Chapter 649 Investigation Progress (Revised)
Politics has never been warm and affectionate. Since you have joined this game and want to become the ultimate winner, you must do everything you can.
Simon talked with Paul Spetz all morning, had lunch together, and saw each other go away. Martin Dinham, one of the heads of the Westeros family intelligence team, quietly arrived in Greenwich.
Martin Dinham mainly sent official investigation materials that triggered a series of cases some time ago.
Simon believes that the beginning and end of a series of actions have been cleaned up very clean, but for caution, he did not ignore the investigation of those cases. The internal information of several task force can be found in many media. It is even easier for the Westeros family intelligence team to obtain more detailed case investigation information.
From April to now, in addition to the Woodfield Manor bombing, several other shootings that were distributed throughout the United States that were at least unrelated to the official have basically been put on hold because the investigation for a month has no clue.
The investigation has been underway because of too many suspicious points and the media has dug up the bombing of the Woodfield Manor.
During this period, the FBI task force has conducted routine inquiries on hundreds of people involved in the case and has targeted potential shareholders of Monroeville Machinery Company who suffered huge losses due to George Woodfield's arbitrary embezzlement of corporate funds.
There is no sign of the Westeros family throughout the investigation.
However, Simon believes that someone must be very interested in involving this matter to the Westeros family. After all, if this matter is exposed, the blow to the Westeros system will be no less than the murder of Doris Fitcher encountered by the Hurst Group.
It is precisely because of this that the few people who vaguely know the inside story do not dare to act rashly.
The charge of creating an explosion similar to a terrorist attack is too serious. If there is no substantial evidence and it will cause trouble.
After all, the Westeros system is not easy to provoke.
Just like the 911 in Simon's memory, there are too many suspicions, and there are too many signs. On the surface, the federal government has not stopped it in advance, but because of the lack of evidence, many accusations can only stay in the conspiracy theory stage for a long time.
Perhaps the Woodfield Manor bombing may also be exposed in the form of a conspiracy theory some years later, but the public is always forgetful, and the attention to this matter has definitely cooled down. After a long time, the clues that can be investigated will be even scarce, and at that time, they can only stay in the conspiracy theory stage.
Moreover, compared to the Doris Fiercher murder case, which the Hurst family only tried to fool the public and guide public opinion, the Westeros have a reasonable motive. If someone sends a killer with a gun and grenade to break into your home and hurt your family, it is not an exaggeration to fight back and take revenge for most people who are a little bit of aura. Therefore, even if things are exposed in the form of conspiracy theories, the Westeros may not necessarily stand completely on the evil side.
"Two days ago, we heard a call from William Hurst III, who lives in Paris, France, and FBI Director Louis Frieh. William III asked about the inside story about the Woodfield Manor bombing. Frieh did not answer and warned William III not to call himself again. However, according to the conversation between the two, William III should have known something. In addition, the News Times in Danbury, Connecticut sent two reporters to Pittsburgh during this period and have been spared no effort to find out the inside story of the Woodfield Manor bombing. The News Times is a newspaper owned by the Hurst Group."
Inside the villa study at Greenwich Manor.
Simon listened to Martin Dinham's report while playing the call between William III and Louis Frih.
The relationship between the United States and France has not been very good, so no extradition treaty has been signed so far. The famous Hollywood director Roman Polanski has lived in France for a long time after sexually assaulting a 13-year-old girl. William Hurst III also fled to Paris this time.
However, compared with Roman Polansky, the murder of William Hirst III is much more serious. Faced with public pressure, the French government has recently stated that it may expel William Hirst III.
After the last surveillance video was exposed, the entire Hurst family strengthened anti-surveillance measures. The same is true for William III, who fled to Paris. This embarrassed "media giant" now brings a bunch of bodyguards when traveling, but unfortunately, it still cannot escape the ubiquitous surveillance of the Westeros family intelligence team.
As for FBI Director Louis Frih, Simon is also not unfamiliar with this person.
