Manhattan Reborn 1978

Inside the Stanley Building.

David walked up and down the building several times, but couldn't find the unreliable Black Mike.

He had no choice but to go downstairs and wait. .

Walking out of the door of the building, David saw Mike Bai who was in the car on the street.

This guy was sitting in the passenger seat with his seat reclined, his feet propped up on the open door, shaking his legs and smoking a cigarette.

David walked to the car, opened the rear door, bent down and got in.

White Mike glanced at him and said, "Why are you the only one coming down? Where is Black Mike?"

David fell weakly on his side in the back seat: "He went to pick up girls, I looked around for several times and couldn't find him!"

"fxxx!"

"This brat, did he really let him succeed?!"

"Have you finished talking about everything?"

"How about we don't wait for Black Mike and go directly to that restaurant first?"

After Mike Bai finished speaking, he waited for a while, and when David in the back seat didn't respond, he turned his head and glanced at David, who looked like a mollusk.

"What's wrong with you? The elevator in Stanley Building is broken?"

David raised his arms softly and whispered: "Ignore me, let me stay by myself for a while, I'm annoying!"

"Haha~ God, what happened to you inside?"

"Why do I feel like you are like one of those beauties standing on the street without rest for days..."

"fxxx! Shut up! I need quiet!"

"okok! Haha~"

----

A bar on 33rd Street in Manhattan.

Ludy lit the cigarette in his hand and looked at the people sitting and standing on the street around him.

From the dozens of people after the original Bonini Agreement was signed, to the dozen or so people left now.

The street informants, a group created by David, have finally stabilized.

And the managers of these people. .

Cohen took people to Miami.

White Mike was kicked back to David by Ludy.

Alto. . .

Now, Ludy can only take charge of these last remaining boys.

"Ding bell~"

The bell hanging on the bar door rang, and Matthews and Auston walked in.

Lu Di pointed at the two people and said to everyone: "You are all from the security company now, and you are also auxiliary police officers in the name of the police.

Officers Matthews and Allston are here at this point and they will arrange for you to be identified. "

"From now on, no matter where you are in New York, no matter what you do, as long as you do not betray the company or do anything to cover up or assist crimes, your identity will be a guarantee of your life."

Ludy turned to Matthews and asked: "Do you have anything to say?"

Matthews waved his hand and sat next to Ludy, reached out to get himself a glass of wine at the bar, and motioned for Auston to speak first.

Auston took a step forward so that everyone could see him: "My name is Auston, we are acquainted now."

"Tomorrow you can go to my new office opposite the Wildfire Bar to register."

"Just like Ludi said just now, you will have the dual identity of auxiliary police and security company employees in the future."

"This identity is called by our police: Auxiliary Police Officer of DA Security Company."

"So guys, after you register with me, you will get the auxiliary police badge, and you can legally carry a concealed gun and walk on the street."

"If a policeman comes to check your identity, just show him your badge and he will stop causing trouble for you."

“Of course, it’s only valid within the New York City area, if you want to use it outside of New York City.

Sorry, I don't know what the consequences will be. "

"At that time, even if you find me, I can only say, God bless you~!"

"Haha~" Several people in the bar laughed out loud.

Auston continued: "After you register tomorrow, the police will send part of your salary to the security company every month. If you find that you have received less money, go to Ludy instead of me. .”

"I didn't take your money, I can't even see their shadow~"

"Haha~"

"Of course~"

"The police do not give you money and auxiliary police badges for nothing."

"If you find or receive any valuable clues or information on the street, you can come to my office opposite the Wildfire Bar and tell me. You can also call me. The number is..."

"My office will be on duty 24 hours a day from now on, so when you hear news, the on-duty staff will notify me as soon as possible, or notify other persons in charge of the police."

After Auston finished speaking, he retreated to the bar and sat down.

Matthews put down the wine glass in his hand and continued.

"There is one more thing, which should be good news for everyone."

"As of today this month, there have been 12 armed bank robberies across New York City."

