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Simon glanced at the nameplate on Paul Aikman's chest, and said with obvious sarcasm in his tone, "Prank, Paul, do you often have such pranks here?"

"No, no, of course not," Paul Eckerman shook his head quickly, and said, "Mr. Westeros, can you give us some time? We will definitely give you a satisfactory answer. I hope, I hope you can stop Disclose this matter."

Simon didn't answer, and the elevator came downstairs quickly.

Stepping out of the elevator, Simon finally calmed down a bit when he remembered the group of reporters guarding outside the hotel.

Glancing at the people around him who came down with him, Simon gave Janet a worried look, and said softly, "Honey, tidy up the things you need to take away. Let's go to 68th Street."

Janet took a serious look at Simon before she nodded and re-entered the elevator.

Seeing that Simon's expression softened, Paul Aikman knew that he would definitely not return to the guest room, and said again: "Mr. Westeros, if you want to leave, I'll ask someone to arrange a car."

"No need," Simon shook his head, and said to Neil Bennett, "Neil, take them to check our car as well."

Neil Bennett responded, and walked out with several staff members of the security company.

After saying this, Simon turned to the Leibolds and said, "I'm really sorry, two, I lost my composure just now."

James Raybould shook his head slightly and said, "It's okay, Simon."

For so many years in the industry, James Raybould has seen too many similar scenes.Compared with those clients who were furious and even threatened to kill after discovering that they had been bugged, Simon, who was young and energetic, could calm down so quickly, which already made him admire.

Janet quickly came down from upstairs. There were two suitcases when the two moved in. After the woman went downstairs again, she just handed over a much lighter suitcase to Ken Dixon and waited for Neil Ban Nit confirmed that the car had been inspected, and the group walked out.

Seeing Simon walking out of the hotel, the group of reporters who had been waiting for several hours suddenly boiled up and frantically flocked to his side. The dense shutter sound was accompanied by loud inquiries that were almost completely inaudible.

"Simon, is the news in the newspaper true?"

"Simon, why are you buying a $11 billion tech stock?"

"Simon, will you continue to be a director in the future?"

"Simon, technology stocks rose sharply after the market opened today. What do you think of this?"

"Simon..."

Listening to the noise around him, Simon held Janet in his arms without saying a word, and boarded a black Range Rover with difficulty under the protection of two bodyguards and hotel security.The Rayboulds and the anti-eavesdropping team of the security company also followed by car.

The reporters saw Simon's car leave and rushed to their vehicles.

The distance from the Plaza Hotel to 68th Street on the Upper East Side was less than 1 kilometer. The Land Rover stopped in front of a light gray building very quickly. Simon and Janet quickly got out of the car, followed by the Rayboulds and others. Enter the apartment building together.

Simon and Janet successfully bought the penthouse apartment in this building at the beginning of the month.

The original owner of the apartment was a major shareholder of a confectionary and food company, and the other party had previously sold the property to raise funds for the struggling food company.After the stock market crash broke out, the company's operating conditions worsened.

Since the homeowner did not accept installments and requested a one-time full payment, the two parties finally negotiated a transaction price of US$1100 million.

However, before the transaction was completed, the homeowner removed all the expensive furniture, carpets, and artworks that were originally intended to be included in the apartment. This is also one of the conditions for the price to be able to negotiate $1100 million. Simon doesn't like it The house in its original style, plans to renovate.

just now.

Taking James Raybould and others into this duplex apartment, looking at the empty living room, Simon suddenly thought of the Montana villa that Janet had rented for him.

Although the house was empty, Simon asked the security company's anti-tapping team to conduct an inspection and confirmed that there was nothing wrong with it. Janet left to purchase some temporary furniture, and Simon, the Rayboulds and others came to the rooftop on the top floor of the apartment.

This place was originally a roof garden of about [-] square meters, and all the original flowers and plants have been removed. It also looks a bit empty at this time, but everyone doesn't care about these details now.

After submitting the stock index futures and stock trading records of Westeros Corporation in recent months in accordance with the requirements of the two major institutions, Simon deliberately kept a backup, which was in the suitcase that Janet had just brought back from the Plaza Hotel.

Before James Raybould received the call from George Norman, he had carefully read several revelations about Simon's operation in the stock index futures market in several newspapers today.However, looking at the more detailed transaction records in his hand at this time, he still felt a little unbelievable.

From mid-May to late August, from 5 points to 8 points of the S&P 500 Index, the position was cleared and changed hands once at 270 points. Simon’s operation was obviously carefully calculated, and he began to turn to short selling at 330 points. This kind of timing is also beyond the reach of ordinary people. Easy to do.

Subsequently, Simon's operation in October was even more amazing.

