Chicago 1990

Song Ya naturally didn't know that Russell Simmons was angry and scolded his mother, but from his point of view, Russell Simmons was the most difficult one.

I didn’t take much effort to force the Manhattan Gang to give in, Pierre Sutton was soft, the DefJam recorder was panicked, Quincy Jones and his daughter were arguing at home, LLCoolJ hid in Hollywood, and the bragging father didn’t even dare to enter, only Russell Simon Si, he couldn't say anything for a while.

That guy has been up and down in the music circle for many years. He was in charge of DefJam records. The old-style, hard-core, political rap music was brilliant for almost the entire 1980s. Musicians in New York and the East Coast respected him very much, and he was neither like Quincy Jones. With a big mouth, there are no bad habits, it is extremely difficult to be caught, and the relationship with New York politics is harmonious, which won the recognition of Dingkins and others.

Rooted in New York for many years, he has countless relationships within the Inner City Broadcasting Company. Billy Taylor, jazz pianist, composer, media and education activist, and jazz pianist, composer, and female singer Roberta Flack are highly respected. All of the African-American musicians are his best friends, not to mention a large group of veteran rappers from DefJam such as LLCoolJ. He knows each other with the Inner City Broadcasting Corporation and the Manhattan Gang.

In the past, his status may not reach the top in the black community, but after he got PolyGram’s nearly 50 million cash and net worth of more than 100 million, everything is different. This year, there are very few billionaires, and even black billionaires. It is to cherish animals. Once he crosses that threshold, he instantly becomes one of the representative figures of all black people, and his reputation and influence have skyrocketed.

With a capital injection of 30 million, he subscribed half of it and only 15 million. It hurts the flesh, but it shouldn't be difficult to afford it. At least Song Ya thinks so.

But what Song Ya didn’t know was that Russell Simmons had just felt the troubles he had become accustomed to in the past two years. Countless people who wanted to make money from billionaires surrounded them like flies. What social activists gave What kind of fund or charitable organization is raising donations, friends of politicians need funds for campaigns, brokers who sell luxury homes, yachts, and luxury goods, and Wall Street elites who encourage him to buy investment products, and so on. It takes time to adapt.

"Oh by the way, I wish you the primary election in the party."

Back in Chicago, after he helped Peter Flock's governor campaign platform endorsement, the two came to Alicia's law firm together.

Still the freight elevator.

"Thank you."

Peter Flock thanked him, but the two were not here for chitchat. He began to talk about Vic's case. "There have only been two court trials. It is the old case of the two insignificant members of the stormtrooper. , There is no danger for the time being. I found out that the FBI had replaced an inspector named Ma Hong in charge. He ran rampant in Chicago. In many cases, he did not even pay attention to procedural justice, which is difficult to do..."

"In that case, send him to the dock?" Song Ya asked.

Peter shook his head and suppressed his speech so much that it was almost overwhelmed by the noise of the freight elevator. "The chief has already helped and forced the FBI to transfer the leadership of this case to the Chicago branch. The director here has a tacit understanding with us. So, at present Everyone is making do, it is inconvenient for us to mobilize front-line case handlers...

"This is good news." Song Ya smiled.

"Yes, but there is still a big unpredictable risk. After winning from the party, my opponent is the last one. The elephant party candidate is the chairman of the Chicago Bar Association. His public opinion base is far less than mine, but the society There is so much energy, it is impossible not to use this case to attack me."

Peter looked very candid, "This is the main risk we face in the second half of this year. Fortunately, there will be no redistribution issues during the next governor's term. The elephant party will support the governor candidates less strongly, otherwise it will be more difficult. "

Song Ya knows that the United States will re-division every ten years, that is, after an integer number of years such as 1990/2000. The governors of the states have a lot of power in this matter. For example, there are two constituencies for the House of Representatives, and one constituency has two parties. The respective hard-core supporters opened on September 1, and one constituency was opened at 37. With very simple mathematical calculations, it was possible to re-plan the constituency so that both of the constituencies were opened at 64. In this way, a house with one seat would become a donkey party. Regarding seats, the game between the two parties is very fierce.

"Okay, I see, just talk about it if I need it, Peter."

Now that the interests of the two are highly bound, Song Ya is not stingy in providing generous promises.

"That's right, can you let Pastor Allison endorse me? This is essential for me to get the African-American vote."

Peter also asked directly.

"Pastor Allison I know very well, I will go to say hello tomorrow." Song Ya nodded and agreed.

"Then I will count on you." Peter patted him on the shoulder happily, "Go out, Alicia is waiting for you."

"Ok."

Pierre Sutton has handed over the operating status of the Inner City Broadcasting Company he requested to Alicia's law firm and Morningstar, and they are currently working on statistics outside.

Peter and his wife greeted them and hurried away, while Song Ya stayed in her office.

"This is the basic statistical result. If you want to see it, please read it first. The first page is a briefing. I will continue to be busy..."

Alicia put a large stack of folders in front of Song Ya.

"Okay, I worked hard, Alicia."

After Song Ya thanked him, he looked through it alone.

Generally speaking, the Inner City Broadcasting Company is not a standard private company. It receives government funding every year. It also accepts social donations, mostly from wealthy people of African descent. It offers to undertake some social obligations, such as to Malcolm Eck Sri Lanka’s widow has a high-paying idle job pension, such as injecting many small media that speaks for African descent from all parts of the United States. It is also the pocket of many politicians, and a large amount of commission funds flow in and out of various names every year. Of course, the twelve self-owned radio stations in normal operation, eight joint-venture radio stations and some small local television stations are still the mainstay.

