Chapter 819 Company Bankruptcy, Prelude
“Goodbye, Paul! Thank you so much for today.”
“That’s an exaggeration, Team Leader Luo An, it’s just a small matter. I should be the one to thank you. Let’s go out for a drink together later!”
…”
Looking at Roan and Paul standing in the corridor laughing at each other outside the office area, Lacey had a strange look on her face. She moved her chair to Winslow's side and asked in a low voice:
“Have you heard that their relationship is so good?”
Winslow looked at Lacey in surprise:
"As long as there are no excessive conflicts between men, they can chat together in a few words. Is it okay to go out for a drink together?"
Lacie rolled her eyes at Winslow and was too lazy to talk to him. She snatched away the snacks on Winslow's table, moved her chair and moved closer to Mona, asking:
"Mona, you..."
“Let’s deal with the matters in this case first.”
As soon as Lacey started speaking, Mona turned around and grabbed the back of Lacey's chair, pushed her back to her workstation, and said:
"If I'm not wrong, now that the book dealer Yoon in the interrogation room has confessed everything, we will be busy again."
Lacie muttered a few words and stopped asking. She put down her gossip and began to seriously deal with the case information at hand.
Outside the corridor, Paul took the elevator and left shortly after. Luo An turned around and walked back to the office area, opened the door, clapped his hands and said loudly:
“Everyone, look at me, look at me, I’m going to announce something.”
Mona, Winslow, Lacey, Chenelle and Michelle all looked up at Roan, who turned around and closed the door to speak.
Jingle Bell-
The ringtone of his cell phone suddenly rang, making Luo An hesitate. He looked at everyone a little apologetically, picked up the phone and pressed the answer button.
“It’s me, Michael.”
Michael Bray's voice came over the phone. He was extremely anxious, lowering his voice and speaking quickly:
“Luo An, do you have time now? If you have time, come to Wall Street quickly, something happened here!”
Luo An narrowed his eyes slightly and asked:
“What kind of thing are you referring to? Is it related to people or money?”
“Both!”
Michael Bray was very agitated and replied:
“It’s not convenient to discuss things on the phone. It’s better to come here as soon as you have time.”
“OK, I get it.”
Luo An nodded, replied casually and hung up the phone.
After pondering for a moment, Luo An walked straight to the front of the office area and turned on the small TV hanging on the wall under the puzzled looks of Winslow, Mona and others.
Turning on the TV, Luo An picked up the remote control and kept changing channels. He quickly adjusted to the economic news channel, where the blonde female host was introducing a piece of news:
“…Three minutes ago, at 10:44 this morning, New Century Financial, the second largest federal subprime mortgage company located on Wall Street, declared official bankruptcy…”
“What?”
“W-T-F?!”
“New Century Finance is bankrupt?!”
Before Luo An could say anything, Winslow, Chenelle and Lacey in the office area stood up from their chairs and exclaimed with shock on their faces.
Michelle, who had always been quite emotionally stable, also had her eyes widened with emotion. She raised her hand and covered her mouth tightly.
"How can this be?"
Federal New Century Financial Investment Company is very famous throughout the federation because many people can buy villas with zero down payment loans and wait for the villas to appreciate in value through loans obtained from this company.
Although Winslow and Chenier have never bought a house with a loan from New Century Financial Company, they have many friends around them, so they have all heard of the company's reputation.
The second largest subprime mortgage company in the federal government has declared bankruptcy. This news immediately went to the minds of several people, and they subconsciously suspected that this might be fake news. Compared to Winslow and others who looked shocked, Luo An only narrowed his eyes slightly when he saw the news on TV, with almost no change in his expression.
After a few seconds of silence, he turned off the TV, turned to look at the crowd, and said in a deep voice:
“Everyone, have you ever taken a loan from this company?”
“No.”
"No."
Chenier and the others looked at each other and shook their heads.
Since joining the special investigation team, the economic level of the agents has skyrocketed, and they are hardly short of money.
Even if they are short of money, they have almost accumulated enough funds by following Luo An to solve a few cases, and they have almost never taken out a loan since then.
Luo An nodded slightly and then said:
“In this case, let’s put aside the news from Wall Street for now and deal with the case at hand first.”
“OK.”
"no problem."
Everyone nodded in unison, suppressed the shock in their hearts, and began to listen carefully to Luo An's arrangements for the balloon case.
“Everyone, this is the record of Deputy Team Leader Paul’s interrogation of Reader Youn just now.”
Luo An opened the folder and said:
“Youn said that the boss behind him is named Omarian, and he is generally called “White Cobra” on the road.
Because this guy sells flour and rock sugar, he is also vicious and cunning, he has several bases, and he chooses his accommodation location completely randomly on weekdays.
Our next goal is to find a way to catch this guy. "
Winslow thought for a moment and asked:
"Since Omarian has several bases, shall we find a way to conduct a reconnaissance next? Or we may carry out arrest operations at each base at the same time."
“No need, we will wait for the news and be ready for action.”
Luo An waved his hand and said that Deputy Team Leader Paul would find a way to investigate Omarian's whereabouts and then report it to the special investigation team, who would arrest him.
Winslow and Chenelle looked at each other in confusion after hearing this. After a few seconds of silence, Lacey asked tentatively:
“Deputy leader Paul, are you so helpful?”
Helping Luo An interrogate Yon is indeed a small thing, but helping to investigate Omarian's whereabouts is definitely a hard job. No matter how good the relationship between deputy team leader Paul and Luo An is, it is impossible for him to do so silently without asking for anything in return.
“Deputy team leader Paul and I have already discussed the rest of the matter. You will know when this case is over.”
Luo An said that it is not convenient to elaborate on some situations now. Everyone should prepare their equipment first and wait for news in the next few days.
Although Winslow and others had doubts, they had always trusted Luo An, so they simply stopped asking too many questions and hurriedly sorted out the case work.
Omarian is very cautious, and investigating his whereabouts is not a simple matter. In the next few days, the special investigation team quietly waited for news, while Luo An found a time and drove to Wall Street.
In an office in a building on Wall Street, Michael Brey was shouting angrily on his cell phone.
Seeing Luo An walk into the room, he shook his phone with an embarrassed look on his face. Luo An smiled and waved his hand to indicate that he was not in a hurry, and walked aside to make coffee.
Ten minutes later, Michael Bray put down the phone, and Luo An handed him a cup of coffee and said with a smile:
“New Century Financial Corporation went bankrupt, federal housing prices began to fall, and it was time for those investment companies to pay CDS.”
“You are really a bunch of **** raised by cousins!”
Michael Bray took the coffee and drank it in one gulp, cursing and saying:
“Goldman Sachs told me that there was a system failure and a lot of files were lost;
Morgan Stanley said that the server suddenly crashed after the incident and it would take time to restart;
The Commonwealth Bank was the most outrageous. They actually told me that they had a power outage! So I can't pay now! "
(End of this chapter)