Chapter 1169: Who Can Make Shiler Plead Guilty? (Part 1)

In the FBI base office in the metropolitan area, Jimmy, who was sitting at the conference table, stood up and shook hands with Bruce, who had just walked in.

The strong black agent's face always appeared somewhat serious. He took a step back, let Bruce walk into the office, and the two sat down at the table.

"Mr. Wei En, thank you very much for taking the time out of your busy schedule to cooperate with the investigation and contribute to the safety and education cause of the Federation." Jimmy flattered Bruce with some routine formalities.

Bruce shook his head slightly, showing a worried look, looked at Jimmy, and said, "You should know why I came here. I don't want my educational background to have a stain, and I don't want the Wei En Group to be involved in this matter."

"I came here to ensure that your investigation will not affect my business, and even more so that there won't be any rumors that will affect my personal reputation."

Bruce's words were very straightforward, but Jimmy didn't mind. He looked seriously at Bruce's expression and said, "Mr. Wei En, please trust the FBI's ability. We will act impartially and do our best to give everyone a satisfactory result."

"Alright, let's end the pleasantries." Bruce appeared somewhat impatient. He looked at Jimmy and said, "What do you want to ask by bringing me here?"

Before Jimmy could speak, Bruce spread his hands and said, "You should know that I am in charge of the Wei En Group and don't have that much time to study at school. If you want to learn about some of Professor Rodriguez's private habits from me, then you're overthinking it."

"Of course." Jimmy nodded and said, "This is just a routine inquiry and will not involve any privacy between you and the other party. If you feel uncomfortable with the questions I ask next, you can completely refuse to answer."

"Wait, you aren't planning to do a psychological assessment or psychological profiling on me, are you?" Bruce frowned and said, "Don't play that game with me. No politician or businessman would allow anyone to pry into their inner heart."

Looking at Bruce's very resistant expression, Jimmy sighed softly and said, "Mr. Wei En, please calm down. You haven't accused Professor Rodriguez. As long as you don't claim yourself that you were abused by him, we won't conduct any psychological tests on you."

Bruce rolled his eyes and said, "I can be considered acquaintances with Roman and Thomas. I really didn't expect them to be such sensitive people. What could a university professor do to them? Are the Sionis family and the Elliot family out of people?"

Hearing this, Jimmy's eyebrows twitched slightly, but he didn't respond immediately, instead silently noting down this sentence Bruce said in his heart.

This was actually a suspicious point Jimmy discovered during the investigation. Logically speaking, as the eldest sons and heirs of two major families, Roman and Thomas's normal state should be like what Bruce described, running around in the business world every day with no time to go to school.

Even if they had to go to school to deal with professors for the sake of their good reputation, they wouldn't be trapped in school and forced to accept someone's abuse. They were fully capable of leaving at any time.

Generally speaking, bullying in a teacher-student relationship exists in situations where the teacher is very strong but the student has absolutely no ability to resist.

Two rich second-generation heirs shouldn't have the situation of having no ability to resist. Their relationship with their teacher wasn't that unequal.

Of course, Jimmy wouldn't think that Shiler could be cleared of suspicion because of this. In the end, it still depended on the testimony of the accusing party and what happened during the confrontation between the two sides.

"Alright, Mr. Wei En, let's begin. Given that you haven't made any accusations against Professor Rodriguez, we will only ask some very simple questions."

Jimmy leaned forward, looked at Bruce, and said, "In your impression, what kind of person do you think this professor is?"

"A very typical university teacher." Bruce answered, "He enters the classroom to lecture two minutes early, leaves immediately after class, makes people fall asleep three times in ten minutes when teaching theory classes, and is fairly impartial when conducting debate topics."

"Can you use one word to describe your first impression of him?"

"Strict." Bruce answered.

Jimmy nodded and then asked, "Then do you feel uncomfortable with this strictness?"

Bruce pursed his lips, thought for a moment, and then said, "Whether a strict teacher is good or not often depends on your attitude toward learning. If you want to study well, then a teacher with a high academic level who is serious and strict will certainly be more popular."

"But if you just want to muddle through like me, but happen to encounter a strict teacher, I'm afraid you'll curse him ten thousand times in your heart every day."

"Have you done that?" Jimmy tilted his head slightly, raised his eyelids, and looked at Bruce from above his eyes.

Bruce shook his head and said, "Why would I want to make things difficult for such a professor? Anyone with a conscience knows that he is also doing it for your own good, just fulfilling his duties as a teacher. He wants to teach me, but I don't need to learn. I can only say we don't have common interests, but it doesn't go as far as generating hatred."

Jimmy slowly frowned. This famous young Wei En was indeed as rumored, a genius businessman who appeared somewhat dissolute but had a very keen business sense. He didn't speak without mentioning common interests, never made sharp statements, was quite smooth in facing any problem, and didn't target anyone.

But it had to be admitted that Bruce's statement made some sense. Roman and Thomas, who were the main accusers, were actually from merchant families. They chose the psychology department simply because they felt that psychology might give them some advantages in the business world.

