Chapter 16 - The Wall Street Exposure
While flying to Miami, Julian coordinated with Agent Miller to execute a massive financial strike against the syndicate's Wall Street backers.
Using the data recovered from the teddy bear's thumb drive, federal prosecutors froze two billion dollars in short-seller accounts.
The syndicate had been shorting Vance Global stock, planning to make massive illegal profits upon Julian's death.
News of the federal freeze hit the New York Stock Exchange during morning trading, causing Vance Global shares to skyrocket by forty percent.
Several prominent Wall Street hedge fund managers were arrested in their Manhattan offices by federal agents on live national news.
The public exposure crippled the syndicate's financial liquidity, leaving their private mercenary forces unpaid and panicked.
"We cut off their money, Julian," Agent Miller reported over an encrypted satellite call. "They are completely isolated now."
"Now I take back my wife," Julian replied, looking out the plane window as the turquoise waters of Biscayne Bay appeared below.
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He touched down at a private airfield in Fort Lauderdale, met by a team of armed federal marshals ready for assault.
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