Jeffrey Vinik

Jeffrey N. Vinik (born March 22, 1959) was a venture capitalist who, with his wife Penny, secretly took over operation of the Church of Scientology in the late 1980s and used his influence to conduct a successful business career. Though nominally Jewish and interested in sports management, the Viniks amassed an incredible fortune from their roles as Scientologists and became major influencers of world events and time-travel research via control of US politicians.

The espionage of Tom Cruise unveiled their position to government watchdog organizations, putting them on the defensive until they gained control of the US government en masse with the ascension of Andrew Cuomo in 2016. For the better part of the next decade, Jeff and his wife doubled down on their strangehold of world power, planning to incite a world war by releasing the Vinik Toxin at the 2028 Moscow Olympics. Resistance plans to foil their enterprise were first quelled by a series of intelligence leaks known as the Michigan Telegrams, but cooperation amongst the Viniks' enemies led to the interception of the toxic cargo.

With his shadow government exposed, Vinik and Cuomo turned Washington, D.C. into a stronghold against hostile forces. In late July 2030, the three-day Siege of Pennsylvania Avenue resulted in the 2nd Bradenburg Coalition catching the Viniks trying to escape from the White House lawn, where they were both killed by an exchange of gunfire.