The Blacklist

Chapter 435: Rats and Crypto Bankers
During the remaining half month of February, although Carrie stayed in the post office, his heart had already gone to Manhattan - the report he sent to GSA through the CTU headquarters in the name of SLR had been approved, and he was currently clearing out the remaining tenants. It was expected that the decoration phase could begin next month, and the necessary funds had been prepared (half of which would be provided by CTU and half by IRS).

On the SER side, when they heard that SLR was going to move to Manhattan, they were not happy about it and collectively submitted a report, demanding that SER also move. Who wouldn't want to move from the deserted political city of Washington to the bustling New York?

After discussing with Donald, it was finally decided that SER would move with SLR, and the vacant post office would be given to CTU headquarters, so that they would not have to squeeze in with DOJ! This way, everyone was happy.
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March 3th was Carrie’s 27th birthday. He didn’t go out this time but celebrated it directly in the post office. Cooper and Donald also came to the party and everyone was very happy.

In just over a month, the two departments would move away from the place where they had stayed for six years. Everyone felt a little reluctant, except Donald, who smiled and said, "Why are you feeling sad? When you leave, I can come back. What a great thing!" This made everyone laugh.
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On Sunday, May 5, Carey brought SLR's administrative and service staff to Manhattan to inspect the newly renovated building, which he named "Tanglou" (because it is adjacent to Chinatown to the south, which is what he dreams of doing).

Compared to the post office, the tenement building is four stories higher, but the total building area is about the same. The decoration and layout style is similar, but more modern. It still has functional areas such as the command center, technical center, office area, leisure area, dormitory area, restaurant, water bar, gym, technical room, equipment room, and interrogation room. Now Abby is leading the technical staff to carry out the final debugging of the server and terminal equipment, and it will be put into use soon.

Overall, Kerry is very satisfied with the decoration and now just needs to wait for a few more days of ventilation and drying before moving in.

Carrie and Gina's residence has also been arranged. It is located on West Houston Street not far northwest of the tenement building and not far from New York University. It is a high-end apartment with a good environment and is nominally rented.

Because prices in Manhattan are higher, although the salaries of employees in the two departments have not increased, their benefits such as housing subsidies and transportation subsidies have increased significantly. The service personnel who came here earlier are helping them deal with living issues such as renting a house.

As a conscientious boss, Kerry pays attention to the working comfort of his subordinates. He is not like those black-hearted bosses in his previous life who only know how to exploit his subordinates and not solve their problems. It is because of his management style that all members of SLR and SER can unite closely around him and work without compromise!
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On Monday, Kerry returned to the post office to work. At this time, the staff of the SLR and SER departments had already started to pack their things. As for furniture, equipment, files, etc., they basically would not take them away. In addition to personal belongings, they would take away the necessary weapons and equipment.

In addition, a small number of personnel will stay and join the General Administration for various reasons. After SLR and SER arrive in Manhattan, Kerry will also directly supervise the state bureaus of 19 states in the Eastern District, including New York. He will draw some capable personnel from each state bureau to supplement them according to actual needs.
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Just when everyone in the post office was focusing on moving, Reddington, who had not been seen for a long time, suddenly appeared and claimed that there was a very important new blacklist target to be handed over to SER, which made everyone very angry!

However, after hearing the basic facts of the case, Elizabeth decided to take the case and invited Carrie down from upstairs.

In the command hall, Elizabeth introduced: "Reddington said that this is a very threatening conspiracy involving senior government officials. However, in order to find out, we must first catch a man nicknamed 'Crypto Banker' so that we can know when to launch the attack. According to Reddington, this person is good at using Bitcoin to launder money..."

Alam then introduced the situation of Bitcoin to everyone. "Currently, a lot of criminal income is settled online through Bitcoin to avoid supervision. According to the FBI's estimate, half of the Bitcoin transactions on the Internet are illegal, up to more than 3600 million cases per year, with a transaction amount of 720 billion US dollars..."

Elizabeth continued: "Reddington said that most of the underground Bitcoin transactions in the District of Columbia and several nearby states are laundered through this 'crypto banker'. At present, we only know that he is now in Washington. "Aram, contact the FBI's virtual currency investigation team to find local Bitcoin traders in the District of Columbia, hoping to find the 'crypto banker' through them."

After the detectives got busy, Elizabeth said to Carrie, "Lee, do you think this case has 'money'?"

"Of course there is!" Carrie said, "There are a lot of Bitcoin transactions in Washington and surrounding areas. This 'crypto banker' doesn't even pay taxes, so he must be making a fortune. If we catch him, we can probably cover at least two months of SLR's mission!"

Elizabeth smiled when he said that. This was very consistent with Carrie's personality, so she asked, "Do you want to participate in the investigation of the case?"

"You guys check it out first!" Carrie said, "I can get involved when the time comes."
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Alam found a hacker and discovered that he was using the remote control Trojan program code-named "Mouse" that was leaked from the NSA to control the target's server and extort Bitcoin ransom.

The agents believed that finding this "rat" that had escaped the net would lead to finding the "crypto banker."

Subsequently, the agents searched and investigated Bitcoin transactions on the Internet and soon discovered a recent abnormal information: Matt Pearson, the owner of Pearson Medical, a pacemaker manufacturer, had just liquidated millions of assets under his name and purchased a large amount of Bitcoin, and was suspected of being blackmailed.

Elizabeth, Nawabi and Dembe found Pearson to find out the situation. They learned that his daughter Jamie was born with irregular heartbeat. He created this company and manufactured pacemakers just to enable his daughter to live a normal life.

However, not long ago, the "rat" somehow hacked into the main server of Pearson's company and was able to remotely control Jamie's pacemaker. He used this to threaten and blackmail Pearson into paying three million dollars worth of bitcoins and warned him not to call the police.

They took great pains to convince Pearson to agree to SER's intervention in order to catch this "rat".

In order to protect Jie Mi from being hurt, Alanmu hid in Pearson's trunk and sneaked into his house...

(End of this chapter)