The Blacklist

Chapter 406: Carrie's Forceful Approach
On the afternoon of Friday, November 11, Cooper came to the post office to meet with Carrie and expressed a guess: the arrest of Reddington might have been orchestrated by some people in the political circle. They wanted to use this incident to hit former National Security Advisor Raven Wright, who is now running for senator, and even further implicate President David Palmer in an effort to undermine the prestige of the Democratic Party. Their purpose was sinister.

Cooper said: "According to the information I have obtained, Eastern District Federal Prosecutor Holt has applied to the Supreme Court for a special detention order for Reddington, which will be issued after the court opens on Monday. Then she will be able to transfer Reddington from the NYPD's temporary detention center to a detention location known only to her..."

"That means we only have this weekend!" Kerry said calmly, "Harold, you don't have to worry about this. Tell David not to interfere. I'll handle it!"
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Before, after knowing that Reddington was arrested, Carrie took most of the people off the plane at Andrews Air Force Base, and asked Elizabeth to take Demby and Nawabi back to New York on the original plane; after returning to the post office, Carrie sent a 12-person field team to New York to support Elizabeth and others.

After talking with Cooper, Carrie arranged for Deputy Director Jeffrey to take charge of the work of SER, with Aram, Julian and Brian's team cooperating; the SLR side was left behind by Corissa and Iris' team, and he also rushed to New York with Gina, Abby, Jiva and others.

That night, after Carrey led the team to New York, the first thing he did was to summon Michael Baldwin of the NYPD - it was this man who arrested Reddington on the street with two other patrolmen!
Officer Baldwin said that he received an anonymous tip-off call from a woman who said that a middle-aged white man was carrying a gun and acting suspiciously in the middle of 44th Street in Manhattan, so he and two colleagues went out to the scene. During the body search, they did find an unregistered 9mm pistol on the man, and a colleague named George recognized him as the most wanted criminal Reddington, so he arrested him...

Carrey was sure what he said was true, but made it clear: "Officer Baldwin, based on what you said about the scene, we can conclude that there is a problem with your arrest procedure!

"First, for the police, anonymous reports cannot be used as evidence in court, even if you have a recording of the phone call;
"Secondly, if the other party has shown his legal ID and has not committed any obvious illegal acts, you do not have sufficient reason to search him, even if your colleague believes that he is a wanted criminal;

"Third, New York State law implements the 'stand your ground principle' (shooting and killing someone in self-defense is not a crime). Citizens in the state have the right to carry guns for self-defense. Even if he does not carry a legal gun license at the time, as long as he does not actively show his weapon or threaten others, it does not constitute a crime, and the police have no right to arrest him for this reason!
"As for other aspects, your NYPD has many violations, but that is a matter between agencies! Now I am officially informing you that this matter involves national security. Because you are an important witness, we are now placing you in protective custody. Until this case is concluded, you will be kept in the administrative detention room of the CTU State Bureau and are not allowed to leave."

Baldwin was stunned. When he saw the detective coming forward to take away his ID and gun, he shouted hurriedly: "Sir, I want to see the lawyer of our police station..."

"No." Ji Wa, who was directing two agents to take the people away, said, "We are CTU. We have the right to prohibit you from seeing a lawyer before the case is fully investigated. Let's go!"

Soon, the CTU State Bureau received a call from a NYPD lawyer, requesting to meet with Baldwin, but was also rejected.

Then came a call from the Eastern District Prosecutor's Office. An assistant prosecutor demanded in an imperative tone that CTU hand over Officer Baldwin to them. Gina hung up the phone directly. She was too lazy to waste time talking to such a person!
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On Saturday morning, Attorney Holt and his assistant came to the CTU-NY State Bureau and directly asked to see the top person in charge. After seeing Kerry, he angrily asked him to release the person! Kerry looked at her coldly, took a folder from Gina next to him, threw it on the table in front of her, and said disdainfully: "What a hypocritical political fly! Look at all the good things you have done, and you dare to speak nonsense at the press conference, saying that you are upholding federal laws and regulations, you are kidding!"

The folder contained information about the cases that Holt had handled in the past few years since he took office, which Abby had looked up overnight. Dozens of suspicious points were marked out. There was also information about the inflows and outflows of funds in Holt's personal account. There were also dozens of unexplained incomes in these years. In particular, a few days ago, a bond sale income of up to $150 million was deposited into an offshore account in the Cayman Islands. It was obvious what it meant!
After seeing the contents of the document, Holt's face changed drastically and he screamed: "I am a federal prosecutor. You have no right to investigate my private financial situation..."

Carrie threw the IRS Special Audit Office certificate in front of her and said, "You are wrong. We have the right to do so! Not to mention you now, even if you become the governor of New York, I can still investigate you!
"I just can't understand. You have a lot of bad deeds and stains. Who gave you the courage to cause trouble for our CTU?
"Didn't the person who instigated you to do this tell you that Reddington is our informant?

"They are so stupid to choose someone like you to handle this!"

Holt's face turned pale. He clutched the folder tightly in his hand, stood up and said, "Deputy Director Carrey, I give up on this matter. I will go back and withdraw the charges against Reddington..."

"It's not that easy!" Carrie laughed, "Since you have the courage to come, you don't have to leave!"

Hearing what he said, Gina, who was standing next to him, came up with two members of the action team who had been prepared and handcuffed Holt and her assistant!
Holt was stunned. Her assistant continued to yell, "You have no right to do this. Holt is the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District. During her term, she enjoys criminal protection and is not subject to investigation or arrest by law enforcement agencies..."

"In theory, it is true!" Gina answered directly for Carrie, "But the $150 million your boss received came from an Eastern European bank controlled by Russia. We have evidence that the funds came from the Russian Federal Security Service! In other words, Prosecutor Hott is suspected of treason!"

At this time, Abby, who was in charge of liaison and communication, came in with a document and reported, "Boss, I just received a reply from the DOJ. The Federal Attorney General has signed an order to remove Holt from all his duties as 'prosecutor'! Here is a copy."

Holt and her assistant were completely paralyzed. This was a fatal blow!
(End of this chapter)