEE!" sprays. Election violence erupted on the second day of voting when Chang Gang attempted to false flag Cerberus by bombing Ramee and an audience of police officers in front of the Bob Smith Police Department. In response, Sam Baas announced that he and Jeffrey Bundy would be heading a new Counter-Terrorist Unit (CTU).
On the third day of voting, Bryce Miller nervously flew Bunny's pink campaign blimp over the city. Because Leslie had reserved them all, Chang Gang could only fly a yellow Abdul AlRahim campaign blimp in response. On the fourth day of voting, Ramee RPG'd the Abdul blimp that Mickey S, Nancy Drew, Kirk Jerkems, Felix Volk, and Pablo Loco (the creator of the Bunny campaign's scratch-off tickets) were using to clean "VOTE 4 RAMEE!" graffiti off Bunny's City Vault billboard. Undeterred, Bunny's campaign rented another blimp and completed the graffiti clean-up of all three billboards. Later that day, Chang Gang members Jaylen Carter and Miguel Almerion both missed RPG shots at Bunny's pink campaign blimp, and Ramee's allies Irwin Dundee and Pez Speedwagon ran out of ammo trying to shoot it down from a helicopter. After Air-1 chased Dundee's helicopter away, Chang Gang members Miguel, Curtis Swoleroid, and Novah Walker took off in a second helicopter in an effort to shoot down both the blimp and Air-1. When Chang Gang's helicopter began smoking and they bailed into the ocean, all three of them got picked off by the police and held until trial for terrorism.
By the final day of voting, Lang, Harry, and Dean had lost confidence that Bunny would win the mayoral election. On April 1, 2022, Lang, Harry, and Dean were completely stunned by the announcement that Bunny had defeated Ramee in the mayoral election by 111 votes. Leslie claimed that this outcome had not surprised him.
In the political fallout, Chang Gang cut ties with The Mandem and fired them all from H&O Exports for not voting Ramee unanimously. Dean, Leslie, and Lang replaced Ricardo with Sean Deane for the Pride event, and Mayor Bunny made Mary Mushkin her Deputy Mayor instead of Ricardo. Nancy cut ties with Ursula Leichenberg for claiming to support Bunny when she was secretly helping the Ramee campaign (including a smear article against Bunny). Ramee supporter Lt. Brian Knight, outraged by Mayor Bunny's reluctance to fund his and Kyle Pred's two million dollar bounty for wanted terrorist Michael Simone, asked Ramee to fund the bounty in exchange for dirt against Bunny. After Pred and Knight called Cerberus CEO Cassie Cupcake for questioning, Dean and Lang whimsically informed Pred that Cerberus would fund the two million dollar bounty to stand with the PD against terrorism.
Expansion
Due to the extended absence of Leslie Lingberg and Harry Brown from the city, Lang Buddha and Dean Watson decided to hire four new executives to Cerberus: Marlo Stanfield as the Creative Director, Tommy T as the TEO (head of Mandem Enterprises), Mila Smoak as the Director of Public Relations, and Dillon Dubbs as the Executive of Business Affairs. 
Cerberus fired Mickey S after his lackluster performance as an intern, his open admission of Stratum Knights Investments' cocaine operation at the mayoral debate, and his new busy position as Mayor of Los Santos. In addition to the new executive hires, Cerberus officially started a new internship program open to the public that lasted for four spread-out days, starting with a city-wide interview to screen for contestants.
On June 28, 2022, Marlo Stanfield ran day 2 of the Cerberus internship program as a reality competition on Burn Island. Dillon Dubbs filmed it and Mojito Inn catered. The 18 contestants had to endure a series of physical and mental challenges as well as multiple elimination rounds to prove themselves.
For day 3 on July 5, 2022 to Lang Buddha's chagrin, Xavier Valentine and Dougie Fresh were brought back in the competition via golden ticket after being the first ones to being eliminated on day 2. The participants were divided into four teams and given a radio with the mission of going around the city trading up to the most prestigious item possible. The two winning teams were Team 2 (Lana Valentine, Pablo Loco, Maia Berkeley, and Ren) for trading up to Jaylen Carter's "stolen" MandeM chain and Team 3 (Elena Vega, Tito Conchas, Swan DeLeur, Lucy Sinclair) for trading up to an expensive karambit knife. Team 4 (Scruffy Doodle, W'Kabi Aku, Samuel Dennis, and Xavier) got eliminated for only being able to trade up to a wheelchair. Team 1 (Marty Banks, Sparky Kane, Charlie Greene, Max, and Dougie) got disqualified and eliminated because Marty used the radio to call in a friend for help, ostracized Charlie for dissenting, and handcuffed her. Lang saved Charlie for being vocal about the rule breaking and being the only one to be opposed to the idea.
The day 4 finals on July 12, 2022 came down to Lana Valentine, Elena Vega, Xavier Valentine (brought back when Marty Banks ocean dumped finalist Charlie Greene), Swan DeLeur, Maia Berkeley, Pablo Loco, Tito Conchas, and Lucy Sinclair. Marlo Stanfield ran an "Intern Trivia Champion Cerberus Extravaganza" game show where eight contestants in a 3 x 3 grid of offices had to text answers to trivia questions. The contestants had three lifelines:
* One "referral" lifeline to copy another contestant's answer.
* One "sick day" lifeline to skip a question.
* Two second chance "Xavier Valentine" lifelines to automatically save a contestant who missed a question.
In the final two, Elena Vega won the internship competition when Xavier answered his last question wrong after she had answered her last question correctly.
Ultimately, Cerberus ended up hiring Elena Vega, Swan DeLeur, Charlie Greene, Pablo Loco, and Lana Valentine as interns. As the new head of the Cerberus Intern Program, Executive of Business Affairs Dillon Dubbs delivered the orientation at the Cerberus Business Center on July 25, 2022--where Vice President of Operations Nancy Drew specifically brought up Lang Buddha's #1 rule to keep gang politics out of the workplace.
On August, after months spent without a proper accountant to take care of payments, Cerberus also brought in Dominic Luciano as VP of Finance as a replacement for Alex Datum who had left Los Santos to travel Japan.
Unfurtunately the intern program ended up falling flat and Dominic was soon after killed by Cerberus. Since then the company occasionally undergoes small restructures to keep things fresh.
