According to Chinese thinking, the state government naturally has to cooperate with the federal investigation and will not fight against the "central", but it is different in the United States. In addition to state, the meaning of state also means "state". In fact, the United States of America is fifty "state" consortiums with high autonomy.

Therefore, there are often cases in film and television dramas where state law enforcement agencies do not miss the FBI. There is no superior-level relationship between them, and it is even clear that the state police’s salary is paid by the state government, and the federal police are paid by the federal government. The state police only need to fulfill their obligations to the state government.

Better states may actively cooperate, but tough areas like Texas often have groups who want to make independence. Whether they are worthy or not depends mainly on their mood, unless there is a mandatory order from the top. Now, California's procuratorate has received the order from the governor, not to cooperate, but to supervise the f.

Mayer knew the complex relationship. It only happened when the parties were very important and had close relationships with the governor. According to the law, he had no way to obstruct the state government's law enforcement, because the incident happened on California land, and the other party insisted on intervening, and there was nothing he could do about it.

Finally, they investigated the case together.

There are six or seven people sitting or standing opposite An Feng, and the atmosphere is much more lively. The two F-prompt agents have very bad looks. You will definitely be unhappy when you are attentive when you are involved in things. But they have no choice but to do so. The other party is not selling face now and is determined to participate in this matter.

An Feng's lawyer representative said: "I will make any legal statement on behalf of the parties."

An Feng nodded: "I agree."

F-bud agents were helpless and angry on their faces. With the supervision and cooperation of multiple parties, they sorted out the case little by little, evidence, witnesses, or evidence, and even lawyers had to investigate whether the operation was discussed and approved by SAC (Advisory Committee).

Mayer objected: "This is not a big deal!"

Before the lawyer could speak, the representative of the state Department of Justice said: "Based on the nature of the matter, the influence of the parties in the local area, the impact on the government and the economy, etc. are important standards. Before the FBI orders the arrest of the parties, there is a committee resolution."

The lawyer continued: "I will reserve the right to prosecute the parties!"

Mayer doesn't want to argue with these bastards anymore. It's obvious that the California government is biased towards An Feng. Is it important or not?

"I object to a serious imbalance in the review environment!" said another agent. "The local state government has seriously affected the judgment of the nature of the matter!"

The governor's secretary said: "The incident happened in California. According to law, California law enforcement agencies must also participate in this matter, and the governor will hold a meeting to resolve the matter as soon as possible to let the matter be heard in California. Before the provisions of the statute are issued, personnel cannot leave California!"

Mayer shook his head. Now he couldn't do anything to leave California and go to Washington to seek shelter.

The lawyer ignored his feelings and continued: "When you call it "evidence" some kind of 'an verbal inference without practical effects' you have issued, my client is deeply suspicious and asks you to issue evidence that is practical and consistent with the provisions of the law."

"We have sufficient evidence!" Mayer said.

The Ministry of Justice and the lawyer looked at him: "Please show it!"

Meyer was disturbed by them and had no choice but to issue evidence. They watched casually. The lawyer carefully remembered the key points, and then everyone continued to dig out every step of the interrogation, including An Feng's assertion of the other party's "racial discrimination".

"It's absolutely nothing!" Mayer said firmly, this big hat couldn't fall on his head.

The lawyer said: "When you were interrogating me, you mentioned the words 'Chinese spy', and there was contempt for race in the context. I think it could constitute a potential racist hint. I hope Mr. Mayer can restrain it."

Mayer gritted his teeth. He was a lawyer and would hate him for the next life!

...

Matthew and Joanna get information in Los Angeles.

According to the evidence collected by the lawyer, the biggest threat to An Feng now is the stained witness. The witness's verbal evidence shows that An Feng participated in a transaction by the Russian Federal Security Agency, threatening the national security of the United States. The rest are some surveillance and inference, and are ranked second.

Matthew heard this and asked, "Have you seen the witness?"

