Chapter 10 - The Federal Handover
By noon, the United States Department of Justice officially invoked federal jurisdiction over the entire kidnapping and racketeering case.
Evelyn Vance was transferred from the county jail to a maximum-security federal holding facility under armed convoy escort.
Prosecutor Thomas Reed stood in the Department of Justice conference room in Washington, reviewing the encrypted drive seized from the safehouse.
"The financial ledgers prove that Sterling Global has been laundering billions through offshore accounts in the Cayman Islands," Miller explained.
"And Evelyn was just the logistics coordinator moving high-value targets across state lines," Thomas added with grim realization.
"We need to arrest CEO Victor Sterling before he destroys the remaining server banks in Manhattan," Agent Vance insisted.
The Attorney General signed off on the arrest warrants immediately, setting into motion a massive coordinated strike across Wall Street.
Special tactical teams boarded military transport helicopters in Virginia, flying straight toward the heart of New York City.
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The net was closing around the upper echelons of the syndicate, but desperate criminals always fought back with lethal force.
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