Cerberus & Brazilian Cartel Drug Alliance (8/24/22)
Cerberus and Speedy flew to South America looking to strike a deal with the cartel down in Brazil. They acquired fake passports from Mayor Mickey and they were on their way to Brazil. Landing in Brazil they were expecting to be greeted by Dean Watson's South American connect by the name of Pedro but instead Victor Fittipaldi from PDM and an old Vagos member Shevy Santanna were waiting for them. Waiting for entry confirmation the cartel Shevy decided to take Cerberus around town. First stop was the Liquid Library were they were greeted by lots of people then they headed over to Rooster's Rest were they find out Leslie Lingberg secretly flew out to Brazil to franchise his own Rooster's Rest restaurant. Shevy gets the green light confirmation that they are allowed to fly into Coney Island.Coney Island is a giant island off Brazil that seemed to be owned by the Cartel. With the backing of hundreds of cartel soldiers on the Island it seems untouchable. They openly have a lot of illegal activities occurring openly on the Island such as their infamous weed the King Kong Finger. Multiple cartel check points and many more things. Landing in Coney Island Lang, Dean, Harry, & Speedy along with Shevy and crew jump on a military convoy truck to head over to the Coney Mansion. While passing through three cartel checkpoints they see a mountain full of King Kong Finger weed trees. In a quick stop before the mansion Shevy introduces Lang to Mochila de Criança the cartel cook then they demonstrate the power of their new drug. They shoot down one of their own men just to have Harry Brown insert the drug into his veins and bring him back to life.
Arriving at the Coney Mansion Cerberus find out how large it is and how well guarded it is. Shevy tells them that the boss El Coney is a little crazy and they don't know where he is. He then has them scout and search for him throughout the Mansion. After finding him Cerberus finds out just how crazy he truly is. Missing half his tongue and a cone on his head. El Coney asks what business do they have with him to were Dean tells him "we are here to strike a deal with the cartel" to be able to purchase and distribute the new heroin drug in Los Santos. Lang Buddha suggests a 50/50 partnership between Cerberus and the cartel. After sidebaring with the two monkeys Bana & Nana, El Coney agrees with the 50/50 partnership with the only condition being El Coney wants Cerberus to send over bananas.
Hail Cerberus: CPD
On October 24th, 2022, Kyle Pred and the Paleto Bay Sheriff's Office High Command announced an official sponsorship from Cerberus. The PBSO was rebranded to Cerberus Police Department and received new uniforms, vehicle liveries, and ranks.
Over time, however, the CPD began to feel neglected by Cerberus. On February 26th, 2023, CPD Grand Marshall Kyle Pred announced the closure of the CPD, and announced the reopening of the Paleto Bay Sheriffs Office. Lang wished Pred well.
Lang's Mayoral Election and Inheritance of Cerberus Businesses
With Dean Watson indefinitely gone from the city going into 2023, Lang Buddha became the last remaining active Cerberus head. On January 3, 2023, Lang met with Speedy and Vice Presidents Nancy Drew and Eve Summers about whether to dissolve the Cerberus company, but eventually decided against it.
On January 5, 2023 inside of the Cerberus Business Center, Lang and Eve conferred with Cerberus accountant Dominic Luciano about whether he told CPD Marshal Jenny Hall that he'd cut the whole Cerberus Police Department budget because of Cerberus' massive financial losses. A blacked-out Tony Corleone and Speedy kidnapped Dominic from the conference room and took him to the yacht, where Lang and Eve confronted him about his lack of transparency. Speedy, Lang, and Tony went through Dominic's phone. Fully cognizant of Cerberus' "accountant curse", Dominic threatened that he had shared Cerberus' books, accused Lang of embezzlement and an addiction to gambling, and quit his job at Cerberus. Lang executed him on an island. Later that day, Dr. Dahlia Fey pronounced Dominic dead, performed the autopsy on his gunshot-ridden corpse, and ruled the manner of death a homicide. Eve and Nancy audited his accounting work.
As Lang campaigned for Mayor of Los Santos, he repeatedly floated the idea of ending Cerberus if he lost. But on January 18, 2023, Chief Judge Alan Crane announced that Lang won the mayoral election. Inside of Dennis LaBarre City Hall, Mickey S and Judge Crane completed the peaceful transfer of power to Lang. Mickey gave Mayor Lang a "digital key to the city", and congratulated him. Lang's new Vice Mayor Emma Gaine trained him inside of the Mayor's Office. Afterward, Lang assumed ownership of every single business that Dean Watson owned, including the Diamond Casino and Resort, Cerberus Industries, Cerberus Industries Armory, Diamond Hand Credit, and P1. Lang also now co-owned Diamond Sports Book with Ramee El-Rahman.
The Arsenal Act − New (New) Otto's
JAMES ARSENAL
After the removal of multiple cars from the city and the implementation of trading tickets, Marlo, being the director of Diamond Hand Credit went through the company books to review car loans.
Doing this he found out that James Arsenal had been giving himself multiple million dollar loans a day at the lowest interest rate for a total of around 26 million without contract for months. When asked about the situation James responded saying that he took so many loans to buy his dream car and other luxurious assets. Reasoning that Marlo did not believe to be the full truth.
Of these 26 mil, James was able to pay off almost all of them in a couple of days with the help of various coworkers (Artorius King, Jaylen Carter etc..) and his fiancèe Mila Smoak who sold multiple assets to help him.
Marlo put Arsenal on leave from DHC and Otto's Autos debating what to do with the companies and Mila, who expressed her discontent for not being consulted about firing James beforehand.
Lang talked to Mila asking her opinion on the situation. 
During the meeting she stated that she helped him paid off his loans simply due to affection and the fact that she wanted to get rid of his gifts anyways wanting to distance herself and that she didn't excused his actions. She said however that she needed him at Otto's and that he didn't act with malicious intent. Fiona found suspicious the way Mila went from simply talking about the situation to defending James to ultimately asking for shares. Lang asked Jacob to tail Mila who was then seen having a conversation with Mr. K talking about an "investment".
Accepting the fact that without James at Otto's Mila would probably be dissatisfied and that her leaving would signify the need to reconstruct from zero Lang found himself on a very difficult situation. Not wanting to fire her on the spot, recognizing and admiring her hard work Lang considered giving her the shares she wanted provided that she accepted that James Arsenal would never work for the company ever again. ― He was however unable to reach her that day.
DHC was shut down and Elizabeth Reed was put on official investigation to prepare for a court case hoping to be able to pass mayoral legislation− titled "The A.R.S.E.N.A.L. Act" (Act to Restrict State-Endorsed Notes and Loans)− to defund all state funding to loan companies.
MARLO'S SHOOTING
On the night of the 26th of January Eve grew suspicious of the unusual presence of NBC members Guy Jones and Pilbis around the Reef. This concern grew even more after talking with Marlo and hearing that he felt like he was being followed, having spotted multiple times a masked figure looking at him from the distance.
Even more convinced of these weird occurances being linked to the James Arsenal situation (him and Mila being members of NBC) Eve decided to call Bjorn and Bucky to surveil the area and ensure Marlo's safety.
With Bjorn and Marlo in contact, Marlo drove to the movie studio. Here he got held up and shot by a masked Guy Jones who, unknowingly to them had been following Eve, Marlo and Speedy since that morning. Exiting the studio Guy Jones, carrying the injured body of Marlo got held up by Bjorn who was posted in the area. He got handcuffed and searched. On his person were found several trackers and an NBC radio.
