

Later, he is seen in the garage of the Green Sabre with Big Smoke and Ryder, revealing that Tenpenny had orchestrated the hit that would kill CJ's mother (the actual target being Sweet, CJ's older brother and leader of the GSF), crossing the Moral Event Horizon. Later he and Pulaski assist the Ballas run drugs in Los Santos. He and his accomplices take him to Ballas territory and drop him there and frame him for Officer Ralph Pendulbury's murder (who threatened to expose the units true motives and was killed by Jimmy Hernandez on orders from Tenpenny) which allows Tenpenny and his henchmen to manipulate CJ for quite some time, From that point, Tenpenny and his henchmen would appear in various points such as telling CJ and Ryder about a train with weapons would be coming, leaving Big Smoke's house, and ordering CJ to kill a foreigner in a warehouse. He confronts Carl Johnson when he tries to get home, accusing him of bringing drug money.

He has Eddie Pulaski and Jimmy Hernandez by his side. Tenpenny was a corrupt cop working for the LSPD division, C.R.A.S.H.
