William Rand is the founder and chief of Battle Tested Security, the world's most powerful private military contractor. Rand was also responsible for covering up crimes in his company and resorting to crime to prevent investigation, which was exposed after he was kidnapped and raped out of revenge.
Background[]
Rand's company covered up the gang-rape of Cori Green when she was stationed in Basra, Iraq. Four employees drugged and violently and repeatedly gang-raped Cori, badly enough she was left with PTSD and infertility. The armed guards at the station isolated her in interrogation quarters for three days straight and intimidated her into not suing. One guard, George Coleman, was sympathetic enough to give Cori a cellphone to call her father, Special Forces veteran Donald O'Keefe. He demanded Cori receive a rape exam and be released, which was accommodated by Dr. Roush. However, Rand order all the evidence, from the rape kit to Cori's clothes that night to the STD tests of Cori and the rapists after she contracted chlamydia, to be stored at Iron Mountain Storage and the reports buried.
After Cori was out of the company and returned to America, despite her and O'Keefe's four years of pleading to state and justice departments, they wouldn't go through with prosecution due to the buried evidence and Rand's military force they could've been threatened by. The four rapists, Ian Kent, Matthew Baker, Edward Miller, and Cori's turncoat acquaintance Wally Burton, were all transferred to other undisclosed bases. Joe Marshall, head of security and detainment detail, was made Senior VP of the company. George was scarred himself from his lacking efforts to support Cori, so when he turned to drinking his trauma away, the company fired him and left him to be thrown between American military bases until his discharge because of his alcoholism. Virginia Pell was the company's complicit primary legal counsel, which she was paid handsomely for enough to care for her aging father James.
Official Story[]
O'Keefe, working in armed security for oil rigs, was unsatisfied and wanted revenge. Rand spent the day of an Occupy Wall Street Protest being accosted by a protester, then appearing on a TV news segment to commend his own business, like he did at the protest. When he got into a limo, O'Keefe was driving and spiked the water with a date rape drug. Rand was kidnapped, raped with a baton, bound, gagged, and left half-naked at a military memorial. A teacher on a field trip with her class found with one of her students Rand with his pants down and his shirt open, "Payback is a bitch" written on his leg. Rand was swiftly rushed to the hospital where his wife Beth and Pell swiftly followed behind in response.
Rand can barely recall the attack, just that O'Keefe was driving the wrong way when he hijacked the limo and the water he drank in the back. Requesting Beth leave, Rand then asks if he was raped, which he's in denial from and blames military adversaries for. When O'Keefe's tracked shortly after and surrenders to arrest, confessing in full, Rand's called down for identification. He deliberately botches the ID and pretends it's the drugs wiping his memories, hurriedly leaving the precinct. As the team was informed of Cori and the gang-rape in O'Keefe's confession, they investigate that case unofficially. When Rand catches wind, he meets with the deputy mayor, Tina Heller, at the SVU precinct. Rand expresses his displeasure over the squad and prosecution investigating Cori's report of the gang-rape, then threatens David Haden with defaming him and even more aggressive and illicit combat in a sort of bragging language.
When Dr. Roush is found, Rand intimidates her to completely perjure herself on the stand in front of the grand jury, then assigns her to Bahrain. With George being tracked and placed in a hotel, Rand escalates, with Pell being complicit after the fact since she reported to Rand when George called James' home. Rand ordered hits and harassment campaigns on the witnesses and police. George was executed by a force-feeding of booze five times over the legal limit, but Cori lived through an assault that broke her wrist, and O'Keefe's shanking in prison missed his kidney by less than an inch. Benson's home was ransacked, and Amaro's family was threatened over the phone by Marshall because his wife Maria Grazie got in touch with her military contacts to find out about Cori. Pell arranges for George's funeral to look good publicly and divert suspicion their allies might have.
The team isn't phased and keeps their vests, radios, and sidearms with them. They wiretap Rand's and Pell's phones and pick up calls about how Pell didn't expect murders and attacks, but was still gong along with the plan. Rand confided he was ready to kill Marshall and his family because they were liabilities, and he and Pell made the arrangements. Marshall was brought into interrogation and played the recording to convince him. The team revealed they know about the storage facility and got Marshall to testify to the grand jury about the cover-up and violent tampering campaigns. Rand and Pell were arrested when near boarding a helicopter, which was to take to a yacht where they would've sailed out of extradition bounds for the United States. As Rand and Pell were put in police cars, Cori witnessed the whole thing and was reassured they'd never get away from the justice system after their damages. She spoke with her father over the phone and rejoiced that they finally got everyone arrested.
Rand was found guilty of murder for hire, attempted murder for hire, conspiracy, obstruction, tampering, fraud, and numerous other charges and was imprisoned for life. It's presumed the gang-rape of Cori was finally taken to the courts, and the rapists and all other accomplices were imprisoned and otherwise penalized as well.
Known Victims[]
- Dr. Roush (harassed into perjuring herself)
- E.A.D.A. David Haden (harassed and threatened)
- Donald O'Keefe (assaulted; shanked and nearly killed by one of Rand's mercenaries)
- Cori Green (assaulted; got her wrist broken and nearly killed by one of Rand's mercenaries)
- George Coleman (fatally force-fed with alcohol by Rand's mercenaries)
- Detective Olivia Benson (stalked by Rand's mercenaries)
- The Amaro family (threatened over the phone by Joe Marshall):
- Detective Nick Amaro
- Maria Grazie
- Zara Amaro
- The Marshall family (attempted to murder by Rand's mercenaries):
- Joe Marshall
- Mrs. Marshall
- Three unnamed daughters