Chapter 725: Chapter 363: The Old Fox Who Knew Difficulty and Retreated_2
David was now pushing for such legislation in Congress, so it was sufficient to make the other party back off without fully burning bridges, to avoid nurous troubles that might arise later.
“Hmph, David, I will rember this day!”
Over the years, Nancy had always presented a fierce, even aggressive persona to the public, but personas are just that, rely for show, and should not be mistaken for her true character.
Having served as the Speaker of the House for so many years, her political acun could definitely be described as top-notch.
At this point, she was about to retire, and political achievents had no significance for her anymore.
The reason she had approached David was just to see if she could win him over, making The Big Three Groups owe him a big favor.
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However, she had not expected David to know so insider information about the chip legislation, so after weighing her options, she ultimately decided to back off.
After all, David’s thods were extraordinary, and if she continued to press on, if he made a big issue on the chip legislation, her retirent might not be as peaceful as she hoped.
“Wait, Speaker Nancy…”
Just as she was about to leave and was reaching for the door, Nancy turned back.
“I want to know, how did you find out I was here?”
To avoid trouble, David had been keeping a low profile recently, not letting any news slip, so he was curious how she had found him.
Nancy didn’t seem inclined to answer, gave a disdainful look, and then pushed the door open to leave.
“It seems she decided to back off…”
After all, she had been a politician in Arica for decades and held such a vital position as the Speaker; seeing her back down, Sean finally breathed a sigh of relief.
“Oh right, who were those three people you ntioned?”
“Executives of chip companies like Intel, just so business dealings with her and her spouse.”
“I see…”
Sean thought it made sense why she reacted so differently upon hearing those three nas.
However, with Nancy about to step down and so of her vulnerabilities known to David, he wouldn’t have persisted in opposing David.
Almost retiring and enjoying life, who would dare to stake their life on the line!
David took out his phone, found Gavin’s number and called him; the phone was quickly answered, he asked, “What’s happening, has my whereabouts been leaked?”
The last assassination attempt had left him sowhat traumatized.
Now that Nancy knew his location, if it got out to the people in Freemasonry, and they sent explosives or assassins his way, wouldn’t that be dangerous?
So, this issue had to be dealt with imdiately.
“No, as per your instructions, I’ve been closely monitoring your whereabouts and security here, and haven’t noticed anything.”
“Alright, I’ll ask the CIA.”
David hung up the phone, dialed Elvis’s number, and repeated what he had said to Gavin.
“No leaks regarding your whereabouts have been detected on our part at CIA, what’s up?”
Elvis thought for a mont but couldn’t figure out what had gone wrong.
“Just now, Speaker of the House Nancy ca to find …”
David explained Nancy’s visit.
“I understand, I think… it’s likely that our director gave your information to Nancy.”
“Your director?”
“Yes, our CIA Intelligence Agency’s director, nad Sawyer Hould, has a close relationship with Nancy. If she could find you, it must have been through him!”
“What is your relationship with him?”
“Just a superior-subordinate relationship, nothing significant.”
“Is that so… I’ll be returning to Washington D.C. in a couple of days, provide with his whereabouts then!”
Since the director could leak his whereabouts to Nancy, naturally, David could no longer keep him around.
“Okay, I understand.”
At the CIA office, Elvis’s face turned visibly redder upon hearing this.
The last ti David asked him for a list of personnel placed by The Big Three Groups, he had actually considered adding the director’s na.
But this director wasn’t one of the people from The Big Three Groups, and after much dilemma, to avoid displeasing David, he held back.
But unexpectedly, Nancy directly approached David and even involved the CIA’s Intelligence Agency director.
In that case, it wasn’t his fault!
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Two days later in the evening.
Washington D.C., at the entrance of Arlington Mansion.
Nurous sports cars and luxury vehicles arrived at the entrance, one by one, the elites of Washington D.C. society stepped in with their female companions.
Inside the mansion’s grand hall, in an inconspicuous corner, David and his group had arrived early.
At this mont, they had either disguised themselves as bearded n or big n with sideburns; in short, each of them had completely “changed their appearance.”
“Hehe, the CIA’s disguise technology is really strong. I bet my mother wouldn’t recognize here!”
Manson looked at the self on his mobile screen and chuckled.
After returning from Texas, they had received information from Elvis stating that Sawyer would be attending tonight’s charity dinner, so they also ca.
To avoid attracting attention, Elvis specially had his disguise team work on David and his companions.
As they were talking, it seed that most of the guests had arrived.
At that mont, the dinner’s host stepped onto the stage and said, “Thank you all for attending Mr. Harrington’s charity dinner. Mr. Harrington will arrive a bit later due to a busy schedule and has asked to apologize to everyone on his behalf!”
“But no worries, the charity auction will proceed as planned.”
“Mr. Harrington will select fifty exquisite items from his collection to auction off, and the proceeds will be donated to the people of Georgia suffering from the floods!”
After the host finished speaking, thunderous applause erupted from the audience.
After a while, the applause faded.
A staff mber then brought a blue-and-white porcelain vase to the most prominent place in the center area.
“This is a Qing dynasty official kiln piece from Huaxia, and the starting bid is 500,000 US dollars, with each subsequent bid not to be less than 50,000 US dollars. Let’s begin the auction!”
The host introduced the vase’s age details to the distinguished guests below, and then started the auction.
“500,000!”
“600,000!”
“800,000!”
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As the host spoke, the elites at the event began bidding.
It didn’t take long.
The artifact was bid up to a high price of 2 million US dollars.
This made Manson, watching secretly, exclaim, “These damn rich people really do splash out…”
“Heh, securing this artifact not only allows one to show off in front of these elites; it also garners a good image of disaster relief donations in the dia, why wouldn’t they want to do it?”
“You guys think, if we arrested all the people here and interrogated them one by one, could we squeeze so ‘oil’ out of them?”
Jerry’s words made Manson and Larin’s expressions freeze.
Well, the thought wasn’t bad.
These people, to put it nicely, are elites of Washington D.C. society; to put it poorly, they are just a bunch of capitalists.
How could any capitalist be clean?
If really investigated for tax evasion, each one would be guilty!
“Let’s not think about these unnecessary things right now, we aren’t here for this.”
David was sowhat puzzled. According to the information from Elvis, his director was supposed to co, but why hadn’t he arrived yet?
“Sold, congratulations to Mr. Lebron!”
While they were talking, the host on the stage announced the completion of the transaction for the first item.
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