Chapter 1089: Reporting and Unease

From Tang Mu's perspective, if there was no conflict between Lanse and this Mel Crown, he wouldn't have called to ask who this person was—

Given Lanse's personality of liking to make friends, if there was no conflict between the two, it is highly likely that Lanse would have already found a way to get to know him, rather than calling him.

This actually reflects another fact, which is that Lanse still trusts Tang Mu relatively.

If he asked someone else, they might tell Mel Crown about this, but he believes Tang Mu won't, so this can only mean that Lanse and this guy have some conflict, or something else.

Lanse did not answer him directly. "How is the relationship between this guy and the senator's side?"

After this sentence was asked, even if Tang Mu still had guesses, at this time he could basically confirm it. Lanse indeed had some problems with this person.

Tang Mu recalled seriously. "There is no direct connection. He belongs to that group of Jin McCauley."

Jin McCauley is another relatively large force within the Social Party. The current President belongs to their political group.

Before the mid-term election problem appeared, their power and status in Congress could be said to be like the group of Senator Cleveland now. Of course, the scale was still not as large as Senator Cleveland's now.

But they were still the kind with status.

When first elected, the Attorney General of Jin State was their person. Naturally, these prosecutors in the City Prosecutor's Office were basically people of their line.

Although there were people on Senator Cleveland's side in the prosecutor group, clearly, this guy Mel Crown was not among them.

Tang Mu explained some things about Jin McCauley to Lanse, the kind that could be introduced in just a few simple sentences. This matched some of Lanse's guesses about the development of the situation.

After all, the current Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Luo Lan, was promoted by the President. It is clearly very reasonable for them to stand in the same camp.

However, there are also relatively unreasonable things, for example, the President's term has expired. That he can land safely can be considered the acquiescence he obtained for not messing around during the war.

He shouldn't be thinking about dismantling Senator Cleveland's forces by dealing with him. There must be more things in this that he doesn't understand.

Politics is simple if you say it's simple, but if you say it's complex, it is indeed very complex.

"In short, this guy is not on our path!", Tang Mu gave the final result.

"Hmm, I know."

Lanse's answer was very simple, which made him unable to help but ask, "What do you plan to do, how to do it?"

He suspected that the conflict between Lanse and this person was not small, otherwise he wouldn't have asked if the other party was his own person.

If it was just a small conflict, he wouldn't need to consider these at all. Only with serious consequences would he consider not accidentally hurting himself.

Lanse also did not answer him directly. He hadn't really made these decisions yet.

He ended this topic with Tang Mu, and then talked about some things that happened recently, such as various things that pushed him and the Perez family to fight to the death, and some people trying to drag him into the water through fishing enforcement.

After chatting for a while, he hung up the phone. These things don't need to be loudly told to the senator by Tang Mu. As long as the senator knows that these people are trying to deal with Lanse, it is enough.

After Tang Mu hung up the phone, he pondered for a while about some of the attitudes Lanse showed in the phone call, and then picked up a document on the desktop and walked toward Senator Cleveland's office.

He happened to be free.

Actually, it can't be considered really free, it's just that the document he was processing was not that important, and he could still slack off.

If it were a more important document or something, he wouldn't be able to slack off. He would close the door, not let others in, and then focus on finishing this work before opening the door again.

Tang Mu could go in now, which only means that the document in his hand was not that important.

"Something?", Senator Cleveland continued to stare at the document in his hand without raising his head, writing and drawing with a fountain pen from time to time.

The sound of the pen tip sliding on the paper was like fingertips scratching on canvas. Some people couldn't stand these sounds, and some people thought it sounded good.

"There is a document here that needs you to take a look. If there is no problem, I will let the people below execute it."

Tang Mu said while handing over the document, and mentioned the previous phone call. "Lanse called me just now, and he mentioned a person to me."

Senator Cleveland raised his head and looked at him through the gap between his eyes and forehead, rolling his eyes like rolling his eyes. "Who?"

His sentence attracted the senator's attention. He knew this point very well. "Mel, Mel Crown, a prosecutor in New Jincheng, a person of the State Attorney General."

Senator Cleveland thought for a while, and a relatively clear image appeared in his mind. "I have seen this person, several times. What happened between him and Lanse?"

Tang Mu shook his head. "Lanse didn't tell me in detail, probably he might be pushing some things to catch Lanse's criminal facts."

"They set a trap, wanting to let Lanse take the bait, but he avoided it."

"He found out that the person who set this trap was Mel Crown, so he called me to ask if this person was our person."