Meeting then with Lando, Bucky and Fiona at grandma's they discussed the previous events and went through Guy's texts finding incriminating messages with Mila Smoak herself in which she was asked to lead Marlo away from his car to help Guy place the tracker.
Despite not following through with this request and telling him not do anything, she never warned Marlo or Eve. Adding to this, the gps locator found on Guy was suspected to be one from Otto's management stash - to which only Marlo, Mila and previously James had access. Checking said stash Marlo indeed found one of the trackers missing despite not being able to fully prove to be the one used to tail him.
The handcuffed Guy Jones was then brought to Zancudo where he was interrogated. During the interrogation he said multiple times of acting alone denying the involvement of James, Mila or any other NBC member.
He said that the tracker was given to him by a third party and that his actions where because Marlo was the one actually embezzling and trying cover himself using James and that Mila had always been treated unfairly. After debating about what to do with Guy, Marlo and Fiona drove him to Otto's where he was dropped off to Pillbus who acted surprised and confused by the situation.
The day after the group filled in Nancy and Eve. Deciding to wait for Lang before moving forwards.
NEW OTTO'S
Even more conflicted about what to do with Mila and the company another meeting followed, with Eve, Fiona and Lang having Mila explain her side of the story. She admitted to being aware of the situation that went down with Guy and Marlo, explaining how Guy Jones acted alone and that she didn't know what his intentions were at the time beside that he was tailing Marlo.
Lang asked her to question whenever NBC actually had her best interests in mind, advising her to distance herself from them because they would ultimately drag her down.
Mila took Lang aside and gave her resignation from Cerberus.
In February 2023 after a spat between Mila and Marlo, Marlo offered to sell his 25% to Lang for 25 million dollars. 
Lang, having grown tired of the whole situation decided to officially offer those shares to Mila despite all the previous missteps on the condition that if she ever wanted to sell them she had to offer them back to Cerberus before going to any other third parties. Lang also gave her the option of getting the shares for free on the stipulations that she could not rehire her ex-fiance James Arsenal. They gave her time to consider the option during the weekend while Tim worked on the contracts.
During those two days however Marlo found out that Otto Delmar was back in town, he was contacted by Mila herself and was working on the construction of a "New Otto's" right next door and hanging out with her and Arsenal at the "New Otto's" spot.
On February 27, 2023 Lang had a phonecall with Mila. She denied ever actually agreeing to work for "New Otto's" saying how it was all a misunderstanding on Marlo's part. She was however ultimately fired from Otto's Autos, Otto's Gas, and PDM. Most of Mila's employees left with her.
Lang then had a meeting with Otto who told him that he didn't really intend of going trough with any of his promises and was overall confused by the situation, going to the point of calling Mila's group that was hanging out at the epty New Otto's "cringe". Given the man's unpredictability and heavy drug addiction it's still unclear what the actual fate of "New Otto's" will be.
On March 1, 2023, Cerberus sold Mushkin's Motors's owner Mary Mushkin the used car dealership at Otto's Autos (and the four shared parking spots next to the mechanic shop) for the price of 25 million dollars.
Under Jeffrey Bones suggestion, the actual mechanic side of Otto's was offered to be under management of PD Tow as a mechanic shop founded by the state for the police (who would receive free repairs) and the public. PD Tow Head Manager Louise Campbell was hired as the new CEO of Otto's Autos.
On March 4th 2023 Elizabeth Reed officially pushed James Arsenal's charges to the docket.
Lang followed with a state announced declaring: "The state of Los santos... it breaks my heart to say but due to gross negligence and constant misuse of state founded loans the loan company are no longer founded by the state. Effective immediately." ― "We are aware of the concerns and questions surrounding this recent announcement regarding loans- Its State policy not to comment on any pending investigation. We recommend any question to be addressed by the legal team of James Arsenal."
Mayor Lang vs. the Simones
During Lang Buddha's first mayoral term, he provoked a feud with Cleo Shaw's tormenter Nicholas Simone over the Simone Memorial Hospital that he built and owned. Lang interpreted Nick's ownership of the hospital as a "privatization" of medical care by a "terrorist", and wanted to cut off all State funding to the hospital. Lang called Nick a terrorist on Twatter and taunted him with the following state announcement about his brother Michael Simone (who had secretly faked his own death): "We are currently investigating the death of Michael Simone. Any information please bring it to the government ASAP. Reward available, thank you." Nick angrily blew up Lang's car in the Cerberus Business Center parking garage and spray-painted "MICHAEL WAS HERE" next to it. On March 19, 2023, Lang stirred on Twatter: "When did the hospital become a gang compound for the diamond dogs(who work for the simones) and a place that sells drugs. bring back hospitals that are ran by the people, for the people." Lang accepted Diamond Dogs leader Sai Carter's phone invitation to a meeting in front of the hospital, where he baited Sai and Lizzie Byrne into shooting at his armored car. Lang overestimated how bulletproof the car was and collapsed from gunshot wounds. Jeffrey Bones and the police arrested Sai and Lizzie, who both got held until trial for terrorism. Nick sent Lang a "notice to cease and desist" from the Los Santos Medical Group general counsel Norman Adams for defamation of character, and tried to rally gangs including Seaside and R.U.S.T. to vote against Lang in the next mayoral election. Pushing a narrative that the Simones had orchestrated an assassination attempt on the Mayor, Lang and Harry Brown forced Nancy Drew, Eve Summers, Yeager Demonblood, and The Guild to choose their loyalties between him and their Simone friends.
On March 21, 2023, Nick hunted for Yeager at Icecrown Citadel with a gun for spooking "Simone sister" Andi Jones into distancing herself from the conflict. During a search for where Eve had disappeared to, Lang, Harry, Marlo Stanfield, Fiona Stewart, and Lando Stormborn held up Nick at the Diamond Casino and Resort so that Lang could take screencaps of his text messages. After escaping from the casino without getting caught by the police, Lang was stunlocked to read the ongoing romantic texts between Nick and Eve. Lang suspended Eve from Cerberus and took away her Cerberus necklace, and Leslie Lingberg returned to the city to mediate between them the same way he once did for Nancy. Nick's brother Michael, disappointed by phone conversations where his friends Nancy and Yeager had to pick family (Lang) over him, left the city to avoid further fallout from Nick's feud with Lang. Nick's fellow LSMG board member Bunny discovered that Nick had tagged "CORRUPTION", "LANG BUDDHA", "DEATH" and "NUCLEAR" all over the walls of his secret bunker, before he went into hiding. Going forward, Lang prohibited high-ranking Cerberus executives from affiliating with anyone who could cause conflicting loyalties. Wanting to put the drama behind him before the upcoming mayoral election, Lang unsuspended Eve. Guild members Bjorn and Fiona Stewart warned Lang about disgruntled Simone "disciple" Trey Romano's recent intel that the Simones had a stolen intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) that could nuke Los Santos.
