Hughes has made it very clear, and Jimmy has remedied it, at least he didn't miss this opportunity, but he doesn't know where Hughes is in the position he has prepared for himself.

Jimmy deliberately ran back to Nia's house and communicated with Kevin about the latest incident.

Kevin was unfamiliar with the situation in his Manhattan office, but he gave Jimmy a suggestion to keep an eye on whether Hughes could get Peter out and get Director Callaway out.

If Hughes can do this, even if he is retired, he can be trusted, because it means that there are his companions in the bureau, they are on the same page, and for Hughes's people, the people above will also give some protection.

What's more, there is also a deputy director Dave who is known to be very interested in Jimmy, although he is not at the top, he still has enough status to take care of Jimmy, a senior agent.

Director Callaway was directly appointed by the headquarters, and it was not easy to get rid of her, not only the Manhattan office had to deal with the relationship, but the headquarters could not be completely unscrupulous, Hughes still had a lot to do.

Time flies, and two more days have passed in the blink of an eye, and Jimmy is called again.

This time instead of going to Hughes's house, he came to Thames Park, a small community park with an artificial lake next to a large field of trees, providing plenty of shade and comfort.

Jimmy found Hughes next to the artificial lake, he was standing by the artificial lake in casual clothes looking at the lake, Jimmy walked up to him, "Hughes, what's wrong?" ”

Hughes: "Are you still proficient in the skills you've trained at other institutions before?" ”

Jimmy was speechless, Hughes was a bit of a problem, what did he want to do? "What?"

Hughes: "You already know Director Callaway, and now I need you to talk to her and ask her to offer to go back to Atlanta or to DC headquarters." The other federal prosecutor is Adam Maxwell, and you need to talk to him. ”

Jimmy frowned and looked at the artificial lake, thought for a while and said, "What do you talk about?" Callaway knew me, but I didn't have the chips in my hand and it was hard to deal with. ”

Hughes: "The people at the headquarters have already communicated, and as long as she takes the initiative, they will agree to her changing positions and will not be demoted." ”

Jimmy's mind kept spinning: "What about the bureau? ”

Hughes: "We've communicated too. ”

Jimmy took two deep breaths, there is no free lunch, it seems that this is the test he is going to face this time, originally Kevin also said to let Jimmy see if Hughes can handle the trouble here, but now it seems that this trouble has become his own trouble.

He turned his head to look at Hughes, "I need evidence that I can take, and I'll give me everything you investigated about Callaway." ”

Hughes nodded, "I'll give it to you, let it go." ”

Jimmy: "What about the other one?" ”

Hughes: "Adam Maxwell, the new federal prosecutor, has been in New York for about two years, and he has cooperated a lot with the bureau before, which is normal, and this time he insists on it, which is really wrong. I can provide you with his call history during this time, and you need to investigate the rest on your own. ”

Hughes took out a business card from his pocket, "This is for you, use it wisely." ”

Jimmy took the business card, Senator Bill Haggerty's private business card, which looked exquisite, with the title of Capitol Hill and Senator Haggerty printed on it, and a phone number, it was not known if it was private or public.

Jimmy: "Give it to me first, I'll look into it first." ”

Hughes took out two USB sticks from his pocket and gave them to Jimmy, "Check the information as soon as possible, and if you can't handle it, notify me in time." ”

After saying that, Hughes turned around and left the artificial lake, Jimmy put the USB stick and business card in his suit pocket, turned around and walked to the other side, and drove directly back to the apartment.

Two USB flash drives, Jimmy first took one and plugged it into his notebook to open it, and there were several recording files inside.

Jimmy opened it and listened to it, this is a recording of the phone call from the office of the director of Callaway, one of which Jimmy has already heard, and the other two are also the transcript of her call with Senator Pratt, it seems that she is still very competent for Senator Pratt, and will notify him when there is new information.

These recordings alone shouldn't be enough to make Callaway give up his current position directly, but Hughes only gave that little, which is a problem.

Jimmy thought for a while, put Callaway's business aside, took out the second USB flash drive and opened it, there are more phone recordings here, Jimmy looked at the time on the paper, from the day of the Senator's murder.

There was a bit of a lot of recording, and Jimmy listened to it a little bit with headphones on, and even delayed dinner, until Nia came back to call him.

Turning off the computer, Jimmy pulled Nia and went out directly to dinner, but he was too lazy to do it himself, and it was relatively slow to order takeout, so it was better to go directly to a nearby restaurant to solve the problem.