Louis Frih was a Republican and promoted by the previous president, George Bush.
Bush, Sr., once served as the director of the CIA and was very clear about the importance of controlling the intelligence system.
Simon investigated Louis Frih's resume. Bush Sr. has been closely related to Louis Frih since the 1980s, and he completely treated the other party as the next FBI director for training. Unfortunately, Louis Frih defeated Bill Clinton's nominee last year with the efforts of the Republican forces and successfully became the new FBI director in 1993, but Bush lost his own presidential re-election.
Because of this background, the FBI director who ran across Bill Clinton's entire presidency has become Clinton's "nightmare". For eight consecutive years, Louis Frih spared no effort to cause trouble for Clinton, but Clinton, who had a shallow foundation, could not fire the thorn in his eyes.
After a little review, it is actually not difficult to find that the agents at the federal government level surrounding the Westeros family clearly had the shadow of the Bush family.
After Bush was eliminated from the election, the Bush family was planning for Bush's White House throughout the 1990s. Clinton's series of scandals were to hit the credibility of the Democratic Party to the greatest extent.
Judging from the call between Louis Frih and William Hurst III, the FBI director had no intention of dragging the Westeros into the Woodfield bombing.
However, it can be imagined that if the Westeros system becomes a roadblock for Bush to the White House in the future, some of the inside stories about this matter may be exposed. After all, Clinton's "tragic experience" for eight consecutive years has proved this, including even the most famous zipper door. In Simon's memory, the New York Times once sorted out and found that the main promoter behind the zipper door was a group of Republican conservatives in the southern United States, which happened to be the political base of the Bush family.
Too many things in this world are never rooted for no reason.
Martin Dinham sat on the sofa in the study and never disturbed Simon's thoughts. He also understood that his team was just a surveillance player. If he really wanted to do something against this information, it was often not their turn.
After listening to the recording of the call, Simon silently tapped the leather sofa armrest with his fingers. After five or six minutes, he just nodded slightly to Martin Dinham and asked again: "Have you ever investigated the News Times in Danbury?"
Martin Dinham nodded, took out a document from his briefcase and handed it over.
Simon did not rush to open it anymore and said, "That's it. You still keep monitoring the Hurst family and don't do anything else for the time being. In addition, pay attention to your own safety. If you notice something is wrong, leave the United States as soon as possible. If something really happens, notify me as soon as possible."
Martin Dinham nodded again: "I understand, boss."
As the investigator of the truth of the assassination, although the Martin Dinham team did not participate in the execution of certain things, they were also the most direct informed team.
If the federal government suddenly arrests these people, even if it is still impossible to build a complete chain of evidence against the Westeros family, it will definitely not be a good thing.
Martin Dinham certainly understands this.
In fact, during this period, not only did the Hurst family monitor, but after Simon's permission, Dinham's team also cleared several of the first and last remaining in the investigation of the assassination, and even established brand new identity files for several team members.
Moreover, at least on the surface, Martin Dinham and others have very innocent identities.
If you are really arrested, as long as you are not a secret arrest without anyone noticing, the lawyers in the Westeros system will be very sure to get them out as soon as possible.
As for the specific executors of the explosion case and those family-killing cases, if the FBI wants to find the direct murderer, he can only go to hell to ask Satan for it.
After Martin Dinham left, Simon read the information from the Danbury City News Times in his study alone, and arranged some things based on the information provided by Dinham, and then ordered Girl A to prepare a helicopter.
When we arrived in Manhattan, it was still 2 o'clock in the afternoon.
I immediately went to the construction site of Westeros Building in the Upper East District.
The small illegal labor storm at the end of last year did not affect the construction progress of the Westeros Tower. Since the beginning of 1992, more than half of the main building of the Westeros Tower has been completed in more than two years. However, half of the building that has been completed has exceeded all buildings outside the Manhattan Twin Towers and the Empire State Building.
It is expected that the cap will be completed by the end of 1996, and the main building height of 622 meters will remain the position of the world's number one skyscraper for many years to come.
