how i bought the whole world

Reeves' financial resources are obviously abnormal, that's for sure.But we have no evidence to prove this. After all, the other party's income and expenditure are not consistent. It is just my speculation. Without actual verification, it will naturally not be able to deter Reeves, but Brandon decided to investigate in this direction. In this matter, he thinks that following this line of thinking may be able to get some clues, so that we can quickly grasp the weakness of the other party and prevent him from speaking ill of the WF e-commerce platform again. I agree with this very much. In fact, I am very happy to see Reeves is unlucky. His behavior has completely provoked me and the Atlantic Ocean. We naturally hope that he will pay the price, but I am not interested in whether Reeves embezzled Amazon's money or other money. It's not the police, and it's not so enthusiastic about serving American justice.

Yet the matter continued to simmer, and nosy newspapers and magazines were quick to ask me for my thoughts on the matter.

"Mr. Field, do you know Amazon's deputy executive Maxi Reeves?" After a few days, when I walked into the company's gate, several economic reporters asked me such a question, "I don't I know." I quickly tried to jump over the microphones.

But they stopped me, "But have you heard the recent remarks made by Mr. Reeves? Recently, Mr. Reeves posted a message on Twitter, accusing the push business of advertising mail is based on squeezing the interests of customers Today, what do you think of Mr. Reeves' statement? Many people think that some of the e-commerce platforms he mentioned are Atlantic Ocean, does this have a certain degree of impact on the future of Atlantic Ocean?"

I stopped and faced a reporter's recording pen, "Actually, I and other people in my company have seen the opinions expressed by Mr. Reeves, and we are very sorry to find that some of the e-commerce companies he specifically refers to The platform does have some similarities with Atlantic—for example, Atlantic established an advertising email push service a few weeks ago and recommended it to customers as a service. From this perspective, many people think that he Imply that the website refers to the Atlantic, but I must point out that there are many differences, for example, what Reeves said is that in order to make profits, the advertisers have to pass the costs on to the customers, which is completely nonsense Reeves does not understand the potential value of the advertising push business, so he irresponsibly expresses his self-righteous understanding, but I have to say that some services are not measured by money, and what we value at Atlantic is the trust of customers Rather than a temporary benefit, the Atlantic does not actually make any profit from the advertising push service, and this move is purely to cultivate customer satisfaction and loyalty."

"Unfortunately, due to Mr. Reeves' irresponsible remarks, there is widespread misunderstanding of Atlantic's advertising business, and some customers have even unsubscribed from this new business. Inconvenience and many effects on reputation. However, since Mr. Reeves did not name him, Atlantic cannot formally refute him, so he can only let the rumors continue to spread. If not, what you will see is Atlantic. The legal weapon is used to defend their rights. Of course, the above is the official attitude of the Atlantic. If you ask me my opinion, I am naturally very dissatisfied with Mr. Reeves. I hope that some leaders of Amazon can To conduct business competition in a more rational way, instead of speculating and slandering their opponents for no reason, this is not only not an act of a gentleman, but will eventually cause everyone, including the rumormongers themselves, to suffer greatly."

"Then, do you have nothing to refute what Maxi Reeves said?"

"I have nothing to refute his words, because the platform that Mr. Reeves mentioned is not the Atlantic website, but his imaginary website. He regards this website as an imaginary enemy, and then spares no effort to criticize and discredit it. As Atlantic I can tell you responsibly that Atlantic’s advertising push service is set up from the perspective of users. First of all, whether to push advertising emails is entirely up to the user’s choice. Users can choose to subscribe to emails, of course, they can also choose to cancel. Mail; Secondly, the products in the mail are all discounted products. Based on the principle of small profits but quick turnover, these products have lowered the price rather than increased the cost. Such price reduction is entirely based on the large sales volume. If there is no advertisement If the email push service is used, then the product is very likely to be sold at the original price, and I think this will cause users to suffer losses.”

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My speech temporarily alleviated the critical attitude of the news media, and with Yitzhak's efforts, the news about this did not spread on a large scale. Many media gave up the news when they saw that this topic could not arouse people's interest, but I didn't forget about it, I took it to heart very carefully, and vowed that sooner or later I would make Maxi Reeves look good.

But at this time another trouble came to me.

In the hottest middle of August, people from the investigation team of the FBI Economic Section suddenly wanted to see me.

They entered the gate of WF Group without my consent, and broke into my office. At that time, I was reading the new round of investment plan provided to me by my investment team, when I saw a man walk in suddenly I raised the black ID in my hand.

"Are you William Field?" asked the man who entered.

The person who spoke was a tall middle-aged man in a black suit. He approached me with a very unceremonious attitude as soon as he entered the door. His eyes were full of scrutiny and seriousness. Two law patterns were deeply engraved on this man. On his face, his facial features were set off extremely maturely. He was not handsome, but he carried an aura of indifference and pride.He looked at me for two seconds, then casually extended his hand to me, "I'm Julius Jones from the FBI."

I raised my eyebrows, FBI?How did you come here?

"Hi Agent." I sat in my office chair, but didn't reach out as he'd hoped.

The other side looked a little cold, grinned at the corner of his mouth, and retracted his hand again.