Nia asked Jimmy during the meal, and knew that he was dealing with the case, so he didn't say anything, although Jimmy was not a field agent, but he didn't handle the case once or twice, he got used to it.

When they got home, Nya went straight to wash up, while Jimmy went back to his study to listen to Adam's phone calls from Prosecutor Adam, and it wasn't until the early hours of the morning that she listened to all the recordings, and recorded several recordings that might be anomalous.

After listening to the recording again, Jimmy finally found the anomaly, and there was a phone call from Riadam who said to the person opposite, Curtis, how is it feeling, and the other person replied that everything was fine except that he was not free. After that, the person on the other side asked him to meet, and the call was interrupted.

It seems that the most likely description of the absence of freedom is detention and prison, and it appears that Prosecutor Maxwell had an acquaintance in prison meet with him.

Jimmy looked at the time, the call was a week ago, but it was hard to do.

Jimmy turned off the computer and washed up.

Hughes didn't say when, but Jimmy knew that the matter needed to be resolved as soon as possible, because the federal prosecutor would have an indictment hearing before bringing the case to court, and if the case was to be properly resolved, the prosecutor would have to drop the charge at the indictment hearing, but that would be difficult for a prosecutor who was determined to prosecute.

An indictment hearing is a judicial process to determine whether there is sufficient evidence to bring the defendant to court in criminal proceedings.

Generally, the prosecution hearing is conducted between the prosecutor and the defendant, and the judge participates as an evaluator to assess the reasonableness of the prosecution, whether there is sufficient evidence to prove the facts of the crime and the reasonableness of the facts of the crime, and the evidence in the hands of the prosecutor will be displayed at the prosecution hearing, including the testimony of witnesses, physical evidence, etc., and it is also necessary to state the reasonableness of the facts of the crime.

At the indictment hearing, the defendant and the defendant's lawyer can rebut the evidence submitted by the prosecutor, and if the evidence is insufficient or lacks validity, the judge dismisses the charges and the prosecutor drops the prosecution, resulting in the case being discontinued.

Callaway's matter shouldn't be difficult, since Hughes said that he had communicated with the upper echelons, then Jimmy communicated with her, and when she went to contact the people behind her, someone must be able to endorse Hughes's words. The only thing to pay attention to is where to communicate and what to say when communicating, and this is for Jimmy to think about it.

Now the trouble is Adam Maxwell, the federal prosecutor, Jimmy returned to the office to investigate well, of course, he didn't directly use the FBI's database, he was not so reckless.

While it was time to go downstairs for a cigarette, Jimmy called the hotel from an anonymous phone. This kind of public information is easy to obtain, and there is no need to alarm the official organization at all, and Jimmy went out at noon to get a detailed information.

As a federal prosecutor, Adam Maxwell has some of his profile publicly available, and at least one of his graduates and part of his work history can be seen. Of course, the information given by the hotel can't be the only one, and the real estate and family information in his name are also included in it, Charon said that there are some follow-up information that can be provided, but he has not yet gotten it.

Adam's house is in Brooklyn, and although Jimmy didn't have a field trip, it's easy to track it down with an address. Jimmy still stayed in the office during work hours, and as soon as he got off work, he ran to the federal attorney's office and stared at Maxwell's car in the parking lot.

When it was time to get off work, Maxwell came to the parking lot with a briefcase and drove away, followed by Jimmy. Although his home and place of work have been confirmed, everyone's daily commuting route is generally relatively fixed, and after determining it once or twice, you basically don't need to look at it again.

Before Maxwell's home could be tracked, Jimmy's phone rang and a new batch of materials had arrived from Charon's side.

Jimmy looked at his surroundings and was basically sure that he was heading straight home, so he turned a corner at the intersection and gave up continuing to follow and went to get the information first.

Getting the latest information from the hotel, Jimmy didn't check it out here, but drove back to the apartment and took out all the information in the study.

The new batch of information is the flow information of two bank cards, which is so showy, I don't know how they got it. The FBI needs to go through the procedures to contact the bank to deal with the flow of the designated bank card, which is very troublesome, and the key is that the target will be exposed, and it is not easy for the hotel to get two of the cards.

Of course, the main reason is that the FBI obtains the bank statement information is generally used as evidence, and it needs to be compliant throughout the process, and if it is violated, the evidence will be invalid.

