Chapter 912: Ceremony

"Welcome Alexander Song as one of us, and brother..."

In the mansion of a rich man in Chicago, seven or eight white men wearing cloaks and Zorro-style eye masks stood silently, enclosing Song Ya in the middle, and the person directly opposite, that is, Picoul, was in charge of presiding over the ceremony, "Please read Your oath..."

"Uh...cough, I, Alexander Song, swear to join our common foundation, with the virtues of friendship, mutual assistance, silence and good deeds..."

The gameplay of these white men feels weird. After Song Ya recites the oath, it feels particularly like the new scene of the Freemasonry in the movie War and Peace, with a religious atmosphere, an old hall, and candles burning above the head. The old-fashioned chandelier, the flickering and swaying of the figure under the candlelight, is weird and mysterious.

If the oath is carried out seriously, except for Picoul and the owner of this mansion, who is said to be the treasurer of the foundation in Chicago, he will not be able to communicate with other people in the future, even other investors of the Madoff Foundation such as David Geffen and Spielberg. Isn't this the way intelligence agencies play, one-way contact?

It makes sense from another perspective. It was rumored in Hollywood that David Geffen and Spielberg made a lot of money from the Madoff Fund, but when I asked about it, both of them politely refused, but later I passed Madoff himself. When Stanley Chase, who was in charge of Hollywood, was contacted, David Geffen and some high-level Hollywood figures were also present. They were obviously involved in the investment, but they never discussed details with each other. Except for Stanley Chase...

Picoul led the crowd to approach from all sides, and all of them put their right hands on their shoulders and backs, and read another incision. After the ceremony was over, they took turns to shake hands and nodded.

Stanley Chase is the guide, so Picower is also the guide, right? The higher-level one, the guide of the guide?

I don't know how much investment he got from Jim Clark and others when he went to Silicon Valley, and now Jim and the others are starting to keep secrets!

"APLUS, although we will give you a certain percentage of return after you get the investment, our rule is that you are not allowed to take the initiative to solicit investors. When someone learns your identity through some channels and finds you, you Only then can you judge for yourself whether you need to accept them, and if you are undecided, you can ask the treasurer, or call me directly..."

Picower sent several people participating in the ceremony out, and took off the cloak and mask together with the treasurer, "The most important thing in choosing an investor is to be strict with your mouth, just like you have been observed for a long time before you pass the review, we I like you, and we hope that the person you fancy will not talk nonsense. You know, we are just a collection of businessmen, not a real secret society or any organization, and there is no coercive force on people. We can only check as much as possible from the source , Your mistakes will also affect your investment in us."

"I understand, hoo..." Song Ya also took off the burden on her body, and couldn't help but let out a long breath.

"Is it boring? There are too many candles, let's go out too."

The treasurer is also an old white man, smiling kindly, "We met, APLUS, at the inauguration ceremony of Mr. Governor at the beginning of the year."

"Oh, I'm kind of impressed."

Actually no, but the other party is undoubtedly an old money, the mansion is full of antique furniture, books, oil paintings and sculptures. It seems that the family started out in a traditional industry, but now his generation focuses on low-risk financial investment and has successfully switched careers.

"Do I know those people just now?" Song Ya asked tentatively.

The main purpose of joining the Madoff Foundation is to expand high-end contacts. Today, it is useless to cover your face like this. They know themselves, but they don’t know them.

"If you encounter some small troubles, such as financing, or... In short, you can come to me. In Chicago, everyone is like this, helping each other." The treasurer smiled: "We will get to know each other slowly."

That's good, the three of them walked into the study room, Goodman, Hamlin, and the accountants brought by Picoul were all there, the signing was completed before the ceremony, and Song Ya invested 5,000 in the Madoff Fund at one time Ten thousand.

It’s still the same problem, if you don’t invest enough money, if you don’t act as a guide, you won’t be able to buy high-yield fund products. If you want higher yields, you have to slowly accumulate points to upgrade.

"Let's celebrate." The treasurer poured wine for everyone himself.

"Now APLUS is yours, right?" Goodman congratulated Picoul proudly after receiving Picoul's acquiescence: "Wow, congratulations to APLUS."

"Thanks."

Song Ya felt that Goodman had exactly the same joy as Little Benny when he found out that he was also a member of the Hell Bobtail. Is this considered to be recognized by the upper class in the US capital field? This is the private foundation of the chairman of Nasdaq, so it's no wonder that Goodman is as pleased as a kid from South City seeing his idol being accepted by GD.

The first African-American investor in history, wow, he took a big sip of champagne with pride.

But he doesn't plan to do the so-called attracting people seriously, maybe because of the movie clip about Jordan Belfort revealed at Jim Clark's house before?

The image of Jordan Belfort calling and tricking others into buying junk stocks has always been in my heart, which made me unable to bring up my emotions on such an occasion that is of great significance to me today.

When he went to the guest room for an excuse to rest, he even doubted whether this foundation might be a financial scam like Mira’s father, but thinking about it, it was impossible. Madoff is the chairman of Nasnac, a financial tycoon, and Picower’s wealth is also Bottomless, did Jim Clark worry that he would launch a raid on the control of Netscape, which has a market value of more than 10 billion?

David Geffen, Spielberg, and Jim Clark are all top-level smart people, and they didn’t accept them when they first came to their door. online...

He couldn't think of any flaws. Picower spent 54 million on himself to buy shares in Netscape alone, and at least hundreds of millions to buy shares that would make Jim Clark nervous, although he may not be alone. .

No problem, in fact, the foundation’s investment institutions can be found through public channels. There are many major multinational banks in Omega, as well as Jewish pension annuities. Madoff would have to be crazy to lie to his Jewish compatriots for pension funds.

Wait, what are you doubting? ! He is the chairman of Nasdaq!

"Uh, Jordan Belfort, do you understand, Mr. Picower?" Out of caution, he decided to ask and find other reasons for the apocalypse.

"That kind of person?" Picower frowned, "We don't welcome that kind of Wall Street scum to join, and you don't want to have any intersection with him."

He is an upright old-fashioned tycoon, "I know he has a bad reputation. I mean, has he committed any illegal acts recently?" Song Ya asked again.

"He's got a lot of lawsuits, I don't know where to start." Picower replied: "Selling junk stocks to ordinary people who don't know anything, a lot of people lost their money because of it, and Wall Street's reputation is ruined by such people. "

"I know I know."

Litigation? That is to say, even though I revealed the footage of Jordan Belfort's trial at the congressional hearing, that is not necessarily his Waterloo?

Song Ya recalled in her mind that there was too little information and there were not enough samples for analysis.

Indeed, whoever is rich is not accused, isn't he running with a disease right now?

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