Chapter 804: Clouds Over Washington (3)

It's normal for Mrs. Zipperton to get mad. A woman feels insulted and provoked, regardless of whether it's true or not. As long as this woman thinks it's true, she has enough reason to get mad.

So, a week later, another unlucky guy was sent to prison by this crazy woman.

Early in the morning, the U.S. Department of Justice formally prosecuted Senator Menendez of the Senate on 14 counts, including bribery, fraud, and false statements, including eight counts of bribery alone.

Menendez is a veteran politician from New Jersey. He served as the chairman of the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee from 2013 to January this year.

In fact, as early as he announced his allegiance to the Elephant Party, he has been under the key care of the Donkey Party. F~B~I has invested a lot of resources in monitoring him for a long time, and has a lot of corruption in his hands. The evidence is that it has been suppressed and has not been exposed. Mrs. Ladenton, who has gone crazy this time, took him as the object of venting. He is not too unlucky, and it is reasonable.

According to the allegations, between 2006 and 2013, Menendez received bribes totaling approximately $1 million from a Florida ophthalmologist and ZZ donor named Melgan.

These include: Menendez took 19 free trips on Melgen's private jet or chartered plane; stayed in a luxury hotel suite in Paris for $1,000 a night; received $751,000 ZZ donations for re-election in 2012; Failing to declare received gifts and so on in accordance with relevant regulations.

In return, Menendez has repeatedly used his power to "take care" of Melgen's business and private life.

Under the special care of the donkey party, the facts of bribery against Menendez were basically established. The 61-year-old politician will face the prospect of serving 15 years in prison for each bribery crime.

The "Center for Responsible Ethics in Washington (CREW)", which was launched by Mrs. Zipperton as a shield, has long investigated the corruption of members of Congress. The corrupt behavior of the congressman has been tracked for many years, which is equivalent to extracting the responsibility of F~B~I from the case. After all, the existence of F~B~I is not to target high-ranking domestic officials. If F~B~ If I came forward, it would likely cause public outrage. Of course, Mrs. Zipperton would not be so stupid as to directly destroy the most advantageous weapon in the hands of her party.

After Yang Cheng heard the news, she just smiled slightly to show respect. This kind of business relationship is very normal in the United States. As I said before, the corruption in the United States and the corruption in other countries are two different directions. More than half of the American officials are wealthy, and they don't need to take bribes to enrich their material life.

Of course, it cannot be exempted that people like Menendez have higher requirements for the quality of life, so it is understandable to choose a long-term benefactor as the source of material security.

However, the Elephant Party naturally refused to give up. No, to be precise, the members of the Busch family were unwilling to be beaten by a woman. Melgen is based in Florida, and the core business of his business is also in Florida. In fact, this is the territory of the Busch family. On the surface, Menendez, who seems to be invincible, has actually been included in the system by the Busch family, but it has not been exposed.

Seeing that Menendez was knocked down, and there was almost no possibility of a comeback, but they couldn't do nothing, and it would be difficult to lead the team if people lost their hearts. Therefore, the Busch family had no choice but to vent their dissatisfaction through the media. Fox News directed public opinion in the direction of the dang faction ZZ dispute.

One after another, some social comments stated that Menendez was prosecuted because he loudly opposed the nuclear negotiations between ZF and Iran during Comrade Guanhai’s tenure. Of course, the article did not dare to deny Menendez’s real crimes. The evidence is It's obvious that whitewashing can't be hardwashing, right?

Menendez was also instructed. In an interview with the media close to him, he stated that he was prosecuted because he had ZZ motives to keep him silent, but this was regarded by the general public as a common "wailing" of defendants, and he still could not escape the law in the end. sanctions.

The fact is also true. Under the focus of the donkey party, the Ministry of Justice and the federal court sentenced Menendez to 15 years in prison at an astonishing speed, and there were heavy fines and other punishment measures.

Seeing that the general situation was over, the Busch family did not make a dying struggle. If they had the time to save a dying person, they might as well think about how to fight back.

Sure enough, Mrs. Zipperton was happy for a few days. An important position in her own camp was captured by the Busch family. According to investigations, during the reign of Virginia Governor Macdonald, he was investigated and prosecuted by relevant departments for accepting luxurious gifts many times. However, because the total amount of bribes received was only 170,000 US dollars, and no phenomenon of using power for personal gain was found, the federal court gave it a lighter treatment, and was finally sentenced to 2 years in prison without parole or probation.

Although the penalty is very light, the influence it brings is much greater than that of Menendez. You must know that Macdonald not only became the first governor of Virginia to be imprisoned for corruption, which caused the state's reputation to be greatly damaged. Yes, the Donkey Party camp has lost a powerful official, and may even lose the entire vote base because of this. You must know that Virginia is an important vote base that the Donkey Party has painstakingly managed since entering the new century.

