Martin Dinham's report concluded with a brief summary of the current status of the two masterminds behind the assassination.
After the fund was liquidated, Clark Gralf not only lost all of the approximately US$20 million in net worth accumulated over the years, but also faced financial difficulties such as claims and lawsuits from investors, banks repossessing properties, and creditors pursuing arrears. The former may not be a big threat. The risks of hedge funds are well known, and you have to be mentally prepared to lose everything if you invest. The latter is a devastating blow to the Gralff family.
The Grahl family purchased a $6 million mansion on Manhattan's Upper East Side two years ago and spent $3 million on renovations.
Due to the spending habits of wealthy people, George Gralgh did not choose to make a lump sum payment, but took out a bank mortgage.
Upon learning that Graalf's fund was being liquidated, the bank immediately repossessed the Upper East Side mansion.
The contractor, who was also owed more than $2 million in renovation costs, immediately applied to the district court to seize the Gralf family's two other properties located in the Upper West Side and Southampton, as well as luxury cars and other assets. It will be paid off at auction in the near future.
After losing all their real estate, the Grahl family had to move from the expensive Upper East Side to a rental apartment in Lower Manhattan.
Not only that, but a fire started in George Gralf's backyard.
George Gralf is 45 years old this year. As an outstanding fund manager who has accumulated a million-dollar net worth before he was 25 years old, Gralf married a model wife who is 9 years younger than him at the age of 29. Laura Gralf, after their marriage, they gave birth to two daughters one after another, 16-year-old Cathy Gralf and 14-year-old Victoria Gralf. After marriage, Laura Gralf She began a pampered life as a lady that lasted for more than ten years.
Until her husband suddenly went bankrupt.
In order to avoid being implicated, this 36-year-old full-time housewife not only filed for divorce as soon as possible, but also secretly hid all the jewelry given by her husband over the years in a safe in a bank in Manhattan. Due to sudden family changes, the two daughters of this family had to temporarily withdraw from expensive private schools in Manhattan. During this time, the two daughters, who missed the school's spring break trip to Europe, also complained sarcastically about their hapless father.
The rest of Martin Dinham's report was entirely written in the tone of a calm bystander. Until this point, this 'well-informed' intelligence agent who had done espionage work and was now wandering in gray areas couldn't help it. He commented on the mother and daughter with obvious emotions.
Selfish and powerful.
However, George Gralf, who encouraged his old classmates to hollow out the family business and short technology stocks, leading to a complete failure, was not a good person, otherwise he would not have planned a trick to assassinate Simon in a desperate situation.
It probably corresponds to the old saying: If you are not a family, you don’t belong to the same family.
Simon curiously found a group photo of this family from the information. It had to be said that, at least from the photos, it was difficult to tell the character of any one of the family members.
In the photo, George Gralf is wearing rimless glasses and a suit, sitting on the sofa with his legs crossed, looking like an elegant and successful man.
Wearing a long black skirt with a waist, a graceful woman stretches her body and leans beside her husband. The woman has beautiful long flaxen hair, a delicate face, and fair skin. Even if she lies on her side, it can be seen that the woman is at least 180cm. ’s height, and the photo date attached to the lower right corner of the photo was last year. In the image, Laura Gralf, who is already in her thirties, shows no trace of the ravages of time, but has a somewhat mature charm.
The pair of sisters standing behind the couple clearly inherited their mother's excellent genes. Although they were only 15 and 13 years old respectively last year, they already have a tall figure of over 170cm, and their appearance is very similar to their mother. If they are put together, some people believe that the young pair are twins. The mother and daughter are three It is estimated that they will also be regarded as three sisters.
Maybe it would be good to collect three vases like this.
Making a casual decision, Simon put the photo aside and continued flipping through Dinham's report.
Martin Dinham, who was across the desk, noticed Simon's look just now.
His boss has obviously become interested in Laura Gralf, whom he hates in his heart.
Perhaps the interests will be broader.
However, the look that the young man opposite had just looked at was not at all like a man's interest in women, but more like a collector who saw a few good collections.
Thinking of this, Martin Dinham stopped his thoughts consciously.
Unless ordered by his boss, these are not things he needs to pay attention to.
Since getting this job, one of the principles that Martin Dinham has always adhered to is to keep his duties. He will spare no effort in what he should do, and he will not interfere in things that he should not do. Although as an agent, you spend most of your time exploring people's privacy, there are many times when your curiosity is too much, and the results can be fatal.
The other Woodfield families were also in chaos.