The senator straightened up. He took off his glasses and pinched the bridge of his nose for a while, then covered his face with both hands and rubbed hard.

Now he has a lot of work to deal with.

The armistice agreement has taken effect, the issue of troop withdrawal, solving some legacy problems on the battlefield, and then there is a series of problems to deal with with Slader.

Plus federal capital is urging the government to obtain more orders abroad, and requiring more countries to open markets for them.

In short, there are many things to do recently, and he is very busy.

Now there is another annoying thing.

"What does he plan to do?", Senator Cleveland let go of his hands. His cheeks were a bit pale because of the hard rubbing, but soon these pale places became ruddy again. The blood returned in a very short time.

Tang Mu shook his head. "I don't know, I asked, but he didn't say."

The senator put on his glasses again. "The identity of a prosecutor is a bit sensitive. If something too bizarre happens to him, it will definitely alarm the people in the judicial department."

"You can give Lanse a reminder. He can do what he wants, but he must make two preparations."

"First, everything must be reasonable. Don't nakedly find a gunman to come to the door and kill him. That will cause a monstrous wave in the judicial circle!"

"If even the most basic decency cannot be maintained, there will definitely be Supreme Court justices entering. This is something we all don't want to see, no matter who it is."

"Second, whether it is revenge or retaliation, violence, killing, are not the only means."

"But I believe he can handle it well. This guy has never disappointed anyone!"

The status of a life-tenured Supreme Court justice in the Federation is very special. As "living judicial interpreters," they can be said to possess the highest authority of judicial interpretation.

At the same time, they can determine the trial result of a case, or deny the trial result of a case, and personally try it themselves.

The nomination and election of life-tenured Supreme Court justices are carefully considered, nominated by the federal president, and passed by a majority vote in the Senate.

These people are often liberal figures and will not favor any side, but because of this, these people are relatively difficult to deal with.

"Freedom" is the label they give themselves, a kind of persona. They need to maintain their image within the judicial field.

If someone dares to challenge the judiciary, it is equivalent to challenging them. Senator Cleveland does not want to see this situation happen, although they can also persuade the Supreme Court justices to stand on their side, but this means additional payment.

Tang Mu expressed what Lanse wanted him to convey. As for whether Senator Cleveland would link these things with "targeting him," only he himself knew.

In the morning, Prosecutor Crown made a call to the Tobacco, Alcohol, and Hazardous Materials Bureau, asking if they had recently seized a large-scale crime scene of smuggling and selling alcohol.

But the feedback situation did not make him very satisfied.

The Hazardous Materials Bureau did indeed seize some small-scale alcohol transactions and private sales. Those caught, clearly, were all "adventurers," because the real traders clearly could not be caught.

So these transaction volumes were all very small, far from the degree that Prosecutor Mel Crown wanted. He was not very good at asking directly through targeted names or something, so he hung up the phone in a hurry.

His contact with that small gang was in a previous case. He personally handled an injury case. Several young people were injured by them, two of whom were seriously injured, and several were slightly injured.

The situation of federal justice now is a bit unusual. To put it more bluntly, there is a discussion within the judicial department.

Is the process important, or is the result important?

To put it simply, what is the purpose of detecting a case? Is it the process of detecting the case itself, investigating from scratch, looking for evidence, and then forming an evidence chain, or the result of sending the criminal to the trial seat?

Undoubtedly, it is definitely to send the criminal to the trial seat. Then, if in this process, the criminal is willing to cooperate with the prosecutor and law enforcement agencies to admit their guilt, investigate, and have the idea of repentance, can they be given a certain choice to reduce the sentencing standard?

Plus some problems in federal justice and law enforcement issues, so gradually some prosecutors began to use another method to accelerate their case trial work, which is "transaction."

Trading with criminals, letting them quickly plead guilty and accept punishment, and then lowering the standard of punishment they receive, this is a win-win situation for both sides.

The prosecutor's side reduced unnecessary work and unnecessary expenses. After all, investigating cases also requires funding costs.

What about the criminal's side? Their prison term becomes less, and they can come out of prison earlier.

From a social level, criminals actively repenting and pleading guilty is also a clear symbol of social civilization progress.

It's just that in such transactions, people ignored the feelings of the victims. Of course, many times the victims have no feelings.

Prosecutor Crown made this transaction with them. Several people came out to take the blame, actively pleaded guilty, and actively compensated, obtaining the victim's understanding.

The case that might have required continuous investigation for three to five months was completed in less than two weeks. Prosecutor Crown received praise from his superiors, the criminal received the punishment he deserved, the victim also received a little compensation, and social civilization and stability obtained huge improvement.

