Chapter Seventy-Six: The Defendant Becomes the Plaintiff, Apologizes and Loses Money!
At this time, lawyer Sean called Detective Owen into the house, and then said in front of Zheng Xudong: "I want to see my client's arrest warrant." (Immediately)" Owen was stupid all of a sudden, where did he get the arrest warrant, it was an on-site arrest, so he quickly said: "We just asked Mr. Zheng to come back and help investigate some things." ”
"Okay! I accept your claim of assisting in the investigation, but since you are assisting in the investigation, why do you want to handcuff my client. You are being illegally detained. I would like to sue you for violating Article *** of the Bill of Rights. Lawyer Sean shouted loudly.
As soon as Dilan, the director of the FBI branch in New York next door, heard the fool say in front of the lawyer that he had just asked this young man to come back to assist in the investigation, he knew that "it's broken!" Didn't he send his handle to others! Quickly asked the policewoman next to him to go to his office to get two blank arrest warrants and search warrants, which he signed on the spot, and then personally took them to the interrogation room.
After entering the house, seeing that Owen was a fool who was forced by the lawyer to be blushing and speechless, Dylan said to the lawyer: "This is an arrest warrant and a search warrant, you can take a look." ”
Sean glanced at the warrant, "I still reserve the right to sue you because you said my client was suspected of stealing, but I didn't see you show evidence." If you say that you will not find the evidence until after the search, then you are making a serious mistake in the working procedures and causing great distress and mental damage to my client, as well as reputational damage. ”
Director Dylan also knew that the matter had reached this point and could not be undone, although it was Owen's guy who caused the trouble, but who made him his subordinate, and in the end he suffered himself. After the lawyer finished speaking, he glared at Owen and said, "Don't hurry up and search!"
Zheng Xudong glanced at the lawyer and got a look that needed to be cooperated, this time there was a search warrant.
The search is not what we see in film and television works, a person's face is against the wall, a policeman searches his body from top to bottom, and he can eat some of the suspect's "tofu" at the opportunity. A real body search is a person who asks the suspect to take off his clothes and has the police conduct a search.
Zheng Xudong began to undress in front of a room of people, don't mention this awkwardness in his heart, the key is that there are still people watching in the room next to him, maybe he will also video. "People are under the low eaves, they have to bow their heads!" "He looked at the lawyer when he had one trouser left.
Sean said very simply and domineeringly, "Take it off!"
In this way, Zheng Xudong stood in the corner of the wall and covered his key position with both hands, it was too big to cover it!
AMONG THE THREE POLICEMEN, THERE WAS ALSO A FEMALE POLICEMAN WHO RUMMAGED THROUGH ZHENG XUDONG'S CLOTHES FROM THE INSIDE TO THE OUTSIDE AND FROM THE OUTSIDE TO THE INSIDE, AND EVEN DISMANTLED HIS PRADA CASUAL SUIT WITH SCISSORS, AND EVEN CHECKED THE MEZZANINE OF THE CLOTHES, BUT STILL DID NOT FIND WHAT THEY WERE LOOKING FOR, ALL THE ITEMS BELONGED TO ZHENG XUDONG HIMSELF. Mobile phones, wallets. $9,500 in cash and bank cards. The cash was left after he spent $500 on Liu Yifei's upgrade.
"Do you want me to check ASSHOLE (chrysanthemum) for you too," Zheng Xudong said jokingly.
The policemen at the scene were dumbfounded! What should I do? I made a mistake and cut off people's clothes. The clothes are still PRADA brands. They can't afford to pay for this set of clothes for a month! At this time, a policewoman brought a set of sportswear and asked Zheng Xudong to wear it first.
Just when everyone was thinking about how to solve this problem, Zheng Xudong said a sentence that frightened Owen and the police officers present, including Director Dilan, "I want to sue the police of the FBI branch in New York for racial discrimination!"
"What do you say? Do you dare to say it again?"
"Don't make an inch, Huaxia boy. ”
"You talk nonsense again, believe it or not... ”
"What else do you want to slander, this is not Huaxia, boy!"
"Shut up! Shut up!" Hearing Zheng Xudong say that he wanted to accuse the police station of racial discrimination, all the police officers in the room said indignantly, and in the end, it was Director Dilan who controlled everyone. Then he said, "Boy, I can sue you for slander!"
"Don't tell me yet, listen to a recording of a passage. With that, he released a recording of Detective Owen's phone call when he arrested him.
When they hear "I'll show you the warrant when I'm back in the bureau." Get in the car, don't force me to be rough!, you yellow-skinned monkey!", they all glared at Owen with wide eyes. You're really a pig teammate, even if you say that, you can still be recorded, pigs are smarter than you!
Owen's face turned white in an instant, his mouth was wide open, and he couldn't say a word. Racial discrimination is a serious crime in the United States and is punishable by a prison sentence. He is a police officer, and if he knows the law and violates the law, the sentence will be heavier. The result of his imprisonment can be imagined. What policeman will have a good result in prison! Even if you get out alive, God will take care of you!
Seeing this, Director Dylan knew that things had developed to this point, and if he didn't control them, it would be beyond his control. So he immediately made a decision and said to the other police officers in the house, "You all go out!"
