sinovels Chapter 134 This Tenant... Confused!
Chapter 134 This Tenant... Confused!
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"Mr. Li, we are arresting you on suspicion of leaking state secrets.
You have the right to remain silent, and everything you say may become evidence in court in the future.
You have the right to a lawyer; if you cannot afford one, the court will appoint one for you. "
Federal agents, armed with their warrants and work badges, handcuffed Li Lei as they read a Miranda warning.
"The handcuffs are unnecessary, right?"
Li Lei couldn't help complaining, "I don't have any criminal record. At the same time, I am a successful businessman and have contributed a lot to my community, so there is no need to take such compulsory measures, right?"
The US law enforcement forces rarely take coercive measures against people who are not a big threat, and Li Lei just falls into this category.
In particular, Li Lei is an upstart in the financial and economic circles of the United States, especially Li Lei has donated a lot to charities such as children's rights, ethnic minority equality, education, and medical care. Therefore, the Gotham police came forward to dissuade Li Lei from using handcuffs.
Li Lei was held hostage by two federal agents and entered a black SUV.
Not long after, the convoy composed of the Gotham Police and the FBI started slowly.
When many people hear the name of the FBI, they think that this law enforcement force seems to be very remarkable, but due to the special political system of the United States, the FBI is actually a very difficult existence.
According to the U.S. Constitution, the U.S. federal government is also the central government, which is at the same level as the state governments of the U.S. states.
That means the FBI's enforcement powers are limited to Washington, D.C., unless it's a federal law or a case like human trafficking.
But the problem is, Washington DC also has the Washington DC Police Department, and people don't pay special attention to the FBI, so the FBI suddenly discovered that there is no place in the United States where I can enforce the law.
According to the laws of the United States, the FBI needs to be accompanied by the local police station if it is going to investigate a case. Otherwise, you will exceed your authority, and it is also illegal for the FBI to bring a lawsuit to the Federal Supreme Court.
Therefore, the Gotham police don't want to handcuff Li Lei, and the FBI can only do good things.
And why did the Gotham police treat Li Lei so politely?
This is also related to the unique local government structure in the United States.
The United States is a country founded by business, so the local government in the United States is actually equivalent to a company.
The city council is the board of directors of the company, and the directors of the board of directors naturally have to listen to the opinions of the shareholders behind them.
Whoever pays more taxes to this city is the real father of this city.
The police station relies on the city council to allocate funds every year, so the city council's father is the police station's grandfather.
So as long as the rich people are in the area, the security is definitely very good.
The reason why the law and order in Flushing, New York City is getting better and better is that the new rich people from China began to gather here, attracting many rich people from the Asian ethnic group to settle down.
The tax amount here is high, so the city government must take good care of it.
Not enough public schools?
It's all right, fix it with funding!
Not enough police force?
It's okay, if you want someone to give, you want a car to give a car, you must take good care of your parents.
Li Lei is now one of the richest taxpayers in Gotham City. The Gotham City Government naturally looked at Li Lei up and down, just like looking at his father.
In addition, Li Lei did not have any criminal record and was keen on charity. How could such an outstanding young man be handcuffed casually?
If he is innocent in the future, his face will be swollen from the beating and he will be remembered again and again.
Although the level of law and order maintained by the Gotham Police Department is worrying, the means of avoiding disasters are first-class.
Since the FBI will only set up an office in a few megacities, they will naturally not set up another office in Gotham City, which is only one bay away, if they have already set up an office in New York City.
So the FBI could only interrogate Li Lei in the Gotham Police Station, and as soon as Li Lei entered the police station, he unexpectedly met the Riddler, who is now a staff member of the Gotham Police Evidence Management Office.
Li Lei didn't think about recruiting the Riddler or anything. He didn't think he was a person with the halo of the protagonist. This kind of super villain with superior IQ should be left to Bruce to train|train him.
Li Lei was pushed into an interrogation room by agents of the FBI, and one of them slapped the table and shouted angrily: "You know you committed a crime, right?