On March 28, 2023 during a private meeting at the Del Pero pier, Mayor Lang informed former LSMG doctor Arya Fitzpatrick that he planned to dismantle Simone Memorial Hospital and build a new one. Lang approved of Arya's proposal to round up LSMG's disgruntled EMS workers into a brand-new Procyon Medical group and hospital. In response to Nick's encrypted Twatter message, Lang led a hunting party after him with Harry Brown, Denzel Williams, Speedy, Tony Corleone, and Trey Romano. When they brainstormed going after the doctors closest to Nick, Lang phoned Nancy Drew with their intent to pick up her best friend Bunny--but Nancy talked him out of it. To Harry's frustration, Lang ordered them that Bunny was off limits. Despite Lang calling off the hunt, Harry and Denzel baited Nick over the phone about Jenny Hall's kidnapping, spotted his black futo rental, and chased him. After Harry shot at the futo, they lost him. Although Nick initially began mobilizing Seaside for war, Seaside leader Benji Ramos ended up negotiating a truce with Cerberus at La Fuente Blanca.
Meanwhile, Chang Gang continued to hunt Michael Simone and his associates for shooting down their member Miguel Almerion and blowing up The Hydra Pit. CG ocean dumped Benji and Dragon Rush, interrogated Nick and read his phone, shanked him, blew up the Simones' secret hangar, interrogated and ocean dumped Lost MC President Rudi Rinsen (father of Michael's girlfriend Flossie Grey), and interrogated and ocean dumped HOA second-in-command Andi Jones. In response, Seaside, HOA, the Lost MC, and NBC formed a coalition against the CG umbrella. Lang masterminded leaks of the "dirt" that CG found, including Jenny Hall's private texts to Michael and judicial candidate Norman Adams' texts plotting against Lang's re-election for Mayor of Los Santos. Out of loyalty to Nancy Drew, Lang once again scrapped plans to go after Nick's hospital friend Bunny.
On the second day of voting during Mayor Lang's heated re-election campaign against Osvaldo Pingafria (backed by Seaside), all-out war broke out in the city when Hydra attacked HOA and Seaside at Mirror Park. Against Lang's wishes, Harry Brown helped CG kidnap LSMG board member Pixie Plum and therapist Quinn Naiper to help look for a secret door at Simone Mental Institute for Long-term Evaluation. With Lang trailing behind Osvaldo in votes and losing hope, his campaign team and allies all rallied behind him in the final days of the election. On April 7, 2023, Chief Judge Alan Crane announced that Lang had won re-election against Osvaldo by only 79 votes. Immediately afterward, Jeffrey Bundy announced that Michael Simone was alive and that the police would push for the death penalty on him for terrorism and weapons trafficking. After Lang and his campaign team celebrated at Cerberus Business Center, Lang gave Eve Summers her Cerberus necklace back.
The next day, Eve upset Nick by bringing Lexi Law, Lando, and Antonio Rodrigues along to a message tree that Nick had secretly pinged only Eve to. When Nick's drone bombarded Icecrown Citadel with an airstrike, The Guild swore revenge on him. Convinced that Nick had flown away to "Denmark", Lang's adopted son Yeager, Lando, Bjorn, Eve, Lexi, and Antonio hunted for Nick's hospital friend Bunny and installed cameras at her properties. Having given up on friendship with Andi Jones over the Simones' leaking of Yeager's bench to the HOA, Yeager told Lang he wanted to test Nancy Drew's loyalty with an order to bring Bunny to The Guild. Lang laughed, kept repeating that Nancy didn't owe The Guild anything, told them to find Bunny themselves, and threatened to kill Yeager if he went after Nancy. When Lang argued with Yeager over Andi leaking his bench, Yeager shot Lexi down with the intent to ocean dump her to make her forget what she heard. Enraged, Lang disowned Yeager, took away his keys to the Rooster's Rest bench, and started referring to him by his government name "Kayn". Yeager left The Guild, took away their keys to Icecrown Citadel, and started referring to Lang as "Lang" rather than "Emperor". After Lang's dogfight with another drone, Lang was shocked to find out that the Simones were working with The Russians. Bucky acquired a new SAM turret and Flak Cannon for Lang to use as anti-aircraft.
Following a Twatter war with Dr. Emerson Laurier over restaurant work receipts increasing to $400 and a phone conversation with Dr. Dahlia Fey (where she explained that the Simone Memorial Hospital doctors were afraid to speak to Lang because of his hatred of Nicholas Simone), Mayor Lang wound up convincing the Senate to increase the EMS and doctor pay. Lang and Cerberus also lost their motivation to run their own hospital to rival the Simones' when they realized that Dr. Arya Fitzpatrick's Yokai leader Mary Mushkin owned Procyon Medical. Lang decided to focus on Betta Life Pharmaceuticals instead.
Hydra finally caught Michael Simone and turned him over to the police. After Kayn unsuccessfully asked Mayor Lang to agree (or pretend to agree) to pardon Michael in exchange for Diamond Dog Reed Dankleaf betraying Nick, Lang discovered that the Senate passed legislation to turn Cayo Perico into its own Sovereign State—owned and operated by Commandant Yeager Demonblood—named Sanguine Isle. Then to Lang's shock, Mary completely turned on Arya for proposing her own medical group and hospital that would relegate Mary to silent partner--reinforcing Lang's position to only help Procyon Medical as Mayor and not as a Cerberus investor (however according to Atty. James Haze, Lang's mayoral administration ended up denying the Procyon Medical business).
At the end of a five-hour court case on May 1st, 2023, Sai Carter and Lizzie Byrne were finally found guilty of terrorism for shooting Mayor Lang outside of the Simone Memorial Hospital. In a final verdict for Michael Simone's terrorism case, Senator Sean Davis ruled him guilty and sentenced him to 30 years in prison, 60 years parole, and a 10 million dollar fine. Michael was released from prison on May 21, 2023 with the warning that breaking parole, committing terrorism, or committing treason could result in exile, life in prison, or the death penalty. Arya Fitzpatrick re-applied to be a doctor at the Simone Memorial Hospital. Ironically, Mary Mushkin ended up bankrolling the successful mayoral campaign of Hospital Administrator Bunny's husband, Sexton "Hardcastle" Cohen, who had once investigated Yokai for months but was fired from the police for returning Mary's sentimental Big M dongle back to her. Hardcastle succeeded Lang Buddha as the Mayor of Los Santos on June 10, 2023, effectively ending the conflict between Simone Memorial Hospital and the Mayor's Office. In another setback for Cerberus, Chief Judge Alan Crane and the Senate denied Tim Collins' Medical Reform Act legislation for AEGIS to oversee both the Los Santos Medical Group and Procyon Medical.