When he was left in the room, Zheng Xudong and the lawyer, he said frankly: "Next, let's sit down and talk about the compensation conditions." ”
Zheng Xudong and Sean sat down and exchanged opinions with each other, and Zheng Xudong whispered his meaning in Sean's ear. He demanded $200,000 in damages, preferably a public apology, and the video footage from the spot check just now must not be leaked.
As soon as Sean heard this, he asked Director Dylan for 500,000 yuan for mental damages, not including the money for the clothes just now. Second, the apology must be published in New York's largest newspaper. The third is to destroy the video data in front of them, and make a written guarantee that if the video data is leaked, they will pay 10 million US dollars in compensation.
After hearing this, Dylan first denied the matter of publishing an apology, thinking to himself that it is not nonsense to publish an apology in the newspaper! How could this matter be published in the newspaper, he is only 43 years old this year, and he still has to develop in his official career, how can he be willing to be the director of the FBI in New York for the rest of his life, and his ideal is to be the director of the FBI in the whole country, because he is a member of the Standing Committee. Because if this matter was published, it would become a lever for political opponents to attack him, so he firmly did not agree to publish an apology, and the final result of this article was a written apology by Officer Owen and a guarantee by the FBI branch in New York that nothing like this would happen again.
It is impossible to pay 500,000 yuan in compensation, and in the end, the result of Sean and Dilan's verbal exchange is 300,000 US dollars, plus the payment of the bill for the hotel where Zheng Xudong is now staying and a first-class ticket to Philadelphia.
As for the last one, everyone has no objection, Di Lan's idea is that his grandson wants to leave this video material, isn't this his handle, he can't wait to destroy it! As for writing a guarantee, no problem, anyway, the video data is gone, and the guarantee is a blank piece of paper.
In the end, Zheng Xudong reached a settlement with the FBI branch in New York under the witness of his lawyer.
After coming out of the FBI branch in New York, he repeatedly asked to invite lawyer Sean to dinner, but he refused on the grounds that he still had important work.
When he took a taxi to the hotel, the lobby manager told him that someone had settled his hotel bill and that he could stay until 12 o'clock tonight. There is also a check for $300,000 and an envelope at the front desk.
He deposited the check into his bank account in the hotel, then returned to his room and opened the envelope, which was met with an apology written by Officer Owen, a letter of guarantee from the FBI branch in New York, and finally a first-class ticket from New York to Philadelphia at nine o'clock tonight.
That's all there is to it for now.
He took out the phone and dialed Ivanka, and after the phone was connected, an enthusiastic voice came from there, "Honey, I've heard the outcome of the matter from Lawyer Sean tell me, how is it, are you satisfied with this treatment?"
"Thank you, my dear, that the fact that this matter can be handled so satisfactorily is inseparable from the professional quality of Attorney Sean. I am very satisfied with how things have been handled. Okay, aside, I'm flying to Philadelphia tonight, how about we meet there?"
"Hey, my little man, I'm already on the plane to Philadelphia, and I'll arrive in Philadelphia before you. Ivanka said happily.
"Huh, can you make phone calls on your plane?" asked Zheng Xudong.
"I'm coming by private jet and it's possible to make calls on my own plane. After I arrived, I booked the hotel first, and then I sent you the hotel information, and you can take a taxi directly after you get off the plane. ”
"Okay, then we'll see you in the evening. BYE BYE!”
Before leaving, he was going to visit the wine and cigar shops on Fifth Avenue. In the past few days, he has drunk a lot of red wine, and he has smoked a lot of cigars, so he has to buy more, not to mention domestic red wine, it is really difficult to buy it.
He went straight out of the hotel and went straight to the red hotel, and when he arrived at the store, he found that the salesman was still there, this time it was faster, and directly asked him to keep the same type of red wine he bought last time but tripled the quantity, especially the French Mouton red wine and the red wine of Margaux Manor Estate, which cost more than 150,000 US dollars last time, and this time the red wine cost 500,000 US dollars, and then asked them to arrange for someone to pack it and send it back to his hotel. At this time, the boss heard that the big customer was coming, and hurried back from outside, gave Zheng Xudong a bottle of 1988 Romanti Conti red wine, and then gave him a business card, telling him that if he still needs red wine in the future, he can call this number, and they can be responsible for free shipping to Huaxia.
When he learned that he was going back to China and wanted to buy more, he happily packed another cigar for him last time, and also gave him a gift, which was a cigar specially produced for the Cuban leader Lao Ka, a box of top cigars, and said that he did not necessarily like to smoke, but it was definitely face-saving to take out. Another $250,000 was spent to get them back to the hotel. I also got a business card and the guarantee of free shipping to my door, and left the cigar shop.
By the time he returned to his hotel room, the delivery people had already left. It seems that when money is spent, the efficiency is high!
This time, in order to attract his big customer, the two wine and cigar stores have high-quality packaging, which can be seen from the appearance of high-end things.
Zheng Xudong put all the red wine and cigars into the space. and put away his own salute. In the end, only a small satchel was left to carry over the shoulder. After coming to the hotel front desk to return the room, I took a taxi to the Kennedy International Airport where Liu Yifei was dropped off at noon.
After the time got on the plane, not long after he came to the first-class cabin and sat down, a person sat next to him, and after Zheng Xudong turned his head to look at the person sitting next to him, he was so scared that he fainted.