Exploiting Hollywood 1980.

Chapter 641 The Gambino Family Did It

At noon, Ronald's personal attorney, Lindsay Doll, and their law firm partner, Bobby Donnell, along with Ronald's aunt, Karen, and her boyfriend, his little Doug, rushed to To the office of CAA.

After everyone exchanged pleasantries, Ronald asked Lawyer Lindsay strangely, "Didn't I ask you to invite Prosecutor Helen and FBI Inspector Claire together? The media will believe it even more if they come forward to clarify together. "

"Ahem..." Lindsay lowered her voice, "FBI Inspector Claire has urgent business, as for Helen..."

"Helen has more important tasks, stay in New York and keep an eye on them." Bobby Donnell interjected.

"what happened?"

This time Ronald's legal team brought some bad news, the file Ronald left in NYPD, and the original arrest warrant issued by the lunatic police officer who framed him, and the high-level investigation of the lunatic's misconduct to frame Ronald. Reported, all disappeared together.

Facing the Southern District of New York Attorney Rudy Gao's adjustment to suppress the top of the NYPD system, he is facing a formidable enemy.In particular, the Southern District Police Department, one of the safest places in New York that received the report at the time, had an accident in which documents disappeared for no reason, and everyone from top to bottom faced internal investigations.

Prosecutor Rudy of the Southern District is fulfilling the promise he made when he took office, and started to attack the five major Italian families in the jurisdiction. At the same time, he is also prosecuting some abuses of deregulation after the commander took office, and started collusion with insiders and outsiders, using inside information to make a lot of money on Wall Street A profitable financial predator.

Recently, he even invoked the RICO Act (full name is the Racketeer Influence and Corrupt Organizations Act, but the public is better known as his other spelling, the Organized Crime Control Act), which specifically combats organized crime. The speakers of the four families in the family were all prosecuted, and only the most cunning and ruthless Gambino family was not caught.

Just before the important moment of the trial, the backyard suddenly caught fire, and the prosecutor's main source of evidence investigation, the NYPD Southern District, happened the incident of the disappearance of Ronald's arrest data, which was of national concern, and Rudy couldn't help being furious.

This kind of hint is obviously a trick that Gambino often plays, using a seemingly unrelated event to shock the real key person.Rudy is also worried about the personal safety of himself and his family, and whether the key witness will appear in court and whether he will retract his confession in court.The family from Sicily is very good at this trick.

District Attorney Rudy gave an order to the NYPD Southern District, asking them to find the missing documents within 24 hours, otherwise they would initiate a corruption investigation within NYPD.

Prosecutor Helen, one of Rudy's favorite generals, stayed at the Southern District Police Station to supervise the investigation of Rich's missing documents, and by the way, see if there was a chance to dig out the inner ghost planted by the Gambino family in the Southern District.

"I also left the former detective in NYPD who was in charge of contacting the undercover gold medalist who broke into the five major families, Frank McPaker, in New York. He is using his contacts to find your documents, and he will let you know as soon as there is news.

It turned out that Mike Parker was the detective. No wonder it was very efficient to do some background checks.Ronald understood the background of this private detective, "Then, should we postpone the press conference until the documents that can prove my innocence are found, so that the clarification effect will be better."

"Notify Miss Michelle Pfeiffer, and Miss Brooke Shields, and also ask them to postpone their appearances and interviews with reporters."

Eva, a public relations consultant, assessed the situation, and everyone made a decision, waiting for news from New York.

"It'll be fine. My Ronnie has never done anything bad. God won't wrong a good man like this." Aunt Karen took Ronald's hand and gently comforted his anxious nephew.

"Ring ring ring ring..."

The phone rang.

"It's Ms. Pfeiffer." Richard cameo operator.

"Hello, Michelle," Ronald took the receiver.

"What's the matter, Ronald? My house is surrounded by many reporters now. Have you changed your plan? I originally agreed with Limato to go to the show at night."

"Don't move yet, let's find out where the reporter is." Ronald's face turned aside, and the opponent's combination of punches was very fast.

"Pfeiffer said that many unplanned reporters came to her house to surround her, and they were not familiar faces."

"Hello, Limato," Nisita went over to communicate with the old friend.

"According to him, it was some small newspapers of Italian background, who didn't care much about entertainment news, gathered at her door. I have asked Limato to deal with it, and don't let reporters interview Pfeiffer before we publish it."

Ronald stood up abruptly, was this premeditated?
He walked briskly in the office and turned around twice. Why did the other party do this to him?I didn't even think about it.Even if documents are temporarily lost, there are other ways to prove your innocence.

"By the way, call Brooke." Ronald suddenly remembered that there was another ex-girlfriend who was about to be interviewed. "

"Ronald, why are there so many reporters coming to interview me? The last time I saw so many reporters was before I went to college." Brooke's mansion is located in New Jersey, and the security measures in the community are better. rush in.

But she also received a lot of calls for interviews, and many reporters hadn't called for a long time.

"Somebody wants to ask you some tabloid-friendly gossip. I'll call my PR consultant, Eva, and ask her to discuss it with you."

