Chapter 415: Fishing (Asking for Guaranteed Monthly Tickets, and for Recommended Tickets on Monday)

When Benjamin and Margaret came down from the stage, they were so embarrassed. Especially Benjamin, it was nonsense to say that he didn't like those beautiful bodies, but as a president and a husband, and his wife was still around... it seemed inappropriate for him to show any expression other than embarrassment.

Kai seemed much more casual. His girlfriend even brought her best friends to his house to have an underwear party, and he didn't care about it at all.

It was also at this time that Nicki Minaj appeared as a guest performer. Nicki Minaj came on stage wearing sexy underwear. Her exaggerated gourd-shaped figure and the sexy red sexy underwear immediately made 80% of the men present bow and salute.

Although Kai really couldn't appreciate Nicki Minaj's deadly figure, he couldn't help but love the American people. ABC, the TV station responsible for the broadcast, was so happy. Tony Stark had played a prank on the dignitaries and had a lingerie show at the opening ceremony, which had already caused a surge in ratings. Now Nicki Minaj’s hot performance immediately increased the ratings again.

Generally speaking, even if the level of such a highly professional expo is very high, ordinary Americans are still not very interested. But with Tony’s prank in the front and Nicki Minaj’s song ‘Starships’, the entertainment atmosphere on the scene suddenly exploded.

Americans like excitement, so the ratings soared. This made the ABC executives smile one by one. After all, only ghosts would want to watch the formal opening ceremony. Now it is so conscious and lively.

And Isabella in the backstage was so excited that she almost broke her nails. Such a background and such attention are enough to make Nicki Minaj a hit!

This is exactly what Isabella pursues. Although Nicki Minaj's record contract has been signed to someone else, her economic contract is still in the hands of Psylocke Entertainment. The higher the value of Nicki Minaj, the more benefits Psylocke Entertainment can get from it.

Isabella has now completely transformed. In fact, there is no way to be incomplete. Bullseye almost killed all the Voodoo Gang's brothers that day. Now the Voodoo Gang is left with only a signboard. In this case, there is no other way but to transform.

But no matter what, it seems that this choice is right now.

At least she has seen the light. Next, it depends on the performance of several other artists under her. Of course, there is only Nicki Minaj in this show. After all, it is very awesome for a small company to arrange an artist to open the show for you. Do you want to arrange all the artists in the company? Unless you are Tony Stark's father.

Under the dynamic music of 'Starships', sexy and tall Victoria's Secret Angels came on stage one by one, and the atmosphere on the scene became more and more excited.

At this time, Kai had to leave first.

There was no other way. The president said that he couldn't stand the noise at the scene and decided to go back to the lounge to rest before continuing the next activity. As a security guard stationed next to the president in Chicago, Kai needs to pretend even if he is slacking off.

In fact, Kai thinks that instead of running around with a group of people, it is better to stay where he was originally scheduled to watch the young lady walking there in a little fabric, at least it is pleasing to the eyes.

Although Kai is nominally following the president to protect his safety, in fact, Kai is dozens of meters away from the president, and the secret service personnel of the White House don't let Kai get close to the president at all. Instead of running around like a fool with a group of people, it is better to stay where you are and continue to slack off.

Moreover, in such an occasion, even if Benjamin and Margaret want to be closer to Kai, it is not good. After all, most of the people present are political bigwigs and celebrities. As a president, you don't communicate with them more, and run to chat with a little policeman. What is this expressing?

Politicians are like this, especially the president of the United States. Every word they say will be analyzed by countless people under a magnifying glass. Just look at Trump in his previous life. A tweet from that guy can become news. What he says is analyzed word by word.

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In this way, Kai followed along for a whole day without knowing why. But at night, a phone call forced Kai to stop fishing.

Tapia ran away.

It turned out that Tapia had been waiting for an opportunity to withdraw from Chicago. During this period of time, Tapia also felt the pressure everywhere. At first, he used the power of vampires to temporarily drive Kingpin's power out of Chicago, but doing so did not make his business better. On the contrary, because of the drugs seized by the police some time ago, the entire Chicago Police Department monitored him more closely, and his voice also plummeted because of the crackdown by the Chicago Police Department.

