"Wait, new business? Are you going to ask me to defend someone else? I, I'm not qualified to practice! ”

"No, no, no, I don't make a hard requirement this time, I'm just responsible for the introduction, and you can take the specific ideas yourself."

……

In the corner of "Sholom Aleham", an old Jewish man in his seventies looked at his grandfather and grandson and greeted them.

"Sholom Allegham" and "Sholom Alleham" both replied in the same way.

This is a greeting for the Jewish community, roughly similar to hello, which was originally meant to be spoken by everyone.

But with the Americanization of the new generation of Jews, this tradition is no longer something to be observed by everyone, and only the old people or rabbis still believe in the thousand-year-old tradition.

"By the way, this is my grandson, Edward Young, who just helped Sheldon Siegall win that nasty lawsuit."

"This is Rabbi Bernard Bergman."

"Nice to meet you, young Edward" Bergman held out his hand.

"Hello" Edward subconsciously stretched out his hand, but he always felt that the name was very familiar, as if he had heard it somewhere.

"Wait, Bergman, are you the Bergman?" Edward was startled.

The old man on the other side was still smiling, but a little more helpless, "It's me, Bernard Bergman, the most wicked man in New York State, the czar of the nursing home, the immoral Jewish madman, and the money launderer in collusion with the Italian gang." ”

"No, no, I didn't mean that," Edward was very embarrassed.

After the two shook hands, Bergman smiled and said, "It's okay, maybe I would have been angry two years ago, but now I don't have the leisure anymore." When a person can calmly recount his 'guilt', it can only mean two things, either he is old enough, or he doesn't care about it at all, and obviously I have both. Today, I'm here to ask for help. ”

"Help?"

"Yes, today is September 16, 1968, I am now in the interval between two sentences, for the time being free status, I was just released from federal prison a few days ago, but soon, I will be imprisoned in state prison, the state prison conditions are much worse than federal prison, and the sentence is longer, I am afraid that I will not survive, I will die inside, I am not afraid of death, but I am afraid of dying in prison."

"So, I sought judicial help, but for reasons you know, no lawyer was willing to help me, none."

"But, but I'm not qualified to practice......"

"However, your performance in Shelton's case has made everyone's eyes shine, and your qualifications are a minor issue that can be easily bypassed." Bergman smiled a little slyly.

Edward secretly scolded himself for being stupid, his opponent was a super old fox, how could he use ordinary methods to prevaricate?

"This ......" Edward was worried, not knowing how to continue.

Bergman and Sheldon are not the same, although they are both notorious.

But the latter "just" made a bomb - of course, after some packaging, he became a victim of extremist ideas, and anti-Russian righteous people, although they were also pointed at and scolded by the media, but not to mention that there are really many fans, especially after Woodstock, so they can barely be whitewashed.

But the person in front of him used the name of opening a nursing home to make a lot of black money, abuse the elderly, evade taxes, collude with gangsters, and steal ......

In short, all the sins that Jews can commit in history can be found in Bergman's list of crimes, and this guy is simply the poster child of the "Jewish wicked" in the major media.

Bergman himself is also very much in line with the image of Jews in the eyes of Westerners, with deep nasolabial folds and a huge iconic hooked nose, and can go to B-movies without makeup to play the evil and treacherous mastermind.

This is troublesome, although Edward knew by instinct that most of this matter was behind the ancestral anti-Judas law in the West, but he also saw the news frenzy these days, anyway, no media dared to say a good word for Bergman.

"So, do you really think I can do so many bad things alone?" Bergman could guess what Edward was thinking, and he asked with a wry smile, "If only one-tenth of those accusations were true, I would probably be the greatest and most diligent criminal in history." ”

Edward was very vigilant, since this thing has a good relationship with his grandfather, he is obviously also an old fox, maybe he is still an old fox with acting skills, pretending to be pitiful to drag himself into the water.

Damn, you must not wade in troubled waters!

But how to refuse?

