american tax collector

Chapter 366: The Old Fox Who Retreats When He Sees Difficulties

"Speaker Nanxi, whether this bill will shake the foundation of our America is not up to you to decide. It's up to the entire Congress to decide!"

Although Nan Xi is the Speaker of the House of Representatives and has a strong influence in the house, this bill will definitely pass as long as it gets 218 votes in the House of Representatives. And he now has so many congressmen living and eating there, so he doesn't need to be too afraid of him.

"Do you know what you are talking about!"

Nan Xi has been active in American politics for decades. Not to mention ordinary people, even high-ranking officials like the president, vice president, and secretary of state have to speak politely in front of him.

But now, being yelled at in person by a young boy like David naturally made her very angry.

"As far as I know, you announced more than a week ago that you would not run for the next Speaker of the House, nor would you hold any position in Congress again. Since you have chosen to retire at the peak of your career, why bother getting involved in this mess?"

"What if I must?"

That’s right, due to his advanced age and various other reasons, Nan Xi did announce more than a week ago that he would not run for Speaker of the House again.

But even if he didn't run for election, with her strong character, if she was afraid of a young boy like David, she would not be called Nancy Galisi!
"Then I'll be worried that you'll lose your reputation in your later years!"

"Haha, I've never been to Lolita Island, you can't threaten me!"

David was stunned when he heard this. He knew that someone among the previous congressmen must have leaked the bill, but he didn't expect that even the matter of Loli Island was leaked.

It seems that the people who leaked the bill are most likely the congressmen who have been to Loli Island!

Looking at David's dazed expression, Nan Xi thought that the other party couldn't do anything to her, and she couldn't help feeling proud. But David's next words made her expression freeze.

"You have never been to Lolita Island, but your husband is known as the 'Capitol Hill Stock God'. I just don't know if he can withstand our investigation!"

Nan Xi's smile froze when she heard David's words. She said with a stern face, "My husband has his own business, and it has also been examined in many aspects. What else do you want to check?"

"On May 5 this year, your husband had a car accident at an intersection 28 miles away from his winery. However, when facing the police, your husband spoke unclearly, his feet were unstable, and his breath exuded a strong smell of alcohol. He tried to show the police a membership card of a certain foundation. The subsequent blood alcohol concentration test also proved that your husband was indeed drunk driving at the time, and even drugs were detected in his body..."

"and many more……"

Nan Xi interrupted with a frown, and said impatiently: "Although my husband did have this accident, he was acquitted in the end. You can't make a fuss about it!"

"Yes, you have hired a top operation team in California at a high price, including crisis management experts, Kemmer, who has handled public opinion crises for Harvard University and Nike, House Gipp, a public relations guru with extensive connections, and Coker, the most famous lawyer in California. These people are really amazing."

"However, a week before being subpoenaed by the court, Congress was discussing a 'chip bill', under which the US semiconductor industry would receive $520 billion in subsidies."

"But what's interesting is that your husband bought a large amount of stocks of semiconductor giant Nvidia and other chip companies just before the bill was voted on, and made tens of millions of dollars overnight. Am I right?"

Nan Xi's husband's name is Paulo Gherisi.

This guy is definitely notorious in America. In addition to the drunk driving and insider trading that David just mentioned, he once killed his brother because of threatening driving when he was 16 years old.

Of course, the main reason why this guy can live happily until now despite his bad deeds is that he has curry favor with Nan Xi, the powerful Speaker of the House.

Otherwise, he would have been in jail long ago.

"Haha, what you said is all well-known, and has been investigated by the courts and hearings, but my husband's guilt cannot be proven!"

"But what do you think if I talk to Monroe Antonio, Howard Archibald, and DuBois Hamilton?"

Nan Xi, who had a normal expression on her face, suddenly changed her expression after hearing these three names.

These three people are executives of chip giants INVISTA, Intel, and Qualcomm, but of course this is not the point.

The point is that the chip bill that David mentioned earlier will be the biggest beneficiaries of these three giants.

In return, the three giants sent these three executives and reached a series of interest exchanges with her on the eve of the passage of the bill.

Now that David knows the three contacts at the time, if these three were taken away for investigation, with David's methods, it is hard to guarantee whether these three would say something.

Thinking of this, the wrinkles between Nan Xi's brows deepened.

She wondered how David could be so confident, and it turned out that he somehow got to know some inside information about the matter.

"Okay, Speaker Nanxi, I have no intention of opposing you, but you should not interfere with my actions. The best outcome is for us all to remain in peace. What do you think?"

Although Nan Xi announced that she would not run for the next Speaker of the House, her term has not yet ended.

And David is now going to push such a bill in Congress, so it would be better to let the other party back down. There is no need to completely break off relations with the other party, so as to avoid causing a lot of trouble at that time.

"Humph, David, I finally remembered it today!"

For many years, Nan Xi has presented herself to the world as a ruthless and even aggressive person, but that persona is just a persona, and most of the time it is just for show to the public. Don't really think of her as just a reckless woman.

Having served as Speaker of the House for so many years, her political wisdom can definitely be described as top-notch.

Now that she is about to step down, political achievements have no meaning to her at all.

The reason why she came to David was just to see if she could deal with David and make the three major groups owe him a big favor.

But she didn't expect that David actually knew some inside information about the chip bill, so after thinking about it, she finally decided to stop.

After all, David's methods were extraordinary. If she really wanted to continue to pester him, and the other party made a big fuss about the chip bill, she might not be able to retire peacefully.

"Wait a minute, Speaker Nanxi..."