This is the United States, not Colombia or Mexico. The government is not so incompetent that it can't even deal with a drug lord.

Even though Tapia had become a taboo in the police department because of his lawsuit against the police department, the police were reluctant to provoke him, but once the official forces really took him seriously, Tapia was still in trouble.

The Chicago Police Department didn't even need to do anything to him personally, they just needed to do their best to crack down on the business of Tapia's "clients", which was enough to make Tapia's business begin to decline. During this period, the police cracked down on various criminal activities and achieved considerable results, many of which were Tapia's "clients".

Tapia's drugs were naturally sold when they were transported to Chicago, otherwise they would not be able to make a living if they were kept.

Not only that, the police also strengthened the water control, so that Tapia's route of transporting drugs by water was hit hard.

This made Tapia's supply extremely unstable. → In their business, if you want to expand, the most important two requirements are volume and stability. Without these two, who will do business with you for a long time?

This is not the key. The more important thing is that Tapia found that his money could not be transported back.

Although Tapia's roots are in Cuba, Cuba itself is a socialist country with strict drug control. Even if Tapia has a deep foundation in Cuba, he can't make drugs in Cuba. Tapia's source of drugs still comes from Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia and Peru. He will regularly send funds to the hands of those cooperating drug lords through various means, and then transport the drugs to Cuba through Colombian partners, and then transport them to the United States via Cuba.

But now, the US dollars he earned in the United States cannot be shipped out!

Those drug lords are very realistic. Anyway, they don't have to worry about sales. Since you, Tapia, can't buy it, they will naturally look for other partners.

So Tapia now desperately needs to ship the cash in his hands out of the United States.

But the problem is that the Chicago police and DEA are too close to him, so he can't ship hundreds of millions of US dollars out at all.

It is also because of this incident that Tapia has been constantly looking for ways to break the deadlock recently, and even joined the mysterious organization Golden Circle at a huge cost. I hope to use this drug lord alliance organization to help me get through the difficulties.

But who would have thought that the three people sent by the Golden Circle were so powerful at the beginning, but they fell on the street the next day.

Tapia, who had no choice, decided to go all out.

He planned to take advantage of the president's visit to Chicago and the Stark Industrial Expo to make a risky move.

In the past, Tapia would arrange for a plane to transport cash, fly directly to Miami, and then transfer in Miami to go directly to Cuba. But now, this way is no longer possible, so he plans to use corpses to transport cash.

In addition to the drug business, Tapia also has some formal businesses, such as the funeral industry.

He has eleven funeral homes in Chicago, and his family is Cuban, so he also runs a Cuban funeral home. Although the West is not as particular about returning to one's roots as the East, everyone has this kind of nostalgia. In particular, most Cubans left Cuba and came to the United States not because they wanted to, but because of the special environment at the time.

These Cubans who drifted to the United States, although they have obtained American citizenship, a large number of them still hope to be buried in their hometown after death.

However, since 1960, when Cuba announced that it would nationalize the industries of American citizens in Cuba, the United States announced sanctions against Cuba. Two years later, the sanctions were further strengthened to a near-total economic blockade, which has continued to this day. On February 3, 1962, the then US President John F. Kennedy signed a decree to officially announce a comprehensive embargo on Cuba (economic, financial blockade and trade embargo).

This has frustrated the wishes of many Cubans to return to their hometown.

But in modern times, since 1992, the United Nations General Assembly has passed resolutions every year asking the United States to end its economic blockade against Cuba. This has also led to the United States loosening up on some issues. Especially in recent years, the United States has gradually opened up direct charter flights to Cuba and relaxed restrictions on some American groups traveling to Cuba. (In reality, it will be a few years later, but because it is a different world, some changes are understandable)

Among them, the US government has also opened up to Cubans who hope to be buried in their hometown after death. However, this requires the deceased's will before his death to take effect.