Hardy Locke shook his head: "The witness is currently under protection, which is beneficial to us. He is currently unwilling to appear in court and face a jury, so to a certain extent, his oral statements cannot be used as evidence to effectively accuse Mr. An. I think this is the reason why F forced to insist on interrogation."

Matthew said: "As long as he doesn't appear in court, there is still room for maneuver."

Hardy nodded: "Yes, so you need to find a way here. In addition, most of the surveillance evidence is inference. If you really want to appeal this point, as long as you force illegal surveillance to be slightly promoted, the jury will reject it and there is no way to start a public prosecution to the court."

After Matthew figured it out, he speculated: "The monitoring may be a cooperation between multiple institutions, F-force or NSA, and the one who can issue this order must be the top leaders. As for the Republican Party, we are party supporters, and the probability of it happening is not high. It should be from the Democratic Party."

"What's the point now?" Joanna asked.

Matthew thought for a while and said, "I'll help him get rid of the trouble of surveillance evidence. It's mainly inferred, but can I need the help of some influential politicians. If you have time, arrange someone to find the witness and find a way to change his words or stop him."

Joanna said: "I know that the taint witnesses are in the team heading to Russia together."

"You can start here." Matthew nodded, then looked at Joanna, "Tell me the truth, did he do this?"

"I believe he won't do that." Joanna answered yes.

Matthew said: "That's what you said."

...

They acted separately, Matthew went to find senior officials, and Joanna was responsible for finding the verdict.

She took the bodyguard to the next stop: Phoenix City.

The headquarters of ASUS is in Phoenix, Arizona. It will take more than an hour to fly from Los Angeles. This time Matthew lent his private plane to Joanna and arrived in Phoenix faster. Guri sent a car to pick her up and returned to ASUSUS headquarters.

After she sat down, the female assistant brought a cup of sugar-filled black tea.

Joanna said directly: "According to the lawyer, there is a problem with the group of people who went to Russia. You have to find the people and let him give up the charges."

"They are on vacation. After I came back, I contacted Mars and Harry as quickly as possible. Based on their impression and recent actions, their suspicion was very small, because they were the most proactive when something happened to me. I cannot guarantee the other three people and cannot contact them at the moment." Guri said.

"I don't care. Now you are looking for or tying it, in short, shut up the person who accused!" Joanna gave an order, "The witness is in the hesitation between appearing in court and not appearing in court. This period is very precious. If the witness decides to appear in court, it will cause a lot of trouble!"

Guri took out his cell phone: "I will send out a trustworthy force to catch the leaker."

Guli is very annoyed now. An Feng saved his life from FSB. Although he only said thank you a few times because he was not good at expressing feelings, he did not mean that he did not know how to be grateful. Now he wanted to catch the leaked guy and smash the corpses and then roast them with fire.

Guli sorted the five people by possibility, and Mars and Harry had low chances. They had been together for many days. Although their countries were different, Guli, who was good at observing, trusted them. Similarly, they also trusted Guli. From the moment he had an accident, he could tell.

The remaining three people, the two Russians who were arrested, have a low chance of biting their bosses again - but it is not ruled out that they cannot resist the temptation of money; the remaining one is Dick, who has cooperated with him and often acted together, but they don’t know much in private.

However, the low probability does not mean that it is impossible. He needs to focus on review.

...

Due to the intervention of multiple parties, the review did not make any effective progress. After delaying, he would get off work. With the guarantee of the lawyer, An Feng could get limited freedom, but he had to move in designated places, live in designated hotels, monitor and monitor the surrounding agents everywhere.

While An Feng and Joanna were having dinner, agents were watching around him.

An Feng said some comfort that made her not worry. After listening to her description of the current progress, she felt that it was very deep. The evidence of monitoring has been inferred since last year, which means that this matter has been planned for a long time. At that time, Anderson had not yet come to power.

On the other hand, Meyer is also acting.

He was not very willing to take over An Feng's case because he had learned about this person, his background was very complicated and his relationship network was huge, but he could not disobey the orders from the headquarters. In addition to the large amount of evidence provided by some informants, Meyer had no choice but to take over the case a month ago.