Speak, and we'll intercede with the judge for you. "
Hearing what they said, Li Lei couldn't help but burst out laughing.
Although the U.S. Constitution and the Constitutional Amendment guarantee that citizens can refuse to "incriminate themselves"
It is also possible to require a lawyer to be present throughout the trial.
But at the same time, the law also allows citizens to surrender to the police or the judiciary in exchange for a plea bargain.
Therefore, when the police force interrogates prisoners, they will be intimidated. As long as the suspect confesses, the next procedure will be easy.
After all, the police force also has assessment indicators for the detection rate, and no one wants to make trouble.
"Gentlemen, I am admitted to practice law in New Jersey, New York, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, California, and the Commonwealth. Do you think what you just said means anything to me?
If I hadn't met my lawyer, I would have kept my mouth shut.
If I haven't seen my lawyer within half an hour, I will contact the New Jersey Bar Association and the New Jersey Judicial Ethics Commission. If you don't want to get involved in a lawsuit, I advise you to leave this interrogation room.
By the way, please bring me a cup of coffee, I don't want instant coffee, and only soy milk without sugar, thank you! "
Those detectives left the interrogation room with constipated faces. It wasn't that they didn't want to continue the interrogation, it was because the entire interrogation was audio-visualized.
As long as the suspect said that I wanted to find a lawyer, if the police did not cooperate, then there was a serious problem with the procedure.
Not only will the District Prosecutor's Office not accept such a case and arrange a public prosecution, but even if the prosecution reaches the court, the judge will only sympathize with the suspect.
The final result was that the prosecution and the police were humiliated by the judge in court, and the suspect was acquitted.
So after several detectives determined Li Lei's status as a lawyer and his need to find a lawyer, they wisely interrupted the interrogation.
"Asshole, do you really prepare coffee for him?
It's amazing to have money! "
said one of the detectives.
Another agent said: "It's great to have money.
Do you believe it or not?
The lawyer's fee of any one of the lawyers he hired later is equivalent to several years of our salary.
Well, you go make him a cup of coffee before he complains about us. "
"No instant coffee, you only put soy milk in coffee, no sugar.
Where can I find him a Starbucks around here? "
"Don't be stupid, just go to the water dispenser at the door and make him a cup of Nestle.
Tell him that if you don't like drinking, we still have Maxwell's choice.
If you don't like it, then there's nothing we can do. "
Li Lei said that he wanted to drink coffee purely to make things difficult for the other party. After all, he was caught in the police station for leaking secrets for no reason, and he felt uncomfortable.
Li Lei didn't have to wait long before his lawyer team arrived.
It's not that Li Lei doesn't want to use his friends, but that after his business grows, he really needs such a big-name lawyer to support him.
When you reach a certain position, the means will be different.
Li Lei's chief lawyer is Harvey Spector, one of the most famous gold medal lawyers on the east coast of the United States.
To be honest, when Bruce introduced Harvey to Li Lei, Li Lei had a very good impression of Harvey.
The reason is simple. Harvey meets all the definitions of successful men and handsome men in mainstream American society. He is an outstanding graduate of Harvard Law School, a senior partner of a well-known law firm in New York, a lawyer with the highest winning rate and income in the United States, and loves rugby, skiing and surfing. And "People", "Vanity Fair", "Play|Playboy" and many other well-known magazine covers.
But soon Li Lei was shattered by Harvey's private life, extremely selfish and indifferent.
Of course, Harvey is only Li Lei's lawyer, not Li Lei's friend, so Li Lei only values Harvey's litigation skills.
Harvey sat across from Li Lei, took out a document from his assistant, and asked very cautiously: "Mr. Li, my next question will be very direct, but it is related to whether you can get out of this prison. disaster.
The FBI is currently investigating you for 'Leaking State Secrets', which is a Class A federal felony, and the maximum penalty can be the death penalty.
