FBI detective

Chapter 819: Company Bankruptcy, Prelude

"Goodbye, Paul! Thank you so much for today."

"That's exaggerating, Team Leader Luo An. It's just a small matter. I should be the one thanking you. Let's go out for a drink together later!"

"..."

Looking at Roan and Paul standing in the corridor outside the office area and laughing at each other, Lacey looked strange. She moved her chair closer to Winslow and asked in a low voice:
"Have you heard that they have such a good relationship?"

Winslow looked at Lacey in surprise:

"As long as there are no excessive conflicts between men, they can chat with each other in a few words. There is no problem with going out for drinks together, right?"

Lacey rolled her eyes at Winslow, too lazy to talk to him. She snatched the snacks from Winslow's table, moved her chair closer to Mona, and asked:

"Mona, you..."

"Let's deal with the matter in this case first."

As soon as Lacey started to speak, Mona turned around, grabbed the back of Lacey's chair, pushed her back to her workstation, and said:

"If I'm not mistaken, since the interrogator Youen has confessed everything, we will be busy next."

Lacey muttered a few words and stopped asking questions. She put aside her gossiping heart and began to seriously deal with the case information at hand.

Outside the corridor, not long after, Paul took the elevator and left first. Luo An turned around and walked back to the office area, opened the door, clapped his hands and said loudly:

"Everyone, look at me, look at me, I have something to announce."

Mona, Winslow, Lacey, Chenelle and Michelle all looked up at Roan, who turned around, closed the door and prepared to speak.

Jingle Bell--

The sudden ringing of a cell phone made Luo An pause. He looked at everyone apologetically, picked up the phone and pressed the answer button.

"It's me, Michael."

Michael Bray's voice came from the phone. He was extremely anxious and spoke quickly in a low voice:
"Luo An, do you have time now? If you do, come to Wall Street quickly. Something happened here!"

Luo An narrowed his eyes slightly and asked:
"What kind of thing do you mean? Something to do with people or something to do with money?"

"Both!"

Michael Bray was very anxious and replied:

"It's not convenient to talk over the phone. It's better for you to come here when you have time."

"OK, I get it."

Luo An nodded, replied casually and hung up the phone.

After a moment of hesitation, Luo An walked straight to the front of the office area under the puzzled gazes of Winslow, Mona and others, and turned on the small TV hanging on the wall.

Luo An turned on the TV and picked up the remote control to keep changing channels. He soon tuned to the economic news channel, where the blonde female host was introducing a piece of news:
"… Three minutes ago, at 10:44 this morning, New Century Financial, the second largest federal subprime mortgage company on Wall Street, officially announced its bankruptcy…"

"What?"

"WTF?!"

"New Century Financial is bankrupt?!"

Before Luo An could speak, Winslow, Chenier and Lacey in the office area stood up from their chairs, exclaimed in shock.

Michelle, who was usually quite stable in her emotions, also widened her eyes with a look of emotion, and raised her hand to cover her mouth tightly.

"How can this be?"

Federal New Century Financial Investment Company is very famous throughout the federation because many people can buy villas with zero down payment loans and wait for the villas to appreciate in value, which are loans obtained from this company.

This company was founded in 95. In just 10 years, it became one of the largest subprime mortgage issuers in the federal government. Its stock price also reached an all-time high, making it a very dazzling star enterprise in the entire federal government.

Although Winslow, Chenier and others had never taken out a loan from New Century Financial Company to buy a house, they had many friends around them, so they had all heard of the company's reputation.

The news that the second largest subprime mortgage company in the federal government had declared bankruptcy instantly overwhelmed several people, and they subconsciously suspected that this might be fake news. Compared to Winslow and others who were shocked, Luo An only narrowed his eyes slightly when he saw the news on TV, with almost no change in his expression.

After a few seconds of silence, he turned off the TV, turned to look at everyone, and said in a deep voice:
"Everyone, have you taken out a loan from this company?"

"No."

"No."

Chenier and the others looked at each other and shook their heads.

Since joining the special investigation team, the economic level of the agents has risen sharply and they are hardly short of money.

Even if they were short of money, after helping Luo An solve several cases, they had enough funds saved up, and they almost never borrowed money since then.

Luo An nodded slightly and continued:

"In that case, let's put the news from Wall Street aside for now and deal with the case at hand first."

"OK."

"no problem."

Everyone nodded, suppressed their shock, and began to listen carefully to Luo An's arrangements for the balloon case.

"Everyone, this is the interrogation record of Deputy Team Leader Paul on the reader You En just now."

Luo An opened the folder and said:

"Yoon said that the boss behind him is named Omarion, and he is generally called "White Cobra" on the street.

Because this guy not only sells flour and rock sugar, but is also vicious and cunning. He has several bases and usually chooses his accommodation places completely randomly.

Our next goal is to find a way to catch this guy."

Winslow thought for a moment and asked:

"Since Omarian has several bases, should we try to conduct reconnaissance there? Or should we launch a capture operation at each base at the same time?"

"No, we just need to wait for news and prepare for action."

Luo An waved his hand and said that Deputy Team Leader Paul would find a way to investigate and find out Omarian's whereabouts, and then report it to the special investigation team, which would then arrest him.

Winslow, Chenier and the others looked at each other in bewilderment after hearing this. After a few seconds of silence, Lacey asked tentatively:

"Deputy Team Leader Paul, are you so helpful?"

Helping Roan interrogate the trafficker Youn is indeed a small matter, but helping to investigate Omarian's whereabouts is definitely a hard job. No matter how good the relationship between Deputy Team Leader Paul and Roan is, it is impossible for him to give silently without asking for anything in return.

"Deputy Team Leader Paul and I have already discussed the rest of the matter. You will know after this case is over."

Luo An said that some situations are not convenient to discuss in detail now, so everyone should prepare their equipment first and wait for news in the next few days.

Although Winslow and others had doubts, they had always trusted Luo An, so they simply stopped asking too many questions and hurriedly sorted out the case.

Omarian is a very cautious guy, and investigating his whereabouts is not an easy task. In the next few days, the special investigation team was quietly waiting for news. Luo An found some time and drove to Wall Street.

In an office in a building on Wall Street, Michael Bray was yelling into his cell phone.

Seeing Luo An walk into the room, he shook his phone with embarrassment. Luo An smiled and waved his hand to indicate that he was not in a hurry, then walked aside to make coffee.

Ten minutes later, Michael Bree put down the phone, and Roan handed him a cup of coffee and said with a smile:

"New Century Financial went bankrupt, federal housing prices began to fall, and that group of investment companies had to pay the CDS."

"What a bunch of bastards!"

Michael Bree took the coffee and drank it all, cursing:

“Goldman Sachs told me that the system had a problem and a lot of files were lost;
Morgan Stanley said the incident happened suddenly and the server crashed, so it would take time to restart;
The Commonwealth Bank was the worst. They told me that they had a power outage and therefore could not pay now!"

(End of this chapter)