By noon, Ronald's personal attorney, Lindsay Dole, and their law firm partner, Bobby Donnell, were rushing along with Ronald's aunt, Karen, and her boyfriend, his hair boy Doug.
Arrive at CAA's office.
After everyone exchanged greetings, Ronald asked lawyer Lindsay strangely, "Didn't I ask you to invite prosecutor Helen and Detective Claire from the FBI too? Only if they come forward to clarify together will the media be more likely to believe it."
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"Ahem..." Lindsay lowered her voice, "FBI Detective Claire has urgent business. As for Helen..."
"Helen has a more important task and stays in New York to keep an eye on." Bobby Donnell interjected.
"what happened?"
This time Ronald's legal team brought some bad news. The file Ronald left in the NYPD, the original arrest warrant issued by the mad police officer who framed him, and the subsequent high-level investigation into the madman's misdeeds and framed Ronald
Report, they all disappeared together.
Rudy, the prosecutor of the Southern District of New York, is facing a high-level adjustment and purge of the top management of the nypd system. He feels like he is facing a formidable enemy. Especially the Southern District Police Department, which received the report at that time, is probably one of the safest places in New York. An accident occurred where documents disappeared for no reason.
Top and bottom face internal investigations.
Southern District Prosecutor Rudy is fulfilling the promise he made when he took office, launching an attack on the five major Italian families in the jurisdiction. He is also prosecuting some abuses of the deregulation after the commander-in-chief took office, colluding internally and externally, and using inside information to make a lot of money on Wall Street.
A very profitable financial tycoon.
Recently, he even invoked the Rico Act (the full name is the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, but the public knows him better by another spelling, the Organized Crime Control Act), which specifically combats organized crime.
The perpetrators of the four families were all prosecuted, and only the most cunning and ruthless Gambino family was not caught.
Just before the important moment of the trial, a fire suddenly broke out in the backyard. The prosecutor's main source of evidence investigation, the NYPD Southern District, the disappearance of Ronald's arrest information, which attracted national attention, made Rudy furious.
This kind of suggestion is obviously a trick 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 the key witness will appear in court.
They will retract their confessions in court. The family from Sicily is very good at playing this trick.
District Attorney Rudy issued an order to the NYPD Southern District to find the missing documents within 24 hours, otherwise they will launch an internal corruption investigation into the NYPD.
Prosecutor Helen, one of Rudy's favorites, stayed at the Southern District Police Station to supervise the investigation of Rich's missing documents and see if there was any chance of digging out the mole planted by the Gambino family in the Southern District.
"I also left Frank McPike, the former detective in the NYPD who was in charge of contacting the top undercover agents who infiltrated the five major families, in New York. He is using his contacts to find your files and will let you know as soon as there is news.
It turned out that McPike turned out to be a detective, no wonder the background investigation was very efficient. Ronald understood the background of this private detective, "Then should we postpone the press conference until the documents that can prove my innocence are found?
The clarification effect is better this way.”
"Inform Miss Michelle Pfeiffer and Miss Brooke Shields and ask them to postpone their appearance on the show and interviews with reporters."
Public relations consultant Eva assessed the situation, everyone made a decision and waited for news from New York.
"It will be fine. My Ronnie has never done anything bad. God would never wrong a good man like this." Aunt Karen held Ronald's hand and gently comforted her anxious nephew.
"Ring ring ring ring..."
The phone rings.
"It's Ms. Pfeiffer." Richard guest-operated.
"Hello, Michelle", Ronald took the receiver.
"What's going on, Ronald? My home is surrounded by many reporters now. Have you changed your plan? I originally agreed with Limato that I would only go on the show in the evening."
"Don't move yet, let's figure out where the reporter is coming from." Ronald's face turned aside, and the opponent's combination of punches was very fast.
"Pfeiffer said that many unplanned reporters came to her home to surround her, and they were not familiar faces."
"Hey, Limato", Niceta went over to communicate with her old friend.
"According to him, some small newspapers with an Italian background, which originally didn't care much about entertainment news, gathered in front of her house. I have asked Limato to handle it and not let reporters interview Pfeiffer before we publish it."
Ronald suddenly stood up. Was this premeditated?
He walked quickly in the office and walked around twice. Why did the other party do this to him? He couldn't figure it out even if the documents were temporarily lost. There were other ways to prove his 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 there so many reporters coming to interview me? The last time I saw so many reporters was before I went to college." Brooke's mansion is in New Jersey, and the security measures in the community are better. Entertainment reporters can't
Rush in.
But she also received many calls requesting interviews, and many reporters had not called for a long time.
"Someone wants to ask you for some tabloid gossip. I'll call my public relations consultant Eva and ask her to discuss it with you."
