The Blacklist

Chapter 428 Tom is troubled by his parents' relationship
Tom immediately went to find Carrie and told her about the situation...

"Tom, don't worry, I know where Howard is!" Carrie said, "I arranged for Matt to protect Howard before, and found out that someone from Halcyon took him away, and we've already tracked him down and found his location..."

Hearing this, Tom calmed down. He knew that Kerry had made arrangements, so he felt relieved and asked, "Boss, what should we do now?"

Kerry threw a can of beer to him and said, "After Howard was taken away, Matt went into the apartment to investigate, but found that all the written materials inside were burned and the computer hard drive was destroyed. He was sure that the people in Halcyon didn't have time to do this... Tom, what do you think of this?"

Tom was stunned. After thinking for a moment, he said, "In this case, Howard could only have done these things himself. He should have been notified in advance that someone was coming to arrest him... But why didn't he run away first?"

Carrie sat on the sofa, drinking beer, and said, "I think there are two possibilities. One is that Howard thinks that the information is more important than his own safety and cannot fall into the hands of others. The other is that Howard doesn't want to run away at all! Or, both possibilities are correct."

Tom nodded. He had known Howard's paranoia for a long time and knew that this possibility was very likely true. But another question was: "Who informed him? Did he have a spy around Susan?"

"That's not surprising!" Carrie said, "After all, Howard is the founder of the company, so it's not difficult for him to find supporters within the company. Of course, the identity of this traitor should be close to the core layer, or even by Susan's side, otherwise he wouldn't know such an important thing."

Tom thought about it seriously. After analyzing it this way, there were not many candidates. Who could it be?
After Susan learned about the situation at the arrest scene, she concluded that Howard was notified in advance and had enough time to destroy the data. She also realized that there was a traitor around her!
Although she really wanted to catch the traitor immediately, she had to maintain the normal operation of the company on the one hand, and on the other hand, she had to find time to meet Howard to understand what he was trying to do and how many things he was hiding from her... Time was really tight and she felt a little overwhelmed.

Susan had always believed that Howard had mental problems. After catching him this time, she arranged for him to be sent to a private medical institution called Fairhaven for compulsory treatment...

When Susan rushed over to see him, Howard refused to communicate and resisted everything she said, which made her helpless and she had to return home in disappointment!
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On Wednesday afternoon, Carrie took Gina, Abby, and Jiva to the Lower East Side of Manhattan and checked out three buildings for rent. However, the conditions were not ideal, and the owners were unwilling to sell or the prices were too high, so none of them were suitable.

Abby, who was outspoken, had already guessed what Carrie was thinking, so she asked, "Boss, are you thinking of moving SLR to New York?"

"Yeah, I have this idea." Kerry nodded, "I've been in Washington for long enough, I want to change the environment, what do you think?" "Okay, okay!" Abby clapped her hands in agreement, "New York is so prosperous! There is everything here, it's much better than Washington!"

Ji Wa also strongly agreed. She has basically been in Washington for the past few years since she came to the United States. If she could move to the big city of New York, it would of course be the best thing!

Gina said, "It's just that the funding problem is hard to solve. This is not going to be easy!"

Abby thought for a moment and said, "Boss, I have an idea! I heard from Liz that the post office base was originally a government asset, and it was taken over by the FBI for SER to use. If we want to move to New York now, can we just find such a government asset and take it over?"

Kerry's eyes lit up. Wow! What Abby said is a good idea!
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On Thursday afternoon, Susan came out of the Fairhaven Medical Institution. This time, the conversation with Howard ended unpleasantly. On the way back to the company, she was sitting in the back seat of the car, stroking her forehead with a headache, not knowing what to do with Howard!
When she returned to the company and just entered the office, her assistant Carlson came in to report that the company's old client, James Burton, the business head of Cartai Insurance Company, came to visit and said there was something extremely important!
Carte Insurance Company provides various insurance services to the wealthy, including kidnapping insurance. Whenever an insured person is actually kidnapped, Halcyon Shield will accept James' commission and send someone to deliver the ransom to the kidnappers.

This time, the family of Gabor Lang, president of a software company, was kidnapped six hours ago in the Catskill Mountains of New York State. The bodyguard was killed, and Lang, his wife, nine-year-old son and driver were taken away. The problem is that the kidnapper is an old acquaintance - Diego Rocha, a former agent of the Brazilian Intelligence Agency. This guy is an expert in kidnapping and extortion, but he is notoriously unruly. Last time, after Susan sent someone to pay the ransom, all she got was the body of the kidnapped person.

Susan contacted Rocha, who asked for negotiations the next afternoon. She arranged for Tom and Nez to contact Rocha's representatives and told them that the maximum ransom authorized by Carte Insurance Company was 500 million US dollars; in addition, Rocha said that in order to show his sincerity, he would release Gabor's driver first when they met for negotiations.
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At this time, Kerry contacted the Federal Asset Management Bureau under the Treasury Department and inquired about the building assets in Manhattan... It turns out that there are quite a few buildings that are federal assets, but they are basically occupied and used by various federal departments, and there are basically no vacant ones!

Kerry selected two of the most suitable buildings from these buildings, but both of them were owned by someone else. One was the Eastern Dispatch Center of the Federal Department of Health and Human Services, and the other was the Public Building Services Office under the GSA (General Services Administration). This made him a little confused. These two were also important federal agencies. He couldn't just grab their territory, right? Besides, if he really tried to grab it, it seemed difficult to win!
At this time, he noticed the name of CSA, an independent federal agency. After checking, he found out that this agency was the real big boss!

GSA was established on June 1949, 6, integrating the National Archives and Records Administration, the Federal Engineering Administration, the Public Works Bureau, the Federal Supply Bureau, the Contract Settlement Office, the War Assets Administration and other agencies... It has various specialized offices, providing workspace for more than one million federal civil servants, overseeing the protection of national historic buildings, purchasing high-quality products and services for federal agencies, and managing federal assets of more than $1 billion.

(End of this chapter)