From October 10st to October 1th, in twelve trading days, an average of about 10 short contracts were built every day, and 16 short contracts were completed just one trading day before the big crash.Immediately afterwards, after the crash on October 2000, more than 26700 short positions of Westeros once again precisely grasped the only three-day index bottom in the market to complete liquidation.

five months.

As if he had predicted all the trends in advance, Simon was precisely operating along the rise and fall curve of the S&P 500 index.After reading the materials in his hand, James Raybould found that it was difficult for him to find accurate words to describe what he had just seen.

Miracle?

Miracles are not necessarily so miraculous!

Chapter 126 Westeros Combination

At noon, Jonathan Friedman, Pat Kingsley and others arrived in New York one after another, and everyone began to work together to discuss how to deal with the current situation.

Although Simon's operation of keeping close to the S&P 5 index curve for more than 500 months before was a fantasy, there was no violation of regulations from beginning to end.James Raybould judged that it was because Simon's transaction records were so clear that there were no loopholes to check, that several major organizations used wiretapping methods and disclosed Westeros' transaction information to the media, in order to Forcing Simon to take the initiative to show his flaws.

In this era, the annual budget of the Federal Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is only $1 million.

The huge sum of US$16 billion, which is enough to make one person squeeze into the top [-] of the Forbes Global Rich List, is completely worth using all means.

For a young man like Simon who has almost no background, if it can be proved that there are violations in the transactions of Westeros Corporation, the authorities will definitely issue a huge bill unceremoniously, and Simon may end up losing his original principal. None will be left.

Simon and Janet had booked the presidential suite at the Plaza Hotel since they came to New York at the end of October, and it was difficult to determine when the bug was installed.However, there is no illegal operation in the operation of Westeros Corporation, so it is naturally impossible for eavesdroppers to obtain the information they want.

At four o'clock in the afternoon, in order to avoid losing control of public opinion by avoiding the media all the time, Pat Kingsley held a simple press conference on behalf of Simon as the spokesperson, officially confirming a series of operations of Westeros in the stock index futures market, At the same time, he denied the media rumors that Simon was under investigation for alleged insider trading.

The high-profile Hollywood genius director suddenly became a billionaire. Such explosive news, a simple press conference is naturally impossible to satisfy the appetite of the media.

Subsequently, the number of reporters gathered outside Simon’s apartment on the Upper East Side not only did not decrease, but increased, and even once affected the traffic on Fifth Avenue.Countless interview invitations were also delivered to Simon through various channels.

At the same time, the North American stock market also gave the most direct feedback today to the revelations from the New York Times and other media.In just one day, a brand-new phrase was quickly spread among countless stock market investors: the Westeros combination.

The stock market crash has passed, no matter how much you admire Simon Westero's previous operations, it is impossible for people to go back a few months ago to imitate the operations.However, the young man's trading in the stock market is very easy to follow.

Although it is not clear why Simon Westero bought a large number of technology stocks, for a young man who has just made more than one billion dollars in the stock index futures market, the gold content of the other party's buying operation is definitely more valuable than any A stockbroker recommendation is 100 times higher.

The "Wall Street Journal" listed a total of 26 technology stock combinations that Westeros bought in detail.

According to exposure data, Simon Westero's buying scale is also very interesting.

The 26 stocks range from Motorola, which still has a market value of more than $50 billion after the stock market crash, to Silicon Graphics (SG), a high-performance graphics workstation manufacturer with a market value of less than $2 million that was just listed last year. A series of star technology stocks such as Intel, Microsoft, and SUN, after a series of large-scale purchases by Westeros, the shareholding ratio of these companies has remained at a very delicate 4.9%.

According to the regulations of the Federal Securities and Exchange Commission, investors need to report when they hold 5% of a company's stock, and subsequent buying and selling operations will also be subject to strict supervision.

4.9%, just below the SEC filing requirement.

Wall Street analysts also judged that Simon Westero did not intend to hold these stocks for a long time.Since it is a short-term operation, there is no need to hesitate to follow up.As a result, in just one day, the trading volume of the 26 stocks held by Westeros has increased several times compared to before.

After the market closed in the afternoon, these stocks rose by an average of more than 20%, and some of them even returned to the highest point before the stock market crash.

Simon bought these stocks at the lowest point in the week of the stock market crash. As Westeros’ large-scale purchases stimulated the technology stock market, the value of these stocks had rebounded by about 15% in the previous few weeks.

just now.

After today's surge, the book value of the technology stocks held by Westeros is close to 15 billion US dollars, and Simon has earned another 4 million US dollars in less than a month.All the cash and stock of Westeros, the overall asset value has exceeded 20 billion US dollars.

Simon here.

After repeatedly confirming Simon's trading operations, the process of accepting the questioning, and the fact that there were no inappropriate behaviors that might lead to investigations during the wiretapping period, everyone began to be busy dealing with the current media situation and discussing possible investigations that may be faced next.

Sure enough, it was as James Raybould expected.