Like the Hearst family, although the scale of their assets is far smaller, the Woodfield family is also a well-established family that has been in Pittsburgh for hundreds of years.
From the last century when British immigrant Ralph Woodfield founded the Monroeville Machinery Company in Monroeville, south of Pittsburgh, the family has been passed down to the sixth generation. There are more than 100 direct descendants of Ralph Woodfield living today. 30 people.
As the chairman and CEO of the family business Monroeville Machinery Company, George Woodfield misappropriated huge amounts of funds and caused all losses. The news was exposed by local media. The share price of Monroeville Machinery Company has plummeted by more than 30% recently.
Other family members who had been unable to gain control of the family business in the past and could only accept trust benefits honestly jumped out to accuse George Woodfield of serious negligence.
The funds illegally misappropriated by George Woodfield also included part of the pension reserves of the Monroeville Machinery Company. After the incident, more than 300 workers in the company immediately chose to go on strike, demanding a clear answer from the management.
Regulatory agencies, including the SEC, also immediately launched investigations into the Monroeville company.
Other shareholders in Monroeville, who had been suppressed from control because of the company's dual-class share structure, also jumped out and asked to take over the company.
The local media did not take it too seriously and tried their best to dig up insider information and follow up the reports.
It can be said that George Woodfield can now be described as 'embattled on all sides'.
After spending more than half an hour patiently reading the report, Simon's expression did not change much, and he did not make any comments. Instead, he asked Martin Dinham about another matter: "Is there anything going on at Hearst? "
Martin Dinham, who was sitting across from the desk patiently waiting to occasionally answer Simon's one or two questions, stood up, found a piece of information from the pile of information on the table, and said: "The recent news of the six core figures of the Hearst family The surveillance records, including some of the key audio and video recordings, are here. However, I think the most important piece of information is that last night, after John Hester left the Salzburg home, he discussed closing with William III. The prosecution is under way. Three newspapers put pressure on us by putting 1,100 workers out of work. The Hearst family can then take the opportunity to lobby newspaper industry unions and federal regulators to limit our lawsuit bombing on the grounds of safeguarding workers' rights."
Martin Dinham said, and at Simon's signal, he sat down opposite again and continued: "I did a brief survey last night. It's just that the "Stanford Advocate" in Stamford, Connecticut, has about 370 employees. It involves 13 union organizations, including the Journalists Union, the Printers Union, and the Truck Drivers Union, five of which are national. If these unions work together, even Congress will not look down upon it."
Simon squinted his eyes, looked at several boxes of video tapes on the table, and asked, "Is there a video of their conversation?"
Martin Dinham nodded and skillfully found a box of video tapes. After Simon nodded, he walked to the TV on the side of the study and continued: "William III liked to talk about these things with people in his study. We quietly Once cameras are installed, most other listening points can only be installed with simple eavesdropping devices.”
With that said, Martin Dinham inserted the videotape into the VCR, and the TV screen soon showed the images of William Hearst III and the John Hearst brothers who had just met Simon last night. The content of the discussion was exactly Closing three newspapers turned pressure on the Westeros system.
American labor unions will rapidly decline after the new century. This is an inevitable trend.
However, the power of labor unions derived from various established industries in the United States is still very powerful at this stage. Just like the various automobile industry unions that are known to have largely contributed to the decline of the American automobile industry due to excessive demands, various unions related to traditional print media Newspaper industry unions are also deeply entangled.
The entire Hearst Group currently employs more than 20,000 people across hundreds of newspapers, magazines and television stations.
Simon avoided his own affairs and let the "vulnerable groups" serve as spokespersons to attack the Hearst Group. The Hearst family planned to retaliate in kind.
Compared with those weak ordinary people, various print media industry unions with a total membership of millions are much stronger. Because these unions control a large number of votes, they also have great influence on the federal government.
If Simon had not obtained evidence of the conversation between the two brothers in advance, once the Hearst Group launched, the Westeros system would indeed be in a hurry.
Even if those unions understand the Hearst family's underlying intention to close the three newspapers, they are likely to point the finger at Simon due to the lack of substantive evidence and perhaps some of the benefits promised by the Hearst family.
Now, as long as the video is released after the incident, many union members who find themselves becoming the pressure tool of the Hearst family will never give up. Just the workers' compensation lawsuit caused by this kind of egregious disguised dismissal will be enough for Hearst. There was a massive hemorrhage in the family.
There are more than 1,100 employees at the three newspapers, and there is strong support from the labor unions behind them. The amount of the claim is definitely calculated in '100 million'.