The Cuban funeral home run by Tapia is also doing business in this area.

But before, because the embargo still existed and the inspection was still very strict, Tapia had never thought of transporting cash from this aspect. Until this time, he was forced to take the risk of bribing the relevant personnel.

Those customs officers are not all spotless, but most of them still dare not play tricks in this regard. If the ban is not touched for a day, the risk is still very high.

But today is different. First of all, due to the arrival of the president and the opening of the Expo, most of the police force in Chicago was withdrawn, and even some of the customs police were withdrawn, which made the inspection very weak, giving Tapia an opportunity.

Unexpectedly, things went wrong with the two policemen that Tapia didn't care about before.

Marcus and Mike were forced to terminate their investigation of Tapia by Cooper before, but they still didn't give up and wanted to find some key evidence to completely nail Tapia.

As a result, they really found a little clue.

They noticed that Tapia's company had close contacts with a shipping company in Miami, so they found the company through Sydney's relationship in Miami (Sydney is a DEA agent in Miami). It turned out that the company did not have any illegal behavior, but it had a special license for navigation with Cuba.

And they have a long-term contract with Tapia Company on the transportation of remains.

If it was just this, the two of them would not have suspected anything. But when they checked the latest transportation contract, they found a problem.

There are too many remains this time!

A total of 94 bodies needed to be transferred via Miami.

How many Cubans live in Chicago? Marcus and the others don’t know about this, but they definitely don’t have too many. Generally speaking, Cubans are concentrated in several southeastern coast states such as Florida. The further north you go, the fewer Cubans there are. Although Chicago is considered an international city, There really aren’t many Cubans.

What a coincidence that so many Cubans died at the same time? You must know that in the past, the most transfers were only a dozen bodies.

So the two of them ran to the funeral home to investigate the situation. It was shocking to see that the people in the funeral home were emptying out the remains and modifying the coffins!

The two people who saw this scene immediately went to Theresa's home and told Theresa about the situation, hoping that Theresa would allow them to act and intercept the batch of cash. Theresa hesitated for a long time, and finally called Director Cooper.

Director Cooper naturally disagreed with this at first. He finally passed the blame to the DEA, but there was no reason for him to take it back.

But the problem is that he really doesn't need this credit to consolidate his position. It's basically certain that he will take the position of director, but the problem is that Theresa does. As a good leader, you must consider the thoughts of your subordinates.

Teresa needed the credit to solidify her position, even further. This is human nature. Director Cooper understands and must understand.

Therefore, Cooper could only agree, but he also had his own requirements.

That is, don’t make it big and get things done quietly. It’s best not to have gun battles or speeding cars. The most important thing is not to cause casualties, especially police and civilians. Otherwise, if something big happens at this juncture, then he will Can't bear it. ,

After receiving the authorization, Marcus and Mike immediately led people to raid the funeral home and found evidence.

Everything became easy, they just needed to catch Tapia and everything was done.

Unfortunately, as expected, something went wrong in the last step!

Tapia ran away.

This is nothing. Just running away is not an unacceptable thing to the police. After all, they have already taken revenge. From now on, Tapia will not be able to show up anywhere in the United States. As for arresting him, Then it really becomes the DEA's job.

In this case, the Chicago police have only credit.

But the bad thing is, he ran away and captured Sydney...

While Marcus and the others were looking for evidence, Tapia finally remembered Sydney and called her, hoping to talk about cooperation.

Tapia felt that although the previous method was very safe, it was too inefficient. For example, this time, he couldn't transport so much cash. So he hoped to change his approach, so Sydney was reminded of Tapia. He hoped that a professional money laundering team could help him clean up those gambling funds, and then enter his account openly. At least in this way, he would never be able to do so again. There is no need to worry that his money cannot be transported out and will only be left in the cellar and attic to be gnawed by rats.

As a result, at this time, his subordinates reported to him that their funeral home had been ransacked, and so had their money. Not only that, they also found out the relationship between Sydney and Marcus...

So Tapia also kidnapped Sydney when she escaped.