BUFFALO, New York AP – When Tobias “Bags of Money” Boyland went looking for a new career after serving 13 years in prison for armed robbery and drug dealing, he quickly found something that suited his sensibilities: He opened a collection agency.
It was, in some ways, a natural move for a young man in the upstate New York city of Buffalo. Desperate for jobs, this chronically depressed city on the so-called Rust Belt has become home to one of the biggest concentrations of debt collection businesses in the United States.
