Exploiting Hollywood 1980

  Chapter 641 The Gambino family did it

By noon, Ronald's personal lawyer, Lindsey Dole, and their law firm partner Bobby Donnell, along with Ronald's aunt Karen and her boyfriend, his petite Doug, rushed to the spot. to the CAA office.

After everyone greeted each other, Ronald asked Lawyer Lindsay strangely, "Didn't I ask you to invite Prosecutor Helen and FBI Inspector Claire together? Only when they come forward and clarify together, the media will believe it more. "

   "Cough cough..." Lindsay lowered her voice, "FBI Inspector Claire has urgent business, as for Helen..."

   "Helen has more important tasks to stay in New York to watch," Bobby Donnell chimed in.

"what happened?"

This time Ronald's legal team brought a bit of bad news, the file Ronald left at the NYPD, the original arrest warrant issued by the lunatic police officer who framed him, and the subsequent high-level investigation into the lunatic's misconduct to frame Ronald. Report, they all disappeared together.

   is facing New York Southern District Attorney Rudy Gao's adjustment to the top management of the NYPD system, and he is facing a big enemy. In particular, the Southern District Police Department that received the report at the time, one of the safest places in New York, had an accident in which documents disappeared for no reason, and all faced internal investigation.

Southern District Attorney Rudy, who is fulfilling his promise when he took office, started to attack the five families of Italian descent in his jurisdiction. He is also prosecuting some abusing the deregulation after the commander took office, and began to collude internally and externally, using inside information to make a lot of money on Wall Street. Special earning financial predators.

Recently, he even invoked the RICO Act (the full name is the Extortionist Influence and Corrupt Organizations Act, but the public is better known by his other spelling, the Organized Crime Control Act), which is a special anti-organizational crime, and put New York's top five The four people in the family were prosecuted, only the most cunning and ruthless Gambino family was not caught.

   Just before the important moment of the court session, there was a fire in the backyard. The prosecutor's main source of evidence investigation, the NYPD Southern District, happened the disappearance of the information about Ronald's arrest, which was of national concern. Rudy couldn't help but get angry.

This hint of    is obviously a trick that Gambino often plays, using a seemingly unrelated incident to shock the real key person. Rudy is also worried about the personal safety of himself and his family, and whether key witnesses will appear in court or not. The family from Sicily is very sneaky about this trick.

   District Attorney Rudy gave the NYPD Southern District an order to find the missing documents within 24 hours or launch a corruption investigation within the NYPD.

   Prosecutor Helen, one of Rudy's favorite generals, stayed at the Southern District Police Station to supervise the investigation into the case of Richie's lost files, and by the way, to see if there was a chance to dig out the inner ghost planted by the Gambino family in the Southern District.

   "I also left the former NYPD detective who was in charge of contacting the gold undercover agent who broke into the five families, Frank McPike, in New York. He is using his contacts to find your files and will let him know as soon as there is news.

  It turns out that Mike Pike was the detective, no wonder the efficiency of background investigation is very high. Ronald understood the background of the private detective, "Then should we postpone the event of the press conference until the documents that can prove my innocence are found, the effect of clarification will be better."

   "Notify Miss Michelle Pfeiffer, and Miss Brooke Shields, to postpone their appearances and interviews with reporters."

   Public relations consultant Eva assessed the format, everyone made a decision, and waited for news from New York.

   "It'll be fine, my Ronnie has never done anything bad, God wouldn't wrong a good man like this." Aunt Karen took Ronald's hand and gently comforted the anxious nephew.

   "Bell bell bell..."

   The phone rang.

   "It's Ms. Pfeiffer." Richard was a cameo operator.

   "Hello, Michelle," Ronald took the receiver.

   "What's the matter, Ronald? My home is surrounded by a lot of reporters. Did you change your plan? I told Limato that I was going to the show at night."

   "Don't move, first find out where the reporters are coming from." Ronald's face was on the other side, and the opponent's combination punches were very fast.

   "Pfeiffer said there were a lot of unplanned reporters who went to her house to besiege her, and none of them were familiar faces."

   "Hello, Limato", Nisita went over to communicate with an old friend.

   "According to him, small newspapers with Italian backgrounds, who didn't care much about entertainment news, gathered at her door. I've asked Limato to handle it, and don't let reporters interview Pfeiffer before we publish."

  Ronald swiped and stood up. Was this premeditated?

   He walked briskly in the office and turned around twice, why did the other party do this to him? I didn't even want to understand. Even if the documents are temporarily lost, there are other ways to prove one's innocence.

   "By the way, hang up the phone with Brooke." Ronald suddenly remembered that there was another ex-girlfriend who was going to be interviewed. "

"Ronald, why are so many reporters coming to interview me? The last time I saw so many reporters was before college." Brooke's mansion is located in New Jersey, and the security measures in the community are better, and entertainment reporters can't rush in.

   But she also received many calls for interviews, and many reporters have not called for a long time.

   "Someone wants to get some tabloid-friendly gossip from you. I'll call my PR consultant Eva and ask her to discuss it with you."