Of course, in view of the rejection of the death penalty by mainstream public opinion, it is possible that your sentence will be commuted to life imprisonment.
If Mr. Li does not intend to spend the rest of his life in a prison with the highest security level in the United States, then please answer my question truthfully and in detail.
My first question is, have Mr. Li and your companies or invested companies received any direct or indirect funding from the US government? "
"All of my and my company's funding comes from private sources and has nothing to do with the government.
Although most of my companies are private companies and have no obligation to disclose them to the public, in order to prove my innocence, I can submit the company's financial reports to you for review.
You can rest assured that all financial reports of our company come from KPMG and are audited by US GAAP. "
Li Lei replied calmly, "I know that the FBI probably investigated me because I disclosed information about the spaceship to the Atlantis News Network.
But the source of my information about the spacecraft is from my own space exploration company, which is a purely private company that has not received any government funding.
Mr. Spector, I am also a lawyer, and I am very clear that the "Secrecy Act" is only valid for civil servants and those who have access to state secrets due to their duties.
I am not a civil servant, and I have no business dealings with government departments.
So I found the alien ship, and of course I have the right to publish it whenever I choose. "
The U.S. "Secrecy Act" has never restricted ordinary citizens, so as long as Li Lei is not a civil servant or works for the government, he is not obliged to keep it secret if he discovers something that falls within the scope of U.S. government secrecy.
Of course, if Li Lei Juewu Gao took the initiative to keep the government secret, the government would be happy and encouraged.
"Moreover, Mr. Spector, isn't it a great threat to public safety that the government has kept the matter of the alien spacecraft hidden until now?
The American people have a right to know that an alien spacecraft of unknown origin is approaching Earth, and our government has not yet had any notification of this spacecraft. "
Li Lei raised himself to speak for the American people, and Americans and American judges are very fond of this.
Harvey is not that kind of pedantic lawyer either. He is not only good at slanting swords, but also his secretary is a senior public relations manager of the three major consulting companies in the United States, with strong public relations ability and abundant public relations resources.
As long as Li Lei throws out this setting, Harvey will have a way to make the American people accept that the story of Li Lei being arrested by the government for the American people's right to know spreads all over the United States.
In the minds of the American people, the government is the biggest villain; correspondingly, Li Lei is a lone hero.
Although the United States allows judges not to be elected officials and can serve for life in order to maintain judicial independence, judges are also human beings and social animals.
That being the case, they will inevitably be under the pressure of public opinion and public opinion.
"Actually, we are bound to win this case, but has Mr. Li thought about why the FBI intervenes in a case that must be lost?"
Harvey put away the documents, and then ordered his assistant to wait for him outside the interrogation room.
"I remember that Mr. Li once worked as a private lawyer in Gotham City for a period of time, and also worked as a public defender. I think the darkest side of the judicial circle cannot be hidden from Mr. Li.
Mr. Li, have you ever thought about why you were arrested? "
Harvey's question made Li Lei frown. The American judicial system is highly respected for efficiency. For a lawsuit like mine that must be lost, let alone the court will not issue an arrest warrant. I am afraid that it will be returned by the prosecutor. .
But the problem now is that not only are prosecutors preparing to file charges, but judges have issued arrest warrants, and even the FBI has come in.
To a certain extent, the American judiciary has many similarities with the American entertainment and sports circles. Once you lose many lawsuits or lose some high-profile lawsuits, your reputation in the judicial circle will be greatly affected. Will dive in a straight line.
This is why the gold medal lawyers of the larger law firms seldom appear in court, because they cannot afford to lose.
If a lawyer at Harvey's level loses two or three nationally renowned lawsuits in a year, even if he is a partner, his salary and treatment will be reduced next year.
If this happens for two to three years in a row, Harvey will change from a senior partner in a well-known law firm in the country to a down-and-out lawyer in a private law firm in the community who fights bail for gangsters in exchange for three meals a day .
In the same way, defense lawyers dare not act recklessly, and prosecutors dare not act recklessly.
