Chapter 630 (1/2)
Martin dinam's report ends with a brief account of the current situation of the two agents behind the assassination.
After the liquidation of the fund, Clark Graff not only lost all his accumulated assets of about 20 million US dollars over the years, but also faced a lot of claims from investors and financial difficulties such as the bank's recovery of real estate and creditors' recovery of debts. The former may not be a big threat. As we all know, the risks of hedge funds need to be prepared for all losses after investment. The latter is a devastating blow to the grarf family.
The family bought a $6 million mansion on Manhattan's upper east side two years ago and spent $3 million on renovation.
Out of the rich people's consumption habits, George Graff did not choose a one-time payment, but a bank mortgage.
When they learned that Graaff's fund had been wound up, the bank immediately took back the upper east end mansion.
The contractor, who also owed more than $2 million in renovation costs, immediately applied to the district court for the seizure of two other properties and luxury cars of the grarf family in the Upper West and Southampton, which will be auctioned off in the near future.
Having lost all their real estate, the grarfs had to move from the expensive upper east side to a rental apartment in lower Manhattan.
Not only that, George Graff's backyard was on fire.
George Graff is 45 years old. As an excellent fund manager who has accumulated millions of dollars since he was less than 25 years old, Graff took a model wife, Laura Graff, who was 9 years younger than him when he was 29 years old. After their marriage, they successively gave birth to two daughters, Cathy Graff, 16, and Victoria Graff, 14, who married Laura Graff· Graaff began more than ten years of noble life.
Until her husband suddenly went bankrupt.
In order to avoid being implicated, the 36 year old full-time housewife not only filed for divorce for the first time, but also secretly hid all the jewelry presented by her husband in the safe of a Manhattan Bank. The two daughters of this family had to drop out of Manhattan's expensive private school because of sudden family changes. During this period, the two daughters who missed the school spring break and traveled in Europe also complained bitterly about their hapless father.
The rest of Martin dinam's report was written in a calm bystander style. Up to now, the intelligence agent who once worked as a spy and now wanders in the gray area can not help but comment on the mother and daughter with obvious emotion.
Selfish and powerful.
However, George Graff, who encouraged his old classmates to empty the family business and short the technology stocks, was not a good man either. Otherwise, he would not have planned to assassinate Simon in a hurry.
Probably should be the old saying: not a family, not a door.
Simon is curious to find a group photo of the family from the materials. I have to say that at least from the photos, it is difficult to see the temperament of any one of the family.
In the photo, George Graff, wearing rimless glasses and a suit, sits on the sofa with his legs up, looking like an elegant and successful man.
Wearing a long black dress with a girdle waist, the Miaoman woman stretches out and leans beside her husband. The woman has beautiful long flaxen hair, delicate face and fair skin. Even if she keeps lying on her side, the height of the woman at least 180cm can be seen. The photo date attached to the lower right corner of the photo is last year, but Laura Graaff, who is already in her thirties, is not in the least It doesn't show the trace of years, on the contrary, it has some mature charm.
A pair of sister flowers standing behind the couple apparently inherited their mother's excellent genes. Although they were only 15 years old and 13 years old last year, they all have a tall figure of more than 170cm, and their appearance is very similar to their mother. If together, the young couple say they are twins, some people believe that the mother and daughter will be regarded as three sisters.
Maybe it's good to collect these three vases.
At random, Simon put the picture aside and continued to read dinam's report.
Martin dinam across the desk noticed Simon's eyes.
My boss was obviously interested in Laura Graff, who was quite disgusted at the bottom of her heart.
Perhaps, there will be more interest.
However, the young man's eyes on the other side are not men's interest in women at all. On the contrary, they are more like a collector seeing some good collections.
Thinking of this, Martin dinam consciously stopped thinking.
Unless his boss orders, these are not the things he needs to pay attention to.
Since he got the job, Martin dinam has always adhered to the principle of keeping his duty. He will spare no effort in what he should do and never intervene in what he shouldn't. Although as an agent most of the time is in the privacy, but often too much curiosity, the result can be fatal.
Another Woodfield family is in a mess.Just like the Hurst family, although the scale of assets is far less than that of the Woodfield family, it is also a well-established family in Pittsburgh.
Since Ralph Woodfield, a British immigrant, founded Monroeville machinery company in Lowell, the South Department of Pittsburgh, in the last century, the family has passed on to the sixth generation, but there are more than 30 direct descendants of Ralph Woodfield.
As the chairman and CEO of Monroeville machinery company, George Woodfield embezzled huge funds and led to all losses. The news was exposed by local media. The share price of Monroeville machinery company has plummeted by more than 30% recently.
In the past, other family members who could not control the family business and could only honestly accept the trust benefits jumped out to blame George Woodfield for his serious faults.
George Woodfield's misappropriated funds also included part of the Pension Reserve of Monroeville machinery company. After the incident, more than 300 workers of the company also chose to strike for the first time, demanding a clear reply from the management.
Regulators, including the SEC, also launched an investigation into Monroeville for the first time.
Other shareholders of Monroeville, who had been suppressed by the company's dual ownership structure, also jumped out and asked to take over the company.
The local media is not too big to watch, trying to dig inside tracking reports.
It can be said that George Woodfield can now be described as ”besieged on all sides.”.
After reading the report patiently for more than half an hour, Simon didn't make much change in his expression or comment on it. Instead, he asked Martin dinam another thing: ”what's going on in Hurst?”
Martin dinam, who had been sitting across the desk patiently waiting to occasionally answer Simon's one or two questions, stood up and found one from a pile of materials on the desk, saying: ”the recent monitoring records of six key members of the Hurst family, including some key recordings and videos, are here. However, I think the most important message is that last night, after John Hurst left salisberg's house, he discussed with William III the closure of the three newspapers being sued and put pressure on us by making 1100 workers lose their jobs. The Hurst family can then take the opportunity to lobby the newspaper industry unions and federal regulators to come forward in order to protect workers' rights and interests ”We're not going to be able to get our litigation bombed.”
Martin dinam said, sat down across the street again under Simon's sign, and continued: ”I did a simple survey last night, just the Stanford advocate in Stanford, Connecticut. About 370 employees were involved in 13 trade union organizations, including journalists' Union, printers' Union, truck drivers' Union, and five of them were national. If that's the case, we should pay more attention to it Some trade unions work together, and even Congress will not despise it. ”
Simon squinted, looked at the tapes on his desk and asked, ”do you have a video of their conversation?”
Martin Dunham nodded and skillfully found a video. After Simon nodded, he went to the TV set on one side of his study and continued: ”William III likes to talk about these things with people in his study. We quietly installed cameras, and most of the other monitoring points can only install simple eavesdropping devices.”