"The police have now cracked down and arrested the criminals in five of the bank robberies."

"There are currently no clues for the remaining seven cases."

"Two of the bank leaders who were robbed have already told the police that if the police can find clues and solve these cases in a short period of time, they will offer a reward."

Matthews paused and took a sip of his drink.

"You may ask, how could these vampires put up money to reward robbers?"

"Don't their banks have insurance companies responsible for compensation?"

"Hehe~"

"Of these two banks, one has been robbed four times this year, and the other has been robbed six times."

"ohfxxx!"

"Which damn bastard did something good?"

"Haha ~ well done!"

Lu Di also cursed a few words happily, and kindly praised these robbers.

Matthews waved his hands to everyone helplessly: "Okay, be quiet!"

"The information on these cases is backed up in Alston's office. You can take a look when you go to his office tomorrow."

"The good news I want to say is that the rewards offered by these two banks are very high. I hope everyone can actively find useful clues."

"Our police will use your clues and after finding and catching the robber, we will distribute the reward according to each person's contribution."

"How much does it cost to be very high? There will always be a number, right?" Someone in the crowd asked this question.

"A bank that was robbed four times took out $5."

"The bank that was robbed six times... took out $12!"

"fxxx!"

"These rich guys seem to be really scared! Haha~"

Matthews had no choice but to raise his voice and said: "Some of the clues that our police have now found have also been backed up by Alston."

"In addition, in the cases that the police have not solved in recent years, if any of you can find clues and provide effective help to the police in solving the cases."

"I can guarantee here that for every case solved, the police will take out some money and give it to you as a reward."

"The number of these cases is large, so they are a lot of money. How much money everyone can get in the end depends on everyone's ability."

After Matthews finished speaking, he motioned to Ludy.

Lu Di cleared his throat, smiled and said to everyone: "Okay, if everyone has no more questions, let's leave."

"Remember to go to the Allston office tomorrow to register!"

"ok!~"

Everyone was chatting and laughing, and were about to leave the bar together.

Sani, who had been listening quietly in the corner, walked up to Ludi and suggested to him: "Do we need a name?"

"After all, when we went out to reveal our identities, the security company's auxiliary police..."

"It doesn't sound like that."

Ludy was amused by Sani's suggestion. .

He glanced at Matthews: "Do you think these people should have any nicknames or code names?"

Matthews shrugged and said it didn't matter. He didn't care, as long as these people could help the police and were worthy of the money paid by the police. .

Ludy turned his eyes to Auston, and Auston waved his hand: "They are all your subordinates. Whatever you want to call them, I don't have a problem with them!"

"Then...just wait a moment, everyone, come up with a name yourself."

Everyone was laughing and joking, shouting out a few code names and names in a playful manner.

"Hey, how about we call Hound Squad? What a cool name!"

"fxxx! You are the dog, and your whole family is a dog!~"

"No, I didn't mean that... shxx! Don't slap me in the face!~"

"The code name is Sivis!"

"Who is Sivis? Why do you call him by his name?"

"Let me tell you, codename Overlord! How exciting to say this~"

"Oh, shit! You mean..."

These people rattled off several names, and it seemed that they were all dissatisfied with each other's names.

Ludy scratched his head on the side, lit another cigarette for himself, listened for a while, and thought about it.

"Shut up!"

"You are considered the first batch of official street auxiliary police officers of the security company, so your future code names should be added with an "a" after your auxiliary police number."

"Code name for the first batch of people: a!"

"It represents that you are the earliest batch of veteran employees."

"When we recruit new people in the future, they will be the second batch, and their code names will be called b."

"This makes it easier to remember and distinguish."

"a?"

Auston listened happily.

Matthews glanced at Ludy thoughtfully, and he couldn't laugh it off.

This guy Ludy!

The first batch is called a, and the second batch is called b.

If the DA security company comes up with c, d, e, f, and g, will the New York City police officers still have work to do?

fxxx!

Are these all Ludy's ideas?

It’s still that boy David. . .What does he want to do?