Cerberus vs. R.U.S.T
Rooster's Rest owner Lang Buddha became unhappy with Cleanboi Raymond Romanov's R.U.S.T gang when they started breaking Lang's golden rule of keeping gang activity off of Rooster's Rest property. The first incident occurred on March 12, 2023 when Lang wanted G Baby dead after Randy Wrangler had raided his 9's van parked at Rooster's Rest, seizing around 30 used and broken Class-2 guns. To Lang's irritation, Ray's second-in-command Chem startled him in the CBC parking garage, warned him that killing G Baby would not be well-received by R.U.S.T, and afterward told Eve Summers he had made that unscheduled visit to Lang because she was his "gatekeeper". Lang and Harry Brown rejected Ray's alternative counteroffers to executing G Baby such as a lobotomy, exile, dismemberment--and gave Ray a GPS tracker for G Baby and 24 hours to decide. However, Lang ended up sparing G Baby's life because he wanted R.U.S.T's support in his mayoral re-election campaign against Osvaldo Pingafria.
The second incident occurred on May 12, 2023 at Rooster's Rest when two new R.U.S.T members Maxine Celsius and Kate Myles helped R.U.S.T kidnap customer Elfy Lyng from the premises for openly bad-mouthing their gang (stemming from an incident where R.U.S.T had flung her from a building for gold panning). Ray also asked Eve to fire Elfy from Rooster's Rest because of how R.U.S.T had helped Lang win re-election. Furious that Maxine had been working at Rooster's Rest when he had radioed his gang to come over, CEO Penny Farthing fired him. At a heated meeting between R.U.S.T and Lang, Harry, Penny, and Denzel Williams at Rogers Salvage & Scrap, Ray defended his members' actions. Lang banned R.U.S.T from Rooster's Rest, Ray became furious with Penny for rebuking him, and Lang pulled a gun on Connell MacGregor for making snide comments. Afterward, Ray accused four of Penny's fellow Angels including Claire Seducer of spying on their meeting, and gunned them down.
On May 26, 2023, Lang, Harry, and Speedy conspired to punish Maxine and set up an ambush for him and his adoptive father Ray at a Clean Manor meeting. They tranquilized the two of them, cuffed them, and held out from a R.U.S.T breach inside of the secret tower area. Harry shot down Maxine by the secret door for refusing to be quiet. After using Clean Manor keys to give R.U.S.T access, Ray saw Maxine's body and shot down Speedy. Lang and Harry went down in a gunfight with R.U.S.T from the tower. Harry's son Zaceed Skengerton rushed in shooting down R.U.S.T members and on Lang's orders, tried to escape the police with their illegal items to protect Lang's mayorship. The police ended up detcording the secret Clean Manor door to retrieve Lang, Harry, and Speedy. Afterward in a phone call, Lang exchanged threats with Ray and warned him that the day had finally come for him to pick between his Cleanboi family and his R.U.S.T gang.
When R.U.S.T used food trucks to undermine Rooster's Rest business with free food out in front, the owners of UwU Café and Maldini's Pizzeria asked to be left out of it. MacGregor also vandalized Rooster's Rest and Clean Manor with sprays. Lang banned R.U.S.T from Otto's Autos, trolled Ray that the Mayor's Office approved a business for Elfy in their scrapyard, and crashed a cargobob trying to steal one of Ray's food trucks. Per Harry's new suggestion, he, Lang, and Denzel rained rented helicopters on Ray's food truck event. Afterward, R.U.S.T managed to capture Lang, Harry, Denzel, and Speedy. Ray stole Speedy's old meth lab key and evaded the police.
On May 30, 2023 while Lang was parked at Rooster's Rest, someone poured gasoline on his armored Deity car and ran off. As a precaution during the Cerberus business meeting, they hid Zaceed Skengerton and a camera inside of the Cerberus Business Center parking garage to watch their cars. When R.U.S.T began pouring gasoline on the cars, Zaceed and Nancy Drew went down shooting at them with Lang. Using the mini-guns on his armored Deity car, Lang lit up Connell MacGregor with machine gun fire and blew up both him and his car. Lang then spun around and shot up an approaching R.U.S.T car until it exploded, dipping when two of his tires got shot out. Chief Detective Brian Knight threatened Ray with HUT charges if R.U.S.T kept committing violence.
At a contentious Clean Manor meeting between Lang, Harry, and Ray on June 2, 2023, Lang confirmed to Ray that he was dead to the Cleanbois family. Afterward, Ray and R.U.S.T kidnapped both Deputy Mayors Nancy Drew and Eve Summers from Rooster's Reef. The police chased their car until it ran out of gas on the freeway. Lang, Harry, and the PD all converged onto the freeways and at least 20 people went down in the massive shootout that followed, including R.U.S.T, Air-1, Lang, Harry, Nancy, Eve, and several PD officers. Zaceed escaped with Lang and Harry. Police Commissioner Sam Baas held R.U.S.T on an investigative hold and authorized Class-2 SCARs to raid them. The Unified Police Department/3.0 held R.U.S.T until trial and charged them with Coop's Law--seeking a 5 million dollar fine from Ray and 1 to 2.5 million dollars each for the rest of R.U.S.T.
Lang was outraged that Macgregor got out of his HUT warrant on a clerical error. On June 5, 2023 in Bolingbroke Penitentiary visitation, Ray and Achez "Ace" Perez were meeting with their two bail hearing lawyers (Grace Daniels and Maya Mahmoud), Cassie Miller, and Nana. When Tony Corleone walked in, Ray talked to him not knowing he was secretly planting a spy camera there for Lang, Harry, and Denzel. Once Tony left, an unmasked Harry impulsively walked into visitation with an AK and gunned down all four visitors (jeopardizing Lang's mayoral crusade to protect civilians). Ray realized that Tony had visited under false pretenses to help Lang. Afterward, Chief Judge Alan Crane granted bail to Ray, Seano "Chemist" Blackthorne, and Tane "Kiwi" Mahuta with strict conditions. Perez was denied bail for trying to run before the hearing. After barging into the mayoral debate at Siren Radio to loudly protest against Cerberus, Bruno Brown threatened Eve over the phone and got a witness tampering warrant.
The next day, with R.U.S.T now inhibited by their bail conditions, Harry received a call from Zaceed stating that he was getting shot by R.U.S.T at UwU Café. Lang, Harry, Denzel and Speedy drove on scene, where shots started flying between Connell MacGregor and Zaceed resulting in Zaceed getting downed. With only one cop (Deputy Juno Sweeney) on scene, Lang stepped out of the car and started shooting at MacGregor and the rest of the group. With Juno now shooting at them, Lang drove off in a panic, dropped his illegal gun, returned on scene alone shortly after, and calmly stepping out of the car to explain the situation. Trooper Olivia Copper warned him that he was going to be detained and tased if he refused to comply. Lang claimed self-defense and kept requesting to speak, but when Copper set up for cuffs and the PD pointed guns toward him, he drove off with the police in hot pursuit and jumped into the water at the Los Santos Del Perro Pier. The police eventually shot and arrested him, putting his mayorship in jeopardy.