Nan Xi, who had just walked to the door and was about to push it open to leave, turned back.

"What I want to know is, how did you know I was here?"

In order to avoid trouble, David has been very low-key during this period and has never revealed any information, so he was also very curious about how the other party found him.

Nan Xi had no intention of answering. She gave him a disdainful look, then pushed the door and left.

"It seems that she has given up..."

After all, the other party was a politician who had been active in the United States for decades and also held an important position as Speaker of the House of Representatives, so after seeing the other party retreat, Sean finally breathed a sigh of relief.

"Oh, by the way, who are those three people you just mentioned?"

"The executives of chip companies such as Intel just had some conflicts of interest with her and her husband."

"So that's it..."

Sean was wondering why the other party behaved abnormally when he heard these three names. So this is the case...

But then again, Nan Xi is about to step down, and David has discovered some of his secrets, so if he were the other party, there is no way he would fight David to the death.

I'm about to retire and enjoy my old age. If it's not a matter of life and death, who would be willing to risk their life?

David took out his cell phone, found Gavin's number and dialed it. The call was quickly connected. He asked, "What's going on? Has my whereabouts been leaked?"

The last assassination attempt left him with a psychological trauma. Now that Nan Xi knew his whereabouts, if the Freemasons knew about it and sent him explosives or assassins, wouldn't that be dangerous?
So this problem must be solved first.

"No, as you instructed, I have been closely monitoring your whereabouts and safety, but I haven't found anything."

"Okay, I'll ask the CIA."

David hung up the phone, dialed Elvis' number, and repeated what he had said to Gavin.

"Whereabouts... We at the CIA have indeed not detected any leaks. What's going on?"

Elvis thought about it and couldn't figure out what went wrong.

"Just now, Nan Xi from the House of Representatives came to me..."

David told others that Nan Xi had come.

"I see. I think... it must be our director who disclosed your information to Nan Xi."

"You're the director?"

"Yes, the director of our CIA Intelligence Department is Sawyer Holder. He has a close relationship with Nan Xi. If Nan Xi could find you, it should be through him!"

"Then what's your relationship with him?"

"It's just a matter of superiors and subordinates. There's no big relationship."

"Is that so... Then I will go back to Washington in the next two days and tell me his whereabouts!"

Since this director was able to reveal his whereabouts to Nan Xi, David naturally could not keep him any longer.

"okay, I get it."

CIA, Elvis, who was in the office, blushed instantly after hearing this.

The last time David asked him to give a list of personnel to be placed by the three major forces, he actually thought of writing the director's name on it.

However, this director was not from one of the three major forces. After some hesitation, he finally held back in order to avoid causing David's displeasure.

But what was unexpected was that Nan Xi actually came forward to find David, and also implicated the director of their CIA Intelligence Department.

In this case, we can't blame him!
……

Two days later in the evening.

In front of Arlington House in Washington, D.C.

Countless sports cars and luxury cars arrived at the door one after another, and celebrities from Washington's upper class society walked in with their female companions.

In an inconspicuous corner of the mansion lobby, David and his companions arrived here early.

At this time, they either became bearded men or big bearded men. In short, each of them seemed to have changed their appearance completely.

"Hehe, the CIA's disguise skills are really strong. I don't think my mom would recognize me here!"

Manson looked at himself on the phone screen and couldn't help but chuckle.

After they came back from Texas, they received a message from Elvis saying that Sawyer would come to attend the charity party here today, so they came too.

In order not to attract attention, Elvis deliberately asked his disguised personnel to dress up David and his group.

As he was talking, it seemed that most of the people at the scene had arrived.

At this time, the host of the dinner walked onto the stage and said, "Thank you all for coming to the charity dinner hosted by Mr. Harrington. Mr. Harrington will be here later due to his busy schedule, so he asked me to apologize to everyone!"

"But it doesn't matter, the charity auction will still go on as usual."

"Mr. Harrington will select 50 fine pieces from his collection for auction, and then donate them to the people affected by the flood in Georgia!"

As soon as the host finished speaking, thunderous applause broke out at the scene.

After a while, the applause gradually faded away.

A staff member brought up a blue and white porcelain vase and placed it in the most conspicuous position in the central area.

"This is an official kiln collection from the Qing Dynasty in China. The starting price is 50 US dollars. Each bid must not be less than 5 US dollars. Bidding begins now!"

The host gave the celebrities below a detailed introduction to the year of the vase, and then the bidding began.

"50 million!"

"60 million!"

"80 million!"

"..."

As the host finished speaking, the celebrities at the scene began bidding.

It didn't take long.

The collection was sold at a high price of 200 million US dollars.

This also made Manson, who was watching secretly, sigh: "These damn rich people are really generous..."

"Oh, if they take a photo of this collection, not only can they stand out in front of all the celebrities, but they can also make a good impression in front of the media by donating to disaster relief. Why not do it?"

"What do you think? If we arrest all the people present and interrogate them one by one, can we squeeze out some money?"

Jerry's words made Munson and Larin look stunned.

You know what, this is a really good idea.

To put it nicely, these people are celebrities from Washington's upper class society, but to put it bluntly, they are a group of capitalists.

How can there be a clean capitalist?
If they really investigate it as a crime of tax evasion, it will be a sure thing!

"Don't think about these things. This is not why we are here today."

David was a little puzzled. According to the information Elvis gave him, his director should be coming, but why hasn't he arrived yet?

"Deal, congratulations Mr. LeBron!"

As the few people were talking, the transaction of the first collection was completed with the host's shout.

(End of this chapter)