Chapter 17 - The Wall Street Connection
Following the raid on The Golden Siren, federal authorities seized over eighty terabytes of encrypted criminal data.
Analysis of the financial records revealed that several prominent Wall Street investment firms were laundering the syndicate's profits.
Among the names listed as a primary shareholder was Julian Ross, a powerful hedge fund manager based in Manhattan.
Julian Ross was also the biological brother of Arthur Vance, Veronica's corrupt criminal defense attorney.
"Julian Ross is using his hedge fund to short the stock of target companies before his syndicate operatives strike," Agent Jenkins explained.
"He's making hundreds of millions on both sides of the crime," Ethan realized with deep disgust as they sat in New York.
Ethan organized a covert meeting with the Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission at a private club in Washington D.C.
He presented the immutable ledger data recovered from the casino ship, linking Julian Ross directly to international wire fraud.
At 9:00 AM on Monday morning, as the opening bell rang on the New York Stock Exchange, federal marshals raided Ross's Wall Street office.
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Julian Ross was led out in handcuffs past hundreds of cheering traders, his multi-billion-dollar empire crumbling to dust on live television.
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