Jason Bull seems to have insight into Edward Norton's character weaknesses. Trunco continued to put pressure on Edward Norton, and Brooklyn put the adjournment on and off again.

When it came to one o'clock in the afternoon, Tranko finally broke through Edward Norton's psychological defenses to a limited extent.

But things didn't go the way Jason Bull had envisioned. Edward Norton admits that he is interested in Orvis, admits that he met him at a party, admits that he has an interest in Orvis under the influence of alcohol, and does something to Orvis at a party.

But he did not admit that he had violated Ovis. When Tranko asked repeatedly, but was still guarded by Edward Norton, he reluctantly ended the questioning.

Brooklyn immediately adjourned the trial, which resumed an hour later. Brenner was already a little angry.

He yelled at Brooklyn without grace

"I'll appeal! I will go to the commission to complain about you!! Brooklyn gave a 'whatever you want' look and returned to the inner courtyard with the computer in his arms.

Shortly after returning to the inner court, Joseph Jr. came in with two pizza boxes. Everyone gathered around, opened the box, and was just about to start eating, when the phone rang in Brooklyn.

It's an unfamiliar number. Brooklyn frowned, hesitated for a moment, and got up to answer the phone.

"Hello, Judge Brooklyn Lee, I'm Raropurni Vitrak, one of the patrons of the Vitrakvi Laboratory, Mr. Judge, can we talk?"

"What do you want to talk about?" Brooklyn asked.

"It's not convenient on the phone, why don't we meet and talk."

"I'm sorry, I'm not interested." Brooklyn declined the invitation to meet.

"You'll be interested." Raropurny chuckled. After two or three seconds of silence, Brooklyn beckoned to Thunder.

Rarapuni seemed to anticipate that Brooklyn would agree to meet, and said

"I'm sorry Judge Brooklyn Lee, but I can't get in, so I can only ask you to come down. We'll see you in the parking lot. Brooklyn let out an 'um' and put away the phone.

"What's wrong?" Ray walked over and asked. In the office, everyone else looked this way.

"It's okay, Ray will accompany me on a trip." Brooklyn made no secret of the perfunctory remarks and walked towards the parking lot with Ray.

e.. The parking lot in Y is actually not a particularly wide parking lot, if the 'traffic' is too large one day, it will be full, and later people can only go around in circles to find other parking places.

But e.. The parking lot in Y is definitely not small. After Brooklyn followed Ray, he easily found the location of Raropurni.

It's not that his car is too conspicuous, or he has greeted him in advance, but that his 'momentum' is relatively large.

Brooklyn stood at the elevator door, watched Brenner and Pence Norton standing next to the car, raised an eyebrow, and walked over as usual.

"Hello, Judge Brooklyn Lee, I'm Raropurni, Raropurni Vitrak." Rarapney had just seemed to be saying something to Burns Norton when he saw Brooklyn coming, reached out of the car window, and introduced himself.

He then pointed to Pence Norton

"He's selling shares and helping me cash out."

"Judge Brooklyn, we can cooperate, let him go, how about giving you thirty percent?" Brooklyn's lips pursed into a straight line, and he didn't say a word.

It was the first time, the first time ever, that he had faced such a naked bribe. There are no hints, no tacit, no middlemen, it's just so naked and direct.

Come up and talk about the price! Brooklyn was shocked by the impact of this intensity. He lives so big, and he has never seen such a commonplace and justified h-bribe.

It's like going to a convenience store to buy something. 'A bottle of Coke, three bucks.' ''A Pence Norton, 30% of the shares.

'It's the same! Brooklyn was completely shocked by such a unique bribery method, and for a moment did not know how to react.

Raropurney gave Pence Norton a wink. Pence Norton immediately stepped forward to introduce his company.

Brooklyn felt a little dizzy, and Pence Norton's rambling push sounded like he was chanting a tightening spell, but he didn't hear anything else, only the last sentence - about 170 million in three.

More than 170 million! Brooklyn has only seen such a large amount in the news. When he heard this number, Brooklyn's breathing became much heavier.

