Chapter 138: Brooke's Scam
"James, I think your mind may be a little less sober today, you need to calm down, I'm going to give you three days off today, you can wait until next week to come back to work!"
"Mr. General Manager, I don't think I've ever been so sober in my life as I am now, the so-called handling of mortgaged real estate is just to use us in the end, what a bonus of 200,000 US dollars, I bah! I don't know when I will be asked to go back by you, just like the last 150,000 yuan bonus, the company's lawyer's letter is still in my hand!"
"James, shut up, you're basically telling the biggest joke of this century! What you're saying doesn't have any logic at all, it's all your nonsense! You said that the company gave you a bonus of 150,000 yuan, but you have neither outstanding performance nor brought any huge benefits to the company, why should the company give you a bonus of 150,000 yuan? I think you are simply making up nonsense, and you are more suitable to go to Hollywood as a screenwriter!"
"You can not admit it, but you can't deny the company's lawyer's letter, it is by no means forged!"
"But the fact is that you faked it, I don't know what you are doing it for, but you are the worst behavior, from today onwards, James you will be fired!"
James and the general manager in the conference room you and I back and forth and no one back down, until finally James listened to the general manager's threat to fire him, he smiled and said: "Finally fired me? This is really very good news, and I don't plan to continue to stay in this company that is about to go bankrupt, general manager, you will soon lose your job." ”
After speaking, James looked around again and said: "But everyone is innocent, I am here to tell you that the devil's graveyard is coming soon, you better get out of here quickly, and don't help the devil anymore......"
This time, before James could finish his words, he was unceremoniously interrupted by the general manager, who pointed out the door and shouted at him: "I want you to get out immediately, get out immediately!"
Faced with the hysteria of the general manager, James looked at him with a smile and said, "It's easy to let me out, but there will be no chance to find me in the future." ”
"Fuck off!"
So James left the company in the angry scolding of the general manager, he took the elevator to the underground parking lot of the building, and got into an ordinary-looking Buick sedan, which was Zhou Ming's car.
"How is it?, everything in the company has been solved?" Zhou Ming asked with a glance at him.
James smiled and nodded and replied: "Of course, and I may never have the opportunity to be as happy as today in my life, Mr. Zhou Ming, you don't know, I scolded the general manager for a bloody head!"
"Congratulations on your dream coming true. Zhou Ming congratulated casually, then took out a check from his pocket and said to James, "This is a check for $700,000 from a Swiss bank, you can cash it at any branch, if you are worried, I can go to the bank with you now." ”
James shook his head and said, "No, I believe in Mr. Zhou Ming 100%. ”
"Okay, but you'll have to stay out of the box for a while since you can still be prosecuted for your actions. Zhou Ming said and took out a ticket to James, "This is a ticket to Guatemala, I hope it will help you." ”
James took the ticket and said very much to Zhou Ming, then stepped out of the car and bowed to Zhou Ming silently.
Zhou Ming closed the car door and let Zhang Lin drive away, after driving out of the underground parking lot, Zhou Ming took out his mobile phone and dialed the phone number of Louie, the patriarch of the Lowell family: "The matter has been done, your media can expose all those things, and it depends on you whether it can cause the best effect." ”
Louis on the other side of the phone laughed and said, "Then you can rest assured, I have been waiting for this day for a month!"
So the next day, there was a sudden news on New England TV: Brooke Investments lost 600 million funds from customers!
The subprime mortgage crisis caused by a large number of ethnic minorities filing for bankruptcy has affected Brighton for a month, and the first to bear the brunt of the crisis is Brooke Investments, but then with the large layoffs of Brooke Investments and the sale of its funds and mortgaged properties, it can barely support itself, but recently I received a news that Brooke can support because of his loss of customer funds.
So what is going on? According to information provided by an unnamed person within Brooke Investments, Brooke Investments has lied to all its investment clients that they have mortgaged properties that need to be sold at very low prices, and that they can be sold directly if they need them. Of course, if the client does not need it for the time being, it can also invest in the mortgaged property, and Brooke Investments will pay between one and five percent for each transaction.
Such a return on investment is undoubtedly tempting, but according to Brooke Investments' internal employees, there is actually no mortgage property for sale at all, and everything is just a scam directed and staged by Brooke Investments.
After receiving the customer's investment, Brooke Investment will receive a unified account for storage, and then will pay remuneration according to the customer's investment amount, which does not actually carry out any transactions, Brooke Investment Company just returns a very small part of the customer's investment money to the customer, and more money is still left in the account.
