North American Gunslinger Detective

Chapter 763 Making trouble

The information that could be sent over must be unfavorable to certain people. Jimmy did not choose to look at the information directly. If he took over the investigation, he would definitely look at all the information first, so as not to be influenced by the preconceived information that misled his target and affect his judgment.

The employer of this murder case is himself, so he will definitely not be able to find the target from these materials. However, if he is preconceived by these misleading information, he may become an accomplice of the other party in framing others. Therefore, even if he wants to find a scapegoat, he must not choose someone else as the target, especially such a cryptic guy.

In fact, he didn't intend to find a scapegoat. He asked Mark to come alone to investigate and come to a conclusion. As a result, something happened to Mark suddenly. Now he is not sure who the other party is, and he can't take action directly.

After checking the information, he left the hotel directly, found the nearest police station, showed his ID and found a superintendent in charge of patrol management to find out the circumstances of the car accident. After all, the injured person was an FBI agent, and he came across state lines to investigate the case. There were too many possibilities for this car accident, so Jimmy could only ask the superintendent to help him check it out.

The superintendent confirmed that Jimmy was Mark's superior. He rushed to Los Angeles because of the car accident and did not waste time. He directly contacted the 911 alarm center, found the patrol officer who handled the car accident, and reported the location of the 17th Precinct Police Station to Jimmy. He would notify the patrol officer to return to their police station as soon as possible.

The Los Angeles Police Department has 21 districts, each of which has a district police station. Patrol officers are not in the same police station, so Jimmy can only go to the corresponding police station and wait for the two patrol officers to return.

The procedures at the police station were similar, so Jimmy sat in the waiting area of ​​the police station lobby and waited. Finally, two patrol officers walked in from the main entrance. After asking at the front desk, they walked directly to Jimmy. The older officer said, "Detective Yang? I'm Lawrence."

Jimmy stood up and shook his hand. "It's me. Thank you both for coming back. I want to ask about the details of the car accident. Also, the car is the property of the FBI Los Angeles office. I want to know the damage."

Officer Lawrence nodded: "Please follow me."

The three of them came to an empty room next door. The young policeman poured three glasses of water. Lawrence said, "The car accident was an accident. We found a car with a broken window while patrolling in the morning. After checking, we determined that it was a stolen car. During the chase, he forced his way through a red light and hit your colleague's car.

The person involved has been arrested and is currently being held in a detention center. The stolen car and your car are temporarily sealed in the evidence parking lot."

Jimmy: "What about the identity of the suspect?"

Lawrence: "Jesse Grant, a Los Angeles native, unemployed, street thug, has been in jail many times, steals, sells drugs, etc. There are too many people like him."

Jimmy frowned and nodded. It seemed that Mark was just unlucky this time. If someone really wanted to cause trouble, they wouldn't arrange such a person, right? What's more, the stolen car was discovered by the patrol officer in advance. All these circumstances showed that it was an accident.

Jimmy: "Okay, I understand. My subordinates are investigating a case, and I thought someone was deliberately creating trouble. Thank you, both of you. Could you please take me to see him?"

Lawrence frowned: "Now? We will be handing over the shift soon."

Jimmy: "Just going to check and confirm. Sorry for bothering you two."

Lawrence nodded: "Okay, let's go."

Lawrence left the room, chatted with others for a few words, and then left the police station with Jimmy. Jimmy took a taxi when he came here, but now he sat directly in the back seat of the police car. It has been a long time since he felt such a cramped position. It was really uncomfortable.

Lawrence did not bring Jesse Grant out, and Jimmy just took a look through the guardrail. He was a thin young white man with a bald head and a tattoo on his neck. The rest was covered by his clothes and could not be seen. But just looking at his appearance, he was just a standard gang kid, and he was obviously very comfortable in the detention center, worthy of a guy with multiple prison records. He just sat on the bed with his legs crossed, half leaning back against the wall, looking relaxed.

