The Wolf of Los Angeles

Hawke has never given any discounts when collecting money and doing things.

As the truth video was exposed, public opinion on Twitter was completely turned over.

The Catherine accusation video taken by Garcia in Eagle County also came in handy.

Sasha edited these videos together, and placed them under the same news title, with the video of Catherine taking the initiative to undress in the suite, and seducing people with enthusiasm.

After full fermentation in the early stage, the number of forwardings of this news video exceeded one million in a day.

Under the guidance of Twitter, public opinion on the Internet has shown a one-sided trend.

"The person who falsely accused should bear the same guilt!"

"If she is a woman, she can frame people at will?"

"This kind of woman doesn't even have basic morality!"

"She has two lips, and others will break their legs to prove themselves!"

Public opinion in traditional media has also changed direction.

Even if some female newspapers questioned "Is Kobe Bryant not responsible?", Katherine was still marked as a "liar" .

At this stage, the Los Angeles Lakers, who have been silent, and Kobe's sponsors have come out to stand.

They said Kobe just made a moral mistake and did not break the law.

The Eagle County police received the original video sent by Kobe's lawyer.

After the FBI accepted the case, Catherine was summoned by the Colorado branch office.

Kobe's fans also began to show off their power.

Not only on the media and the Internet, after receiving a sponsorship, some fans rushed to Eagle County and sat in front of Catherine's house. However, various offensive slogans and posters turned Catherine's home into a public opinion slaughterhouse. .

Public opinion reversed and attacked everywhere.

Catherine, a 19-year-old girl, has never seen such a situation and is under great pressure.

Pelinka and his lawyers had private contact with Catherine at Hawke's request.

It took almost no effort to reach a settlement agreement between the two sides.

This agreement does not involve any monetary transactions.

There is only one subject. Katherine publicly apologized and admitted that she had falsely accused and slandered her, and Kobe withdrew the criminal lawsuit.

On the second weekend of July, Twitter broadcasts Katherine's public apology press conference through text and pictures.

By the way, the last wave of traffic from this incident was harvested.

The Kobe Gate Incident in Eagle County came to an end.

On the business plane leaving Eagle County, Kobe's solemn expression finally relaxed a little.

Pelinka breathed a sigh of relief as she looked at the newspaper's reports.

Although many sports media are still condemning Kobe's social and moral issues and discussing Kobe's videos, these are all small troubles that are not worth mentioning compared to strong cases.

Vanessa's face was tense and she didn't say a word.

Kobe looked at her.

Vanessa said, “$8 million!”

Thinking of this expenditure, Kobe felt pain again.

Pelinka was worried that the two of them would think too much, so she quickly reminded: "Before coming, I had been chatting with Byles for a long time. We spent the money and just pretended it didn't exist anymore. Things are now calming down, the rest It doesn't matter anymore."

Kobe said slowly, "But I suspect that these are all Twitter's tricks."

"I doubt it too." Pelinka smiled helplessly: "But what can we do? Twitter is now the hottest media company on the Internet. Hawke Osmon is a veritable ruthless man, and Twitter's second largest Shareholder, Pacific Investment Group has huge assets and power."

He laughed at himself, "And what about us? I am an agent, you are a sports star."

Kobe thought of Michael Jackson again.

His influence with MJ is not at the same level at all, and it is too different.

But MJ has no power to fight back against those media companies and those public opinion controlled by capital.

Public opinion almost killed MJ.

As for the public opinion, there are Sony Records and other companies...

Thinking of this, Kobe made a very correct choice: "Notify the financial manager and pay the final payment to Hawke and Twitter today."

Pelinka agrees: "We are not able to participate in the games that those people play, so it is wise to stay away from it."

Kobe nodded slowly.

...

Ocean Park Avenue, Los Angeles.

Hawke welcomed a special visitor after receiving a call from Brian.

Just Blatt from the San Fernando Valley Private Video Company visited.

The company also has shares of Pacific Investment Group, which is controlled by the Ferguson family. When Hawke handled the self-portrait incident between Alison Fies and Josh Hartnett, he worked with private film companies.

Private video companies are also publishers of selfie door video tapes.

Therefore, Hawke warmly welcomed Just and his group.

After a simple greeting, Just opened the point straight: "Old guy, is the videotape between Kobe and Catherine Fibier in Twitter? Can the copyright be transferred to me?"

He was afraid that Hawke would refuse, so he directly opened a sky-high price: "Private video company is willing to pay $10 million to buy it out."

Hawke told the truth: "The copyright is now in Kobe's hands. He just authorized it to Twitter to publish it. I was very moved by this price, but I was powerless."

Just had a big capital behind the business of Saint Valley, and his methods were more dirtier. He lowered his voice and said, "I have a way. The storage disk containing the video was stolen. Then you call the police..." Although Hawke also He is so mean, but he is disdainful to do something: "Sorry, I can't help you in this regard."

Soon, Just said goodbye and left.

After coming out of Twitter, getting in the car and letting the driver go back, he took out his cell phone and called San Francisco: "Hawke refused, I can't help you. This ends with this matter, I pay back the favor I owe you. Now."