Rudy didn't notice Matthews' mental condition.

"Okay, let's go."

"Get out of here you bastards!"

"Ok!"

"Let's go Ludy~!"

"fxxx!a? I think it's better to call it a little bird?"

"Little bird? Can it be eaten?"

"Haha~ You fucking know how to eat!"

"roll!"

"A is not bad. Once we have b in the future, we can bully the newcomers!"

"Haha~ You're like this and you still want to bully the newcomers?"

"What's wrong with me? Me too..."

Wait until the noisy people leave.

The bar finally became quiet again.

Matthews and Auston also stood up and prepared to leave.

Ludy stretched out his hand and gestured to him: "Do you have any clues about the stalker who was downstairs in David's apartment that night?"

Matthews glanced at Auston, frowned and shook his head: "We found some surveillance footage a few streets away."

"However, the man was wearing a hat and driving very fast. The images captured by the surveillance cameras were very blurry, and his appearance could not be identified at all."

"Are you sure he's the only one in the car?"

"Yes, it's just him!"

Ludis thought for a moment and said, "Okay, if you have any clues, remember to let me know."

Matthews nodded, hesitated, and walked out of the bar with Auston without saying anything else.

The two got in the car. After Auston drove, he glanced at Matthews: "What did you want to say just now?"

"Huh~ It's nothing~ Just some random thoughts."

Auston drove the car with a smile on his lips: "Is it because of the a and b that Ludy just said?"

"Yeah~ I hope... I'm overthinking it!"

"Haha~"

"I don't think you're overthinking it~ man!"

"How about we make a bet?"

Matthews raised his eyebrows: "What are you betting on?"

"I'll spend ten dollars and bet that the security company in the future will have c, d, e, and f!"

"fxxx!"

Matthews looked at Auston who was driving with some speechlessness.

"You bloody bastard!"

"I fucking know there will be something in the future..."

"Haha~"

"Then do you want to bet or not~?"

Matthews gritted his teeth and took out his wallet and took out ten knives: "Let's bet on whether there will be c within a year!"

"I bet ten bucks that there won't be a c within a year!"

Auston curled his lips and put both of their money in the car's storage compartment with a sideways glance.

"Then I'll bet there will be c!"

"But if you get d and e within a year, your bet will be doubled!"

Matthews hesitated for a moment and nodded: "Okay, I don't believe you will have such good luck!"

"Man, I've really had bad luck before."

"But since I met David, my luck has gotten better~!"

"I think you can't win this time~!"

"Haha~"

Matthews had a sullen face and stopped paying attention to him. He tilted his head and looked out the car window, dazed.

----

The Plaza Hotel on Manhattan's Upper East Side.

This hotel is located on 59th Street, across the street from Central Park and adjacent to General Plaza to the east, hence the name of the Plaza Hotel.

Pine, he is currently attending a cocktail party in this hotel with Giles, Panaris, and Elder.

A large-scale social charity reception where Wall Street elites gather.

The organizer of this party was Citigroup (Note 1), which was once attached to the Rockefeller and Morgan consortium.

The theme of this charity reception is: to donate money and materials to all the people who were killed and made homeless in New York City during this heavy rain disaster.

To be fair, Giles didn't like to attend such boring drinking parties the least.

Otherwise, young Giles doesn't like the hypocrisy, pretentiousness, and intrigues of the people here!

He was standing in an inconspicuous corner of the venue with a boy of similar age and slightly taller, chatting happily about something.

"Hey! Giles, you have encountered so many interesting things in the past few days since you came back to New York. Why didn't you tell me earlier? You are really not a brother!"

Giles pouted: "I wanted to inform you when Bloomer and I came to New York, but what about you? Where have you been?"

"I...I'm going to chase the girl I like! She insists on graduating and returning to her hometown, so I have no choice but to go back with her."

"Her hometown? Where is it?"

"Ahem...Tokyo!"

"what?"

Giles' eyes widened!

"You mean you went to Tokyo to pick up girls during the time you were missing?"

"shxx! You damn bastard!"