It can be said to be a four-win!

In this process, he and this gang leader had a little friendship.

In fact, if this case was truly investigated, the entire gang would be implicated and prosecuted, but in order to close the case as soon as possible and have an "excellent and capable" performance in front of his superiors, he did not prosecute the entire gang.

This made the gang leader perceive something. He began to frequently contact Prosecutor Crown and even tried to bribe him, hoping to let Prosecutor Crown become the umbrella of this gang leader.

A prosecutor indeed has such ability, and this gang is not a big gang, just a small character.

Such a small character also can't make any earth-shattering big case.

He never agreed, but he didn't clearly refuse either, until the person behind him talked about the issue of de-gangsterization and fishing enforcement in a chat, and the big shots directly named the Lanse family, so he had this idea.

If he could let the Lanse family be implicated in the Prohibition case, and the case value was huge, and it was handled by Congress itself.

Senator Cleveland and these people, would they still have a way to fish people out from inside?

He used this small gang, let them actively do business with Lanse and them, set up a trap, and then waited for the Lanse family to take the bait.

It can be said that the entire script was very much in line with his expectations in the early stage. The Lanse family still had ideas about dumping more of their products into New Jincheng and Jin State.

After all, the interest of alcohol is the most core income source of the Lanse family now. Several times the profit is enough to make anyone crazy! The more they sell, naturally the more they earn.

It's just that he didn't know if something went wrong in some link. A very good script, actually has no result now?

After he put down the phone, he made another call to the gang leader's side. No one answered.

This made him feel a little unease. As a prosecutor, he could be considered someone relatively familiar with gangs. He knew these gangs very well, especially once relatively big gang families go crazy, how terrible they are.

Prosecutor Crown, who was sitting in the office, was already a bit restless. After thinking twice, he decided to "attack" more actively.

He rummaged through his filing cabinet for the case file of this small gang last time, and then carried it on his body.

Although federal judicial regulations state that as long as a case is closed, it cannot be re-tried because of compensation or something, he can use "incomplete data information" as a reason to let this gang leader help him supplement some data, and then file it well.

And when leaving the office, he also brought his pistol.

He actually doesn't like to wear a pistol to work usually. On one hand, this thing is a bit heavy hanging on his body, which will press on his shoulders and make him feel a bit uncomfortable.

On the other hand, he doesn't think that a character like him, a prosecutor, still needs to personally go to the front line to enforce the law.

Those are things that bottom-level law enforcers should do, and he, a guy like a prosecutor, should be issuing orders in the office, and then making a final decision in court.

"Is Prosecutor Crown going out?"

Just as he went out, a young lady walked past his door with a tray. "I haven't sent you coffee yet!"

Prosecutor Crown looked at the coffee on her tray and squeezed out some smiles. "Yes, the data of a case is not very perfect, I have to go and re-record it."

This young lady can be considered a... service person in the Prosecutor's Office. She has a relative working here, so she played a role similar to a "life secretary."

The main work is to help everyone take letters, send coffee or food, etc. The monthly salary is more than ten dollars, and the work is not too tiring.

The lady asked with some doubt, "Then... do I need to prepare coffee for you?"

Prosecutor Crown shook his head. "No need, I'm not sure when I'll be back. If I have a need, I will contact you."

"Okay, then goodbye, Prosecutor Crown."

"Goodbye..."

After he ended this short conversation, he left here and drove to the station of this small gang.

It took him nearly forty minutes to arrive at the station of this gang. The morning traffic peak lasted for a long time.

After he parked the car, he checked the weapon, turned off the safety, and then left the car with the file bag.

It was very quiet around, so quiet that it didn't look like the gang headquarters full of noise in his impression.

There were no young people standing on the side of the road looking around, nor were there gang members looking at every passerby with examining eyes. Everything was too quiet!

He stood outside the door of the "activity room," knocked on the door, and it was quiet inside.

He knocked a few more times, and still no one responded, so he twisted the doorknob of the activity room with a serious face.

The door was not locked.

He put the file bag casually on the table by the door, then pulled out his pistol, and walked inside little by little.

This activity room was originally an activity room for workers in a nearby factory, similar to an early club.

Later, the development and positioning of New Jincheng changed, these factories were all closed, and this place was abandoned, occupied by a group of young people nearby, and formed this gang.

At this time, it was as quiet as if no one existed. He came here once last time, but it wasn't like this!

Sometimes quietness also makes people feel fear! ===== CHAPTER 1090 =====