The Blacklist

Chapter 99: A case to collect taxes
On the day when SLR was established, Mossad female agent Nawabi found Cooper and said that she knew the SER team was a special department cooperating with Reddington, and she wanted to join.

Cooper certainly disagreed with this. Although Carrie and Mira who joined before were also from departments other than the FBI, they were still members of the US law enforcement agencies after all, and could be considered as secondments between different departments. However, Nawabi was a member of a foreign intelligence department. How could he be allowed to join SER?

Nawabi said that she held a US green card and could become a legal employee of a government department. Her joining would allow SER to learn more about Reddington. She then took out a thick book containing intelligence materials from her years of investigation into Reddington to prove that what she said was true.

After looking through the information, Cooper was tempted, but he still needed to consult his superiors before making a decision...
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Reddington knew about the SLR a few days in advance because he also received a new exemption document from Carrie, but it was still not irrevocable. The current restrictions were to pay taxes on time every month and act as an informant for the IRS, which made him feel a little ridiculous.

When he met Carrie, he smiled and said, "Richard, I have to say that the IRS is far more creative than the FBI. It deserves to be the most powerful government department in the United States!"

"Thank you for the compliment!" Carrie knew he was joking, but she didn't take it seriously, especially since it was indeed the fact.

"Hahaha!" Reddington laughed. "So, Richard, how do you plan to let me be your informant? Do you need a different list from the one from SER?"

"That's not necessary." Carrie said, "Just tell me the list you gave Elizabeth. I think there is a lot of room for cooperation between SER and SLR in the future... Of course, if there are any cases that the FBI is not interested in but can receive tax money or confiscate stolen money, you can also tell me!"

"Well, the FBI wants to catch criminals and the IRS wants to collect taxes, so there is no contradiction!" Reddington nodded in agreement, "But, in that case, the next name I'm going to give to Liz won't be of much use to you!"
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On the 13th, Washington police found the body of former billionaire Paul Wyatt with his heart dug out while clearing the homeless gathering area under the bridge.

Reddington asked Elizabeth what she thought about the news of Wyatt's death. She agreed with the police's statement that Wyatt's company went bankrupt due to fraud, and it was likely that a former client did so to vent his anger.

Reddington told her that it was James Covington, a doctor who was engaged in illegal organ transplant business, who removed Wyatt's heart and used it for illegal transplantation to people who were unwilling to wait for donations but were willing to pay a high price.

SER conducted a detailed investigation of Dr. Covington and discovered that this once excellent doctor had disappeared after an illegal transplant operation; what surprised them even more was that after the forensic doctor performed an autopsy on the body, he discovered that the removed heart was the one that Wyatt had received a transplant from before, but there was no record of the transplant in his medical records.

Donald and Elizabeth asked Wyatt's wife, and it turned out that Wyatt was a client of Dr. Covington. He "rented" a heart from him for $50 a year. Now that he couldn't pay the rent due to bankruptcy, the heart was taken back!

This is simply unbelievable. Even Reddington, who provided the blacklist, did not expect such a result! ——
Carrie was also told the name of Dr. Covington by Reddington, but he had known about this situation for a long time. He felt that although this doctor's actions were a bit weird and cruel, overall, he saved far more people than he harmed, and all the money he earned was spent on ordinary patients who could not afford organ transplants. If we only talk about character, he is much nobler than most people.

Therefore, if possible, he even wanted to save him, so of course he didn't want to get involved in this case! In addition, he noticed that Reddington was planning a large logistics business, knowing that it involved a lot of illegal things, and the parties involved "actually" never thought about paying taxes to the IRS, which involved his scope of work! So, he began to investigate Reddington's business.

In fact, it couldn't be called an investigation, because when he questioned Dembe, this future combat partner told him the whole story in detail.

Reddington is now trying to transform some black industries into legitimate businesses. For example, he wants to gradually transform the previous smuggling business into a formal logistics company. For this reason, he discussed with his three partners and prepared to win the operating contract of a port in Indonesia. However, in this process, the three partners have their own ideas, so it takes some effort to solve them...

Of course, Carrie knew what Demby meant by "solve", so he told him that he would not be responsible for the specific matters, but when dealing with unqualified partners, he would give him the right to dispose of their black industries and part of their illegal income, so that he could create some results for the newly established SLR.

Dembe was amused by his request and immediately agreed with a smile, because he believed that Reddington would definitely agree.

With Dembe's promise, Carrie was too lazy to care about the business process and just waited to accept the results.
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Later, SER found out where Wyatt's "heart rent" went, which was a charity called "The Light Fund". It also found out that the organization paid a part-time forensic pathologist named Gordon Albee 20 in consulting fees in one year.

Donald, Elizabeth and Lesler examined the body that Alby had handled and found that some of the internal organs were indeed missing.

Albi confessed that he provided organs through a middleman, but during the pursuit, the middleman died in a car accident. Fortunately, the identity information of a person who needed to rent a heart was found on him, Bernard Babbitt, a tycoon in the trafficking of arms and drugs. The FBI had been struggling to find evidence to accuse him.

Cooper asked Donald and Elizabeth to go upstairs to find Carrie and ask him what he could do about the tycoon. As soon as Carrie heard the man's identity, he became interested and went to find Babbitt in person. This was a source of tax revenue!

When Babbitt was found as fat as a pig, he was overeating in a high-end restaurant. No wonder his heart was failing and he needed a transplant!
Carrie took Gina and Corissa to Babbitt's table and sat down. She said with contempt, "Babbitt, you are like this now, and you still eat and drink so much. Aren't you afraid that you will die here before you can get a heart transplant?"

"FUCK! Who are you to dare to talk to me like that?" Babbitt was furious and cursed immediately. The two strong men at the table next to him immediately stood up and walked over here.

(End of this chapter)