Ronald knew that Brooke Shields did not have a public relations consultant, and her mother, Terry, who was supposed to play this role, was drunk and unconscious.

In the CAA office, the two telephones were occupied separately, discussing how to unify the caliber and face the reporter's interview.

"Ring, ring, ring..." The specially vacated telephone rang again.

Richard picked up the phone, his expression changed, "It's Dino De Laurentiis, the producer of Year of the Dragon, and he wants to talk to you."

"Hey, it's me." Ronald suppressed the anger that wanted to greet the other female elder, "What do you want, Dino?"

"I should ask you this. Doesn't it feel good to be caught?" Dino De Laurentiis on the phone smiled.

"I don't understand what you're talking about?"

The call was connected to the speaker, and Richard quietly pressed the record button.

Ronald's legal team is gesturing to him, don't talk about anything involved in the case on the phone, you don't know if the other party will record it, and then give you a clip.

"Come on, we all know what you did in New York, Pfeiffer, Brooke, and Diane. Although the final investigation report denied the detective's suspicion of you, we all know what happened. "

"You're out of your mind, Dino. I'm innocent. The NYPD's investigation report is very clear. Even if you stole the file, I can ask the head of the investigation team at the time to come out and clarify the facts."

"Tsk tsk, don't say it so harshly. By chance, an insider with a sense of justice sent me a copy of it.

So, I have a proposal for you.There is no need to hold on to the Year of the Dragon. As long as you clarify on TV that the Year of the Dragon does not discriminate against Chinese Americans, and you and Cimino are still friends who appreciate each other, I will hand over this document to you. It is reasonable, right? "

Swipe, everyone's eyes are on Ronald.

What the other party wants is a reconciliation.Ronald only needs to shift the subject a little, and the Neapolitan will hand over the documents.In this way, in the eyes of the media and the public, Ronald is still the hero who saved the female star from fire and water, and no contrary rumors came out to trouble him.

Ronald frowned, he didn't want to do this.

On the one hand, I was unmistakably Chinese in my previous life, and in this life in America, I am also of Chinese descent.For this kind of film that clearly discriminates against Chinese Americans, it is difficult for him to say that there is no discrimination against his conscience.

And the feeling of being threatened by others is very uncomfortable.

However, the eyes of the agent team and the lawyer team showed Ronald that they all thought this was an option that could be discussed.How can I convince them?
"My opinion is just from the perspective of personal appreciation of art. However, there is strong racial discrimination in the Year of the Dragon. I don't need to say this, and the public will naturally see it clearly."

"Come on, Ronald. You don't have a Chinese background, you just donated money to Chinatown's action against my film, I don't care what kind of grudge you have with Cimino, it's not a friendly move, it affects my income .

The so-called discrimination is just a subjective artistic view.As long as you can clarify in front of the media, it will be good for everyone. "

"Ronnie, don't give in to evil people. You must not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good." Aunt Karen was very angry when she saw that Ronald was being threatened by something he had never done.Came up and shook Ronald's hand and recited a passage from the Bible.

Yes, you cannot bow to evil.Ronald firmly shook his aunt's hand. This reason was very convincing. He replied to the phone, "I haven't done anything bad, so I don't need to make a deal with you for it."

"Well, since you are so stubborn, let us see whose story the people will believe. You know, the people's favor is like a gilded statue, which will be blown away by a gust of wind..."

"Crack", Ronald made up his mind and hung up the phone.

"That's fine. Let's find the chief inspector of the Southern District Police Department who is in charge of internal investigations to clarify. Then you can contact the FBI as soon as possible and ask if Inspector Claire can accept an interview." Eva and Nisita looked at each other. Now that Ronald's decision has been made, work assignments begin immediately.

"Don't worry, the FBI has a better reputation than the NYPD after all, and we still have the help of Prosecutor Helen." Lawyer Lindsay came over to comfort herself.

But this is just consolation. The FBI's reputation has not been very good since Hoover's death.It can be said that the reputation of those people on the south side of Manhattan is as bad.

Without black and white words, the clarification of Ronald's involvement in the case at the press conference may not be very effective, and it can completely dispel the public's doubts.

At most, when I was talked about in the future, someone would always mention this rumor.

A director used scandal to coerce an actress to become his girlfriend. This kind of rumor is always a story that the public likes.They don't know how to investigate. At that time, Ronald was just a poor boy who had just joined the screenwriters union and had an agent.

"Ring, ring, ring...", the phone rang again.

"It's me, Mike Parker. Find a number that accepts faxes. I've got the NYPD arrest warrant and the originals of the post-mortem investigation documents. I'll pass them on to you."

"Great, where did you find it? There is no news from the NYPD yet."

"I got it directly from the Gambino family, so don't ask. They wanted to take the opportunity to scare Rudy and the witnesses who appeared in court, but they didn't expect to arouse the other party's anger. You didn't compromise with that Neapolitan guy, did you? "

"no"

"Very well, these immigrants from southern Italy often play some tricks and lure you into the bait with seemingly harmless conditions. I will bring the original right away and we will discuss it later."

(End of this chapter)