nightcrawler in los angeles

Chapter 89 Rush into Hollywood with the Godfather

Diane Sawyer, who covered the entire North Hollywood Bank of America Robbery, got her payback on ABC!
"Hello, audience friends in front of the TV, hello everyone, I am your new friend Diane Sawyer."

"Welcome everyone to watch [Good Morning America]! Yesterday's [North Hollywood Bank of America Robbery] resulted in 6 deaths and 42 injuries, including 2 state troopers from the Los Angeles Police Department who were slightly injured, 2 city police officers who were killed, and 1 who was seriously injured. County Sheriff Dead"

"In this regard, I express my condolences. Governor George delivered a speech this morning and announced that during his tenure, he will strengthen the budget for police and fire protection, and he will submit a law to strengthen police attendance and weapons."

"Among them, there are a total of 24 honored police officers, namely..."

Every time a person's name was read on the TV screen, a photo of them in police uniform would be pushed out. When a name named "Prince Shay" was read, Tao Xi was stunned for a moment.

"Prince Shea! The Capitol Hill Police Department dispatched detectives to kill the suspect in the case and successfully recovered the robbed U.S. banknotes"

When Diane Sawyer introduced the background of this rookie policeman, Tao Xi stood up in the visiting room and pointed to his godfather: "That's him! I remember very clearly, he's just a guy who doesn't even have an internship epaulet No rookie cops ripping off!"

Bolton sat in a chair and watched the news on TV and said calmly: "Any story, but a good story, will have a side that is seen and a side that is covered up."

Tao Xi sighed helplessly when he heard this sentence, sitting opposite his godfather: "You talk about freedom and openness, but you do more dirty things behind your back than anyone else."

Bolton patted his head when he heard his godson's words and joked, "Don't forget, you are also a beneficiary of this society!"

The visiting room is only 6 square meters, except for an iron table and iron chair welded to the ground, there is only a TV set embedded in the wall, but Tao Xi and Bolton seem to have adapted to the environment here long ago.

Also on the table was a gift Tausi had bought for his godfather from outside the prison.

Since Los Angeles Prison 86 has been reduced to a private prison, Los Angeles Prison 86 can be said to be changing every day.

Even Tao Xi, who had been here several times, did not recognize the environment here. If it wasn't for the prison guards guarding the prison or those people he was familiar with, maybe Tao Xi would get lost when he came to visit the prison this time.

"I heard [Neil Brothers Hot Dog Fast Food Restaurant] has been developing well recently, have you invested in it again?"

When Tao Xi heard the words of the godfather, he became energetic immediately: "Yes! A large part of the money for Marco's hospitalization and illness was taken out from there. I suddenly found that being a boss is also very good, so I decided to Continue to invest in him."

"I've also hired a man who used to run a candy factory in San Francisco as a manager, and the financial situation has been going up recently."

After hearing his godson's answer, Bolton held two carved wooden balls in his hands and kept rolling them.

"Do you plan to quickly expand the scale of your fast food restaurant chain? I have a sum of money in my hand now. I think you can use this sum of money to invest in your fast food chain restaurant to expand its scale."

When Tao Xi heard that his godfather had money, his first thought was to refuse.

"That. Money. Yes."

Bolton was embarrassed to speak when he heard Tao Xi's hesitating for a long time.

Laughing heartily, Bolton patted Tao Xi on the head: "The things you know are all given to you by me. Can I not know the source of this money to be clean? That money is to invest in this company. The prison’s foundation paid for it, and the source of the money is very clean!”

Tao Xi didn't hide with a smirk on his face, and let his godfather pat him on the head.

Until Bolton said that "there is no problem with the source of funds."

Tao Xi immediately thought of the already popular concept of "drive-in theater": "Oh! My God, I have been troubled by one thing recently."

"I don't know if you know the concept of a movie theater chain? I recently opened a store on Sunset Boulevard in North Hollywood."

"In order to make that huge investment store earn money! Inspired by Gerry Lively, I converted the parking lot that was originally used to serve users into a [drive-in theater]!"

"Uncle Bolton, do you know how much our store's revenue has gone up when we played the old movie [Once Upon a Time in America] recently?"

Bolton was a little confused by Tao Xi's question. Bolton didn't know much about business operations.

But since he entered the prison, the internal disintegration of the blood gang was basically a blink of an eye. Bolton fell into self-blame because of fighting for power and profit from the beginning and voluntarily surrendered to prison.

