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Part 20 Dancing with the Devil
To move further, gentlemen, we need to go back a bit. When we split the businesses from the motorcycle club, I fired Todd. It was a pleasure getting rid of him, but I was nice and gave him a week to get his business straight. A couple of days later I received a call from Ann, the woman I put in as Todd's secretary and assistant. She told me some men in suits visited him that day and looked like they were government. I wasn't sure, but it sounded like he was talking with the FBI.
I figured it would take a bit before they could work anything out, and we planned our purge of all incriminating evidence. I informed John of the events and told him I would work on an exit plan if they needed it. Once Todd left, we began. I had Isabella take the information on each of the club members who had links to Santana and create new identities. I had contacts in the local sheriff's office that would give me heads up if warrants came down for any of their arrests.
Along with the companies, I inherited the parts of the businesses that allowed us to tidy up any messes that arose. So, one night when I decided Todd was a loose end we couldn't afford to have, he disappeared without a trace. The police and FBI didn't know what happened to him. I'm not saying we had something to do with it ourselves, but it benefitted us having him gone. It's nice to have friends, and that's as far as I'll go with the explanation.
That delayed things on the side of the FBI and gave us time to finish scrubbing our records and getting everything ready for the club. When the indictments came down and the warrants went out, the men listed on them had a choice; they could stay and face prosecution, or leave the county. We had places set up for them in various non-extradition countries, and they were all set for money, with bank accounts overseas.
Most of the men took the latter option and fled. That included John and all the senior staff. The FBI also indicted Roger, but he refused to leave and said he would fight it. The men took their families, and when the FBI showed up at their front doors, the houses were empty and their U.S. bank accounts drained. They picked Roger up, but he was out on bail within six hours.
That left the Assassins a shell of a motorcycle gang, with most of the members either leaving or splitting off into their own club. I spoke with John and continued the payments to the club, something he and the others could fall back on. It was a decision that would pay off years later. I periodically talked with him and the other members. They were doing fine, and their money went much further in the countries they moved into. However, everyone had new identities, so I had to ensure I was careful not to tip off the FBI and kept contact to a minimum.
The same day they issued the warrants, the Feds rolled into Santana. What they found confused them. They pulled all our computer files and records, but the only ones we had were from after the split with the club. Previously I had our IT department change our dead switch that would normally wipe the system and make it instead move our old records off site to our overseas data farm and lock it. The only link was from our computer vault at IBJPN, which the FBI didn't include in the Santana warrant. We scrubbed everything, ensuring nothing illegal remained.
Further complicating their investigation was the fact Santana's financials and accounts showed a zero balance. Try as they might, the FBI never turned up one cent that belonged to the company. I had Beth shift our money overseas in a dizzying array of shell companies built atop other shell companies. The FBI took me, Beth, Nicole, and Isabella for questioning, however, they couldn't link us to any illegal activity.
The FBI dropped Roger's case due to lack of evidence. His indictment dealt with his role in the club's sex trade and included kidnapping and illegal imprisonment. When the FBI raided the old training facility, what they found instead was our new rehab clinic. I repurposed the building, and we were cleaning up some escorts and brothel workers who became dependent on drugs and alcohol. It was fully licensed and staffed with medical professionals and counselors. We would keep the business open for our company's employees that needed the services it provided.
Because of our payments made to all the women and men that were involved with the club, no one talked. The information the FBI had was from almost a year ago, and all that showed were links to the men that were no longer in the country. After a few months and multiple trips in for questioning, they dropped the case. I had our IT department throw another switch, and all our data and money returned, but this time into new accounts. We were back in business.
Our firearms division became fully operational, and we rolled out our first prototype handguns and rifles. At first people were skeptical, but if you build a better mousetrap, they will buy it. After analyzing the marketplace, we noticed the other manufacturers concentrated on the home market. That was fine with us, as we were after bigger fish. We sought and received contracts for some large U.S. allies, and with the approval from the government, we started sending out shipments.
I didn't go for inexpensive like most of our competitors; I went for quality. I bought out the infrastructure from top to bottom, just as I did with the pain clinics and dispensaries. We owned everything from mining to smelting to shipping. We could sell our firearms at comparable prices to everyone else, but ours were fifty percent more dependable and operated in all environments. Our new business was on the map in a big way.