"Didn't your sister beat you to death?"

"Didn't your sister look for you?"

"You're really not afraid of death!"

"No~! Don't shout! They don't know where I'm going. I just told them that I've been driving all over the United States. Every time I go to a place, I send them postcards. You But don’t let me know!”

"Emm... you are really a genius! Leslie~!"

"Haha~ You don't know, Tokyo is definitely a wonderful, men's paradise!"

"Let me tell you, in the two months since I went there, my body has become a little weak..."

The young boy who is hugging Giles is Leslie Rockefeller, the brother of Kylena Rockefeller.

Giles' future uncle!

He, this unreliable and dishonest uncle, is now explaining the term Tokyo, a true man's paradise, to Giles, a poor boy who has never seen the world. .

The true meaning of this. .It's really not enough for outsiders.

The two of them hugged each other and murmured with sly looks on their faces, laughing and joking. People passing by who knew the two of them had expressions of bewilderment.

Pine, Panaris, and Elder were chatting with a group of insiders.

"Pine, I heard that you established a new venture capital company? Do you have any good projects? I happen to have some funds on hand, look..."

Pine nodded politely to the speaker: "Our venture capital company has just been established, and we are still looking for suitable investment projects. As you know, with the current market conditions, no matter what you invest in, the risk will be very high."

"High risks lead to high returns~"

"You also cooperated with Da Company to establish an angel investment company?"

"Is it an investment company that specializes in investing in emerging startups?"

"I heard someone said that this angel investment also established a project research and development center in Queens?"

"Pine, can you tell us about it?"

Panaris turned sideways and gave up his central position to Pine beside him.

Elder smiled and stood aside with Panaris, waiting with everyone for Pine's answer.

Both of them knew that the real purpose of these people was not angel investment and venture capital.

They must know what Lewis took with him when he left Salomon Company!

Pine smiled, nodded to Panaris, calmly faced the various questions raised by everyone, and talked eloquently: "These are the projects you mentioned in cooperation with Da Company..."

Everyone listened to Pine's introduction and narration with serious expressions.

not far away.

A middle-aged man, while chatting with a few friends, consciously or unconsciously kept paying attention to the small circle in which Panaris and the others belonged.

His name is Bernard Madoff, the last securities market maker on Wall Street.

In 1938, Madoff was born into an ordinary Jewish family in Queens, New York.

In 1960, 22-year-old Bernard Madoff, after graduating from Hofstra University School of Law in New York, borrowed tens of thousands of dollars from his father-in-law, plus he worked as a lifeguard during the holidays and gave With the $5000 I earned from installing sprinklers in my garden, I decided to start a business and open a company.

Madoff Investment Securities Company!

This company has developed to this day. It is already on Wall Street, can be considered to have begun to take shape, and has many regular large customers.

Faced with these achievements, the 44-year-old Madoff himself knew that his company had reached a bottleneck.

How to break through this bottleneck, defeat several industry leaders, and become a truly big market maker is the problem he needs to solve now.

Today's cocktail party undoubtedly gave Madoff an opportunity.

He has been paying attention to the popularity of electronic securities trading and the future development of Nasdaq since a few years ago!

In this regard, he is already working with professional personnel to research and develop a new electronic stock quotation system.

This newer, faster, and more complete system, if developed, will outperform traditional market makers who trade by telephone, as well as the current electronic trading system of Nasdaq.

but!

The emergence of every new thing will be accompanied by people's constant doubts and objections.

If this system is launched, he will face many pressures and problems.

Of course, as a businessman on Wall Street.

Greed and selfishness are also deeply engraved in his bones.

He came to the reception just to find an opportunity to get close to Panaris and Elder, face to face with them, and have a serious chat about this new electronic securities trading system.

If he can get the support and help of the Morgan family, his company will develop into the largest market maker on Nasdaq!

Why would he want to seek help from the Morgan family?

Because according to his investigation, the Morgan family's businesses were not directly involved in the securities trading industry, and his appearance undoubtedly filled a gap in the overall development of the financial industry for the Morgan family.