There was no hope for interrogation. Not to mention that it was not arranged by someone, even if someone really arranged to hit Mark, he would not admit it. Jimmy just came to confirm the person. Since he had already seen him, he naturally ended the meeting and left.

Back at the hospital, Jimmy brought Mark some midnight snacks and asked Mark to notify the Los Angeles office and ask them to arrange someone to deal with the car.

Mark's brain had not recovered yet, and Jimmy did not give him any more headaches. After returning to the hotel and checking in, he took the information Mark had previously looked up and started to read it. There was still a lot of information. After all, the Harriton family had a lot of assets, and it would be a bit troublesome to get it all.

For Jimmy, financial industry investigations were something he was completely unfamiliar with, especially since he had originally just wanted to do it casually, but now he had to do it himself, which was still a headache.

The Harriton family got its start in the construction industry and owns a number of construction and material-related companies. It is also involved in finance. There is also a small and medium-sized financial services company under the foundation, which is also the foundation's investment wealth management company, managing billions of assets. It is not difficult to find out some financial problems in such a company, but the difficulty is that Jimmy can't handle it by himself.

But this is not a big problem. Even if he is not familiar with these things, it is still okay to just threaten him.

The next day, Jimmy went directly to the Harriton Foundation with the information. In essence, he was there to cause trouble. Jimmy was not so polite. He showed his ID to the girl at the front desk and asked to meet with the current top management of the foundation.

Maybe Mark was too polite before, so the other party directly rejected Jimmy and required an appointment first. Jimmy was not polite either and slammed the table. He said that if he couldn't see anyone today, he would bring people from the IRS and SEC next time, and they would bear all the consequences themselves.

Everyone is familiar with the IRS. Once tax issues are involved, the foundation will definitely be in big trouble. As for the SEC, this is the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. For a foundation, if it is suspected of securities fraud or other misconduct related to the securities market, the SEC will definitely make them jump for a long time, and it will take a lot of effort to appease them. As for saying that they have no misconduct, you can tell that it is absolutely impossible even if you think about it with your heels.

The girl at the front desk was stunned. She had never expected that the Chinese FBI agent in front of her would be so tough. She just stood up, left the front desk and walked into the company.

Jimmy shrugged and just watched her walk into an office. Then the person in the office took her to another office. Soon she came back and took Jimmy to the CEO's office.

The former CEO Harriton is dead, and the current interim CEO is his wife. Jimmy originally thought that he would not be able to see her, and maybe only a senior staff member would see him, but it turned out that she was actually in the office. You know, Mrs. Harriton had been controlled before and asked to cooperate with the kidnapping and imprisonment case. He did not expect that the other party would return to Los Angeles so soon.

Jimmy: "Mrs. Hareton, I'm FBI agent Jimmy Young."

Mrs. Hareton looked at Jimmy expressionlessly. No one would be happy if they were threatened by Jimmy like this. "I know you, do you have any clues about my husband's death?"

Jimmy: "Of course, there are some clues, but they cannot be announced for the time being. I came here this time to hope that you can cooperate and provide information about Mr. Hareton's assets and competitors. In addition, although it is not very polite to say this, I think Mrs. Hareton should also hope that we can find the mastermind as soon as possible. As for the biggest beneficiary after Mr. Hareton's death, I wonder if Mrs. Hareton has any ideas?"

Mrs. Hareton is not an ordinary housewife. According to her personal information, she was also a business elite before marrying Hareton. She had her own company, and her resume as a graduate of a famous school could ensure that the other party could understand what Jimmy said.

Mrs. Hareton said in surprise, "You mean he was murdered by his own people? Where is the murderer?"

Jimmy: "I can only say that the murderer is a professional. Such a person theoretically would not have a direct conflict with Mr. Hareton."

Mrs. Hareton bit her lower lip and thought. Jimmy stood in front of her desk and stared at her. Soon, Mrs. Hareton opened the drawer and took out a notebook. She wrote some names on it and gave them to Jimmy. "These are the names of some shareholders I know. I think they should be of some help to your investigation."

