Blackstone Code

The federal savings bank's alleged issuance monopoly lawsuit opened on Monday in an open, packed courtroom.

If you carefully observe the observers in each auditorium, you can find that there are few ordinary people here.

Ordinary people are not interested in such cases and cannot squeeze in.

The people who are sitting here are rich people, or people with connections to the Federal Savings Bank.

their customers, or their customers.

Lynch sat in the third row, an inconspicuous position.

The Federal Savings Bank has set up a super luxurious defense team, a super luxurious lawyer team composed of lawyers from the three major federal law firms specializing in monopoly cases.

It consists of more than 30 well-known lawyers and possibly hundreds or more staff members.

They collected a lot of evidence and materials, and after everyone's discussion, they decided to come up with an idea of ​​hearing and identification.

Such a luxurious team setting is unique in the history of the federal judiciary.

It's not that no one has the financial means, or is reluctant to spend so much money.

Rather, the three major law firms are essentially competitors, and the more senior the team of lawyers, the less willing they are to "share", let alone "share" with competitors.

They would rather quit by themselves than work with a competitor.

But the Federal Savings Bank gave too much money, coupled with their influence and connections, the three major law firms were united like never before.

It seems that in order to fight against such a luxurious team, all the prosecutors in the Federal Prosecutor's Office who have achieved outstanding results in the field of anti-monopoly have also formed a large and luxurious team of prosecutors!

Today is the first day of the trial. Obviously, this case will not have any results in a short time, but it will still be very important.

Because of the tendency of today's trial, people can understand the thinking of the federal government.

As soon as it came up, a prosecutor spearheaded the attack, who established from some of the evidence he had gathered that the "distribution rights" did not actually belong to the Federal Reserve Bank.

Before the establishment of the federal government, people used gold, silver or Gefra coins for transactions, and some regional private banks would also provide something like gold round coupons.

Bartering is the mainstream method of trade.

Later, the federal government was established. In order to solve the problem of trade, the federal government mortgaged the tax revenue to the Efron Post Office at that time, which is now the Federal Savings Bank.

At that time, the federal postal service and banking business were also merged together, and they also did businesses such as wanted arrests and armed escorts.

The Efron Post Office was the private bank with the most outlets, the largest scale, and the closest relationship with the federal government after the establishment of the Federation.

The first president of the Confederacy mortgaged his taxes to the Efron Post Office and commissioned them to print the first batch of Confederate sols.

Since then, although the federal government has been entrusting the Federal Reserve Bank to handle the issue of currency issuance.

But this does not mean that the Federal Reserve Bank has the right to issue.

Its distribution rights actually come from the commission of the federal government, which is a kind of trade, a kind of business.

According to the prosecutor, since it is an independent assignment, the client can naturally be replaced.

The Federal Reserve Bank has used its influence to interfere with the federal government's choice of currency issuance many times during these two hundred to three hundred years.

Including, but not limited to, bribery, threats, intimidation and other means to make itself the only bank that can undertake the issuance task, not one of them.

Although the Federal Reserve Banks are not the only option on the surface, they have become the de facto only option, which is also a more hidden monopoly.

So the Feds are going to face not just one charge, but many!

The legal team of the Federal Reserve Bank also made a counterattack immediately. They believed that the Federal Reserve Bank did not have a monopoly on the issuance rights.

Just because the Federal Savings Bank has done well enough in this area, they cannot be allowed to continue to do it, and they can only choose those who do not do well or have no experience in doing it.

For some people who may have interfered in the entire process, they chose to plead guilty.

Others have denied the allegations and argued that legal and compliant lobbying is not a crime.

And they also welcome other banks or companies, or even individuals, to compete with them on issuance issues.

The scene was very intense. Lynch saw many famous people in the banking industry, and everyone was very concerned about the trial.

It can be seen that the federal government's ass is not sitting crookedly, at least so far they seem to be working hard against the Federal Reserve Bank.

Connor obviously did not give in to the pressure, and took the initiative to get together with the Federal Reserve Bank, which somewhat surprised Lynch.

If it were President Bowling, maybe this trial would be the final one, so he wouldn't offend the Federal Reserve Bank.

As for Mr. Truman?

There may not even be this lawsuit, because they all know that as long as he decides, it will be difficult to change, and he is even willing to sign the presidential privilege to implement it forcefully!

On the contrary, Connor behaved a little strangely.