Glancing outside, I finally knew the reason why this person was able to enter my office unimpeded. My reception secretary Catherine was blocked by several men in suits. It seemed that she wanted to stop these uninvited guests, but in the end she didn't Success, they explained something to her, Catherine's face was flashing with a mixture of fear and worry, she didn't seem to understand what was going on at the moment, and then Brandon arrived, he obviously just came in a hurry from the next office, a When I came, I immediately negotiated with the other FBIs who surrounded my office. We exchanged glances with each other through the transparent glass window. I nodded to him, and then my eyes turned back. "You don't have an appointment, Agent."

"I want to talk to you, so I take the liberty to bother you, I hope you don't mind."

"You need an appointment." All I said was one sentence.

"Well, not having an appointment is our problem, but we want to talk to you about your taxes, Mr. Field." The other party still had that unhurried attitude. "These issues are critical to your reputation and I need you to approach them with caution."

This kind of demeanor is very annoying, it seems extremely condescending and arrogant. I don't like the way he looks at me, as if he has a winning chance. In fact, I don't think he has any sense of superiority when facing me.

Putting down the pen, I crossed my hands on the table, "My tax? I'm sorry, I don't understand what you mean by being here, but I have to say, I don't like dealing with the police. I don't think I have Doing anything against the law deserves a visit from a gentleman like you, so please leave me alone, it makes me very unhappy."

"That's not right. Since you haven't done anything against the law, it doesn't matter if you talk to me."

"No, sometimes you like to spread our thoughts like the entertainment tabloids. You obviously only say one meaning, but you will think of thousands of meanings, and then do everything you can to tell me. I don't like this. I'm sorry. , I have to refuse to talk to you, Agent."

Jones gave me a deep look. "Even if you don't want to talk, at least listen to me explain my purpose clearly, Mr. Field, I hope you can share some courtesy with your guests."

"People who are not invited by the host are not guests, but some uninvited guests. If I share the courtesy with you, will you return the courtesy to me?" I asked unhappily, "Agent Jones, enough polite words are enough. , please leave quickly, and please keep your subordinates away from my people." Glancing at Brandon who was outside, he faced two burly men, but he still acted neither humble nor overbearing. Apart from being proud, he was also a little worried about whether this group of seemingly strong men would attack him. After all, sometimes people are very unreasonable.

Jones snorted, "I can't leave, but... okay." He gestured outside, and several people looked at each other and dispersed.

Brandon was finally let go by Jones' subordinates. He walked into my office with a stern face, as if covered with a layer of frost. At the same time, Chris came in. He just arrived after hearing the news. He also looked serious at the moment.

We looked at each other.

"I really hope that Mr. Detective's behavior can be explained to me." Chris was the first to speak, and he said half ironically and half angrily. "You don't look like a law enforcement officer, but a mafia boss. You actually trespassed into other people's private areas and threatened ordinary American citizens with words. Why did you stop us from entering our boss's office? You have no right Do it!"

"I just want to ask about Mr. Field's tax issues alone, so I hope there will be a special environment with a lot of interruptions. Maybe my subordinates have misunderstood this. I apologize to you for their actions here." Facing the accusations, Julius was able to bend and stretch, and easily evaded his mistake with one sentence.

"Then you have to bring a search warrant first." Chris said, "Otherwise the WF Group is probably not a place you can just break into. In fact, I guess you have nothing prepared, otherwise you would have started Will show us the documents, don't think that scaring and reputation alone will make us compromise, no one here is a fool."

Julius.Jones narrowed his eyes, he ignored my lawyer's sarcasm, and looked at me instead, "Mr. Field, if your attitude is not so resistant, we have already talked about the necessary issues. In fact, we have received anonymous reports. The report claims that you have a large amount of income that has not been recorded on taxes. This number is close to tens of millions of dollars. Do you have any defenses for this report? If you don't want this name to be confirmed, then before this Thursday , I hope you can take the initiative to go to the FBI's office to explain your property, otherwise don't blame us for applying for an investigation order against you."

I didn't panic at all, I was very calm, "Tax evasion? Are you serious, Mr. Detective, you broke into my office on a whim just for a strange intelligence? Why didn't you bother me after confirming the authenticity? For those of us For an investor, every minute is precious! I have already wasted 10 minutes communicating with you, and you cannot afford to waste the rest of the time!"

"Although this is an anonymous piece of information, compared with your property and your taxes, I think it is very likely to be true." Jones said still stubbornly, and he raised his voice, "Now I am investigating this case, First of all, we need your cooperation, if you want to say that you are an innocent businessman, please show evidence to prove yourself as soon as possible, if not, then don’t hinder our actions.”

I interrupted him, "Ridiculous! If you think this report is true, then please go ahead and apply for an investigation, because I will not waste time and energy visiting the FBI office for a trumped-up accusation, even if I don’t even want to have tea with you guys. Go check it out, Detective Jones, and you’ll find that you got nothing in the end. Every piece of my property was obtained through legitimate channels, and of course I paid the due taxes. It is jointly certified by lawyers and accounting firms, and there is no falsification in any link. If I really evaded tens of millions of dollars in taxes, then the first one who can't spare me is the IRS, and it's not your turn to yell at me here. gone."