Bergman seemed to read his thoughts: "You don't need to rush to agree, now that the Yom Kippur ceremony is over." Come and talk to my office and let me show you something or evidence that you don't see in the media. It's funny to say that as a defendant, he had the opportunity to defend himself in court, but he was gagged with duct tape in the media, and he could only be whipped by the whip of 'press freedom', and he had no power to fight back. ”

"Uh......" Edward hesitated.

"I'll go with you, don't be pressured, don't worry too much, evaluate yourself, and don't force it if you don't think it's suitable," said Mizrasi Rabi.

"Okay!" Edward agreed.

Just as Mrs. Josephine came over.

"Mom"

"Ed, what are you doing?"

"I'm going out for a bit of a thing. I don't come back to sleep at night. ”

"Oh, okay, be careful yourself."

The three of them didn't rush out of the house, but first ate some small snacks like biscuits.

After all, two old men in their seventies have been hungry for a day and have not replenished their energy, and then they start working non-stop, I am afraid that it is time to call 911.

Ten minutes later in Bergman's car, the three showed up in Bergman's office in Central Manhattan.

The room was dark and old, and when I entered the room, there was a musty smell coming to my nose, mixed with other indescribable smells, which could not be described, but it gave people the feeling of decay, obsolescence, and shady, which made Edward very uncomfortable.

"I'm sorry, this house is a bit old, but I rented it 30 years ago, and it has been kept in its original decoration, and many people have advised me to redecorate it, but I always miss my old life, which reminds me of those very difficult days in the past."

"Oh, oh, it's fine. It's gorgeous. Edward could only say a few polite words.

"Please don't be inhibited, just sit and watch, everything here is open and real. But unfortunately, you don't see it in the open media. Bergman sat down behind his desk as he spoke, then rang the bell and called the secretary to serve coffee to the two distinguished guests.

Rabbi Mizrasi sat down at his desk and chatted with Bergman.

Edward took the opportunity to take a closer look at the office.

Typical of the pre-war Gilded Age, Millaecan's best of times, with massive industrialization and a sufficient industrial population to make the nascent nation a world leader, while the great dividends of World War I accelerated the economic growth of both the New World and the Old World. At that time, the country was vigorous and vibrant, creating a huge amount of wealth and wealth.

However, all this came to an abrupt end in 1929.

Rao is so, the ultra-high-speed development of forty or fifty years has still left many marks in the United States, which makes the followers envious.

Bergman's office, for example, is old and bleak, but it still can't hide its former glory, and the layman can easily see the exquisite teak wainscoting that was spent on the renovation of the day, the still brightly glazed fireplace tiles, the brass window door handles, the crystal goalballs, and the vertical flooring all show the luxury and opulence of Millican in the Gilded Age.

It's just that after all, more than half a century has passed, and these hardware have gradually entered their twilight years, and the years have left various traces on them, and there is nothing to praise except for the excellent materials.

The printed wallpaper is large and yellowed, and there are even many suspicious black-brown spots on it, which are covered by a large number of certificates, honorary awards, monuments, commemorative silver shields, etc., but still probing at the corners, and those coverings constitute the trajectory of Bergman's life from the 20s to the mid-60s.

There are also a number of zoomed-in photographs of Bergman with various celebrities, including President Kennedy and Secretary of State Lascoe, but judging by the faces and clothes of the people in the photos, perhaps this is a memento of the postwar period.

The female secretary brought two cups of coffee, and then came in with a large pile of papers.

"Ed, look at it, you can't see these things outside."

As he spoke, he took it upon himself and pulled out a copy, which was an ordinary letter: "You see, this is written by the son of an old man who lives in my nursing home, thanking his father for being well taken care of by me." ”

With that, he opened the envelope and read it in a tone full of dramatic tension, and his words were numb and sour, and Edward suspected that this should be the work of a ninth-rate playwright.

