North American Gunslinger Detective

Chapter 576 Price
Hughes has already made his words very clear, and Jimmy has made up for it, at least he didn't miss this opportunity, but he doesn't know where Hughes is planning for himself.

Jimmy deliberately ran back to Nia's house, and communicated with Kevin again about the recent events.

Kevin was not familiar with the situation in the Manhattan office, but he still gave Jimmy a suggestion to keep an eye on whether Hughes could rescue Peter and get rid of Director Callaway.

If Hughes can do this, even if he has retired, he can still be trusted, because it means that he has his companions in the bureau, and their positions are consistent. For Hughes, the people above will also give them a certain amount of support. asylum.

What's more, there is also a Deputy Director Dave who is known to be very interested in Jimmy. Although he has not reached the top, he still has enough status to take care of Jimmy, a senior agent.

Director Callaway was directly appointed by the headquarters, and it was not easy to get rid of her. Not only did the Manhattan office have to settle the relationship, but the headquarters also had to be completely scrupled. Hughes and the others still had a lot to do.

Time passed quickly, and two days later, Jimmy was called again.

This time he did not go to Hughes' home, but came to Thames Park, which is a small community park with an artificial lake and large trees next to it, providing sufficient shade and a comfortable environment.

Jimmy found Hughes next to the artificial lake. He stood by the artificial lake in casual clothes and looked at the water. Jimmy walked up to him, "Hughes, what's wrong?"

Hughes: "Are you still proficient in the skills you have trained in other institutions?"

Jimmy was speechless. There was something wrong with Hughes' words. What did he want to do? "What?"

Hughes: "Director Callaway, you should already know him. Now you need to talk to her and let her offer to return to Atlanta or go to the DC headquarters. The other federal prosecutor is Adam Maxwell, and you need to talk to him chat."

Jimmy frowned and looked at the artificial lake, thought for a while and said, "How to talk? Callaway knows me, but I don't have a bargaining chip in my hand, so it's difficult to deal with."

Hughes: "The people at the headquarters have already communicated. As long as she proposes, they will agree to change her position and will not be demoted."

Jimmy's mind has been spinning wildly: "What about the game?"

Hughes: "I have also communicated."

Jimmy took two deep breaths. There is no free lunch. It seems that this is the test he will face this time. Kevin originally said to let Jimmy see if Hughes and the others can handle the trouble here. Now it seems that this Trouble becomes your own trouble.

He turned his head to look at Hughes: "I need evidence that can be sold. Give me all the content related to Callaway that you investigated."

Hughes nodded, "I'll give it to you, let's go communicate."

Jimmy: "Where's the other guy?"

Hughes: "Adam Maxwell, a new federal prosecutor, has been in New York for about two years. He has cooperated a lot with the bureau before, and it is normal. There is something wrong with his insistence this time. I can provide You have his call records during this period, and you need to investigate the others by yourself."

Hughes took out a business card from his pocket, "This is for you, use it reasonably."

Jimmy takes the business card, Senator Bill Haggerty's private business card, a very nice looking card with Capitol Hill and Senator Haggerty's title printed on it, and a phone number, just don't know if it's private or public .

Jimmy: "Give it to me first, I'll investigate first."

Hughes took out two USB flash drives from his pocket and gave them to Jimmy, "Check the information as soon as possible, and let me know in time if you can't deal with it."

After Hughes finished speaking, he turned and left the artificial lake. Jimmy put the USB flash drive and business card into the pocket of his suit, turned and walked to the other side, and drove back to the apartment directly.

Jimmy first took one of the two USB flash drives and plugged it into his laptop to open it. Inside were several recording files.

Jimmy opened it and listened to it. This is the call recording from Callaway's director's office. Jimmy has already listened to one of the recordings. The other two are also the call records between her and Senator Platt. He is still very competent, and will notify him of any new information.

These recordings alone should not be enough for Callaway to give up his current position directly, but Hughes only gave so much, which is troublesome.

Jimmy thought for a while, put Callaway's matter aside, took out the second U disk and opened it, there are more phone recordings here, Jimmy looked at the time on the file, it started from the day of the senator's murder.

There were a lot of recordings, and Jimmy listened a little bit with earphones on, even delaying dinner, and didn't react until Nia came back to call him.

After turning off the computer, Jimmy took Nia and went straight out for dinner. He was really too lazy to do it by himself, and ordering takeaway was relatively slow, so it was better to go directly to a nearby restaurant to solve the problem.