I believe that friends who know a little bit about economics must have understood that this is actually a Ponzi scheme that is the simplest way to tear down the east wall and make up the west wall, so what is the purpose of Brooke Investments? According to the internal employee, this is to enable the company to survive this economic crisis.
So how much money did Brooke Capital defraud investors out of through this Ponzi scheme? The answer is $600 million!
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As the news aired on New England television, it immediately caused an apparent stir throughout Brighton.
After all, Brooke Investments is a well-known company in Brighton, and his chairman is a senior senator from Massachusetts, how could he do such a thing?
"Brooke Investment Company is a very formal investment company, although we have suffered losses in this subprime mortgage crisis, but we will also recover the losses through our own efforts, we have always believed that the customer is our God, we will never play any Ponzi scheme trick to defraud the customer's investment! This news from New England Television is definitely spreading rumors, I have contacted a lawyer, and the company will protect its rights and interests through legal means!" Brooke said indignantly when interviewed by reporters.
However, the FBI's final investigation results slapped Brooke in the face, because through the investigation, it was found that all the customers' money was transferred to a private account, and then all the investors' investment returns were also distributed through this private account.
This result stunned Brooke, and he defended himself again in another interview with reporters: "It is impossible for this kind of thing to happen to Brooke Investment Company, this is all manipulated by that broker, and the company has no knowledge of it! And the company has now called the police, and I am confident that the police will definitely arrest the real criminal agent!"
But this argument was obviously not convincing enough, so a reporter immediately asked him: "I'm sorry Mr. Brooke, if you say that you and your company are ignorant of this, then it is difficult for your company to have a complete regulatory system?
As the first reporter took the lead, the other reporters also echoed and asked almost the same question: "That agent is indeed guilty, but if he can commit such a big crime, is there a bigger problem with Brooke Investments?"
In the face of these questions, Brooke seemed extremely irritable, but he could not answer impatiently: "This is not a matter of supervision, but that there is a certain time limit for the company's account review, and we will only conduct a separate account review of the corresponding departments when we reach a certain time......
Before Brooke could finish his words, he was immediately interrupted by a reporter: "If I am not mistaken, Mr. Brooke, what you just said is to admit that there is a certain regulatory loophole within your company, so your broker used this loophole to remove 600 million yuan of customers' funds, right? If it weren't for the so-called broker's escape and the report of insiders, would there have been more losses, or is it because of the subprime mortgage crisis?"
Listening to the reporter's more aggressive questions, Brooke suddenly broke out in a cold sweat, and finally he couldn't stand it and said: "Can't you reporters ask some positive questions? Do you know that I am a senior senator of the state legislature, and my investment company is also a company with a very long history, can't you help and hope for him to go out of business? I tell you, if my company goes bankrupt, it will be your TV station that will go bankrupt tomorrow!"
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Zhou Ming was lying in the hotel room watching TV at this time, and Lin Muqing was lying in Zhou Ming's arms like a kitten.
Looking at Brooke's hysterical performance on TV, Lin Muqing said with disdain: "I can't stand it, this Brooke's psychological tolerance is too bad, I really don't know how he was elected to the senator." ”
Zhou Ming smiled, he stroked Lin Muqing's hair and said: "He is also angry, I'm afraid he also knows that this time, whether it is the subprime mortgage crisis or the deficit of 600 million investment funds, it must be manipulated by me behind my back, but he can't say it, this breath is held in his chest, and now he is being questioned so aggressively by these reporters, he is probably about to collapse." ”
Lin Muqing pouted: "He deserves it, who let him not be his own person, he has to be the dog of the Addams family, especially if he provokes Zhou Ming, he deserves to die!"
"But I don't know if he damn it or not, but we really have to thank him now, because if it weren't for his investment company, we would probably have been able to get $600 million worth of real estate for $3 million, right?" Zhou Ming continued, "Not to mention that the promises to those minorities are going to be empty, it would be a pity that there are so many possible returns missing." ”
"Zhou Ming, you guy is becoming more and more like a big capitalist. Lin Muqing looked up at Zhou Ming and said angrily.
However, Lin Muqing said so, but she was very happy in her heart, because the 3,000 properties she got in her hands have been rented back to those minorities, although the pricing is different according to the location and community, but the average can be 700 US dollars a month, which is enough for 700,000 US dollars in the first month's rent alone, this is basically a monthly income of drought and flood, each property can be collected for at least ten years, how can it not make people happy?
When Zhou Ming and Lin Muqing were happy, Zhou Ming's mobile phone suddenly rang, Zhou Ming connected, it was Governor Edward calling, and he said on the phone: "I think there is a meeting that you need to attend." ”