Rarobney smiled slightly, not in a hurry to speak, but to give Brooklyn plenty of time to 'indulge'.

Brenner, who was on the side, looked at Brooklyn with a complicated look in his eyes. He had a feeling of empathy. After a long time, Rarapuni spoke again.

"How's it going, Brooklyn?" Brooklyn had already woken up from the shock of the huge amount of money, and shook his head when he heard the words.

He glanced at Pence Norton and said coldly

"Buying witnesses, instigating witnesses to give false testimony, and now bribing judges. Pence Norton. Brooklyn glanced at his watch

"After forty minutes, you'll know what the consequences are."

"And this Mr. Raropurni Vitrak, who openly bribed the judges."

"Ray, notify security, come and keep someone. Call the police, wait for the NYPD to come, and hand him over to the police. ”

"Remind the prosecutor to conduct a full inventory of all assets in the name of Raropurni Vitrak and freeze them." With that, Brooklyn nodded at the surprised Raropurny and turned around and walked towards the elevator.

"Brooklyn, you've turned down an excellent opportunity to work together." Behind him, Raropurny said.

Brooklyn waved his hand

"Let's wait until you're free from the charge of bribing the judge." With that, Brooklyn looked back at Brenner.

Brenner was looking at Brooklyn with a complicated expression. He pursed his lips and didn't speak. Brooklyn bowed slightly, and took the elevator with Ray out of the parking lot.

………… Brooklyn does what it says. After eating pizza, Brooklyn recruited the original defendants and lawyers.

In the office, Brooklyn sat in a chair and yelled at Brenner.

"What are you thinking?"

"Brenner, what are you thinking?"

"You were also a judge! But you actually brought an inexplicable person to bribe me with your client? Brooklyn pointed at Brenner, who had a drooping face, and reprimanded him mercilessly.

After scolding, Brooklyn waved his hand and said directly

"There is no need for jury deliberation, and from the beginning of the trial, your little tricks have emerged one after another. One moment I bought off the plaintiff's witnesses, the other time I had the witnesses give false testimony, and now I was simply bribed. ”

"There is no need to continue the trial."

"In view of the fact that the defendant has repeatedly bribed witnesses, secretly instructed and instigated witnesses to give false testimony, repeatedly refused to change their ways, and was even prepared to bribe the judge for $170 million."

"Because the defendant violated the rules of procedure many times, repeatedly used illegal acts in order to win the case, and was still unrepentant after being persuaded by the court many times, it seriously violated the rules of litigation, trampled on procedural fairness, and violated fairness and morality."

"You will face serious charges and investigations. Later I will directly declare the defendant against the case in court. ”

"Defendant, you can choose to let me tell the reason, or admit it obediently." Brooklyn rambled on and on, with only the last two sentences to focus on.

A statement of attitude will not let go of the defendant's repeated illegal acts, and will certainly be investigated to the end.

The other sentence is to give the defendant a choice, whether to continue the trouble, or to stop and obediently admit defeat. Brenner's face was pale, without a trace of blood, and he looked like a dead man.

He can't do this kind of thing.

"I need to talk to my client." For the first time, Brenner lowered his figure.

"Five minutes." Brooklyn said. Five minutes isn't long, but it's not short either. At least five minutes is enough time to make a few calls.

At the end of the five-minute period, Brooklyn received a call from Burke. This made him feel very strange.

After answering the phone, Burke didn't talk nonsense and said directly

"Robert Gordon is looking for you, what did you do?" Brooklyn paused for a second or two before he realized who Robert Gordon was.

That Yale professor who hired a gunman to shoot himself!

"What is he looking for me for?" Brooklyn spoke in a bad tone.

"What are you doing?" Burke asked, surprised. He thought Brooklyn knew why. Brooklyn suppressed his anger and quickly reacted that this was Brenner's rescuer.

"Brenner Mahoney brought a man named Raropurni Vitrak to the courthouse parking lot to bribe me with $170 million to let Pence Norton go."

"170 million is too little." Burke analyzed

"Pence Norton's assets are more than a billion, and 170 million is estimated to only account for two to three percent." Brooklyn was silent.