The trial lasted all day, two hours in the morning and three hours in the afternoon.

However, they did not cause any actual damage to the other party.

In the evening, Lynch called Connor in advance, and visited the presidential palace after eight o'clock.

When Lynch first entered the study, he smelled a strong smell of cigarettes. Connor strode to the window, opened it, and made a gesture of fanning the wind.

It can be seen that he is more or less embarrassed. Although both of them smoke, smoking has nothing to do with the environment in which guests are received.

You can't entertain guests in the toilet just because everyone shits, it's the same reason.

Because Lynch smokes, the place where he is received cannot be filled with the smell of smoke.

"The Federal Savings Bank just left before you came," Connor explained, before opening several more windows.

The current temperature is actually not too high, it looks like eighteen or nine degrees, and it is still a bit cold when the wind blows in at night.

Lynch shook his head and said he didn't really care, "They feel the pressure?"

Connor nodded with a smile, "They realized they had a big problem, and I became the key person."

The attitude of the president is very important on judicial issues, because the Ministry of Justice and the backing of the justices are the presidential palace, so the opinions of the presidential palace are often the direction of development of judicial issues.

Connor said "business as usual", and those in the Ministry of Justice naturally knew what this meant, and immediately formed a luxurious team of prosecutors to fight against the luxurious lawyers of the Federal Reserve Bank.

The justices also have an attitude of "I don't listen to what you say, I just think you have a problem", which also makes them very troublesome.

But fortunately, the federal judicial decision is always outside the courts, so they immediately started emergency public relations.

Many people came at night, except for the people from the bank, they were all well-known brokers and politicians.

President Bowling is also here. Besides him, there are four professional brokers who have once produced the President of the Federation.

Their appearance did put a lot of pressure on Connor. This guy seemed very cowardly at times, but he was also very resistant to pressure at other times.

He resisted the pressure and said that the judiciary must be fair, but he still had some thoughts that might be negotiable.

To put it bluntly, it means that the other party has not given the benefits in place.

"Last time I mentioned that Blackstone Bank would also get a part of the currency issuance rights, and they strongly rejected my proposal."

"It embarrasses me, Lynch."

"I rarely ask people to do something for me, because I know it's hard."

"I make it difficult for myself and others, but once I open my mouth, I hope to have a good answer."

He didn't finish his sentence, and there was still some "aftertaste", then he shook his head.

Lynch knew that this guy was taking the opportunity to sell him a favor, but this kind of favor was not appropriate.

Isn't it stupid to say "whether I can print money has anything to do with you the fuck"?

I can only say that I don't need to be so embarrassed, and at the same time thank Connor for his loyalty.

In fact, Lynch thinks that Connor has such a choice, maybe because his face is not easy to use in front of the Federal Reserve Bank, and the Federal Reserve Bank is indeed too large.

Their ability to macro-control the economy even exceeds that of the federal government. In this respect, the federal government does not exist on the same plane as them, only being crushed.

Connor doesn't seem to be very keen on power, but in fact, sometimes he is not only sensitive to power, but also very greedy.

The relationship between him and Lynch can always be maintained so well, probably because Lynch never peeps at the power in his hands, which allows him to communicate with Lynch easily.

Lynch laughed, "Should I say 'thank you very much for helping me' at this time?"

Connor froze for a moment, then laughed, "Can you have a good chat?"

Lynch nodded, but still thanked him very seriously, "I'm not joking, I owe you a favor for this matter."

Connor waved his hand, he owed Lynch more.

"What do you think is the best way to develop this matter in the future?"

"Is it still the same as before?"

In the past, the federation's approach to monopoly groups was actually very straightforward. As long as the evidence was sufficient, they would then split up and reorganize, forcing these people to sell their assets, and then confront themselves against their former selves—

Although this trick is useless, even if those monopoly groups are split into many, if you follow their shareholding clues to the end, you will find that they are actually those people!

It's just that there are some extra small shareholders who are used to resist risks, the kind that can be sacrificed anytime and anywhere.

In fact, Lynch didn't come to visit Connor, and Connor also planned to call Lynch to ask Lynch.

Breaking up the Federal Reserve Bank is not an easy task, and it is also very dangerous.

That's why he doesn't say it dead, and wants to leave some impressions of "I can be persuaded, but you are not working hard enough" to those lobbying teams.

He didn't want a bullet to penetrate his head one day!