With Chief Detective Brian Knight investigating the incident and wanting more time to build a proper case against both sides, the police ended up interrogating Lang before releasing him with no charges; MacGregor, being the only one of the R.U.S.T members being GSR positive, was temporarily held in the cells before getting released as well. Zaceed went into interrogation willingly to take the heat of the situation, but ended up being put into a 24-hour hold because the hot gun he used came back to a recent D.O.A at LSIA (from Bucky's mission for Lang to obtain weapons).
Eve, having heard that Ray was looking for private security suggested at the Cerberus meeting that Solomon Walker and his security company The Cut Company LTD reach out to him to possibly gather information from the inside -- he ended up accepting. Redline member and Cerberus' Director of R&D Kitty Dream, still upset that Perez had threatened her husband Goofy over the Tony visitation incident, agreed with Lang's request to cut R.U.S.T out of their Betta Life Pharmaceuticals operation. Convinced that Juno was a pocket cop for R.U.S.T because of how she handled the UwU Café incident, Lang issued a state announcement accusing her of corruption. In the final days of his mayorship, Lang, aware of the slim chances of Coop's actually applying to the case, made sure to push for more punitive legislation against repeated targeted attacks on civilians and their businesses.
On June 10, 2023, the court case against R.U.S.T took place. State Attorney Odessa Glafx called Nancy Drew and Elfy Lyng as key witnesses for the persecution, while on the side of the defense Senior Attorney James Haze and Junior Attorneys Maya Mahmoud and Grace Daniels called for Raymond Romanov and Zaceed Skengerton (who ended up pleading the fifth). For the verdict, Chief Judge Alan Crane ruled R.U.S.T guilty of Coop's Law and sentenced each of them to an additional 2-4 years (except time served for Achez Perez because he wasn't on bail), 3-5 years parole, and a $250,000-$1,000,000 fine. As a result of this case, the Senate decreed that the 9th Amendment (Coop's Law) be removed and that new, less broad laws would be written in its place.
After MacGregor (who didn't have parole to worry about) gunned down Denzel and Harry, Lang exploited their kidnapping and leaked the R.U.S.T/Diamond Dogs weapons bench to police Commissioner Sam Baas. Then on June 15, 2023, Lang's disowned son Yeager Demonblood invited R.U.S.T to Sanguine Isle, and gifted an M70 to Ray, pretending to offer his help to arm R.U.S.T. Expecting to further discuss bombs with Yeager, R.U.S.T crowded into an elevator to his lower level "office"...but then found themselves in an underwater grated tunnel that Yeager had set up to trap them. As R.U.S.T drowned, Yeager explained over the shared radio channel: "The game was rigged from the start, Ray. Don't you ever touch one of my Guild members again." Lang taunted Ray over the radio with, "Always 10 steps ahead of you, buddy". This is the last voice you hear before you drown." Afterward back in Los Santos, Lang reminded Ray of his warning that he'd lose everything, teasing that Flippy would betray R.U.S.T next. Lang concluded with, "The Ray I knew has been dead for a long time," before throwing him off of the casino that they had once robbed together as the Clean 8. Afterward, Lang was outraged that the police let Ray go despite his parole and all of the illegal items on him.
On June 16, 2023 Zaceed was ambushed by members of R.U.S.T at Hayes Auto Body Repairs, he was however able to shoot all of them down resulting in the arrest of David "Benz" Jackson and Connell MacGregor, with Benz, freshly out of prison being sent back up for 7.020 months for breaking his parole. Shortly after Lang was kidnapped and shot by members of R.U.S.T. Lang recognized that it was counterproductive for them to antagonize the gang and it was time to keep a passive approach, telling Zaceed to stop letting himself be egged on by his father to act hastily. After Brian Knight and Sam Baas got filled in by Luka Kovacic regarding Raymond being let go without charges the previous day, they came to the conclusion that whenever or not Ray was set up it was nonetheless more appropriate to get Raymond in custody for breaking his parole. Luka told them that Ray had recently contacted him to inform him that he was going to have a meeting with Mickey S at Paleto's beach. The police intercepted Raymond and arrested him putting him in jail for 4200 months. Senator Sean Davis also revised the government legislation to ban parolees from leaving Los Santos.
The feud between Cerberus and R.U.S.T dragged on, including Lang getting shot down a couple of times, DOC officers Lang and Speedy targeting Ray in Bolingbroke, R.U.S.T targeting Rooster's Rest and blowing up cars in the Cerberus Business Center parking garage, and Tony Corleone impersonating a local at the R.U.S.T scrap yard. On June 23, 2023 with Senate approval, Chief Justice Alan Crane entered into legislation the Restricting Undesireable Serial Targetings Act (the replacement for Coop's Law) for harsher punishments against criminals who commit targeted violence against civilians and commercial entities. The next day, Raymond Romanov and R.U.S.T stole Lang's armored Deity car from the Diamond Casino and Resort and used the mini-guns to blow up both him and Deputy Mayor Nancy Drew. Lang, Tony Corleone, and Goofy kidnapped Ray from the casino Death Race VIP event. Lang read Ray's text messages, planted a hot gun on him, warned him to move on, and let him go. After Chem kidnapped Tony and Goofy, Tony, Mr. K, and Ramee El-Rahman crashed three planes into Ray's party--escalating the conflict into a Redline civil war where Ray's own people began to openly defy him. Ray finally called Lang and brokered a truce where they agreed to go their separate ways.
The Bombing of Simone Memorial Hospital and the Death of Sam Baas
After coaching aspiring "Clubfather" Bruce Grizzone in his unsuccessful attempt to swindle Bahama Mamas West from former Mayor Sabith "Bunny" Cohen, Leslie Lingberg saw a dilemma where Cerberus could not create their own hospital without Bunny (the Hospital Administrator of Simone Memorial Hospital) and her husband, current Mayor Sexton "Hardcastle" Cohen, finding out. Cerberus had wanted to create a new hospital and medical group for their Director of Research and Development Kitty Dream to solve her years of frustrations trying to legalize oxy sales for her Betta Life Pharmaceuticals company. Already fuming from Deputy Mayor Nancy Drew's inside information that Hardcastle had unilaterally approved Nexus Pharmaceuticals (which Michael Simone was an investor in) without any discussion with the Deputy Mayors first, Cerberus became convinced that Head Doctor Derek Shaw had Judge Serge Cross revoke the medical licenses of Kitty's Betta Life pharmacists Maxwell Goethe and Emerson Laurier after they left the Los Santos Medical Group. To Cerberus' alarm, LSMG board member Bunny offered to answer their questions while Derek kept ghosting their requests to meet.