If the loss rate is too high, do you still count on promotion?
Especially for public prosecutors, switching to a lawyer is simply a big leap in life.
But if you lose that many cases, the board of judges won't like you to join them.
Li Lei believes that his lawsuit does not lack attention, so why does the prosecutor jump in and seek death when he knows he has lost the lawsuit?
Unless this sacrifice can be exchanged for greater benefits.
"not good!"
Li Lei suddenly thought of something, "They can browse my personal information at will.
This damn design! "
Because Li Lei is usually a lawyer, he is not used to finding a lawyer to organize and classify his materials.
And because of this habit, Li Lei is now in jail, and the other party is holding a search warrant, so all his information is defenseless against them.
If Li Lei has an assistant who is familiar with the law and his work at this time, then the assistant will naturally apply for evidence preservation and injunction immediately to protect his core secrets.
But Li Lei thought about it again, and his files were all filed by the Red Queen in the end.
Red Queen knows which files should be hidden and which files should be encrypted.
Although prosecutors can forcibly search their own computers with a search warrant, some important files are still safe.
Thinking of this, Li Lei suddenly said to Harvey, "Find a way to go to the State Judicial Ethics Committee to complain that this investigation is not in compliance with the procedure.
By the way, bail me out quickly. "
"Bail is of course no problem.
In fact, I submitted my bail application before I came in to talk to you.
But you also know that they probably need some time to clean up, so I was entangled with me for a long time on the details of the program. "
Harvey knew that Li Lei had understood the tricks of the FBI, so he complained unceremoniously.
"Over there at the Ethics Committee, I will submit the complaint file tomorrow.
This kind of case full of flaws can still apply for an arrest warrant. I really feel sad for the fairness and justice of the justice in New Jersey. "
Harvey's law firm is based in New York, so Harvey considers himself a New Yorker.
While Harvey was complaining to Li Lei about the issue of judicial justice in New Jersey and talking about how he planned to handle the case, a rookie police officer from the Gotham Police Department gave Li Lei a bail document.
It seems that the Gotham police didn't want to take the blame for this kind of thing that was obviously going to be humiliated, so they had to arrange for a rookie to come over.
Li Lei and Harvey were not the kind of people who would do things that would be demeaning. If the person who came now was the head of the Gotham Police Department, Li Lei and Harvey would definitely humiliate him so much that he couldn't take care of himself.
But they are just rookies who have just joined the job, Li Lei and Harvey are not going to embarrass him.
Li Lei scanned the bail documents, and the bail method turned out to be "self-signed guarantee"
This is considered to be the easiest way to bail the suspect.
"It's nothing surprising. With your status and the absurdity of this case, the Gotham police will not continue to fight against you in terms of bail."
Harvey was not surprised, "The guys from the FBI can pat their butts and leave at any time, and you, the new richest man in the United States, will continue to live in Gotham City.
Given your fortune, you'll soon be in the running for political power on all sides, with election years looming in Gotham and New Jersey.
And in terms of your net worth, it is not difficult to support several city councilors and state councilors, and it is even a matter of a few days to play golf with the senator who represents New Jersey in the Senate.
Do you think the Gotham police are going to offend you?
Does the Gotham Police Chief think his position is too strong?
Lee, you get used to your wealth and all that your wealth can bring you.
A low-key rich man will only make people think you are easy to bully, and as a result your wealth will be snatched away by those who covet it.
Look at Tony Stark, look at your buddy Bruce Wayne, that's the right way to open up America's millionaires.
Well, remember to contact me if you need anything.
But calling me will also be included in your fee. My hourly salary is very high, but my service attitude is also very good. "
After saying goodbye to Harvey, Li Lei returned to his apartment in the black tiger.
"The FBI tried to get into the apartment, but I showed them proof that the apartment belonged to me, so they had to go back to the judge and apply for a search warrant, but they didn't seem to be able to convince the judge who could sign the search warrant."
