Chapter Twenty-Five: Harvey's Progress
After Rachel and Liu were in a stalemate for more than ten seconds, Rachel decided to add a fire.
"Don't want to cooperate? Well, enjoy your time in prison. Mr. Liu. Rachel got up and walked to the exit, then silently counted the numbers in her mind: 'One, two, three......
"Wait, I'm not going to give you the money." Before Rachel counted to five, Liu opened her mouth. In this battle, Liu took the initiative to admit defeat, but his chips were not just the black money.
"But I can tell you about my clients, all of them." Liu saw Rachel stop and hand over his bottom line, while accentuating the words 'all customers'.
"You're an accountant at best, what evidence do you have that allows us to sue them all?" Rachel is not a seasoned veteran after all, and her reaction speed is slightly slower.
"I'm a good calculator, and I do all the investments by myself. A large sum of co-funding. Seeing that Rachel didn't react, Liu said his chips in full, and emphasized that it was a shared fund.
"There it is." Harvey's eyes lit up in the observation room, and at the same time he pressed a button to let Rachel out. Harvey was not Rachel, he was much more experienced, and immediately understood what Liu meant.
"Wait a minute." The button connected to Rachel's intercom, and Rachel immediately left the interrogation room and went to the observation room.
Unlike Harvey, who is in control, Gordon, who is standing on the sidelines, is inexplicable, after all, it is not a department, and the police do not know all about some rules and regulations in the law.
"RICO Act." Harvey found Gordon confused and explained, "They put the money together, and we can treat them as a criminal syndicate." ”
"Sue them for what?" Even though Harvey explained the chips that Liu had thrown out, Gordon still didn't understand.
"In the RICO Act, if we sue one of our co-conspirators for a felony, we can sue ......," Harvey continued to explain while looking at Rachel, who believed he had understood what he meant.
"It's great that you can sue all the other conspirators for felonies." Rachel was a little excited when she understood the chips Liu had thrown, and immediately turned around and went back to the interrogation room, which was a great opportunity to catch them all.
And after seeing that Rachel fully understood what both sides meant, both Harvey and Gordon turned their attention back to Liu.
"Mr. Liu, do you have any detailed information about this joint fund? Ledger books? Notebook? Rachel smiled and returned to the interrogation room, apparently having already achieved most of their goal.
"Immunity, habeas corpus, and a charter flight back to Hong Kong." Liu looked at Rachel's smile and knew that the other party had understood what he meant, so he directly threw out his request.
"None of this is a problem after you testify in court. But I'm a little curious, what will happen to that money after all your clients are locked up? Rachel had already made a deal with Liu, but Rachel, who was in a good mood, couldn't help but raise her own questions.
"Like I said, I'm very good at calculations." Liu smiled and said, the subtext is that the black money will go into his pocket.
"He can't go to prison. I'm going to keep him in his cell here. Gordon said after the end of the discussion with Liu.
"What is this? Your fortress? Harvey asked.
"Can you trust the people over there?" Gordon asked, compared to prison, Gordon still has some understanding and trust in his men.
"I don't trust anyone here, either." Harvey turned to Gordon and said, "Your men are no more reliable than the prison guys."
"Liu must stay." Gordon insisted on his point of view, not only because of the unreliability of the prison, but also because of the accidents that occurred during the escort of Liu, after all, the prison was too far from the police station and the courthouse.
"Bang!" At that moment, the door to the observation room was pushed open, and two agents in suits entered, and behind them were Gordon's men.
"Captain, I'm sorry I can't stop him." The officer said apologetically.
"Hello. Captain Gordon, we're S.H.I.E.L.D. agents, and here's our credentials. We have been instructed to assist you in your detention and to protect Mr. Liu's safety. The agent who took the lead handed over his credentials to the two who were stunned.
"S.H.I.E.L.D.? What vampire S.H.I.E.L.D. investigated last time? Gordon asked subconsciously.
"Vampires? What vampires? Gordon, are you sure this group of people can be trusted? Harvey asked, confused.
"Uh, nothing, okay, so whose orders are you on?" Gordon realized he had slipped his tongue, and although he had seen vampires and Predators with his own eyes, he had been gag-and-go by S.H.I.E.L.D.
"I'm sorry, it's confidential, but I can reveal his identity a little, he invited Mr. Liu back." The agent did not pay attention to Gordon's slip of the tongue, and told Gordon whose order it was to the extent permitted by the non-disclosure agreement.
However, it was actually Natasha's order to spread the information that Batman was doing things for S.H.I.E.L.D., and this in itself was a favor that Bruce had to owe.
But the agent wasn't lying, because it was Natasha and Bruce who brought Liu back from Hong Kong.
"Then gentlemen, please." Although Harvey was curious about what the vampire was, he knew that it was classified when he saw the appearance of the two of them, so he didn't ask anymore, and he also confirmed that the man in sunglasses was from another government department, although he hadn't heard of it.
However, he is a prosecutor in the judiciary and knows that there are some things that cannot be asked.
"No problem, gentlemen." The agent smiled and beckoned, and the four agents brought in a special device.
"What is this?" Gordon and Harvey asked at the same time.
"A special device, okay guys, please stand back, no one other than Prosecutor Harvey and Sheriff Gordon are allowed to enter this room." The agent didn't want to reveal too much and began to disperse the other officers to other rooms.
"Then I'll prepare for the trial next, and you will lead the team to arrest all these guys." Harvey didn't care about those agents, since they were his own people, it was not a bad idea to leave Liu in their custody: it was obviously impossible for an external agent organization to be bought by the local gangsters.
"No problem, but are you sure Judge Cerero will be able to accept your request?" Gordon beckoned the officers to get ready to go out, and even some of the officers who had other cases in their hands were brought in.
Judge Serero is the Supreme Judge of Gotham, a veteran judge who has been a judge for nearly two decades, and she is also a rare female judge.
"Don't worry, I have a solution." Harvey smiled mysteriously, not only confident in convincing the judge, but also in his ability to convince the mayor: if the mayor had not nodded in this crazy move, it would have been a flash in the pan. But Harvey was not in the slightest worried that the mayor would object.