Cerberus accepted the invitation of Denzel Williams's good friend and LSMG board member, Dr. Charlie Jannetty, to the Monday LSMG hospital meeting on July 10, 2023. But with Bunny, Mayor Hardcastle, LSMG board member Nicholas Simone, and new police detective Juno Sweeney all in attendance, Leslie, Denzel, Harry Brown, and Lang Buddha left early without talking to anyone. Lang decided to blow up the Simone Memorial Hospital instead. The next day on July 11, 2023, Denzel, Harry, and Speedy helped Lang and Tony Corleone plant two C4 bombs in Simone Memorial Hospital and blow it up, forcing it to shut down for about three days. The Los Santos Medical Group had to temporarily move their operations to the Sandy Shores Medical Center during this period. MCU Director Brian Knight arrested Future Hendrix on suspicion of terrorism because he had twatted a selfie with one of the C4 bombs, but ended up releasing him.
On July 12, 2023, AEGIS hit a major setback when Board Member Sam Baas died in the line of duty from a bomb explosion on top of MRPD. In addition to Board Member Eve Summers losing Baas as her adoptive father, Chairman Tim Collins' Aegis Authorization Act stated that only the Mayor of Los Santos could appoint the next Board Member on AEGIS--leaving them with a dilemma between current Mayor Hardcastle or presumptive Mayor-Elect Andi Jones. Convinced that Ashley Justitia had bought a house for her and husband Adam Prince using state grant money, Eve wanted AEGIS to independently audit every state grant that Hardcastle had awarded. However, Deputy Mayor Nancy Drew tipped her off to a state grant investigation that Hardcastle had recruited Senior Judge Nathaniel Greyson and an independent panel of police detectives for.
In an effort to stop the oversaturation of bombs and terrorism in Los Santos, Major Crimes Unit Director Brian Knight asked Lang and Eve for AEGIS' help against the source of the bombs and asked Mayor Hardcastle for a generous MCU budget, political support, and detective advice.
The Rooster's Rest War
Starting in July 2023, Lang Buddha led a Rooster's Rest militia comprised of himself, Leslie Lingberg, Harry Brown, Speedy, Denzel Williams, Al Saab, Zaceed Skengerton, Cerberus' brand-new Director of Creative Innovation and Design Cydney Lune, Franky, the Italians and other Rooster's Rest security personnel, and the Goon Squad against The Mandem (who had begun beefing with Speedy over a car scam) and Gulag Gang for breaking Lang's golden rule of gang activity on the Rooster's Rest premises.
On July 21, 2023 for DHead's reality TV show, he, 4Head, Kyle Pred, Marty Banks, and Larry Knox did drive-by shootings at the Rooster's Rest. Based upon information that 4Head, DHead, and Pred had done it, a hunting party of Lang, Harry, Luciano DiCenzo, Zaceed, Leslie, and Apple eventually won a prolonged gunfight against Marty, 4Head, DHead, Pred, and Kevin Ram that concluded with a Grandma's house shootout. Lang temporarily took 4Head's GG chain and dropped him down Bane's Pit.
After discussing a truce with Marty, Lang changed his mind upon hearing from Luciano that Lucky Plucker owner Larry Knox had also been involved in the Rooster's Rest drive-by shootings (Lang also thought the fifth passenger was Ming Jingtai rather than Marty). Using a remote bomb that Yeager Demonblood procured without knowing the target, Lang blew up the Lucky Plucker on July 22, 2023--reducing it to rubble. Ironically, Michael Simone was caught in the blast and wound up in the ICU. After Lang told Yeager about bombing Lucker Plucker, Yeager wished that Lang hadn't told him and admitted to liking Gulag Gang. To Lang's dismay, Yeager repped a Gulag Gang chain to him. Then when Rooster's Rest employee Boris Karishnikov locked 4Head out of his warehouse, 4Head, DHead, and Pred tried to kidnap Boris from the Rooster's Rest premises but wound up shooting him instead. In response, Lang had Speedy cut 4Head off from the Tijuana weapon's bench on July 24, 2023. Leslie also fired Kevin Ram from PDM for gang activity. Convinced that Yeager had joined Gulag Gang and was the one who had leaked Lang's bombing of the Lucky Plucker to GG, Lang prepared to arm Rooster's Rest security for war by crafting rocket launchers with Denzel Williams on the Guild Hall bench. Eve Summers caught them in the act and got upset, and The Guild subsequently removed Lang's keys to the Guild Hall and bench. Lang removed The Guild's keys, cut ties with them, and threatened to kick them out of Vinewood if they didn't leave.
Both Gulag Gang and The Mandem (wanting their chain back from Apple) waged war against the Rooster's Rest demons (Lang, Harry, Zaceed, Speedy, Cydney Lune, and Rooster's Rest security). After reaching out to Cassie Cupcake for storage help, GG discussed a Seaside alliance with Nicholas Simone--but he stipulated that unlike their last alliance where GG dropped out against Cerberus, their two gangs would have to unconditionally help each other. Under siege from both GG and Mandem, the Rooster's Rest property turned into a war zone. On July 30, 2023, Zuck Cuc disguised himself as a Dodo Express deliveryman to plant a remote bomb on the doorstep of Rooster's Rest, catching both Lang and Zaceed in the explosion. Consequently, Rooster's Rest temporarily closed down to clean up the debris.
Lang successfully requested a 4.5 million dollar state business grant supplemental from Mayor Sexton "Hardcastle" Cohen for Rooster's Rest to compensate its employees, claiming almost 3 months of revenue loss due to violent crime and intimidation forcing the restaurant to close down for the safety of its employees and customers. 
On July 31, 2023, Cydney Lune was discharged from the ICU with brain damage and a head plate as a result of RPG attacks on Rooster's Rest. Gulag Gang kidnapped her, and 4Head called the Rooster's Rest pay phone. When Denzel Williams answered, 4Head demanded Boris Karishnikov be turned over in exchange for Cyd's life. After Denzel who'd Boris and hung up on 4Head, GG ended up just gunning her down. Afterward, Aaliyah Court kidnapped Cyd and handed her over to The Mandem. Although Dean Quincy arranged to peacefully exchange her for Ved Jiggyjoglue's Mandem chain at the Los Santos International Airport, The Mandem's recently returned leader Tommy T whimsically knifed Cyd just as the convoy of Rooster's demons was pulling up. The Rooster's demons wiped out The Mandem in the resulting LSIA shootout. The Rooster's demons then wiped out Gulag Gang as well. Ramee El-Rahman and Mr. K agreed to supply Tommy T with a C4 bomb for him to plant underneath Cerberus' Project Sinatra spaceship. After Tommy T phoned Lang to check out his spaceship in the hangar, Sgt. Jerry Sweets blew up trying to defuse the C4 bomb there (three days later, Mayor Hardcastle paid Nancy Drew's 175 million-dollar insurance claim for a replacement spaceship per the revised Astronaut Certifications legislation).