Jimmy took a look and shook his head. "Mrs. Hareton, I think you misunderstood me. I not only want to get the list, but also need further information. Whoever is the biggest beneficiary has the greatest possibility. You should understand what I mean."

Mrs. Hareton looked embarrassed and lowered her voice slightly. "I'm sorry, my husband has been handling all the company-level matters before. I can't provide you with more clues for the time being."

Jimmy nodded. "Then I'll have to trouble you, Mrs. Harriton. I hope you can compile some information for me in the next few days. In addition, I need the shareholder list and other information of several other companies under your name. You can provide this as soon as possible."

Mrs. Hareton nodded, stood up and saw Jimmy out of the company gate, then turned back to her office.

The murder of the head of the family is definitely not a trivial matter. For business rivals, humanitarian destruction is sometimes one of their options. Jimmy's words just now reminded Mrs. Hareton that maybe the person behind the scenes is not a rival, but one of their own. You have to know that anyone who can climb to the top here has stepped on a few tough opponents. Even if everyone is on the same side, there are still many disputes.

Mrs. Hareton sat in the office and thought for a while, then pressed the intercom button to let the secretary outside the door notify a few people to come to the meeting. She also started to talk on the phone and get busy.

Jimmy set a fire and left. As for who the fire would burn, it had nothing to do with Jimmy. Some people might have the intention but not the courage to do so, but in this situation they would be the best scapegoats.

Mark didn't know what Jimmy was thinking, so his investigations in the past few days were all about companies under Harriton's name, communicating with their heads to confirm the company's situation and competitors. Jimmy originally wanted to stir up trouble, but he didn't expect to meet Mrs. Harriton here. That made things even simpler. As a directly related person, Mrs. Harriton would definitely have the motivation to cooperate with Jimmy to complete this task. He only needed to push and guide her a little, and Mrs. Harriton would definitely fall into the trap.

But this is not so good. It only involves people on Hareton's side. His network of relationships is not so easy to mobilize. We need to think about how to add more chips.

When Dave came to find Jimmy in person, he already knew that the people behind the scenes were trying to push something forward. He had to be prepared to be retaliated if he was used as a gun, especially since this case was originally pushed by him. Naturally, he knew that all the current investigations were useless. But the others didn't know. They hoped that Jimmy's investigation could affect their designated targets or groups, and they even suspected that one or two of them were behind it. No matter what their ideas were, they hoped that Jimmy would continue the investigation at their pace.

Jimmy would never let them get the desired result easily. The saying "the rich are unkind" is the same everywhere. Anyway, they will not be arrested to take the blame. It is not bad to make them messy for a while. For Jimmy, this is a rare opportunity in his experience of handling cases where he can relax and do something casually. He is very interested in it now. As for the explosion case, he had no intention of solving it. The so-called careful investigation was just to use his own experience to verify how professional the professionals are.

It would take some time for things to ferment from Mrs. Hareton's side. Jimmy went back to the hospital to visit Mark and arranged for him to return to New York to recuperate after he got better. He didn't need to participate in the investigation here.

Mark was a little frustrated, but he did not reject Jimmy's arrangement. In fact, Mark had more confidence in Jimmy than Jimmy himself. With him handling the matter, there would definitely be results faster than if he investigated it himself.

As Jimmy expected, he received a call from the hotel just three days later, informing him that someone had sent him an envelope. However, Jimmy had already gone out to spend the weekend with Nia, so the envelope could only be temporarily stored in the locker at the hotel front desk until he returned.

Following Dave's advice, Jimmy slowed down the pace of handling cases. When he talked to Nia on the phone and learned that Nia was in Los Angeles, he took advantage of his break to fly directly to Los Angeles for a visit.

Hollywood, Griffith Observatory, Venice Beach. Time was limited and they didn't visit many places before they were gone for the weekend.

After seeing Nia off, Jimmy returned to the hotel, got the envelope from the front desk, went back to the room and opened it. There was only a storage box address and a key inside.

(End of this chapter)