I've recently been binging Sopranos. Last night I watched the season two episode in which an old friend of Tony's who owned a sporting goods store borrowed mone

I've recently been binging Sopranos. Last night I watched the season two episode in which an old friend of Tony's who owned a sporting goods store borrowed money from Tony. When the shop owner couldn't pay back the principle, Tony applied massive interest rates and "fines", and when the guy couldn't pay those, took over his business, using it to order stock that the business couldn't pay for — eventually forcing it into bankruptcy. As Tony is fond of saying, there's really not much difference between the mob loan sharks and "legitimate" banks, except that the banks have the law on their side so there's less need for knee-cappings and the like.