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Strauss

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Leopold Strauss is the cold, calculating Austrian bookkeeper and loan shark for the Van der Linde gang in Red Dead Redemption 2. Born into poverty in Vienna and immigrating to America as a teenager, he uses his meticulous nature and unsentimental approach to finance to keep the gang funded through predatory loans to desperate people.

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