Hamada Hiroshi, who was driving, said, "But our biopharmaceutical company, medical equipment company, satellite service company, and biological gene research center have all been searched by them.
I don't know which judge would dare to sign such a loose search warrant, Ray, we must file a complaint with the Judges Association and the Judicial Ethics Committee. "
"Don't worry, I didn't hire the lawyer with the highest hourly salary in the United States because he was handsome."
Li Lei couldn't help teasing when he thought of Harvey's face that fascinated countless girls and young women in the United States, "He will not only help me solve this case, but also help me get rid of it.
Maybe I'm too low-key, so low-key that anyone thinks they can ride on my head and bully me. "
While Li Lei was complaining, Charlie Skinner called, and Li Lei answered it immediately.
"Yes, Uncle Skinner, the FBI, in conjunction with the Gotham Police, arrested me for 'revealing state secrets' and 'endangering national security.
It's okay, the lawyer has released me on bail.
Don't worry, I am not a national civil servant nor have I accepted any form of employment by the country, so the "Secrecy Act" does not apply to me at all.
And the most important thing is that all the information I provided to you is from the observation data of the private company under my name and other research reports from the public domain, and there is nothing involving state secrets in the slightest.
Yes, this is my revenge.
Yes, I'm available for an online interview with ACN Midnight News. "
"Are you still going to fight back against them in the media?"
Seeing that Li Lei hung up the phone, Hamada Hiroshi asked with interest.
"Of course, I can't even complain about it, can I?"
Li Lei smiled softly, "They think I'm an easy guy to handle. I want to let them know that what they kicked this time is a super-hard metal plate made of vibrating gold."
After returning to the apartment, Li Lei went to take a shower, and changed into a formal suit by the way.
And Atlantis News Network's reporter station in Gotham also rushed over to set up live broadcast equipment for Li Lei.
The ace news programs of mainstream wireless TV stations and cable channels in the United States generally have three levels: the evening news period at nine o’clock or ten o’clock. This period is the flagship news program period of each major TV station, and is generally the elite of each station’s news center Responsible for the production, and the host is also the anchor of the station. The news during this time period is usually half an hour, so non-essential news is not included; the second gear is the midnight news time slot at midnight, and the news during this time period is usually about an hour. It is mainly to review yesterday's major news and comment on today's major events; the third segment is the morning news period starting at [-]:[-] or [-]:[-] every morning. This segment of news is usually about two hours long and mainly focuses on life information, sports and entertainment news. It belongs to the light news period, and the hosts are mostly handsome men and beautiful women.
In fact, Charlie Skinner planned to let Li Lei appear on the "ACN Evening News", but Li Lei was still in the police station at the time, so he had to make the next best thing to appear on the "ACN Midnight News".
However, the midnight news of Atlantis News Network is as long as 90 minutes, so Skinner can allow the host to have more time to interview Li Lei, and then dig out more news points.
You must know that the Atlantis News website's average ratings more than doubled than usual after the news about the kicking of the alien spaceship and the news that the government did not know about it.
Since Li Lei's news is completely exclusive, major wireless TV stations and cable news channels have to spend money to buy pictures from Atlantis News Network.
As a result, the news of my own company is not only out of timeliness, but also has to spend money to prevent the opponent from leaving me too far, which makes the big bosses of other friendly stations be furious in the office.
On "ACN Midnight News", Li Lei not only broke more news about the alien spacecraft, but also mentioned that he was arrested and threatened by the government.
Li Lei said that the government is still concealing the news of the alien spacecraft and suppressing other people who know about it. This makes Li Lei have to wonder if the government has any ulterior secrets.
"For example, has the government already contacted the aliens and reached some kind of agreement?"
Li Lei said casually, "Although I can't confirm my statement, the behavior of the government makes me have to think so.
If the government does not disclose relevant information to the people in accordance with the "Information Disclosure Act", but shamelessly abuses the "Secrecy Act" to suppress those who know, I can only express my serious distrust of this government.
And I will continue to disclose everything I know because people have a right to know! "