And if the family business was busy and they didn't have much time to study, but the teacher required them to study hard, they should also be able to understand that the teacher was just fulfilling his duties. Even if what was given was something they didn't need, it wouldn't go as far as turning into enemies, right?

Moreover, offending such a famous scholar actually had no benefits. Businessmen all like to look for common interests and make friends.

No shrewd businessman would make an enemy of someone just because they couldn't use them for a while and treat them with cold sarcasm and indifference. This is completely contrary to the businessman's instinct for smoothness.

So, Jimmy looked into Bruce's eyes and asked him, "Then how do you view Roman and Thomas? Are you friends? How is your relationship?"

"We can be considered friends." Bruce gave an ambiguous answer and said, "I am friends with everyone in Cat Getan. Even if they don't like me, they can always use me."

Jimmy also understood his implication. To put it plainly, looking at the size of the Wei En Group, there is no merchant family that wouldn't want to curry favor with Bruce Wei En.

"I'll tell you the truth." Bruce shook his head helplessly and said, "On the surface, my relationship with them is not bad, but privately, they should be very jealous of me. My parents passed away, and I took over the Wei En Group early on, holding real power. But those two are still under their parents' control and basically have no freedom. Of course they would be jealous of me."

Bruce touched his chin and said, "Some time ago, I heard that Thomas was imprisoned, accused of murdering his parents. I didn't see it on weekdays, but the conflict between him and his parents was so great."

"And that Roman, I heard that he was arrested some time ago for planning a hospital murder case. Instead of quickly hiring a few good lawyers to help him get acquitted, he jumped out to accuse a university teacher. I'm quite surprised."

Jimmy slowly narrowed his eyes. He looked at Bruce and said, "I can hear that you really want to defend your university professor, but the FBI has already investigated the situation you mentioned clearly."

"Of course, Thomas and Roman are both murderers. Personally, I don't think cruel criminals are worth sympathy."

"But from the perspective of federal law, a murderer and a student are two different identities. They will go to prison and pay the price because of the murder accusation, but they can still exercise their rights as students to accuse their teacher."

Bruce spread his hands, shook his head, showed an absurd expression, looked into Jimmy's eyes, and said, "Since you've said so, what else can I say? Do you have any other questions?"

Jimmy looked down at the documents at hand and then continued, "Have you had any private contact with Professor Rodriguez? How is your relationship?"

"Of course we've had contact. I even invited him to Wei En Manor for dinner. I think it's necessary to maintain a good relationship with such a scholar, but speaking of a private relationship..." Bruce shook his head and said, "You should also be able to think that such a strict teacher prefers good students. As for me..."

Bruce didn't continue speaking, and Jimmy also understood what he meant. Suddenly, Bruce snapped his fingers and said, "Didn't you go ask Yin Wensi? Oh, that's little Falcone. He is Shiler's proud student... Wait a minute, what nonsense am I saying? How could you possibly interrogate Falcone?"

Jimmy showed a helpless smile, tilted his head to the side, and pressed his eyebrows tightly against his eyes. Then he said, "The problem is right here. Of course I understand that you hope to help Professor Rodriguez, but in fact, the vast majority of students we investigated do not have a very positive evaluation of him."

"And those good students who exist in your mouths are mostly unwilling to cooperate with the investigation, let alone allow the FBI to conduct psychological assessments on them. You should understand that this will cause Professor Rodriguez's assessment results to lean more toward the negative."

Bruce pondered for a moment and then said, "Are you trying to get me to persuade Falcone or other students from mafia families to come forward?"

Before Jimmy could answer, Bruce said, "No mafia family would bow to the FBI. Whether you want to bring them here or you want to enter Cat Getan, this is an infringement on them."

"I know that the Constitution and national honor give you the right to walk on every inch of federal land. It is their fault that they don't let you get close, but from the actual situation, you temporarily have no way to correct these mistakes, nor do you have any way to make them pay the price for their mistakes."

"You had better not think about letting me come forward to persuade them. Although the Wei En Group's business is all over the world, I am still a Gothamite, and the Wei En Group is also a local Cat Getan enterprise. If I have a conflict with the local mafia, I won't be able to live in Cat Getan in the future."

Jimmy looked at Bruce silently, and Bruce also looked at him. After a while, Jimmy nodded, which was considered accepting this result.

He put away the documents but didn't stand up immediately to shake hands with Bruce. Instead, he sat in place, put his hands on the desktop, and said to Bruce, "I can express my personal opinion on this investigation to you. I think that criminals who can commit such cruel acts of murdering their own parents and other strangers are not worth sympathy at any time."

"Their accusations against others are completely a case of a thief crying 'stop thief,' and there is very likely some unspeakable secret behind it." Jimmy's expression was very calm, as if he wasn't expressing such a slightly radical point of view.

"I hope to strive for justice for both sides, naturally including Professor Rodriguez, but the problem is that the evidence we have obtained from the investigation that is favorable to him is too little."

Jimmy stood up with the documents. He tapped the edge of the documents on the desktop twice to align the paper and said to Bruce in an inexplicable tone:

"Mr. Wei En, if you don't want your educational background to have a stain, you had better act quickly." ===== CHAPTER 1170 =====