In fact, since the Republican government in California intervened, he knew that this was not just a case. With the professional sense he developed over the years, there might be serious disputes of interest here. Therefore, he worked hard on the surface, but he has always followed the procedures.

He can't afford to offend both sides, so he can only pretend.

After the pressure from the state government, although he was angry by the collusion between officials and businessmen, after thinking about it, this happened to be an opportunity to throw away the hot potato.

Then he will report the matter to the headquarters and let the director deal with it.

F-force director Kerry, who is a member of the Democratic Party, has a very average attitude towards President Anderson. Anyway, he voted for the Democratic candidate during the election. He doesn't want to provoke opponents, but more than a month ago, someone invested in one of Anderson's supporters.

Anderson's supporters are not small. Kerry feels that the political war has burned from both parties and houses to the supporters behind the scenes. Since the new president came to power, the dispute in Congress has been very serious and has become increasingly fierce. He wanted to protect himself and not wade into the muddy waters, but someone asked him to do it.

The Democratic leader of the House of Representatives and the Speaker made it clear that things are important.

Kerry knew that he was going to offend people this time, but he had no choice. The one who contributed money was a large group that supported the party. Some Democrats were related to him. He was also pulled up during the O'Hare period, and he still had to repay kindness, so he was responsible for the sarcastic performance.

...

Phoenix City.

There were only four people who actually came back, and Dick couldn't contact him for the time being.

Guli apologized to them first and asked them to describe their trip after returning from Russia alone.

Everyone has a very reasonable explanation for their activities, and when it was Harry's turn, he told something that was almost ignored: "I once talked to me online and asked me to provide clues to Russian operations. I refused on the grounds of company confidentiality, but I found some clues."

Guri looked at Harry: "What about the details? Why do you just say it now?"

Harry hesitated and confessed a few seconds later: "I'm very short of money recently. I'm tired of working days and want to find a woman to take a vacation and rest. I have also told other colleagues about these ideas. Perhaps it's because of this weakness that someone came to me online and said that I could give me a lot of money, as long as I'm willing to provide evidence and be a tainted witness, I can even give me a new identity life."

"What happened later?" Guli asked.

"I didn't refuse them immediately, but asked for time to consider it." Harry said ashamedly, "because that money was enough for me to live easily for several years. I was confused at the time and almost wanted to do it, but I thought that the company had helped me so much that I could not betray everyone's trust."

Guri patted his shoulder: "You have not let everyone down."

Harry smiled awkwardly and said, "I used some means to investigate the other party afterwards and get his identity, which we know."

"Who is it?" Guli asked.

"It has to be traced back to the task arranged by the big boss. We investigated a newspaper that secretly engaged in commercial espionage and destroyed it. The person who contacted me, the boss of the newspaper, was finally charged, but was acquitted because of insufficient evidence."

Guli remembered that last year someone secretly photographed An Feng and his friend, and the instigator was the newspaper owner.

But he disappeared afterwards... It is also very likely that he had changed his identity, and a series of monitoring behaviors against An Feng began since then. Although it is not clear how it is related to the F-force, it is not difficult to imagine that business competitors and political enemies can report it.

Harry said: "I thought the matter was not serious and the boss would have a solution. In addition, my conversation with the other party was a bit sensitive, so I didn't say it."

Guli can understand: "It's not too late for you to say it now."

...

That afternoon.

The stalemate review suddenly came, and there were orders from the FBI headquarters and documents signed by the director, requiring the continued separate interrogation of the suspects, and the right to refuse unreasonable requests from lawyers and local procuratorates. They were sorting out testimony and preparing to file a lawsuit in the court.

The governor, under pressure, was also protested and dissatisfied by local Democratic lawmakers, believing that he abused his power and interfered with judicial justice. He needed to stop this behavior immediately and let the FBI concentrate on dealing with this matter and not be able to interfere with it.
Chapter completed!