Legendary FBI Detective
Chapter 392: Big Fish, Luo An with Blacked-out Eyes

Hearing Mona's voice, Luo An immediately picked up his phone and walked out of the meeting room, asking as he walked:

"What's the situation?"

"I've been wondering how Heks, a guy who's been in and out of jail multiple times and has less than five hundred dollars in his bank account at the age of thirty-five, got the money to start a gun club."

Mona stepped back to make room, showing Luo An the information on the computer and explaining:

"Starting a gun club is no small matter; it requires a substantial amount of startup capital.

So, I checked Heks's financial situation and found that the first large sum of money he received came from a single-person corporate group."

Luo An bent over to look at the computer, where the single-person corporate group's details were displayed, revealing that the group consisted of over fifty limited companies, all set up overseas.

"Cayman Islands, Belize, Isle of Man..."

Luo An looked at the addresses where these companies were registered, his brows slightly raised:

"It seems these companies are for transferring funds and money laundering, able to clean large sums of money without a trace... There must be a big fish behind this."

"But I can't find out the real situation of those companies."

Mona, standing behind Luo An, scratched her head. The companies had too many interlocking stocks and dispersed investments, and many details were not disclosed to the public, making it impossible for her alone to determine who the real owners of these companies were.

"Let me teach you a method."

Luo An thought for a moment, then turned to Mona with a smile and said:

"Cross-reference the accounts of these companies with their physical storefronts, to see which region has the most storefronts owned by them, and who are the purchasers of those storefronts."

After listening to Luo An's suggestion, Mona's eyes lit up, she smacked Luo An's arm hard, and immediately started typing on the keyboard:

"OK, I'll start right away."

Mona's computer screen started flashing with complex pages. Luo An, standing behind her, pondered for a while, suddenly thought of something, turned around, and quickly walked into the meeting room, then returned to his team leader's office.

Time passed, and Mona's face suddenly broke into a smile as she raised her hand and called out loudly:

"Luo An! I..."

Bang!

Just as she began to speak, a sound of slamming on a table came from the team leader's office, startling Mona, who quickly stopped speaking and turned her head to check, then realised Luo An had walked out of the team leader's office holding a folder, his face expressionless.

Luo An preempted Mona's revelation, asking:

"Mona, what did you find?"

"Uh... among those fifty-some companies, one of them has a trust fund under its name, and that trust fund bought over a dozen buildings in a certain city in Massachusetts.

The chairperson of this trust fund, her name is Lonnie Sheffield.

And Lonnie Sheffield's husband is named Trevian Sheffield."

Mona pulled up the couple's personal information for investigation, leaving more screen space for the husband:

"FBI internal databases show that Trevian Sheffield has been prosecuted for many crimes, including trafficking flour and murder, but he was never convicted."

Additionally, the FBI internal database speculates that several bank robberies, drug trafficking gangs, and murder-for-hire in California are related to him; there is just no evidence, making him a bona fide underworld figure.

Luo An nodded and explained:

"Previously, we had been focusing on the cases handled by Taylor-Davis before his death, so we didn't discover any clues.

Just now I checked Taylor-Davis's work diary, and it showed that he was scheduled to deal with a major case with the Federal Department of Justice next month. The specifics of the case were not written in the diary.

I just called the Department of Justice, and they sent me the report of that case, which indicated it was related to Trevian Sheffield."

The reason Luo An had been thumping the table earlier was not because it had just occurred to him, but because the documents sent by the Department of Justice were entirely black at first glance.

Throughout the entire document, Luo An could only see the names of Trevian Sheffield, the victim Taylor-Davis, and Heks; the rest was indecipherable—more than a dozen pages of text had been redacted, with the redacted parts accounting for 98% of the content.

Luo An, who was blindsided by the blacked-out content, wore a look of speechlessness on his face.

However, considering that when the FBI faced queries from the media after a certain President was indicted, the documents they presented were also full of blackouts, shocking the media and the public... Luo An could only sigh that these federal law enforcement agencies really did follow a tradition of not caring about the impact or public opinion—as long as it worked.

"So, what you're saying is..."

Mona pondered for a few seconds, raised her head to look at Luo An and said:

"The Department of Justice has been secretly preparing a courtroom to put Trevian Sheffield in prison, with Taylor-Davis as one of the prosecutors and Heks as a juror or witness.

As a result, Trevian Sheffield somehow got wind of this information and then arranged for the murder of Taylor-Davis and Heks."

"Based on the information provided by the Department of Justice, they told me the trial has been postponed, which essentially confirms this point."

Luo An crossed his arms and nodded in agreement with Mona's deduction, continuing to say:

"I've already requested the full list of participants for that courtroom from the Department of Justice, including the judges, the entire jury, and witnesses, and they will send me the information soon.

We need to find out who was responsible for leaking this information. Trevian Sheffield has many enemies over the years, and once we nail him to the charges, he won't be able to spend the rest of his life outside of prison.

To avoid jail, Trevian Sheffield is likely to take action again; there may be more juror or witness deaths following."

The jury system is a distinctive feature of federal law, where in addition to the judge, there are about 12 jurors who sit alongside and listen to the evidence, witness testimonies, the defense and the prosecutor's presentations, ultimately making a legal judgment about the accused.

These twelve jurors are generally selected randomly and in criminal cases, their personal information is kept confidential to prevent the defendant or plaintiff from contacting them before or after the trial.

Many people praise the jury system, saying it ensures the fairness and democracy of judicial decisions while enhancing federal citizens' identification with and involvement in the judicial system.

However, the presence of the jury system has also led to a proliferation of "eloquent" defense attorneys.

Not only do they know the law inside out, but they can also appeal to the jury's emotions and reason, helping the accused get acquitted or have their sentences reduced.

After all, the jury is made up of people, and people can be influenced by personal biases and social values. This was depicted in a movie where a lawyer persuaded the jury with the politically correct value of "this is not freedom," winning the defense case.

As for the pros and cons of the jury system, Luo An offers no comment. At one o'clock in the afternoon, he pinned up the photos of the twelve jurors and six witnesses the Department of Justice gave him on the conference room wall.

After a quick scan, Luo An turned back to Mona, Reesi, and Michelle and asked:

"Among these eighteen survivors, is there anyone who has connections to Trevian Sheffield or his organization?

Is there anyone who has received a particularly large sum of money or whose recent spending has suddenly increased inexplicably?"

Reesi and Mona shook their heads in unison, and Michelle raised her hand, picking up one person's personal information, and said:

"I've found one, she must be the informant in the jury."

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