After staying at the Westeros Building site for an hour, Simon continued to rush to the East Coast headquarters of Daenerys Entertainment in Greenwich Village.
During this period, the annual TV series promotion season in the United States has ended. Daenerys TV's two most important projects this year, "Friends" and "The Story of the Emergency Room", have been determined. The former is still taken away by NBC, and the latter is in the hands of CBS.
Neither project gave Simon the ABC TV network, which had the next merger goal in the plan.
Simon has his own considerations about this.
Leaving good things for yourself should be the first reaction of most people when they encounter similar choices.
However, once ABC TV network is merged in the future, Daenerys TV, which is very popular in the United States' major TV networks, will face a problem. After becoming a competitor, several other major TV networks will inevitably reduce the purchase of Daenerys Entertainment TV programs. Daenerys Entertainment will only be able to produce and sell itself to the greatest extent.
What Simon lacks the most is the popular TV project.
Now, transferring "Friends" and "The Story of the Emergency Room" that are likely to become a phenomenal hit drama to NBC and CBS, basically achieving parasitic effects like the DC movie universe to Time Warner.
For such phenomenal TV shows, the subsequent Syndicate distribution profit is the big one, and the long-term big one. Just like Friends, Even though it has been completed for many years, Time Warner, which holds copyright, can still obtain up to $100 million in copyright fees from Netflix every year.
Therefore, if "Friends" and "The Story of the Emergency Room" are played on other TV network platforms, most of the profits are still attributed to Daenerys Entertainment, which is equivalent to using the platforms and resources of the other two TV networks to gain fame and profit for the two TV series.
Not only that, without these two popular support ratings and TV network performance, Daenerys Entertainment will be easier in the process of acquiring ABC in the future. At the same time, after taking over ABC TV network, Daenerys Entertainment will have more abundant schedules to produce other high-quality programs.
I was busy in Greenwich Village until after six o'clock in the afternoon. When it was dusk, A-someone knocked in and reminded: "Boss, the party at Grand Hotel is ready. Are you going to go now?"
Simon tied up the planning plan for the new season of "The Wife in New York", looked at the watch, shook his head and said, "No, let's go for dinner first."
Girl A was stunned for a moment, then nodded, thought for a while and said, "So, how about St. George's Restaurant?"
Simon nodded with a smile: "Okay."
Girl A called to set up a seat, and Simon also wrote an email to Robert Eiger about his personal opinion on "The Wife of New York". The two left the office together and rushed to St. George's Restaurant on the Upper West Side.
As a married man, it is not appropriate to take other women out for dinner. However, since he is a female assistant, there is no big problem. What's more, given Simon's current status and the recent experiences of the Hurst family, the current media really dare not write gossip about Simon anymore.
After dinner, the A-satisfied girl said that she did not plan to attend a party at Grand Hotel with Simon. She planned to go to B-shelf to discuss the matter of Alphabeta and would spend the night in Becky's apartment tonight.
Simon first sent Alison to Betsy's apartment on the Upper West Side, and then turned around and rushed to the Grand Hotel in Midtown, which is not too far from the East Coast branch of Daenerys Entertainment.
The Grand Hotel party is hosted by Daenerys Entertainment, mainly to celebrate the perfect ending of a series of TV programs in the spring, as well as the successful establishment of many TV projects in the new year, with many company executives and TV stars attending.
Simon was originally not interested in such a party, but if he met him, he would only show his face at most.
But tonight is a little different.
Because the "prey" that were tamed during this period will appear at the party tonight, it is the remaining mother and daughter of the Gralf family, who were participants in the assassination. During this period, Simon has been sending people to stare at the every move of Laura Gralf and daughter of the three, and manipulating the lives of the mother and daughter of the three, just like controlling a marionette.
Simon originally planned to suck these three vases for a few months and completely get rid of his temper. Now, more than a month has passed, and he found that if he continues to suck, the mother and daughter may be completely abandoned, so he might just harvest them in advance.
Chapter completed!