Nia asked Jimmy during the meal, knowing that he was handling the case, so she didn't say anything. Although Jimmy was not a field agent, he had handled the case not once or twice, and he was used to it.

After they returned home, Nia went directly to wash up, while Jimmy returned to the study and continued to listen to prosecutor Adam's phone recordings. It was not until early in the morning that he listened to all the recordings, and recorded several recordings that might be abnormal.

After listening to the recording again, Jimmy finally found the anomaly. During a phone call, Adam told the person on the other side, Curtis, how do you feel, and the person on the other side replied that everything was fine except that he was not free.Afterwards, the person on the opposite side asked him to meet, and the call was cut off.

It seems that detention centers and prisons are the most likely descriptions of lack of liberty, and it appears that Prosecutor Maxwell had a meeting with an acquaintance in prison.

Jimmy checked the time. The call was a week ago, but this one was hard to come by.

Jimmy turned off the computer, took a shower and rested.

Hughes didn't say when, but Jimmy knew that this matter needed to be resolved as soon as possible, because federal prosecutors would have a prosecution hearing before the case was brought to court. If the case is to be properly resolved, it must be resolved at the prosecution hearing. Let the prosecutor give up prosecuting Peter, but it is difficult for a prosecutor who is determined to prosecute.

A prosecution hearing is a judicial process to determine whether there is enough evidence in a criminal proceeding to bring the accused to trial.

Generally, the prosecution hearing is conducted between the prosecutor and the defendant, and the judge participates as the evaluator to evaluate the reasonableness of the prosecution and whether there is sufficient evidence to prove the criminal facts and the reasonableness of the criminal facts. During the prosecution hearing At the meeting, the evidence in the hands of the prosecutor will be displayed, including the testimony of witnesses, physical evidence, etc., and it is also necessary to make a statement on the rationality of the criminal facts.

At the prosecution hearing, the defendant and the defendant's lawyer can refute the evidence submitted by the prosecutor. Once the evidence is insufficient or lacks validity, the judge will dismiss the accusation, the prosecutor will abandon the prosecution, and the case will be suspended.

Callaway's matter should not be difficult. Since Hughes said that he has communicated with the upper management, Jimmy should communicate with her. When she contacts the people behind, there must be someone who can endorse Hughes' words.The only thing that needs to be paid attention to is where to communicate and what to say when communicating. This is what Jimmy has to think about.

The trouble now is Adam Maxwell, the federal prosecutor. Jimmy went back to the office to investigate carefully. Of course, he didn't directly use the FBI's database. He wasn't that reckless.

While going downstairs to smoke, Jimmy called the hotel with an anonymous phone.This kind of public information is easy to obtain, and there is no need to alert the official organization. Jimmy got a detailed information when he went out at noon.

As a federal prosecutor, some of Adam Maxwell's information is public, at least his graduate students and part of his work resume can be seen.Of course, this is not the only information the hotel provided. His real estate and family situation were also included. Charon said that there was some follow-up information that could be provided, but he had not obtained it yet.

Adam's house is in Brooklyn. Although Jimmy didn't visit the site, it is easy to track it with the address.Jimmy stayed in the office obediently during working hours. After work, he rushed to the federal prosecutor's office and stared at Maxwell's car in the parking lot.

When it was time to get off work, Maxwell came to the parking lot with a briefcase and drove away. Jimmy followed and left the parking lot.This follow-up is mainly to confirm his daily route. Although his home and work place have been confirmed, everyone’s daily commute route is generally relatively fixed. After confirming it once or twice, basically you don’t need to look again.

Before tracking to Maxwell's home, Jimmy's phone rang, and a new batch of materials from Charon had arrived.

Jimmy looked at the surrounding environment and was basically sure that he was going directly to his home, so he turned directly at the intersection and gave up tracking, and went to get the materials first.

After getting the latest information from the hotel, Jimmy didn't check it here, but drove back to the apartment and took out all the information in the study.

The new batch of information is the flow information of two bank cards, which is too beautiful, I don't know how they got it out. The FBI still needs to go through the formalities to contact the bank to get the flow of the designated bank card. This process is very troublesome. The key is that it will expose the target. It is not easy for the hotel to get two of the cards.

Of course, the main reason is that the bank statement obtained by the FBI is generally used as evidence, and it needs to be compliant throughout the process. If it violates the regulations, the evidence will become invalid.

