Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-4830106-20130727192403/@comment-4830106-20130727194824

My full theory:

The Schnee Dust company is using Roman as a lightning rod so that they can crack down on their workers and collect insurance premiums without drawing undue attention. The stock he "steals" from the Dust shops then goes to the Board, or perhaps directly to the Schnee family. This also goes along with my theory that the Giant Armor was animated by a rare and illegal form of Dust (which I've started referring to as "Smoke") that was acquired through one of these transactions. This whole thing will ultimately be revealed when Weiss confronts her father about the Giant Armor, and then her father will call in Roman and his thugs to surround Team RWBY, thus giving him leverage to use against Weiss in that particular conversation.