Early the next morning, the spokesperson of the Federal Court for the Southern District of New York publicly stated at the press conference that day that the FBI, the Federal Securities and Exchange Commission, the Federal Commodity Futures Trading Commission, and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York were investigating Lei. Man Brothers' illegal operation led to an investigation into the huge loss of Quantum Fund.

When the spokesman took questions from reporters, he did not implicitly confirm that the prosecutor's office suspected that Westeros Corporation might be involved.

Later, a local New York TV station exposed more explicit potential allegations. An unnamed government official revealed that the U.S. Attorney's Office of the Southern District of New York suspected that Westeros was suspected of colluding with Lehman Brothers to manipulate the market. On the same day, the insider operation caused the S&P 10 index to plummet, causing huge losses to investors.

Simon never imagined that he would be labeled such a big hat.

If the charges are confirmed, Simon will not only face a huge fine, but investors who suffered losses due to the sharp drop of the S&P 10 index on the morning of October 22 will have the right to file a claim against him.

10月22日当天标普500指数一路从前一天收盘时的256点暴跌至197点，只是量子基金那9000份多头合约，理论上的额外亏损就超过2亿6000万美元。

The amount of losses of investors in the entire Chicago futures market obviously far exceeds that of Quantum Fund.

At that time, in the face of countless investors' claims, Simon can directly declare bankruptcy, and the huge debt after losing the lawsuit is enough to make him never even think about turning over in his life.

Simon did have information in his memory that the market plummeted on October 10 due to the sell-off of Lehman Brothers, so he arranged for the last batch of more than 22 short contracts to be sold on that day.However, this incident obviously had nothing to do with Simon, and was entirely an internal error of Lehman Brothers.

Pat Kingsley immediately denied the accusation that Simon was involved in this incident, but related arguments inevitably spread.

After Simon was questioned by the Federal Futures Trading Commission on Monday, the Federal Securities and Exchange Commission also launched a questioning on Simon on the following Friday. Question about stock trading in Westeros Corporation.

Inside the apartment on 68th Street on the Upper East Side.

It's Monday, November 11th.

Last night, the first snow of this winter finally fell in New York. "When Harry Met Sally" was nearing wrapping, and the crew had been looking forward to snow in New York for some of the film's scenes, and it fell just right.

Waking up in the morning, looking at the white Central Park outside the window, Simon somehow remembered "A Dream of Red Mansions".After eight o'clock, Jonathan and others rushed from their residences.

Institutions such as the Federal Court of the Southern District of New York have not officially launched an attack. In the previous week, everyone was not at all relaxed.

In order to prevent Simon from being directly convicted by the turbulent media without even encountering formal charges, everyone has been busy with media public relations work recently, constantly clarifying and refuting, even submitting lawyer letters to some newspapers, and at the same time contacting other media to publish various Press releases in favor of one's own side to safeguard Simon's personal reputation.

Simon doesn't care about such things as reputation.But just like many things in life, you don't have to care about it, but you have to maintain it.

If the media forcibly labels him as a "financial criminal" like Michael Jackson, who was identified as a pedophile, Simon may be given a negative BUFF no matter what he does in the future.

Everyone was sitting in the living room where a large conference table was directly placed, and they were surrounding a pile of newspapers, magazines, faxes and even video tapes to analyze the trend of public opinion yesterday. Gave it to Simon, indicating that it was Noah Scott calling.

After the incident broke out last week, under the suggestion of James Raybould, Simon did not take the initiative to contact Lehman Brothers, and there was no communication with Simon.At this time, when they heard Noah Scott calling, everyone showed some strange expressions on their faces.

Noah Scott claimed on the phone that he was nearby and hoped to come and visit, and Simon agreed to come down.

After a few minutes.

Noah Scott rushed over, just greeted everyone briefly, and then whispered with a serious expression that he hoped to talk to Simon alone.Under the gaze of everyone, Simon took Noah Scott to a still empty living room next to him.

The two stood by the window of the living room. Noah Scott raised his hand to wipe off the condensation on the glass. Looking at the snowflakes floating outside the window and Central Park in the distance, he said, "Very nice house."

Simon looked at the blurred glass window in front of him, but didn't reach out to wipe it, nodded: "Yes, it's a pity that I haven't had time to decorate it yet."

Noah Scott paused for a moment, but didn't find another suitable topic of conversation, so he said directly: "Simon, I have to confess to you that the recent situation is very bad."

Simon turned his head away, just waiting for Noah Scott to continue.

Chapter 127

Noah Scott looked at Simon's expression and said: "Soros himself also needs to take responsibility for the matter of Quantum Fund. He asked us to sell all contracts, and no one knows where the news came from. The result is The S&P 500 index plummeted again, and we had no choice but to forcibly liquidate his position. Now Soros insists that it was our operation error, and he also suspects that Lehman Brothers and you conspired to manipulate the market. Coupled with the fuel of the media, this matter It has become more and more troublesome."

