List of Sons of Anarchy Characters - Miscellaneous - Jacob Hale, Jr.

Jacob Hale, Jr. (Jeff Kober) is a businessman and older brother of Deputy Chief David Hale. At the beginning of season 2, Jacob brings Ethan Zobelle and L.O.A.N. into Charming, presenting them to his brother as a way to get SAMCRO out of town. Jacob hopes to profit financially from SAMCRO's removal and, unlike his brother, is unconcerned with L.O.A.N.'s political and racial motivations and beliefs. Jacob also hopes to secure financial backing from Zobelle's business contacts but is later informed by Zobelle that his people would be more inclined to help Jacob if he were to become more aligned with their cause. After learning of Gemma's rape, Deputy Chief Hale helped SAMCRO thwart a scam Jacob was using to seize land from Elliott Oswald for development. Later in the season, Elliott Oswald revealed to Clay that Jacob Hale was attempting to run for mayor of Charming because the position could possibly allow him to exercise executive power to obtain Oswald's land. With Zobelle's backing, Jacob is running for mayor of Charming.

In season 3, Jacob becomes a more prominent character. He has become more determined to remove SAMCRO from Charming, telling Wayne Unser that SAMCRO can no longer maintain their end of their deal with the Charming Police Department, where the police would look the other way on SAMCRO's activities in exchange for keeping violence out of Charming. He forms an uneasy alliance with Unser, where he promises to support Charming PD in exchange for Unser's support of his mayoral campaign.

Hale's development company has been muscling businesses into closing on Liberty Street in Charming so that they can redevelop the area. Lumpy Feldstein, an elderly Holocaust survivor and SOA friend, is the only tenant that refuses to close his business (a boxing gym). Hale hires Ernest Darby to try to convince Lumpy to vacate his property, but he is unsuccessful. Hale is then able to convince Hector Salazar, former leader of the Calaveras MC and enemy of SAMCRO, to rough up Lumpy but Salazar takes it too far, nearly killing him (Lumpy ultimately does die from his wounds). Hale is then blackmailed by Salazar into giving out information about Tara Knowles' activities. Hale was recently part of a unanimous vote by the Charming city council to have the San Joaquin Sheriffs Department take over Charming PD, which Police Chief Wayne Unser views as a complete betrayal. Hale is eventually held hostage by Hector Salazar, but after Jax kills Salazar, he takes the credit for supposedly stabbing Salazar with a pen.

In season 4, it has been revealed that Jacob has successfully become Mayor and is planning a new set of luxury homes known Charming Heights, something that SAMCRO are not happy about at all. It is seen that he deliberately brought Eli Roosevelt to serve as Deputy Chief for his record, as he would prove effective against SAMCRO. When SAMCRO leaves the corpses of the recently killed Russian Mafia, Jacob grows impatient and desperate, as the incident made him lose investors. During the Charity Event hosted by Roosevelt's wife, Clay makes a speech that supports Elliot as a more capable mayor, which is received with support by the people present, and Jacob who was present was visibly displeased. When Charming Heights is thought to be in danger, Jacob reveals he convinced the Natsuki Family (which SAMCRO wanted to use to fake interest in order to ruin Charming Heights) to invest and that Charming Heights is going smoothly.

At the season's finale however, Lincoln Potter bursts into the meeting, bringing sex toys with him that are all manufactured by the Natsuki Family, revealed to be the largest manufacturer of sex toys/pornography in the world, even including pedophillia, which were hidden as "Tokyo Fund" by Hale. Hale confronts Potter about this, and Potter replied that he "dislikes" Hale. This incident prompted a recess on the vote.

In the fifth episode of season 5, "Orca Shrugged" Hale has a meeting with Jax, Chibs, and Bobby. His appearance has altered slightly, in that he has grown out his hair and has a beard. He is asked by the Sons to lease them one of his properties to turn into a prostitution business. He states that he will never help SAMCRO. He later meets with Jax again, offering Hale dirt on a crucial member of city council, which would allow Charming Heights to proceed. He also offers him an investor in Damon Pope, provided he lease them the property. He is later shown to have agreed.