Jimmy checked the records of the last month in detail, and quickly found some of them, including checks and large transfers.

Jimmy recorded the account, and it will be clear when he goes to the bureau tomorrow to check. You must know that there is a problem with directly checking the federal prosecutor, but it is not a big problem to check a bank card information.

Jimmy doesn't expect to bring down a federal prosecutor directly through this information, he just hopes to have a handle to threaten a little bit, and see what he wants to do.

His current approach has completely deviated from what a normal FBI should do, but considering the content of Hughes calling him to a quiet park for private communication, he also knows that if he refuses, the feelings he has cultivated in the previous actions will be ruined. All in vain.

It took a lot of time to investigate the recorded accounts. Jimmy registered some of the recorded names in the notepad, took out an envelope from the drawer, put Haggerty's business card in it, and put in a letter with his own A note with an anonymous phone number.

Jimmy took the envelope to the U.S. Attorney's Office for delivery to Adam Maxwell, and the next thing was to wait for the phone call.

Sure enough, soon Jimmy received a call, and he simply asked Maxwell to meet at a cigar club called Goss at night, and then hung up the phone and returned to the office.

Gauss's Cigar Club is a membership club. Kevin has a membership card here, and he brought Jimmy here once before, and Jimmy got a membership card by the way, and he rarely comes here.

After telling the doorman, Jimmy came to a reception room. The waiter came over with a cigar. Jimmy took a Davidoff and ordered a glass of bourbon. He sat smoking a cigar and reading a magazine, waiting for Adam Maxwell arrival.

After a while, a waiter brought Maxwell to the reception room. Jimmy put the cigar on the ashtray and got up to greet him, "Welcome, Mr. Maxwell."

Maxwell looked at Jimmy suspiciously and asked, "Mr. George? Have we met? It looks familiar."

George was the name Jimmy left in that letter, and Jimmy didn't leave his name because he was afraid of being seen by others.

Jimmy smiled and reached out to shake his hand, and then motioned to sit down and chat, "We met once, in the FBI conference room a few days ago. Let me introduce again, FBI senior agent Jimmy Yang."

Maxwell's expression was a little serious, "I don't know what is your relationship with Senator Haggerty?"

Jimmy: "It's a little bit of a problem, and it's okay. Would you like one? The cigars here are good."

Jimmy pressed the service button on the table, and a waiter came over with a plate. Maxwell also passed the initial doubtful and tense time, took one at random, cut off one end, lit a cigar with a long match and smoked.

When the waiter left, he looked at Jimmy and said, "Okay, now we can talk."

Jimmy: "Someone asked me to help with the murder of Senator Platt."

Maxwell frowned and looked at Jimmy, the end of his cigar lit up, and a puff of smoke came out of his mouth, "Who did you come here on behalf of?"

Jimmy: "Somebody, somebody who's paying attention to this case. They've noticed you."

Maxwell: "New York? DC?"

Jimmy: "Both, but it's still New York."

Maxwell: "What do you want to know?"

Jimmy: "What I want to know is, why did you insist on suing Peter Bolk?"

Maxwell leaned back on the sofa, looking at the young people in front of him through the faint smoke, Chinese, senior FBI agent, holding the personal business card of senior Senator Mr. Haggerty, talking in such a high-end club, all of this It all shows that the water in this matter is very deep.

Maxwell is not a stubborn person. He has cooperated with the FBI a lot in the past two years, and the relationship between them is actually not bad.

If he hadn't been coerced by someone, he wouldn't have offended the FBI in this way, especially since Peter, the target this time, is still a senior supervisory agent. It is reported that he is about to be promoted to be an assistant special agent supervisor, that is, a field director. There must be someone behind the person behind you.

Maxwell thought about it: "I think we can have a good chat later, I still have an appointment to rush over today."

Jimmy smiled and took out a business card from his pocket and handed it to Maxwell, "Of course, we need to have a good chat. I'll wait for your call."

Maxwell took Jimmy's business card, put the cigar on the ashtray, picked up the wine glass and touched Jimmy, "Nice to meet you, Agent Yang."

Jimmy smiled and said, "Please don't be so polite, just call me Jimmy. Nice to meet you, Mr. Maxwell."

The two drank the bourbon in their cups, stood up and shook hands to say goodbye. Jimmy sent Maxwell out of the reception room, returned to his previous position, and continued smoking his cigar.

(End of this chapter)