American Scandal King

Chapter 168 Project Approved
Catherine is gone.

He walked with a staggering step, and his police uniform was full of wrinkles.

Ian continued with his work as if nothing had happened.

Catherine is different from all the other girls. This woman has her own temper and is arrogant, but also useful.

So in Ian's view, the only meaning of fucking her is, as Gaskell said, to control her and serve him.

This made all this seem to Ian more like completing a task assigned by Gaskell.

Although it was indeed refreshing.

After sending the message to James Pelley, James Pelley called soon.

His tone was heavy. "I know what happened. I didn't expect Ivo to do this. Ian, I know this may be a bit excessive, but Ivo is a gold medal reporter for CBS. He brings us a lot of good news every year. I don't want to ruin him like this... I will teach him a lesson."

Ian didn't say anything, just listened quietly.

James Pelley said helplessly, "He's a free man. There's no need to force him to go to another company. That's your loss too. You can't act on impulse in business. Sometimes the money we earn is the money we endure."

Ian chuckled. "James, I consider you a friend. For the sake of friendship, I can accept your suggestion and forgive him. I mean, I won't do anything. But he has to show some appreciation, don't you agree?"

"Of course." James Perry said immediately, "I will make him apologize to you."

Ian said quickly, "I don't need an apology. It's meaningless to me. Let me put it this way. I'll arrange some things for him to do later, and he must do them well for me. But if he doesn't do well enough..."

James Pelley laughed and said, "Then he is seeking his own death."

"Very good. The person in charge of negotiating the Oscar broadcasting rights at the Academy Awards is called Danny Charlin. He likes men. Let Ivo Clemens take care of this guy, but remember, this is not helping me, it's helping you. I have other work for him to do later."

"Thanks so much, Ian."

"You're welcome."

After ending the call, Ian sat in his seat, looking deep in thought.

………………

The MS13 case just passed.

Soon after, good news came.

The state legislature formally approved the prison contract, but the California No. 1 renovation project is still under discussion.

According to the contract, California will provide the newly built Davis prison with $2 per year for each inmate, which is considered cheap, as some prisons charge $2.3 per person.

At the same time, they must ensure that the occupancy rate does not fall below 90%, otherwise additional fees will be paid, which is also common in prison contracting in the United States. In 2012, Arizona failed to achieve the promised 97% occupancy rate, resulting in an additional payment of $300 million to the contractor.

If a hotel owner could have such a stable customer base, he would be so happy that his face would be full of smiles!
Ian was being polite, only asking for a 90% occupancy rate, mainly because Ian's foundation in California was not strong enough and he needed to make more concessions.

Three thousand criminals means Ian can earn fifty to sixty million dollars a year.

But this is just a small part of the profit. The real big part is that these criminals are free labor and can bring a lot of extra profits to the contractor.

In addition, in order to generate revenue from criminals, prison authorities will not only exploit the criminals themselves, but also their families.

If you want to listen to music, watch movies, or buy some small things in prison, you need to pay extra, and the price is much higher than outside. In addition, there are VIP rooms. Rich people can enjoy single rooms, separate bathrooms, etc. as long as they are willing to spend money.

It can be said that a prison with 3,000 people can easily make a net profit of 50 million yuan a year after deducting operating costs, and the key is that the customer base is stable and there are no complaints.

If he could open dozens of them and earn over a billion a year, it wouldn't be a problem. And for Ian, there was an added benefit: he would have complete control over the Crips Gang from the ground up.

Therefore, prison is also a place with huge hidden benefits. After all, those who can enter here are not ordinary people.

Although the money for building the prison came from California Project One, this did not prevent Ian from starting it first. Moreover, Jody Harry, the head of the Meihe Company, gave him an idea. There was no need to rebuild it. It would be better to just buy a dilapidated building and renovate it, which would be cheaper.

Anyway, prisons are mainly made up of iron fences, walls, barbed wire, and a large number of guards. There is nothing technical about them.

Those so-called high-tech anti-theft systems are not used in prisons. At most, they can just add a camera - after all, not everyone is Stallone.

It doesn't matter much if one or two run away occasionally - isn't it just a matter of losing a few bucks?

Ian thought it made sense, so he looked around and actually found a run-down hotel in the suburbs.

This hotel is about to go bankrupt due to poor management. Interestingly, their creditor is Linuo Bank.

So Ian bought the hotel directly without spending any money, transferred the 30 million debt to himself, and then let Meihe start work.

Because it is the boss's own project, and renovating the prison is simpler than rebuilding it from scratch, Meihe Construction Company is also working hard to speed up the project. According to Jody Harry, it can be completed in about 70 days.

He also wanted to prove to Ian that American workers were no worse than Chinese workers!

In response, Ian said: I believe American workers are not bad, but I believe more in value for money!
The plan to use Chinese workers for the California Project One will not change, and if possible, we will continue to work on other infrastructure projects. I only promised to make Chinese people eventually leave Meihe Company's projects, but I did not promise not to buy other construction companies or take on other projects.

As for the remaining 20%, it is even simpler.

What do the workers in the prison eat?
Jody Harry was confused. It seems that you don't even want to leave a single job for society?

It is a foolish luxury for workers to expect to arouse their boss's conscience through their own efforts.

Jody Harry himself was a boss, but unfortunately he didn't understand this truth.

But it doesn’t matter whether you like it or not, what matters is doing it.

The contact in China has been completed, and the people there are very interested in the work here.

After all, a yearly income of 20 yuan is still very attractive to Chinese workers. Ian still remembers a small-time thug he knew in his past life. He hadn't spoken to him in a long time, but one day he suddenly contacted him and said he had made yuan. It was nothing special, he just wanted to show off... We weren't close, so what was he showing off to me?
Upon further inquiry, it turned out that they were going abroad to work as laborers.

That was in 06.

Therefore, an annual income of 02 in was indeed worthy of many people's enthusiasm, but even at this price, it was less than half of that of local American workers, and the key was that the efficiency was different.

Not long after, with Ian's increased financial efforts, the California State Assembly finally preliminarily approved the renovation of California Highway 1, but did not approve Ian's request to build a hospital, saying that the cost was too high and there was not enough money.

Why do we need public hospitals when we have private hospitals?

This made Ian very sad.

For this reason, Iseult Cherry told him: It doesn't matter. Although the hospital cannot be built, we can increase the cost of the highway, provided that you pay some more money.

Ian graciously agreed.

The original plan was to spend $1 billion to complete the renovation of California Highway 1 and the construction of hospitals and prisons. However, due to insufficient fiscal spending in California, the hospital project was cut and the price was raised to $1.2 billion to complete the renovation of California Highway 1 and the construction of prisons.

This is fun!

Ian's conclusion on this matter is: I am still naive and too kind-hearted.

(End of this chapter)