All of this is most evident in the Apollo Theater. On the one hand, the New York City Government, the property owner, provides very cheap leases. On the other hand, it also has subsidies for various cultural and ethnic minorities every year. This is located in Harlem. The ancient theater on 125th Street also has a lot of tickets and visiting income. In addition to maintaining normal operations, the profit is also used to raise a lot of "idle people" who get paid for nothing, such as retired jazz musicians, family members of African-American politicians and celebrities, and retired politicians who walk into the revolving door. The remaining part was turned over to the Inner City Broadcasting Corporation, and part of it went into several foundations. The foundations chaired by the Federal Representative Ranger took the largest part. Although these foundations have legitimate reasons such as equal rights and charity, these funds The salary for directors and other positions is very generous, and the actual amount of money that can be used in fact depends on personal conscience.

The same is true for other small institutions scattered all over the country.

This is a big net. Even if Pierre turned to cooperate sincerely, he had notified in advance of things that could not be reflected in the official accounts when he visited the Malibu beach house, but what he got here was still a misty one. The report, and the Manhattan Gang also severely warned that it must not be leaked.

But on the other hand, the big net weaved by the Manhattan Gang since the 1970s is also very tempting for Song Ya. Isn't this the source of social influence?

"The loan alone is as high as nearly 60 million, and the interest is not low. The more than 10 million borrowed from the First Bank of New Jersey has been called back many times. The deadline is coming in October this year..."

Song Ya shook his head while watching. The name of the First Bank of New Jersey evoked his memory. When he was threatened by Motula, the bank forced himself to pay back...

He shook his head and put aside the bad past. The Inner City Broadcasting Company was indeed almost unable to go on. No wonder the Sutton family killed the 30 million figure and refused to let go. Without this 30 million, once the loan defaults, immediately Is about to face a bankruptcy crisis.

Of course he does not lack high-quality assets, such as the Apollo Theater, the two major radio stations in New York, and the Washington branch that has been hollowed out by himself...

"What do you think? APLUS."

When he was looking dizzy and having doubts in his heart, Alicia finished his work and walked in with two cups of coffee.

"I don't know... Oh, thank you."

Song Ya took a sip of the coffee, "I am in a mess now."

"It's true." Alicia laughed. "This fruit has a mottled appearance and bitter flesh, but it's still a bit nutritious..."

"A good analogy, at least it is not really a pure bottomless pit." Song Ya smiled bitterly.

"They got 30 million estimated to be mainly used to repay and replace loans..." Alicia said.

Song Ya nodded and agreed, "Yes, so I will definitely stick to Ms. Sloan's four-point proposal. You must get the power to split, sell, and shut down non-performing assets, and you must not be trapped in the Apollo Theater by New York City. The big risk of the government forcibly retracting."

"It's harder."

Alicia said: "I mean the Apollo Theater. Although Federal Representative Wrangel has significant interests in it, you know that it is approaching the second term of the Elephant Party Mayor Giuliani. There should be no pressure to re-elect a strongman who can reverse the public security situation in New York. The political influence of the Manhattan Gang as a whole is rapidly declining, and it is becoming more and more difficult to maintain the interests of the theater."

"Well, I saw the same."

Song Ya naturally agreed, "But I noticed that the former New York Secretary of State Basil Patterson’s affiliated foundation still receives large sums of money from the Inner City Broadcasting Company every year. His son, New York State Senator David Patterson It should be the future star that the Manhattan Gang has high hopes for. The reason for the father and son to draw a line between Passy Sutton and Dingkins on the surface is probably because they don’t want to be defeated politically, and the public’s perception is not good. Former politicians are involved."

"It's just a senator in the state. There are dozens or hundreds of politicians of this status in each state, not to mention that there is a super city like New York City in New York State."

Alicia disagreed with him, "It is difficult for David Patterson to stand out."

"That's it..." Song Ya also knew this was the case.

"Alicia." A staff member knocked on the door and came in. "What's the matter with this sum of millions of dollars? Receivable? Or bad debt?"

"What payment?"

Alicia took a look at the documents in his hand, "Oh, this is a pledge of donations that they haven't actually received over the years. It doesn't count as anything. It's in the attachment. According to the business nature of the inner city broadcasting company, it doesn't even have to For external disclosure, I may have misplaced it."

"Okay." The staff went out and she put the papers on the table casually.

"Isn't this a fraud?" Song Ya picked up the file and looked through it.

"Ha~www.wuxiaspot.com~ It’s so ugly to say, in fact, this kind of phenomenon is uncommon, and some of them have a tacit understanding between the two sides. strange.

"Ok?"

Song Ya has seen the names of African celebrities in the list of pledges. Among them, the most famous talk show host, Oprah, appeared most frequently. He instantly became interested, and he sat up straight and looked carefully. Go on, "Wow oh oh oh oh... Since she came to New York to promote the movie Purple in 1985, she has successively'donated' millions to various affiliates of the Inner City Broadcasting Company in the past ten years, all of which are just empty words. ?"

"Of course, otherwise her name would not appear in this document." Alicia replied casually.

Song Ya's eyes lit up, "Alicia."

"Ok?"

"Speed ​​up, speed up the progress of capital injection negotiations with Pierre!"

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