Chapter 889 - Proportion of people with disabilities
The next day, when the door to the confinement room finally opened, the officers came in with chairs and tables, and Helen King came in in a black uniform, holding two cups of coffee, and said to the officers who followed her, "Let me talk to him alone." 【】”
When the police officer withdrew and closed the door, she slowly put the bag on the table in front of Gu Xiaofan and quietly observed him, but found that this young Chinese man looked calm and energetic...... I couldn't help but be slightly surprised.
And Gu Xiaofan's next words made her stunned again.
"Prosecutor Kim, I remind you that this meeting is not legal under federal law." Gu Xiaofan said calmly with a face, and with one sentence, the initiative that Helen King had spent all night building dissolved invisibly.
Gu Xiaofan had time to casually flip through the federal prosecution law in the system at night.
Helen King was surprised in her heart, but she was not moved at all on the surface, sat down slowly, and said straight to the point: "I got some clues that Black Feather Warner's operation involves serious illegal acts. ”
"Let me guess what the guy who gave the clue is called?" Gu Xiaofan looked at her and smiled back slightly: "Abel Warner? ”
"It doesn't matter who it is, as long as you know those clues, it's enough for Black Feather Warner to be investigated." Helen King pushes over a cup of coffee.
"Really? So what are you waiting for? Gu Xiaofan nodded peacefully, picked up the coffee and looked at it, took another sip, and immediately frowned:
"This coffee is too cheap, isn't it? Corruption in the FBI* isn't light, right? The person in charge of buying coffee is greedy, right? Why didn't Prosecutor Kim check internally? ”
"I know Director Gu, you are a great character and very smart." Helen King ignored his interruptions:
"I can give you a way to go, I can not investigate the matter of Black Feather Warner, but you must tell me, in this merger and acquisition of Warner Group, as one of the participants of China Film and Warner, what illegal means they used, and what parts of the Chinese government are involved, as long as you help us find out the evidence of these companies, I guarantee that your Black Feather Warner can continue to operate smoothly."
Here it comes...... Picking out the intention so quickly, does this old woman seem to think that she is going to eat me?
Falsely accusing the Chinese government of participating in mergers and acquisitions, then punishing them for threatening national security, and even filing counterclaims against China, can force China Film to fully open up the film market, and second, it can also suppress Huawei's fast-growing communications industry in the United States.
If the Chinese government does not comply, then the US government also has an excuse to pass punitive provisions in parliament against other Chinese industries...... For example, adding taxes to the rare earth industry or the textile industry.
I am afraid that this is the real purpose of the US Department of Justice.
Gu Xiaofan supported his forehead with his hand, thought seriously for a long time, and stopped talking a few times, but in the end he just sighed again and again without saying a word.
"Well, haven't you thought about it yet? You don't have a lot of time, is there too much evidence, you don't know where to start with it, right? Helen King looked at her watch and said coldly.
"Well, it's a bit difficult." Gu Xiaofan showed a distressed look, sighed and said:
"I'm wondering, how am I going to make false accusations against the Chinese government so that a yellow-skinned banana like you can prove that you are patriotic enough to run for attorney general?"
The muscles on Helen King's face that had been injected with countless beauty needles trembled slightly, but she didn't expect her hole cards to be exposed by Gu Xiaofa, which made her finally unable to suppress her anger and said in a low voice:
"It seems that Director Gu, you don't know the situation you are facing now, do you think I'm bluffing? Do you think your poor Black Feather Warner will be able to stay in business until it goes bankrupt due to mismanagement? I'm afraid you don't have that chance. ”
"I don't know anything, I just know that you can't hold me anymore, or my lawyer will kick your old ass." Gu Xiaofan smiled and waved his hand at the single visible glass window, although he couldn't see it, he had already seen Liu Shishi's data with the acting evaluation system.
Liu Shishi should have brought a lawyer to remind the police that it should be 12 hours before the release of the person.
Under Helen Kim's cold eyes, Gu Xiaofan successfully walked out of the police station after Liu Shishi and He Tiejun led the lawyer team to negotiate.
As soon as he got in the car, He Tiejun introduced him to the Chinese lawyer sitting next to him: "This is Li Zhengfu, the best Chinese lawyer in the United States." ”
"Hello Mr. Li...... Are you a classmate of Helen King's? "When Gu Xiaofan was reading Helen King's information yesterday, he seemed to have seen this name.
"Yes...... We are alumni of Harvard and used to be colleagues in the same law firm. Li Zhengfu, who is in his 50s, wears glasses and looks like a good gentleman, and his face looks a little embarrassed.
Gu Xiaofan was not interested in delving into the relationship between the two, so he cut straight to the point and asked:
"What is the Federal Department of Justice going to prosecute us?"
"They've sued a lot of illegal business terms, tax evasion and so on...... Many of them are not troublesome, and I am sure to deal with them, but one of them is very serious...... I'm afraid it's troublesome. Li Zhengfu said as he opened a stack of documents from his briefcase and handed them to Gu Xiaofan: "Look at the information." ”
"They sued us for violating the Americans with Disabilities Act?" Gu Xiaofan took the document and looked at it, and couldn't help but open his mouth slightly, your mother's ...... What does it have to do with the Disability Act when we run a film and television company?
Liu Shishi also took it and looked at the document, pointed to the clause on it and said: "According to the Americans with Disabilities Act, all companies that have business dealings with the U.S. government for profit must have more than 1.5% of their employees with disabilities, otherwise it will be regarded as an illegal ......."
"Don't we have 1/5 percent of our employees with disabilities?" Gu Xiaofan frowned and asked.
"No, Warner Group now has 34,017 regular employees, of which 579 are disabled, accounting for 1.7 percent of the total." Li Zhengfu said:
"I wasn't violating this law, but Section 23 of the Americans with Disabilities Act, which says that 'all businesses that employ people with disabilities up to 5 percent of their total workforce will receive a 3 percent reduction in business tax.'......" Time Warner's previous external documents all proved that 5% of the group's employees with disabilities met this preferential standard and enjoyed tax reductions and exemptions, but in fact, the number of disabled employees of Black Feather Warner is far from reaching this benchmark. ”
When He Tiejun next to him heard this, he felt that something was wrong, and said in surprise: "There are so many people, that means that before we acquired Warner, they shouldn't have reached it, right?" ”
"Of course......" Gu Xiaofan's face sank, and he gritted his teeth and said: "This means that Time Warner's data has been falsified before, and after we took over, some people took the opportunity to lift the lid and let us carry this black cauldron." ”