Until the appearance of Tao Xi, the godson, many key members of the blood gang became active again after several years of silence.

But Bolton, the old road before the Blood Gang, doesn't want to go anymore. In Bolton's view, the gangster is a product of the old society, and he doesn't want those old people who are still willing to believe in him to continue to engage in this industry!
He wants those old people to also have "the right to live under the sun"!
That's why Prison 86 in Los Angeles was privatized and the [RD Foundation] was established. The word RD has nothing to do with the Blood Gang, it's nothing more than the initials of "discipline".

The establishment of the [RD Foundation] also officially announced that Bolton has separated from those comrades who run counter to his beliefs!
When the United States first started to have the concept of "private prison operators", it did not start to try it out in other countries, but in Cuba not far from him.

The second is the state of Hawaii and South America. However, as the crime rate in the United States continues to increase, the US government's finances are stretched.

Finally, in several state capitals such as Texas and California, [private prison operators] and [state-owned prisons] have become businessmen's games!

Of course, those prison guards and wardens still belong to the state, and those [private prison operators] need to make money from prisoners.

For example, let prisoners engage in low-cost labor, let prisoners pay rent in order to improve their own treatment in prison, etc., so the [RD Foundation] with a gang background is the first industry to reach out to [private prison operators].

Because of Jeffrey Kyle's laissez-faire and the [RD Foundation]'s multi-party efforts, the [RD Foundation] got the right to operate Los Angeles Prison 370 after paying a price of 86 million US dollars!
This is also the first step for [RD Foundation] to go to the sun, but Bolton, who doesn't know much about business, doesn't know what to do with the remaining 540 million US dollars in his account after that.

After Tao Xi's chain fast food restaurant opened, Bolton asked Kushner to lead a lot of research, and opened the door for [Neil Brothers Hot Dog Fast Food Restaurant]!

Don't think that you are in the restaurant business in the United States. If you don't provoke them, what does the gang have to do with you?
Then you are wrong, if you can get the asylum of a local gang, you can not only have a good environment for customers to eat, but your customers will often send some pennants to your shop that say "Help others, get money".

For no other reason, the American economic order in the early 80s was on the verge of collapse.

You must know that sanctioning others and the Cold War is a tactic that kills 1000 enemies and hurts 800. In addition, the failure of the United States in many foreign wars has led to frequent problems in the United States.

In the 80s it was hard if you wanted to do business properly!

So it is in this situation that [Neil Brothers Hot Dog Fast Food Restaurant] can be open 24 hours a day. Among them, the two things that Bolton likes most are "labor force in the restaurant industry" and "skills".

[Neil Brothers Hot Dog Fast Food Restaurant] can do it all, because of Neilta's presence, it can be said that 70% of [Neil Brothers Hot Dog Fast Food Restaurant] employees are from the Blood Gang, and the other 30% are a group of people. Female college students only.

Bolton seemed to see his way out in an instant. Although Tao Xi didn't want him to participate in the operation of the [fast food restaurant], as Tao Xi's godfather, he was not angry. Instead, he listened carefully to Tao Xi's explanation.

"Old West did some calculations. If you only count the revenue of that [drive-in theater], this [drive-in theater] can earn $4000 a day if there are good movies."

"And this movie was shown in the United States, what if we really become a theater company?"

"I've calculated that if we go to the Motion Picture Association of America to apply for the establishment of a theater company, we only need to fill out a form and pay them a 0.5% ticketing system service fee every year, and we can start business."

"And our [drive-in theater] only needs to rent a parking lot, screens, computers, and cash register equipment, and we can open this theater!"

"Isn't it easy? And maybe Godfather, you can go to Hollywood to make a movie for fun. As long as you have a good director and good actors, you can make money. The box office of the film made its money back on the first day of its opening."

Bolton fell into deep thought when he heard Tao Xi's words.

It wasn't that he was interested in Hollywood, but he suddenly thought that what the New York mafia loved to do in the 70s wasn't making movies to launder their huge amounts of money?

"Okay! Let me think about it, and I will give you an answer in the afternoon at the latest."

When Tao Xi heard that his godfather said that he could give him an answer in a day, Tao Xi was also stunned: "Uncle Bolton, don't worry, after all, the money is not yours alone, you can just think about it, I just have such a problem." An idea, in fact, I don’t know whether this thing will be successful or not.”

(End of this chapter)