Chapter 912: Ritual
"Welcome Alexander Song to our membership, as well as fraternal ......"
At the mansion of a wealthy man in Chicago, seven or eight white men wearing cloaks and Zorro-style blindfolds stood silently and solemnly surrounded Song Ya, and the person directly opposite, Picaul, was in charge of the ceremony, "Please read your vows......
"Uh...... Ahem, I, Alexander Song, swear to join our common foundation by virtue of fraternity, mutual assistance, silence and good deeds......"
The gameplay of these whitemen is weird, Song Ya recited the oath, it felt like the new scene of Freemasonry in the movie War and Peace, the religious atmosphere, the hall of the old age, the old-fashioned chandelier with candles burning overhead, and the flickering and swaying figures in the candlelight, weird and mysterious.
If the oath is carried out conscientiously, except for Picaul and the owner of this mansion, who are said to be the treasurer of the foundation in Chicago, he will not be able to share information about the foundation with other people, or even other investors of the Madoff Foundation, such as David Geffen and Spielberg, isn't this just the way intelligence agencies play, one-way contact?
It makes sense from another angle, it was rumored in Hollywood that David Geffen and Spielberg made a lot of money in the Madoff Fund, but when they went to ask, both of them politely refused, but later when he contacted Stanley Ches, who was in charge of Hollywood, through Madoff himself, David Geffen and some Hollywood high-level people were also present, and they were obviously involved in the investment, but they never talked about the details with each other. In addition to Stanley Ches......
Pikaul led the crowd from all sides, and all put their right hands on their shoulders and backs, and recited another incision, and when the ceremony was over, they took turns shaking hands and nodding their heads.
Stanley Chase is the usher, so Picault is also the usher, right? The kind with a higher rank, the one who leads the person?
I don't know how much investment he got from Jim Clark and others on a trip to Silicon Valley, and now Jim and they are starting to keep it secretive!
"APLUS, although we will have a certain percentage of returns after you pull the investment, our rule is not to allow people to take the initiative to solicit investors, when someone knows your identity through some channels and finds you, you can judge for yourself whether you need to accept them, and if you can't make up your mind, come to the treasurer, or call me directly......"
Picaul sent the few people involved in the ceremony out of the door, and took off the cloak and mask with the treasurer, "The most important thing in choosing an investor is that you must be strict-mouthed, just like you have been observed by us for a long time to pass the review, we like you, and we hope that the people you fancy will not talk nonsense." You know, we're just a group of businessmen, not really a secret society or any organization, there is no coercive force on people, only try to check from the source, and your mistakes will also affect your investment in us. ”
"I understand, ......" Song Ya also got rid of the burden on his body, and couldn't help but let out a long breath.
"It's boring, isn't it? There are too many candles, let's go out too. ”
The treasurer, who was also an old white man, smiled kindly, "We met, APLUS, at the inauguration of Mr. Governor at the beginning of the year. ”
"Oh, I'm kind of impressed."
Not really, but the other party is undoubtedly an old man, and the mansion is full of antique furniture, books, paintings and sculptures. It seems that the family started in a traditional industry, and in his generation, he focused on low-risk financial investments, and changed careers very successfully.
"Do I know those people just now?" Song Ya asked tentatively.
One of the main goals of joining the Madoff Foundation is to expand high-end contacts, and today it is useful to cover their faces, they know themselves, and they don't know them.
"There are some minor troubles, such as financing, or ...... Anyway, you can come to me, in Chicago, everybody is like that, help each other. The treasurer smiled, "I'll get to know you slowly." ”
That's good, the three of them walked into the study, Goodman and Hamlin, as well as the accountant and others brought by Picault, were there, and the signing had been completed before the ceremony, and Song Ya invested 50 million in the Madoff fund at one time.
It's still that problem, if you don't invest enough money, you can't buy high-yield fund products, if you want to have a higher rate of return, you have to slowly save points to upgrade.
"Let's celebrate." The treasurer personally poured wine for everyone.
"Now APLUS is your person, right?" Goodman got Picaul's acquiescence and said proudly, "Wow, congratulations." ”
"Thank you."
Song Ya felt that Goodman was exactly the same as the joy he showed when little Binny found out that he was also a member of the Bobtail of Hell, and he was recognized by the upper class society in a certain sense in the capital field of the United States, right? It's the NASDAQ chairman's private foundation, and it's no wonder Goodman was as relieved as a Southside kid to see his idol accepted into GD.
The first African-American investor in history, wow, he took a big sip of champagne.
But he doesn't plan to do the so-called work of the usher seriously, maybe because of the movie clip about Jordan Belfort that was revealed at Jim Clark's house before?
The picture of Jordan Belfort calling to trick others into buying junk stocks has always been in his mind, resulting in such a meaningful occasion today, and his emotions are always not raised.
When he went to the guest room to rest, he even wondered if this foundation could be a financial scam like Mira's father, but it was impossible to think about it, Madoff was the chairman of the Nasdaq, a financial tycoon, and Picaul's wealth was bottomless, didn't look at Jim Clark, was he worried that he would launch a raid on the control of Netscape, which has a market value of more than 10 billion?
David Geffen, Spielberg, and Jim Clark are all top smart people, and they didn't accept them when they first came to the door, if they weren't good enough to drill camps, it happened that because of the transfer of Netscape shares and Picaul, they were directly connected to the line......
He couldn't think of a flaw, Picault spent 54 million on Netscape alone, and it would cost at least hundreds of millions to buy enough to make Jim Clark nervous, although it wasn't necessarily him alone.
No problem, in fact, from public channels, you can find that the investment institutions of this foundation are not lacking in Omi's major multinational banks, as well as Jewish pensions, and Madoff has to be crazy to cheat his Jewish compatriots out of their pension money.
Wait, what are you suspicious?! He is the chairman of NASDAQ!
"Uh, Jordan Belfort, do you understand? Mr. Picaul? Out of caution, he decided to ask and find other reasons for the apocalypse.
"That kind of person?" Picaul frowned, "We don't welcome that kind of Wall Street scum to join, you don't want to cross paths with him." ”
"I know he has a bad reputation, I'm asking if he's been breaking the law lately?" Song Ya asked again.
"He's riddled with lawsuits, and I don't even know where to start." Picaul replied: "The reputation of Wall Street has been ruined by the kind of people who sell junk stocks to ordinary people who don't know anything about it." ”
"I know, I know."
Riddled with lawsuits? That is, although he revealed the trial of Jordan Belfort at the congressional hearing, it was not necessarily his Waterloo?
Song Ya recalled in her mind that there was too little information and there were not enough samples for analysis.
Indeed, who is not accused of being rich, isn't he running with illness right now?