Following a Rooster's demon attack on X-Mart, Gulag Gang grew frustrated that the police weren't applying any gang charges on them. After Harry Brown rammed Yeager's car and threatened him to get out of Vinewood, their argument ended with Harry gunning Yeager down. Fed up with getting shot down by Harry and Speedy without any punitive action from Lang, Yeager finally decided to side with Gulag Gang against Lang and supplied GG with RPGs to "raze Rooster's Rest to the ground". Also when Fiona Stewart informed Lang that Denzel's adopted son Lando was leaking Lang's participation in the Talon terrorist organization, Lang and Denzel plotted to kill Lando (and potentially other Guild members who took the Talon death oath). After hearing from Fiona about Yeager supplying GG to blow up Rooster's Rest, Lang forewarned Det. Juno Sweeney (who ironically Lang now trusted while GG and Pred considered her corrupt) over the phone and named Yeager as the source of all of the bombs.
On August 2, 2023, Gulag Gang approached Rooster's Rest in two helicopters for an RPG airstrike. Jack Cortair fired several rockets at the restaurant, taking out Denzel who was standing guard inside. Marty Banks misfired his RPG and blew up both himself and his helicopter driver 4Head. Speedy considered rescuing a downed Marty, but dipped after Juno discovered them on a rooftop and got sniped by several gunshots. After Lt. Connor Stubble's PD jet chased after Julian Santorno's helicopter with Jack in it, the police eventually caught Jack with an RPG on him. Marty got caught with an RPG (for a second time) and an AK. 4Head got caught with an RPG (for a third time). After raiding GG, the police released Marty, Jack, and 4Head on parole. Also that same day, the Rooster's demons won a vehicular gunfight against The Mandem (after Tommy T had rejected Lang's offer of returning one Mandem chain to them a week). As part of a call for peace, Lang opted not to add a downed Tommy T's chain to their growing collection. Lang also ordered the Rooster's demons to play defense only and forbade them from sending out anymore hunting parties.
Dismayed that the police released Gulag Gang without charging them with the R.U.S.T. Act, Lang held a meeting at the Rooster's Roost where he laid down the law (including rules regarding the security radio and dress code). Also inspired by a new vision to restructure Cerberus and clean up Vinewood, Lang introduced Luciano DiCenzo to a new Little Italy neighborhood there. Upon returning from vacation, Major Crimes Unit Director Brian Knight told Lang that the police needed more evidence to prove that Yeager was supplying GG with RPGs and bombs. Gulag Gang and The Mandem also tried to convince Brian that Rooster's Rest was more like a gang compound than a civilian business (Patar Bellosh pointed out that the Rooster's demons were stealing his gang's chains). With the Piss Babiez joining GG and The Mandem on their war against Lang and Rooster's Rest (and Deputy Mayor Nancy Drew getting shot down twice hanging out at the restaurant), Brian saw all sides as trying to game the legal system, and grew concerned that PD officers like Trooper Brittany Angel might still be supporting their former Sheriff Pred.
After Flippy approached Marlo Stanfield about funding Hydra Gang's war against R.U.S.T in exchange for mercenary services, Cerberus shadow-approved the idea. Still recovering from multiple gunshot wounds, Lang stubbornly rejected Larry Knox's offer to end the Gulag Gang war for 5 million dollars and Jack's chain--instead offering Flippy 25 million dollars and the casino for Hydra to join the war. On August 8, 2023 in a peace negotiation with The Mandem, Lang returned their last stolen Mandem chain to Tommy T and agreed to look for the one they had lost (or to secretly buy a look-alike) within 24 hours. Afterward, following Lang's unsuccessful peace negotiation with Marty Banks to turn over Kyle Pred, Gulag Gang RPG'd the cars at Rooster's Rest. Subsequently, the war between Cerberus and Gulag Gang petered out with the exception of an unsuccessful Gulag Gang attack on Little Italy over Boris selling 4Head's warehouse.
Still paranoid about spotting Eve Summers with Yeager Demonblood, Lang and Harry Brown also grew suspicious over why their Director of Logistics Lexi Law's pink car was parked in the Icecrown Citadel driveway on August 15, 2023. However, Lang and Speedy were reluctant to ruin their Sionis Industries 49% co-ownership with her. On August 16, 2023 during Eve's leave of absence, Lang accepted her phone invitation to Rooster's Ranch fully expecting her to leave Cerberus. Eve announced to Lang, Leslie Lingberg, and Denzel Williams that she was leaving The Guild and all of their businesses. Lang probed about Lexi's relationship with The Guild, and confided in Eve that he and Denzel planned to kill Lando Stormborn.
The Retirement of Lang Buddha
In the Monday Cerberus meeting on August 21, 2023, Lang Buddha formally announced that they're dissolving Cerberus, calling the current structure dated and unappreciated by most of the city. He announced the launch of a new company with a new branding and a non-three-headed structure up north in Vinewood, which would focus on elevating Vinewood and their own self-gain rather than the rest of the city. The new company would drop some businesses and consolidate others, and the Cerberus Business Center would be de-branded.
After Commandant Yeager Demonblood refused the peace terms of Commissioner Axel Justice and Director Brian Knight to let them search Sanguine Isle for weapons manufacturing, the State of San Andreas invaded Sanguine Isle on August 28, 2023. Many of Lang's enemies including Yeager and Gulag Gang were captured and sentenced to 30 years in prison for treason.
On September 7, 2023, Leslie and Lang formally offered both of their VPs of Operations Eve Summers and Nancy Drew ownership shares in their new company replacing Cerberus, as well as promotions to "elevated" shareholder meetings with them. At a Cerberus business party on September 21, 2023 in the VIP Lounge of the Cerberus Arena, Leslie formally announced the promotions of Eve and Nancy to co-ownership of the newly restructured company to be named "Raven Incorporated". Lang then announced his surprise retirement from Cerberus. Citing Lang as the only reason he stuck around, Creative Director Marlo Stanfield quit Cerberus a week later. 
Impatient over the delay of his 150 million dollar severance package, Lang emptied $414,612,775 from the Cerberus account and the businesses under its umbrella. He and Speedy buried 10 million dollars on an island. Lang liquidated the money into piles of cash at Clean Manor, and burned 40 million dollars of it until Tim Collins finalized his retirement agreement. In the Lang Buddha Severance Agreement signed on October 9, 2023, Lang returned the money and transferred all 33% of his Cerberus shares to Eve Summers in exchange for a 50 million dollar severance package and ownership of Rooster's Rest, Cerberus Industries, and Cerberus Industries Armory.
Eve and Nancy removed Lang's bank access to Cerberus businesses, and lost interest in transitioning to "Raven Incorporated" given that he had been the driving force behind it. Eve agreed with the idea Nancy floated about her inheriting Dean Watson's 33% ownership of Cerberus.
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