The other side said, "This person is alert, just do it."

As the company develops, the cake becomes bigger and there are pitfalls everywhere.

The next morning, three shareholders of Twitter held an internal meeting.

Edward watched the whole process without saying a word.

Mary Ferguson asked Hawke directly: "Twitter is already an Internet celebrity company, and the data has grown rapidly recently, right?"

Hawke said directly: "Yesterday's statistics showed that there were 33 million registered users worldwide and the number of active users exceeded 20 million."

Mary couldn't help but exclaim: "Using celebrity gossip to drive topics and traffic, the effect is really good."

Hawke laughed: "It is easy to make enemies. I heard from Dwayne Johnson that many celebrities like to use Twitter, but they hate Twitter. Hollywood even put me on the unpopular list."

No mistakes, one song, one content, one in 6, one book, one bar, one reading!

"Don't worry about them." Mary said seriously: "If anyone among these stars dares to take revenge, just use thunder to suppress them."

Hawke nodded: "Many users have formed a usage inertia, and the number of users on Twitter is a well-deserved leader among social networking sites."

Mary was very satisfied with the investment and said, "If you have any difficulties, just call me."

"I will." Hawke responded.

Mary said goodbye.

Sending her away, Hawke finds Caroline and asks her to prepare and take someone to Sacramento.

According to the agreement reached at the handover between donkeys and elephants, the economic development plan of the new Governor Schwarzenegger has been successfully passed in the state legislature.

Twitter will receive a series of support including financial subsidies, tax incentives and interest-free loans.

Subsidies will be issued one after another, but the interest-free loan of US$20 million can be received within half a month.

Before getting off work, Hawke received a call from the bank account manager, saying that the final payment of Kobe's public relations fee of $1 million was paid.

Twitter’s Finance Department also received the final payment for copyright fees.

Hawke drove home and turned into 20th Street. He found that new residents had moved in a villa diagonally opposite.

The car drove into the garage and Hawke came out of the garage door and happened to see his neighbor, headhunter manager Jet Brown and model girlfriend Diana.

The latter is half a head taller than Jet, and the legs of a pair of pencils are amazingly long.

It can be said that the legs are longer than life.

Jet waved to Hawk, "Just get off work?"

Hawke nodded, greeted Diana again, and signaled to the opposite side with his eyes: "New neighbor?"

Jeter pointed to the person standing next to the van: "It should be him, I haven't seen him before."

The man was about thirty years old and had a very ordinary appearance, nothing surprising.

Diana's elbow was able to press on Jeter's shoulder and said, "It seems like a bachelor, I haven't seen the hostess."

She asked Hawke, "Where is Erica? I haven't seen her for a few days."

Hawke vaguely said: "There are many cases in the Detective Department, she is busy with work and sometimes she comes here very late."

Jeter said: "The crime rate in Los Angeles is rising. Three days ago, there was a robbery in the neighborhood next to us. Two black people robbed a convenience store. It is said that the owner of the store had a bad temper and took out a gun and went to them on the spot. After a fight, one old black man was directly broken in his neck artery and rushed out of the shop with blood. The other shot in his chest. He heard that his intestines were broken and his stomach was full of... "

"Damn it, shut up." Diana was disgusting when she heard him say: "What are you doing when you say this."

Jeter was helpless: "I mean, the community security has become worse."

Hawke agreed: "The security in Los Angeles has indeed become worse step by step, and the news reports are not all exaggerated. Crime is spreading to the rich areas."

Jeter is short and insecure: "It seems I'm going to learn from you and prepare some guns at home."

Just as the three of them were talking, the truck opposite the car left after unloading the goods.

The newly moved people noticed them, walked across the 20th Street, which was not wide, and walked directly over.

He smiled and introduced himself: "Hello, I'm Tim Wilson, I just moved here."

Hawke and Jet shook hands with him and made a few polite words.

Tim spoke politely: "I just moved here. If there is a place that cannot be taken care of, please forgive me."

The other party was polite, and Hawke also said politely: "All neighbors, don't be polite."

Tim asked, "Two days ago, I heard of a robbery on the street next door. Is there a neighborhood joint defense meeting in our community?"

In order to deal with increasing crimes, communities will form organizations such as neighbor defense alliances if the law allows.

Hawke didn't know much and looked at Jeter.

Jie Title head: "Yes, if you want to participate, go directly to the community committee."

"I don't know how to use guns," Tim explained. "The community with a joint defense association is safer."

Jet joked, "Don't worry, Hawke is a sharpshooter."

Hawke said, "Not so exaggerated."

After moving here, Tim stopped at a good time and said, "I'll go back and clean up, otherwise I won't be able to live in the evening."

Hawke said, "Please."

When Tim walked away, Jeter looked at the villa opposite and said, "It seems that it is not difficult to get along with the new neighbors."

(I will go to the hospital for a vacuum later. The high fever has subsided and the influenza A is infected. Everyone wears masks when going out) (End of this chapter)