Chapter 819 Company Bankruptcy, Prelude
"Goodbye, Paul! Thank you so much for today."
"That's an exaggeration, Team Leader Luo An. It's just a small matter. I should be the one to thank you. Let's go out for a drink together later!"
"..."
Looking at Luo An and Paul standing in the corridor laughing at each other outside the office area, Lacey had a strange look on her face. She moved her chair to Winslow's side and asked in a low voice:
"Have you heard that their relationship is so good?"
Winslow looked at Lacey in surprise:
"As long as there are no excessive conflicts between men, they can chat together in a few words. Is it okay to go out for a drink together?"
Lacey rolled her eyes at Winslow and was too lazy to talk to him. She snatched away the snacks on Winslow's table, moved her chair and moved closer to Mona, asking:
"Mona, you..."
"Let's deal with the matters in this case first."
As soon as Lacey started speaking, Mona turned around and grabbed the back of Lacey's chair, pushed her back to her workstation, and said:
"If I'm not wrong, now that the book dealer Yoon has confessed everything in the interrogation room, we will be busy again."
Lacey muttered a few words and stopped asking. She put down her gossip and began to seriously deal with the case information at hand.
Outside the corridor, Paul took the elevator and left not long after. 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'm going to make an announcement."
Mona, Winslow, Lacey, Chenelle and Michelle all looked up at Roan, who turned around and closed the door to speak.
Jingle Bell--
The cell phone rang suddenly, which made Luo An move. He looked at everyone a little apologetically, picked up the phone and pressed the answer button.
"It's me, Michael."
Michael Bray's voice came over the phone. He was extremely anxious, lowering his voice and speaking quickly:
"Luo An, do you have time now? If you have time, come to Wall Street quickly, something happened here!"
Luo An narrowed his eyes slightly and asked:
"What kind of thing are you referring to? Is it related to people or money?"
"Both!"
Michael Bray was very anxious and replied:
"It's not convenient to discuss things on the phone. It's better to come here as soon as you have time."
"OK, I get it."
Luo An nodded, replied casually and hung up the phone.
After pondering for a moment, Luo An walked straight to the front of the office area and turned on the small TV hanging on the wall under the puzzled looks of Winslow, Mona and others.
Turning on the TV, Luo An picked up the remote control and kept changing channels. He quickly adjusted 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 located on Wall Street, declared official bankruptcy..."
"What?"
"W-T-F?!"
“New Century Financial is bankrupt?!”
Before Luo An could say anything, Winslow, Chenelle and Lacey in the office area stood up from their chairs and exclaimed with shock on their faces.
Michelle, who had always been quite emotionally stable, also opened her eyes wide and looked moved. She raised her hand and covered 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 is the loan they made with this company.
This company was established in 1995. In just 10 years, it became one of the largest issuers of subprime loans in the federation. Its stock price also reached an all-time high, making it a very dazzling star enterprise in the entire federation.
Although Winslow and Chenier have never bought a house with a loan from New Century Financial Company, they have many friends around them, so they have all heard of the company's reputation.
Now the second largest subprime mortgage company in the federal government has declared bankruptcy. This news immediately went to the minds of several people, and they subconsciously suspected that this might be fake news.
Compared to Winslow and others who looked 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 the crowd, and said in a deep voice:
“Everyone, have you ever taken a loan from this company?”
"No."
"No."
Chenier and others looked at each other and shook their heads.
Since joining the special investigation team, the economic level of the agents has skyrocketed, and they are hardly short of money.
Even if they were short of money, they would almost have accumulated enough funds after following Luo An to solve a few cases, and they had almost never taken out another loan since then.
Luo An nodded slightly and then said:
"In this case, we will put aside the news on Wall Street for the time being and deal with the case at hand first."
"OK."
"no problem."
Everyone nodded in unison, suppressed the shock in their hearts, and began to listen carefully to Luo An's arrangements for the balloon case.
"Everyone, this is the record of Deputy Team Leader Paul's interrogation of Youn Yon."
Luo An opened the folder and said:
"Youn said that the boss behind him is named Omarian, and he is generally called "White Cobra" on the road.
Because this guy sells flour and rock sugar, he is also ruthless and cunning, he has several bases, and he chooses his accommodation completely randomly on weekdays.
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? Or should we launch a capture operation at each base at the same time?"
"No, we will wait for news and prepare for the action."
Roan waved his hand, indicating that Deputy Team Leader Paul would find a way to investigate Omarian's whereabouts, and then report to the special investigation team, who would arrest him.
Winslow, Chenier and others looked at each other after hearing this, and after a few seconds of silence, Lacey asked tentatively:
"Deputy Team Leader Paul, are you so helpful?"
Helping Roan interrogate the dealer 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 discussed the following matters, and you will know when this case is over."
Roan said that some situations are not convenient to explain in detail now, and 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 hurried to sort out the case.
Omarian was very cautious, and it was not easy to investigate his whereabouts. In the next few days, the special investigation team was quietly waiting for news, and Luo An found a time to drive to Wall Street.
In an office in a building on Wall Street, Michael Brey was holding a mobile phone and yelling angrily.
Seeing Luo An walk into the room, he shook his mobile phone with embarrassment. Luo An smiled and waved his hand to indicate that he was not in a hurry, and walked to the side to brew coffee.
Ten minutes later, Michael Bray put down the phone, and Roan handed him a cup of coffee, smiling:
"New Century Financial went bankrupt, Federal housing prices began to fall, and those investment companies should pay CDS."
"What a bunch of bastards!"
Michael Bray took the coffee and drank it all, cursing:
"Goldman Sachs told me that the system failed and a lot of files were lost;
Morgan Stanley said that the server crashed suddenly and it would take time to restart;
The Federal Bank was the most outrageous, and actually told me that they had a power outage! So they can't pay now!"