"This is written by an old man who is very satisfied with the life in the nursing home, eats well, and does not spend his days in a dark room with nothing to do, in fact, my nursing home has opened Bible study classes and Jewish classics classes to meet the spiritual needs of the elderly."

Bergman's nagging Edward presented the evidence and began to tell his story.

Dr. Rabbi Bernard Bergman is of Hungarian descent from a poor family.

After the First World War, he made the biggest and most important decision of his life - he did everything he could to get to Millican.

When he set foot in the New World, he had nothing but to work as a resident rabbi in a small widow and elderly care home, and after a little time, the Jews' business talents began to show, first from the rabbi to auxiliary management, then to manager, and finally to raise money to buy the adoption home and start running a nursing home.

More than 40 years later, he has grown from a poor boy to one of the most influential Jews in the country, serving as the chairman and director of a large number of Jewish associations, charitable associations, and educational institutions.

Everyone said, or all the media, said that his assets were in the hundreds of millions of dollars.

"Look at this," Bergman handed over a copy.

The above is from the beginning of '64 and is a copy of the congressional records, a compilation of the praises of the celebrities present at a dinner dedicated to him.

President Lyndon Johnson "Bergman has made outstanding contributions to public welfare...... It is a model and worth learning from all over the country."

Zalman Shazar, then President of Israel, "helped anyone who groaned in pain, and his heart was filled with Jewish and humanitarian conscience, so that the whole world had his friends and thousands of people who admired him"

and the headmaster of Sieva Jewish School: "Dr. Bergman is well known for his achievements in many important leadership positions in Jewish communities around the world"

Below is a list of senators, representatives, state and federal officials.

Without exception, they were full of praise for Bergman.

But Edward knew in his heart that this was a trick that Bergman was playing.

The congressional records are true, the dinner held especially for him is true, and the congratulatory messages of those celebrities are even more fake.

But not in the form of a combination.

This is also one of the common packaging techniques.

Both Congress and the government have special petition windows, and as long as the number of petitioners reaches a certain number, then as long as their petition requirements are not so excessive, they will usually be met.

This is unique to the United States, the bureaucracy and the administrative agency "enjoy with the people".

For example, a flagpole was erected next to the parliamentary chamber to satisfy the vanity of the "people".

For example, Edward wrote to Congress that he wanted to give Chris a flag-raising ceremony than to recognize the great achievement of the Black Big Man in self-taught Chinese food recipes.

OK。

This request can be satisfied, and Congress will reply with a letter asking Edward and Chris to be under the flagpole at the appointed time, when the natural person will have a staff member to raise the flag for him.

Of course, in order to meet the needs of as many people as possible, the Star-Spangled Banner will be lowered after a maximum of one minute when it flutters at the top of the flagpole, and the staff will also come forward and politely say, "The exit is on the left, please come with me." ”

It's all free.

If you add another $5 to the cost, you can also get a beautiful certificate, stating that on September 19, 1968, the United States Congress held a separate flag-raising ceremony for Chris Thomas in recognition of his great achievements and status in the study of Chinese and American cuisine.

This is, of course, the most basic, and Bergman has long disdained to play this set.

His routines are more advanced.

A group of people were bribed to petition Congress to hold an award dinner for Dr. Rabbi Bernard Bergman, a great good man.

There are special institutions on Capitol Hill responsible for high-end political and business activities such as dinners and tea parties, of course, the fees are not cheap and the qualifications must be reviewed, as for the qualifications, it is not difficult, there are enough charitable donations, of course, it is better if it is a political charitable donation, such as donating money in the president's hometown to build a public nursing home named after the president's mother.

A certain yamen under the jurisdiction of the Congress began to operate it, and the invitations issued and the on-site arrangements were all in special formats and routines to ensure that the atmosphere of the Congress was strong.

Then these celebrities make speeches, which are pre-booked, and usually receive a congratulatory letter from the politician's secretary when they make a small political donation.

When these things are pinched off and the tail is erased and the background is concentrated on a piece of paper, it is really shocking and has a very advertising effect.