Exploiting Hollywood 1980

By noon, Ronald's personal attorney, Lindsay Doerr, and their law firm partner, Bobby Donnell, were rushing along with Ronald's aunt, Karen, and her boyfriend, his little boy Doug. Arrive at CAA's office.

After everyone exchanged greetings, Ronald asked lawyer Lindsay strangely, "Didn't I ask you to invite prosecutor Helen and Detective Claire from the FBI? Only if they come forward to clarify together will the media believe it more. "

"Ahem..." Lindsay lowered her voice, "FBI Detective Claire has urgent business. As for Helen..."

"Helen has a more important task, stay in New York and keep an eye on it." Bobby Donnell interjected.

"what happened?"

This time Ronald's legal team brought some bad news, including the files Ronald left in the NYPD, the original arrest warrant issued by the mad police officer who framed him, and the subsequent high-level investigation into the madman's misdeeds and framed Ronald. Report, all disappeared together.

Facing the adjustment and purge of high-level officials of the NYPD system by Rudy Gao, the prosecutor of the Southern District of New York, he feels like facing a formidable enemy. In particular, the Southern District Police Department, which received the report at the time, was probably one of the safest places in New York. An accident occurred where documents disappeared for no reason, and everyone at the top and bottom faced an internal investigation.

Southern District Prosecutor Rudy is fulfilling the promise he made when he took office. He has launched an attack on the five major Italian families in the jurisdiction. He is also prosecuting some abuses of the deregulation after the commander-in-chief took office. He has begun to collude with internal and external parties to make a lot of money on Wall Street using inside information. A very profitable financial tycoon.

Recently, he even invoked the RI Act (the full name is the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, but the public is better known by his other spelling, the Organized Crime Control Act), which specifically combats organized crime, and brought together the five major corporations in New York. The perpetrators of the four families were all prosecuted. Only the most cunning and ruthless Gambino family was not caught.

Just before the important moment of the trial, a fire suddenly broke out in the backyard. The prosecutor's main source of evidence investigation, the NYPD Southern District, the disappearance of Ronald's arrest information that attracted nationwide attention, made Rudy furious.

This kind of suggestion is obviously a trick Gambino often plays, using a seemingly unrelated incident to shock the real key people. Rudy was also worried about the personal safety of himself and his family, and whether key witnesses would retract their confessions in court. The family from Sicily was very good at this trick.

District Attorney Rudy issued an order to the NYPD Southern District to find the missing documents within 24 hours, otherwise they would launch an internal corruption investigation into the NYPD.

Prosecutor Helen, one of Rudy's favorites, stayed at the Southern District Police Station to supervise the investigation of Rich's missing documents and see if there was any chance to dig out the mole planted by the Gambino family in the Southern District.

"I also left Frank McPike, the former detective in the NYPD who was in charge of contacting the top undercover agents who infiltrated the five major families, in New York. He is using his contacts to find your files and will let you know as soon as there is news.

It turns out that McPike turned out to be a detective. No wonder the background check was very efficient. Ronald understood the background of the private detective, "Then should we postpone the press conference until the documents that can prove my innocence are found? This will provide a better clarification effect."

"Notify Ms. Michelle Pfeiffer and Ms. Brooke Shields and ask them to postpone their appearance on the show and interviews with reporters."

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

"It will be fine. My Ronnie has never done anything bad. God would never wrong a good man like this." Aunt Karen held Ronald's hand and gently comforted her anxious nephew.

"Ring ring ring ring..."

The phone rings.

"It's Ms. Pfeiffer." Richard came on as the operator.

"Hello, Michelle", Ronald took the receiver.

"What's going on, Ronald? My home is surrounded by many reporters now. Have you changed your plan? I originally agreed with Limato that I would only go on the show in the evening."

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

"Pfeiffer said there were a lot of unscheduled reporters visiting her home, and they weren't all familiar faces."

"Hey, Limato," Niceta went over to communicate with her old friend.

"According to him, some small newspapers with an Italian background, which originally didn't care much about entertainment news, gathered in front of her house. I have asked Limato to handle it and not let reporters interview Pfeiffer before we publish it."

Ronald stood up suddenly. Was this premeditated?