From Burke's words, he heard something strange.

"There's no way I'm going to accept that." Brooklyn blocked the conversation before Burke could speak amazingly.

Burke Road

"You'll take it."

"Everybody will accept it. Anthony Kennedy also accepted. "Brooklyn couldn't tell if Burke was 'giving Anthony eye medicine' or if he was bringing it up accidentally.

"But their position is generally a commission." Burke was in the posture of giving Brooklyn a good economics lesson.

Brooklyn hurriedly interrupted.

"This has nothing to do with Harvard or Yale." Brooklyn showed its attitude. She didn't want to use this to force Yale to rip it on.

Now that Harvard is in turmoil, it will fall apart if you don't pay attention, and it's not a good time to expand abroad, let alone confront Yale.

"Heather Gerken called me." Burke said. Heather Gerken was the president of Yale, the equivalent of John Manning.

He's a chubby, kind-looking guy.

"Brooklyn, you may not realize how much a former judge lawyer who paid huge bribes to a judge can do to the reputation of his alma mater for admitting it." Burke seems to be fulfilling his promise to John Manning, no longer just picking questions, but beginning to patiently explain.

He said

"Brenner Mahoney, the chief justice of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, is not low in status at Yale, and although he has had to resign due to health problems, he has reduced his influence a lot, but he is still one of the people who once carried weight at Yale."

"Most importantly, Yale used to promote him."

"The fact that an individual who has been promoted by Yale as a model has now been exposed to the scandal of bribing judges, it is conceivable that it will be a very big blow to Yale's reputation."

"That's why we have so many students graduating every year, but we have only a few people in our council." Burke didn't seem to be used to going into too much detail about it, which caused him to speak so fast and jumpy that Brooklyn barely caught up with his logic.

"Either way, I can't accept that Pence Norton must be punished." Brooklyn said.

"You use him as a breakthrough first." Burke said the interrogative sentence in an affirmative tone, and then explained to himself

"You're moving a lot in New York, it's going to be spectacular, but you're not really getting to the heart of them. So you need Pence Norton. ”

"You need Pence Norton as a breakthrough."

"Brooklyn, I now feel that in addition to your limited vision, there is another shortcoming that has been exposed, and you are too principled."

"Anything else?" Brooklyn didn't want to discuss his strengths and weaknesses with Burke. At the quarrel meeting that day, Brooklyn learned what Burke had to say about himself.

"Mark Milley Aldington is going to New York for the weekend." Just as Brooklyn was about to hang up, Burke said suddenly.

"What?" Brooklyn asked.

"Mark Milley Aldington is here to find you, whatever he says, don't believe what he says. The military and the White House are fighting fiercely, and you don't need to get involved. Harvard won't give you a funeral. Burke said half-admonishing, half-warning.

"Your words and deeds now will be interpreted by the outside world as Harvard's words and deeds, and your every move is related to the attitude of the entire Harvard, so please be cautious." Burke said again

"For example, this 170 million."

"It's not a lot of money, but it's a good start to détente with Yale."

"Accept it, send a goodwill signal to Yale, reconcile."

"You should understand that Harvard can't stand the confrontation with Yale, at least not now."

"You're enjoying the protection of Harvard, and it's time to do something for Harvard." Burke said in a flat tone

"Don't prevaricate me with your personal moral purity, aren't you talking about collectivism? It's time for you to dedicate yourself to Harvard, sacrificing your personal moral cleanliness. Brooklyn felt like Burke was shoving poop into his mouth, and he was slopping it down.

This is no longer an instigation for him to take bribes, this is a coercion for him to accept bribes. At this moment, Brooklyn deeply experienced the feelings of Anthony Kennedy at the quarrel meeting that day.

Anthony is right, Burke Forsman is a small watch smash! It's a despicable and shameless villain!

Burke Forsman used Harvard to press Brooklyn, saying that it was good for Brooklyn to take bribes, and he was taking bribes for Harvard.

It's as if Brooklyn would become a Harvard sinner if he didn't take bribes, as if Harvard would be torn to shreds by Yale if he didn't take bribes.

Bah!!