  Ronald knew that Brooke Shields didn't have a PR consultant, and Terry, the mother who was supposed to play the role, was drunk and unconscious.

  In the CAA office, two telephones were occupied separately, and they were discussing how to unify their voices and face reporters' interviews.

   "Ring, ringing, ringing..." The phone that had been set aside on purpose rang again.

  Richard picked up the phone, his face changed, "It's Dino de Laurentiis, the producer of the Year of the Dragon, he wants to talk to you."

   "Hey, it's me." Ronald suppressed the anger he wanted to greet the female elder, "What do you want? Dino?"

   "I should ask you this, isn't it bad to be caught?" Dino de Laurentiis on the other side of the phone smiled.

   "I don't understand what you're talking about?"

  The call was connected to the speaker, and Richard quietly pressed the record button.

   Ronald's legal team is gesturing to him, don't talk about anything involved in the case on the phone, you don't know if the other party will record it, and then give you a clip.

   "Comeon, we all know what you did in New York, Pfeiffer, Brooke, and Diane. Although the final investigation report denied the Inspector's suspicion of you, we all know what happened."

   "There's something wrong with your brain, Dino. I'm innocent. The NYPD investigation report is very clear. Even if you stole the archives, I can ask the detective of the investigation team at that time to come out and clarify the facts."

   "Tsk tsk, don't say it so ugly. Occasionally an insider with a sense of justice sent me a copy of it.

  In this way, I have a proposal for you. There is no need to hold on to the Year of the Dragon, as long as you clarify on TV that the Year of the Dragon does not discriminate against Chinese people, and you and Cimino are still friends who admire each other, I will hand this document to you, right? "

  Swipe, everyone's eyes were focused on Ronald.

   What the other party is asking for is a reconciliation. Ronald just needs to shift the conversation a little and the Neapolitan will hand over the papers. In this way, in the eyes of the media and the public, Ronald is still the hero who saved the female star from misfortune, and there are no contrary rumors to trouble him.

   Ronald frowned, he didn't want to do it.

   On the one hand, he was unmistakably Chinese in his previous life, and in this life in America, he is also of Chinese descent. For this kind of film that clearly discriminates against Chinese Americans, it is impossible for him to make it through the bloodline to say that there is no discrimination in his conscience.

   And the feeling of being threatened is very uncomfortable.

   But the team of agents, and the team of lawyers, their eyes showed Ronald that they all thought this was an option that could be discussed. How can I convince them?

   "My opinion is only from the perspective of art appreciation. But there is strong racial discrimination in the Year of the Dragon. I don't need to say this, the people will naturally see it clearly."

"Come on, Ronald. You don't have a Chinese background, you just donated money to Chinatown's campaign against my movie, I don't care what grievances you have with Cimino, it's not a friendly move, it affects my earnings .

   The so-called discrimination is just a subjective artistic view. As long as you can clarify in front of the media, it will be good for everyone. "

   "Ronnie, don't give in to evil people. You must not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good." Aunt Karen was very angry when she saw Ronald being blackmailed by people who had never done it. He came up, held Ronald's hand, and recited a passage of the Bible.

   Yes, you cannot bow your head to evil. Ronald shook his aunt's hand firmly, and for a very convincing reason, he answered the phone, "I haven't done anything bad, and I don't need to make a deal with you."

   "Well, since you are so stubborn, let's see whose story the people will believe. You know, the goodwill of the people is like a gilded idol, and a gust of wind will blow it away..."

   "click", Ronald made up his mind and hung up the phone.

"That's fine, we'll go to the Inspector of the Southern District Police Station in charge of internal investigation to clarify, and then you can contact the FBI as soon as possible and ask Inspector Claire if he can accept an interview." Eva and Nisita looked at By the time Ronald's decision had been made, the assignments began immediately.

   "Don't worry, the FBI has a better reputation than the NYPD after all, and we still have the help of Prosecutor Helen." Lawyer Lindsay came over to comfort himself.

   But this is only consolation, the FBI has not had a good reputation since Hoover's death. It can be said that the reputation of those on the southern side of Manhattan is as bad.

   There is no black and white text, and the clarification of Ronald's involvement in the press conference may not be very effective, and it will completely dispel the public's doubts.

   At most, when I am talked about in the future, someone will always mention this rumor.

  A director used a scandal to coerce an actress into being a girlfriend. This kind of rumor is always a popular story. They weren't very good at investigating. Ronald was just a poor boy who had just joined the Screenwriters Guild and had an agent.

   "Ring, ringing, ringing..." The phone rang again.

   "It's me, Mike Pike. You find a number that can receive faxes. I've got the NYPD arrest warrant and the originals of the post-mortem documents. I'll pass them on to you."

   "Great, where did you find it? No news from NYPD yet."

"I got it directly from the Gambino family, don't ask. They wanted to take the opportunity to scare Rudy and the witnesses in court, but they did not expect to arouse the anger of the other party. You didn't compromise with that Neapolitan guy, did you? "

"No"

   "Very well, these immigrants from southern Italy often play tricks and lure you with seemingly harmless conditions. I'll bring the originals and we'll discuss it later."

   (end of this chapter)