Madoff felt that he would not be rejected for this win-win cooperation!

After ten minutes.

Bernard Madoff saw the group of people around Panaris still listening to Pine's story.

He thought for a while, took his wine glass, walked slowly to Pine's side, pretended to be passing by, and pricked up his ears to hear what they were talking about.

After walking around, he muttered the two words he just heard: "Da Company, David?"

Madoff recalled in his mind that he had never heard of any big company on Wall Street!

This David is. . The boss of the company?

So what does this company do?

Madoff walked through the venue with a smile on his face, continuing to observe everyone at the reception, looking for his second target, Giles.

Finally, in a corner, he found Giles.

He was getting together with a young man, chatting happily about something.

Madoff calmly observed the surroundings of Giles and the two, then drank down the wine in his hand and took another glass of champagne from the passing waiter.

He lowered his head and straightened his appearance while holding the wine glass, and then walked to Giles' side.

"Hello! I'm Bernard Madoff!"

Giles and Leslie were chatting happily when they heard someone walking aside and introducing themselves.

They both immediately regained their young master's posture, shook hands with Mr. Madoff politely, and said a few words of courtesy.

Madoff, a veteran who has been on Wall Street for nearly 20 years, certainly knew that Giles and the others were using polite words to alienate him.

Madoff's expression remained unchanged, with a smile still on his face: "I heard that you are very familiar with President David of Da Company. I happen to have a very good business here, and I want to discuss cooperation with David. I don't know. Can you introduce us to each other?”

Giles looked at Madoff up and down in surprise: "Do you know David?"

"No, I haven't met him yet. I just heard his name and his company."

"Oh." Giles nodded and glanced at Leslie beside him.

"Can you give me your business card? I'll tell David to contact you!"

"Okay, here's my business card. Thank you for your help, Mr. Morgan."

"No, just call me Giles. I will definitely pass it on to David, don't worry!"

"Okay, then I won't bother you. Goodbye!"

Madoff nodded politely, turned and left.

Leslie watched him leave and touched Giles with his shoulder: "Do you know him?"

"How do I know?"

"Then you still help him?"

Giles smiled, glanced at the business card in his hand, and put it in his pocket.

"Whatever, it's just a business card~"

After Leslie saw Giles' actions, he rolled his eyes: "The David he was talking about is what you just told me..."

"Yes, they are the same person!"

"Then...it's so boring here. How about we go find David now?"

Giles moved his upper body further away from Leslie, looked at him sideways and said, "He should be with Lilith now. If you want to go, I'm fine~"

"Lilith?" The expression on Leslie's face made all the features come together after hearing the name!

"Damn it!"

"How did they get together?"

"Giles, is this Laura...?~"

Giles quickly slapped Leslie to shut him up: "Don't talk nonsense!"

"My sister just left New York this morning to study at Yale University. David was sent here to help her chat with Lilith."

"what?"

"Is there anyone else I can chat with Lilith?"

"David, isn't he afraid of choking to death?"

Giles bit his back molars, held back the smile that was about to burst out, and said seriously: "Are you sure you are talking about Lilith?"

"Man, Laura just left New York this morning."

“And it’s less than an hour’s drive from Yale.”

"You are sure you want to say bad things about them to me..."

"No! I didn't! I just said... Look, that guy David should be very interesting!"

"But he is too busy today, let's go play with him another day!"

Giles finally couldn't help laughing and pointed at Leslie.

"Haha~ Do you really have thoughts about Lilith and want to pursue her?"

"No!" Leslie replied simply.

"Okay then, I'll call Lilith and let's go have a drink with her tonight."

"Giles, you bastard! What are you going to do?" Leslie was a little anxious. He took Giles' arm and whispered.

Giles smiled mischievously and rolled his eyes: "Then... lend me your yacht, and I will take David and Lilith out to sea for a tour."

Leslie shook his head, gritted his teeth, and stared at Giles. It took him a long time to say one word between his teeth: "Okay!"