(In reality, Virginia is a "swing state", and the strength of the two parties is evenly matched. Some changes need to be made due to the plot, please understand)

Now that the gatekeeper of the ticket store has been eradicated by the Busch family, the Donkey Party was shocked. Several core senior officials ordered Mrs. Zipperton to suspend her revenge on the Busch family. As Xuan is approaching, there is absolutely no room for loss in this big ticket warehouse.

Mrs. Zipperton is well aware of the importance. After all, she is the beneficiary of this ticket warehouse, so how could she not be in a hurry.

There was a lot of discussion outside because of the successive revelations of corruption and high-ranking officials, but Yang Cheng lived like a year in an internal safe room in F~B~I.

In fact, the case is already very clear, and it doesn’t take too much effort to investigate the causes of death of the three gold diggers. After F~B~I’s investigation, all three women died of potassium cyanide poisoning, and their intake was around 200 mg. This has far exceeded the lethal dose, and the one who died is called a simple one. Of course, not only that, the substances of Yang Cheng's descendants were detected in their bodies, but this is nothing. Xing behavior.

You may often hear that potassium cyanide is a highly toxic chemical agent. There are many types of similar cyanides. Among them, the more familiar and highly toxic ones are those three: sodium cyanide, cyanide Potassium chloride and hydrocyanic acid.

This kind of substance is ubiquitous in life. For example, in the famous "Zhen Huan Biography", in the cassava flour incident made by Concubine Hua in order to frame Zhen Huan, An Lingrong died after eating a lot of bitter almonds. The cassava As well as bitter almonds, both contain trace amounts of cyanide. When ancient medicine was underdeveloped, how could there be a way to detoxify it!

In addition to country Z film and television dramas, there are often cyanide murder plots in RB's animations. In "Detective Conan", there have been many murders caused by cyanide poisoning.

Cyanide will not destroy hemoglobin, so the fingertips and lips of the deceased will not appear bruised, but will turn pink, which looks good. If you do not observe carefully, it is even difficult to see that the deceased is dead.

Of course, according to experience, the deceased who died of cyanide usually salivated a lot and had a special bad breath, which seemed to smell like bitter almonds, so whenever Conan smelled the deceased's mouth, he could judge whether it was cyanide poisoning.

It is precisely because it is so common that it is difficult for F~B~I to investigate the source of poisons. After all, as an outstanding representative of high-end poisons, generally speaking, in addition to directly using food, some experimental factories and university laboratories can easily find them. Of course, don't think that if things are easy to find, then everyone can become a murderer.

wrong! Talking about toxicity apart from the dose is all hooliganism. Cyanide can enter the human body through contact with the skin and mucous membranes of the cavity, breathing inhalation, oral administration, injection, etc. There are often individual differences in the lethal dose.

The medical field generally believes that the lethal dose of potassium cyanide is between 50-250 mg, which is about the same as the lethal dose of arsenic. To determine whether it is fatal, it depends on the blood concentration. The blood concentration of cyanide poisoning is about 0.5 μg/ ml, lethal blood concentration ≥ 1 μg/ml, figuratively speaking, if you take solid potassium cyanide orally, if you eat a handful of powder equivalent to one-third of a normal capsule or half the size of a new version of a dime coin, you will almost Certainly lethal, and if the smallest doses were considered, potassium cyanide powder the size of a grain of rice could be.

Anyway, judging from the doses those three women took, they were almost dead, and the perpetrators should be veterans, who are proficient in using cyanide. Inhalation of gas and other methods of poisoning, because no new injection needle holes were found on the deceased, and the reason for emphasizing the new ones is because traces of ice drug injections were found on two of them.

In addition, the preliminary investigation by the police and the follow-up investigation by F~B~I did not find any redundant fingerprints and footprints in the room, just like there was no fifth person. Coincidentally, the villa that night All the monitoring equipment inside was broken, and none of the machines were operating normally, so the investigation came to a deadlock.

As for Yang Cheng's body, in the medical examination report given by the police, no drug ingredients were found, but there was a small amount of lysergic acid diethylamine, uh~ this is the main ingredient of some kind of hallucinogen.

In other words, Yang Cheng had taken a small amount of hallucinogens before he was arrested. Of course, no one would take this thing on his own initiative, and usually he would take it passively. Therefore, whether it is the investigation of F~B~I, Or the police's medical examination report, it can be inferred that Yang Cheng has nothing to do with the case.

However, this case still lacks conclusive evidence. For example, evidence that proves that the poison in the three women was not poisoned by Yang Cheng has not been found. It can even be inferred that Yang Cheng poisoned the three women first, and then It is entirely possible to voluntarily take hallucinogens to obscure the direction of the investigation and create the illusion that it is impossible for him to poison himself.