He walked quickly in the office and turned around twice. Why did the other party do this to him? I couldn't figure it out even if I thought about it. Even if the documents are temporarily lost, there are other ways to prove your innocence.

"By the way, hang up the phone with Poji." Ronald suddenly remembered that there was another ex-girlfriend who was going 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 in New Jersey, and the security measures in the community are better. Entertainment reporters can't Rush in.

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

"Someone wants to ask you for some tabloid-friendly gossip. I'll call my public relations consultant Eva and ask her to discuss it with you."

Ronald knew that Brooke Shields had no public relations consultant and that her mother, Terry, who was supposed to fill that role, was drunk and unconscious.

In the CAA office, two phones were occupied separately, discussing how to unify the caliber and face the interview with reporters.

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

Richard answered the phone, his face changed, "It's Dino De Laurentiis, the producer of Dragon Year, he wants to talk to you."

"Hello, it's me." Ronald suppressed his anger to greet the other party's female elder, "What do you want? Dino?"

"I should ask you this question. It feels bad to be caught by someone, right?" Dino De Laurentiis on the other end of the phone laughed.

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

The phone was connected to the speaker, and Richard quietly pressed the recording button.

Ronald's legal team gestured to him not to talk about anything related to the case on the phone, you don't know if the other party will record it and then edit it for you.

"Eon, 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 have a problem with your brain, Dino. I am innocent. The NYPD investigation report is very clear. Even if you stole the archive, I can ask the detective of the investigation team at that time to come out and clarify the facts."

"Tsk tsk, don't say such harsh words. Occasionally, an insider with a sense of justice sent me a copy.

So, I'll give you a suggestion. There is no need to hold on to Long Nian. As long as you clarify on TV that Long Nian did not discriminate against Chinese people, and you and Cimino are still friends who admire each other, I will give you this document. It's reasonable, right?"

Swish, everyone's eyes were focused on Ronald.

What the other party wanted was a reconciliation. Ronald only needed to slightly change the topic, and the Naples guy would return the document. In this way, in the eyes of the media and the public, Ronald was still the hero who saved the female star from the water and fire, and there were no rumors to the contrary to bother him.

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

On the one hand, he was clearly Chinese in his previous life, and in this life in America, he was also a Chinese descendant. For such a movie that obviously discriminated against Chinese people, he couldn't get over the blood barrier by saying that there was no discrimination.

And the feeling of being threatened was very uncomfortable.

However, the agent team and the lawyer team showed Ronald that they all thought this was an option that could be discussed. How could he convince them?

"My opinion is just from the perspective of art appreciation. But there is strong racial discrimination in the Year of the Dragon. I don't need to say this. The public can see it clearly."

"Don't be like this, Ronald. You don't have a Chinese background. You just donated money to the Chinatown campaign against my movie. I don't care what grudges you have with Cimino. This is not a friendly move and affects my income.

The so-called discrimination is just a subjective artistic view. As long as you can clarify it 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 Ronald being threatened by someone who didn't do something. She came up and shook Ronald's hand and recited a passage from the Bible.

Yes, you can't give in to evil. Ronald firmly held his aunt's hand. This reason was very convincing. He answered into the phone, "I have never done anything bad. I don't need to make a deal with you for this."

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

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

"That's good. We will go to the detective in charge of the internal investigation of the Southern District Police Department to clarify, and then you contact the FBI as soon as possible and ask Detective Claire if she can accept an interview." Seeing that Ronald's decision had been made, Eva and Niceta immediately began to assign work.

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

But this is just consolation. The FBI has not had a good reputation since Hoover's death. It can be said that its reputation is as bad as those in the southern part of Manhattan.

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

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

A director uses a scandal to coerce an actress to be his girlfriend. This kind of rumor is always a favorite story for the public. They are unlikely to investigate. At that time, Ronald was just a poor boy who had just joined the Writers Guild and had an agent.

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

"It's me, McPike. Find a number that can receive faxes. I have obtained the NYPD arrest warrant and the original copy of the post-investigation document. I will pass it to you."

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

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

"No"

"Very good, these immigrants from southern Italy often play tricks and lure you into the trap with seemingly harmless conditions. I will bring the original documents immediately and we will discuss it."

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