After hearing Noah Scott's words, Simon's last trace of expectation disappeared, but he retorted without hesitation: "Noah, this matter has nothing to do with me."

"I understand," Noah Scott said sincerely, "However, Simon, the current situation is that everyone must resolve this matter as soon as possible so that you can escape from the recent turmoil, and Lehman Brothers is the same. You It should be felt that the FBI, SEC and CFTC obviously hope to catch you through this matter. $16 billion is a huge sum of money. In order to issue a fine, they definitely don’t mind doing it anything."

Simon turned his head, looked casually at the blurred glass window in front of him, and asked, "What are you going to do?"

Noah Scott felt Simon's emotional change, and said: "We have already contacted Soros, and the reconciliation is good for everyone. However, Soros still insists on asking for 5000 million US dollars in compensation."

Simon was silent again, raised his hand and drew a slanting line on the glass window, then clicked to the other side of the slash, but then withdrew his hand a little bit disappointed.

Seeing that Simon was distracted, Noah Scott looked at the strange pattern he drew on the window, and continued: "Simon, $5000 million in compensation, Lehman Brothers offered $4000, you take out $1000 million, how about it?" ?So that everyone can get out of trouble. $1000 million is nothing to you now. But if you are investigated, you may spend more than $1000 million in legal fees in the future.”

"Noah, I originally thought that we might become friends." After a moment of silence, Simon turned to Noah Scott and said again: "It seems that there should be no such opportunity now. Westeros has no Any irregularities, so tell the person who sent or forced you to come here, I will set aside 1000 million dollars to deal with the lawsuit. If 1000 million dollars is not enough, then 1 million dollars, or 10 billion dollars. Speaking of which, I am not actually I don't care about the money, because it's so easy for me to make money. However, I'm not used to being robbed of my things. A little poking around, and you can see that I'm actually a very grudger. Last year there were a few The bastard attacked me at night, and I broke one leg of all five of them. Well, it should have been six. The woman around me didn't want me to be too violent, so I let the one behind the scenes go. This time she will definitely not do it again I interceded for some people. So, you can let those people try, if you want the money, come and grab it."

Noah Scott's expression became more and more embarrassing with Simon's words, and he said after a while: "Simon, I don't understand what you are talking about."

"I don't really understand, maybe, I've been under a lot of pressure recently and started talking nonsense," Simon shook his head with a confused expression, and then made a gesture to see off the guests: "Noah, don't contact me again. "

According to James Raybould's judgment, Rudy Giuliani may take the initiative to create evidence after media pressure and private wiretapping, as well as the necessary undercover investigation, still cannot find evidence of Westeros' violations , forcing other seized targets to accuse Simon.

Wall Street insider trading tycoon Ivan Boesky, who was convicted earlier this year, agreed to charge five other insider traders during negotiations with Giuliani. years in prison and a $1 million fine.He kept half of his fortune.

Ivan Boesky is the prototype of Michael Douglas' Gordon Gekko in "Wall Street," which will be released next month. The classic "Greed is good" line in the film is exactly Ivan Boesky. Ski's views in a lecture at the University of California.

just now.

Lehman Brothers may well have been the one to get caught, hence Noah Scott's visit just now.

Due to the non-existent fact, it is obviously impossible for the investigation agency to find any tangible evidence that Simon and Lehman Brothers conspired to manipulate the market.However, if Simon had just agreed to spend $1000 million to settle the lawsuit against Lehman Brothers and Quantum Fund, he would immediately fall into some magical logic of 'you didn't hit me, why did you help', and Westeros also It will be difficult to get out of this storm safely.

Walking out of the apartment building, Noah Scott looked at the reporters who were still squatting around even in such a snowy day, and quickly got into his car parked not far away.The reporters guarding in the wind and snow found that Noah Scott was not Simon and the people around him, so they did not surround him.

Perhaps it was because of the cold wind blowing just now, his thoughts became much clearer. Noah Scott got into the car and suddenly understood why the eyes of those people in the living room after he had just entered Simon's apartment were a little strange.

Those people probably understood the purpose of his trip before he came here, and he was just like a clown.

After thinking about this, Noah Scott suddenly felt a strong embarrassment.

After sitting in the car for a while, Noah Scott started the car and quickly returned to his parents' apartment on Second Avenue.American Express is headquartered in New York, and Nelson Scott, as one of the vice presidents of American Express, naturally lives in Manhattan.

Noah Scott walked into the house, and three other middle-aged people were sitting in the living room of Scott’s house at this time. In addition to American Express CEO James Robinson and Noah Scott’s father Nelson Scott, There was another balding middle-aged man who was sitting on the sofa with his legs up and a cigar in his mouth.