Ronald knew that Brooke Shields did not have a public relations consultant, and her mother, Terry, who was supposed to fill this role, was drunk and unconscious.
In the CAA office, two phones were occupied separately, and they were discussing how to unify their voices and face interviews with reporters.
"Ring, ring, ring..." The phone that had been specially set aside rang again.
Richard answered the call and his expression changed, "This is Dino De Laurentiis, the producer of Year of the Dragon. He wants to talk to you."
"Hey, it's me." Ronald suppressed the anger of wanting to greet the other female elder, "What do you want, Dino?"
"I should ask you this, doesn't it feel good to be caught?" Dino De Laurentiis on the other side of the phone chuckled.
"I don't understand what you are talking about?"
The call was put on speaker, and Richard quietly pressed the record button.
Ronald's legal team is gesturing to him not to talk about anything involved in the case on the phone. You don't know if the other party will record it and then edit it for you.
"orge on, we all know what you did in New York, Pfeiffer, Brooke, and Diane. Although the final investigation report refuted the detective's suspicion of you, we all know what happened.
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"There is something wrong with your mind, Dino. I am innocent. The NYPD investigation report is very clear. Even if you stole the archive, I can ask the detective of the investigation team at that time to come out and clarify the facts."
"Tsk, don't say it so harshly. By chance, an insider with a sense of justice sent me a copy.
In this way, I will give you a proposal. 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 Americans, and that you and Cimino are still good friends who appreciate each other, I will hand over this document.
You are very reasonable, right?"
Suddenly, everyone's eyes were focused on Ronald.
What the other party wants is a reconciliation. Ronald only needs to change the topic of conversation slightly, and the Neapolitan guy will return the documents. In this way, in the eyes of the media and the public, Ronald is still the hero who saved the female star from the fire.
, no contrary rumors came out to bother him.
Ronald frowned, he was unwilling to do this.
On the one hand, he was clearly of Chinese descent in his previous life, and in this life in America, he is also of Chinese descent. For this kind of movie that clearly discriminates against Chinese Americans, he has no conscience and says that there is no discrimination, and he will not be able to pass the blood test.
And the feeling of being threatened is very uncomfortable.
However, the look in the eyes of the agent team and the lawyer team showed Ronald that they all believed this was an option that could be discussed. How could I convince them?
"My opinion is just from the perspective of art appreciation. However, there is a strong racial discrimination in the Year of the Dragon. I don't need to say this, the public can naturally see it clearly."
"Don't be like this, Ronald. You have no Chinese background. You just donated money to Chinatown's campaign against my movie. I don't care what grudges you have with Cimino. This is not a friendly move and affects my income."
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The so-called discrimination is just a subjective artistic opinion. As long as you can clarify it 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 threatened with things he had never done. She came up and held Ronald.
Nader's hand recited a passage from the Bible.
Yes, we cannot bow to evil. Ronald held his aunt's hand firmly. This reason was very convincing. He answered into the phone, "I have never done anything bad, so I don't need to make a deal with you for this."
"Well, since you are so stubborn, let us see whose story the people will believe. You know, the goodwill of the people is like a gilded statue of a god, which will be blown away by a gust of wind..."
"Click", Ronald made up his mind and simply hung up the phone.
"That's fine. We'll go find the detective in charge of internal investigations at the Southern District Police Department to clarify. Then you contact the FBI as soon as possible and ask Detective Claire if he can accept an interview." Eva and Niceta looked at it.
Ronald's decision has been made and work assignments will begin immediately.
"Don't worry, the FBI has a better reputation than the NYPD after all, and we still have prosecutor Helen's help." Lawyer Lindsay came over to comfort herself.
But this is just a consolation. Since Hoover's death, the FBI's reputation has not been very good. It can be said that it is as bad as the reputation of those in the Southern District of Manhattan.
Without words in black and white, the empty clarification of Ronald's involvement in the case at the press conference may not be very effective in completely dispelling 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 becoming his girlfriend. This kind of rumor is always a popular story. They are not likely to investigate it. At that time, Ronald was just a poor boy who had just joined the Writers Guild and had an agent.
"Ring ring ring ring...", the phone rang again.
"It's me, Mike Pike. Find a number that can receive faxes. I have obtained the NYPD arrest warrant and the original investigation document. I will send it to you."
"Great, where did you find it? There is no news from nypd yet."
"I got it directly from within the Gambino family, don't ask. They originally wanted to take the opportunity to scare Rudy and the witnesses who appeared in court, but unexpectedly it aroused their anger. You didn't compromise with that Naples guy, did you?
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"No"
"Very good. These immigrants from southern Italy will often play some tricks and lure you into the trap with seemingly harmless conditions. I will bring the original documents immediately and we will discuss it again."