After watching the video with an expressionless expression, Simon thought for a moment and said to Martin Dinham: "From now on, you will completely withdraw from the investigation of the assassination and focus on monitoring the Hearst family. I need more videos. data, not just easily refuted recordings. But..."
Simon said as he picked up the remote control on the desk and turned on the TV on the wall again. The picture this time was still a surveillance camera, but it was a surveillance camera near the manor.
Martin Dinham immediately recognized a white Toyota sedan that he had already noticed flaws in when he arrived.
These are the people who often follow the Westeros family. The team in charge of Martin Dinham has conducted secret investigations on these people. Among these people, there are private detectives, government agents, and Some agents from overseas countries are all forces that covet the Westeros family.
Simon used to pay no attention to what these people meant.
After all, these people are like weeds. If you cut them off, they will definitely regenerate. Moreover, the security and intelligence teams of the Westeros family were not strong enough. They can only try to prevent these people from breaking into Westeros private homes and installing them. Listening devices and other devices.
Now Simon is not going to tolerate it anymore.
Seeing the understanding on Martin Dinham's expression, Simon continued: "...Before that, clean up all these followers and send them to Tierra del Fuego together like last time. Also, warn them that there will be no one in the future. Get anywhere near a Westeros house and I'll just send them to heaven or hell."
Martin Dinham nodded, and seeing that Simon had no other instructions, he helped rearrange the information on the table and briefly introduced it, then left the study with his empty suitcase.
Regarding the follow-up related to the assassination case, now that Simon has spoken, Martin Dinham has no intention of interfering at all.
From early on, Martin Dinham knew that there was more to the secret intelligence team in Westeros than just him. Now, a few years later, the intelligence team directly under Martin Dinham has grown to five groups, with a total of 32 people, but these are still only a small part of the secret power of the Westeros family.
Moreover, Martin Dinham also discovered that the groups he led were only responsible for monitoring and collecting intelligence most of the time. At most, they were only doing some work of sending people to Tierra del Fuego, and more sensitive dirty work. 'They just haven't touched it.
Obviously, the Westeros family must have a group of 'executors' who hide deeper in darkness.
During the New York City mayoral election last year, the gang fight in Bowery Bay, Queens, was ruled by the authorities to be an accidental gangster attack. The media basically believed so. Only Martin Dinham knew that the relevant gang transaction information was in his name. One team collected the supplies and a gang fight ensued in which they were not involved.
There is no such thing as a coincidence in the world.
Martin Dinham occasionally couldn't help but wonder whether there were monitors around people like him to prevent them from betraying.
However, these thoughts did not cause him much trouble.
Even if there is, it is reasonable.
After all, the supervision that real agents of the national intelligence department encounter are all superficial.
This is the rule.
From being an Australian government agent to his current job, Martin Dinham is very satisfied with everything his young boss has given him. Naturally, he has never had any thoughts of betrayal. Therefore, even if he is really behind the scenes, It doesn't matter if you have eyes too.
When Martin Dinham left the manor, Simon's personal bodyguard Ken Dixon quietly gave him a piece of information. It was the followers surrounding the Westeros family who needed to be sent to Tierra del Fuego.
Driving back to Manhattan, Martin Dinham thought about the meeting.
His boss's expression was always calm, but Martin Dinham could feel the murderous intent clearly emanating from the young man. This feeling was very mysterious. At a certain moment, he even thought that the young man sitting behind the desk might have killed people just like them.
He immediately gave up this idea.
Martin Dinham is very clear about many of his boss's "glorious deeds". The young man has extraordinary physical strength and should also know fighting skills. Not only did he easily break the legs of five people with one against five Bones, and also set a record of ten consecutive KOs in an underground boxing ring in Melbourne. These are topics that a group of them occasionally talk about in private.
Because of this profession, most of them will instinctively worship the strong.
However, if his boss said that he had killed people and seen blood, Martin Dinham did not believe it too much.
The rise of my boss since he was 18 years old is very clear. With so many pairs of eyes staring at him, if he had blood on his hands, he would have been found out long ago. The people in this country who covet the wealth of Simon Westeros can be said to be The list goes on.
As for an orphan before the age of 18, he may fight with others, but killing someone is unlikely.
After thinking wildly for a moment, Martin Dinham quickly put aside these indifferent thoughts.
You are just a pawn, so just do what a pawn should do with peace of mind.
Seeing a white Toyota following him quietly through the rearview mirror, Martin Dinham couldn't help but smile contemptuously. These people had probably easily followed the Westeros family for too long, and he had become a waste. , thinking that everyone is trash.
So, let’s start with you.