Jimmy scrutinized the records for the last month and quickly found some of them, including checks and large transfers.

Jimmy recorded the account and waited for tomorrow to check it in the bureau, knowing that it is problematic to check the federal prosecutor directly, but it is not a big problem to check a bank card information.

Jimmy didn't expect to bring down a federal prosecutor directly from that information, he just wanted a handle to threaten a little bit and see what he was trying to do.

His current approach was completely out of touch with what a normal FBI should do, but considering the content of Hughes calling him to a quiet park alone for private communication, he also knew that if he refused, the feelings he had cultivated before would be in vain.

After spending a lot of time researching the accounts, Jimmy put some of the names he had recorded on a notepad, took out an envelope from a drawer, and put Haggerty's business card inside, along with a note with his anonymous phone number written on it.

Jimmy sent the envelope to the federal attorney's office for Adam Maxwell to be delivered, and the next thing was to wait for the call.

Sure enough, Jimmy soon received a phone call, and he simply asked Maxwell to meet him at a cigar club called Gauss in the evening, after which he hung up and returned to the office.

Gauss's Cigar Club is a membership club, Kevin has a membership card here, and he has brought Jimmy here once, and Jimmy has a membership card by the way, and he usually doesn't come over much.

After the doorman had said a word, Jimmy came to a reception room, the waiter came with a cigar, Jimmy took a Davidoff, ordered a bourbon, and sat smoking a cigar and reading a magazine, waiting for Adam Maxwell to arrive.

After a while, a waiter brought Maxwell to the reception room, and Jimmy put his cigar on the ashtray and got up to greet him, "Welcome, Mr. Maxwell." ”

Maxwell looked at Jimmy and asked suspiciously, "Mr. George?" Have we seen it? It looks a little familiar. ”

George is the name that Jimmy left in that letter, and Jimmy didn't leave his name for fear of being seen.

Jimmy smiled and reached out to shake his hand, then motioned to sit down and talk, "We met once, in the FBI conference room the other day. Again, FBI Senior Agent Jimmy Young. ”

Maxwell's expression was a little serious, "I don't know what your relationship is with Senator Haggerty?" ”

Jimmy: "It's a little bit of a thing, and it's okay. Do you want one? The cigars here are good. ”

Jimmy pressed the serve button on the table, a waiter came over with a plate, and Maxwell spent the first time in confusion and nervousness, took one and cut off one end, lit a cigar with a long match, and smoked.

When the waiter left, he looked at Jimmy and said, "Okay, now we can talk." ”

Jimmy: "Someone asked me to ask about the murder of Senator Pratt. ”

Maxwell looked at Jimmy with a frown, the cigar tip in his mouth lit up, and a puff of smoke came out of his mouth, "Who are you representing here?" ”

Jimmy: "Some of the big guys, the big guys who are paying attention to this case. They noticed you. ”

Maxwell: "New York? DC？ ”

Jimmy: "Yes, but it's still New York. ”

Maxwell: "What do you want to know?" ”

Jimmy: "What I want to know is, why would you insist on suing Peter Borke?" ”

Maxwell leaned back on the couch and looked through the faint smoke at the young man in front of him, Chinese, a senior FBI agent, holding the personal business card of veteran Senator Mr. Haggerty, talking in such a high-end club, all of which showed that the water was deep.

Maxwell is not a stubborn person, he has cooperated a lot with the FBI in the past two years, and the relationship between them is actually okay.

If it weren't for being coerced into requesting, he wouldn't want to offend the FBI so much, especially since the target this time Peter is still a senior regulatory agent, and there is news that he is about to be promoted to assistant secret service director, that is, field director, there must be someone behind such a person.

Maxwell thought about it for a moment: "I think we can have a good chat later, I have an appointment to rush over today." ”

Jimmy smiled and took out a business card from his pocket and handed it to Maxwell, "Of course, we need to have a good chat, I'll wait for your call." ”

Maxwell took Jimmy's business card, placed the cigar on the ashtray, picked up the glass and touched it with Jimmy, "Nice to meet you, Agent Young." ”

Jimmy smiled and said, "Please don't be so polite, just call me Jimmy." Nice to meet you, Mr. Maxwell. ”

The two drank the bourbon from the glass, got up and shook hands goodbye, and Jimmy sent Maxwell out of the meeting room, where he had just been, and continued smoking his cigar.

(End of chapter)