Chapter 460: Your Precautionary Measures Disappoints Me
– FBI Headquarters –
The team leader of the commissioned task force investigating this matter was Sergeant Withers.
Sitting at a table filled with all kinds of documents, he listened to his junior officer standing across from the table give a report. “Sir, we went and investigated those casinos, and among the casino patrons in the past month that left with winnings, there are 70 to 80 of them that would come here to gamble every day. They would come to gamble with different amounts of money, but one thing that is very shocking is that after one month of gambling, those people had never lost!”
“Oh?” Withers narrowed his eyes. “Never lost? How much do they typically place at bets?”
“Different sometimes. The least was a million, and the biggest was 8 million! I noticed that every day they would only go in to gamble once, and then get out right away, very strange. They did this for a month, and they haven’t lost even once. If we were to add up all the money these guys won from the casino, it would be over 4 billion, which would explain the big drop in casino revenue. “
Bam!
Withers slapped the table.
“They could very likely be the culprits!”
“Yes, Officer, but they didn’t exhibit any cheating behavior, so we can’t press charges against them. They operate in legal casinos, and they also won the money away legally.”
“I know,” Withers said, “Right now we just need to find proof. Why have they never lost? Do you actually don’t know? It must be because there are moles inside the casino that were helping them win every time!”
“But Sir, are there moles in all four casinos?”
Withers narrowed his eyes and nodded. “You are very right. You did a good job on collecting intel. Now let’s go and have a chat with the heads of the four casinos, or they are gonna start b*tching about how we make money but don’t do work again.”
– Inside one of the casinos’ conferences rooms –
Many from the higher-up management of the biggest casinos in Las Vegas all came over to attend the meeting.
Withers dropped the pile of documents on the table and said, “According to our investigations over the past few days, I think the 4 billion or something in losses that you guys had all went into these guys’ pockets.”
Recently, profit had been a big problem for Las Vegas, basically, all the big whales were at risk, so they paid special attention to this matter. Those in charge directly took over the documents and started going through it.
Inside were very detailed profiles on those 70-80 people.
“They would come to gamble every day, with funds ranging from one to eight million. But, maybe one thing you guys haven’t noticed, it’s that these guys seem to have never lost before. Let my assistant tell you guys how terrifying that would be.”
WIthers’s assistant nodded, pulled out his pad, and said, “These 80 people, if they gamble from one million snowballing to eight million and restart. After one round, if no one loses, they would be able to take away 320 million!”
All the attendees in the conference room took in a deep breath!
Some of the faces of the people in charge immediately paled.
“Then how is it possible?”
WIthers said, “It could be a number of reasons. The most likely one is that there are moles in your casinos, giving the right answers away to those that are placing bets for them to win and leave with the money.”
The head of technicians in the casino said, “Impossible, the dealers we have wouldn’t be able to manipulate or guess the numbers inside the dice with 100% accuracy.”
Withers: “Then have you put precautionary measures in place on the dice rollers or poker cards? To avoid being seen through by some piece of technology?”
Technician: “We did everything. We are cooperating with the big techs in Silicon Valley every year, they are able to help improve our gadgets every year to make sure no technology that is currently out can see through our dice covers or cards, not even the airport security could see through them. We already had this kind of suspicion, so we had experts from Silicon Valley come over and check, and we already updated to the best technology available on the market, but we still could not solve the downward trend of our profitability.”
At this time, the leader of a casino with a bigger loss said, “Sir, we invited you over to tell us who it is, not throw out a bunch of questions for us to guess ourselves. Las Vegas gives you FBI people so much funding every year, and you guys just take the money and don’t do any work? If you can’t get to the bottom of this, we will jointly complain about you guys to the National Security Agency!”
Withers bitterly smiled. “Clearly, these guys don’t have any criminal tools. But looking at the surveillance footage, you can see that they would check their phone whenever they go and place a bet. This means, someone’s telling them where to go and what to place a bet on. Someone’s behind them.”
“You are pointing fingers at our casino insiders, but may I ask, do you have proof? Can you find some first? We can’t just blindly turn against our own guys at a time like this.”
“I will investigate it,” as WIthers said this, he got a call.
His eyes narrowed, and he looked at the casino executives and said, “Our people have found the background of these eighty people. They all are from a mafia background; I think this is a collective conspiracy.”
The executives said, “I don’t care what it is, we are telling you to just drag out whoever’s behind this. You also saw, they are all legally gambling without violating any rules, we won’t be able to catch them red-handed at the scene. So, if we just prohibit them from going in, our reputation would also tank while they could just find another batch of eighty to do the same thing! So, please hurry up and do something useful, we are losing money every day!”
Those execs all left the scene angrily, since they were very disappointed with Withers’s efficiency.
Withers and the others in the task force continued to follow the eighty or so people they spotted.
– One day –
Xu Cheng and the other four mafia leaders gathered again at the hotel and were ready to plunder more money, and Xu Cheng saw that there were suspicious people around the casino. They didn’t look at anyone other than the mafia members they sent in to gamble.
Xu Cheng used his penetrating vision and directly saw their FBI ID badges.
At this time, he smiled and said, “Not working today, let’s pull out.”
The mafia leaders were all surprised.
“Why? The meals are all ordered, the wine is prepared too, are you not satisfied with what we prepared for you? Mr. Fang, just let us know what you want to eat or play with, anything.” Saar thought Xu Cheng was no longer satisfied with their cooperation these days and he anxiously said, “Is it because we didn’t entertain your apprentice enough?”
Lin Dong: “Not at all.”
Xu Cheng looked at Withers’s ID and suddenly said to the four leaders, “Pull out all of your men, and also look into who WIthers is. He’s just sitting there in the breakfast restaurant across the street. Buddy, you guys have the FBI on your tail.”
Saar snapped his finger, and his men immediately brought over a computer and searched in their system the name – Withers.
“Boss, recently, the FBI guys are indeed getting pretty close with the casino guys.”
“S–t!” Saar cursed.
At this time, Xu Cheng sneered, “Your precautionary measures are too disappointing, how can I be assured that you guys won’t screw up in the future? Let’s call it a day here, we will continue when the situation is better.”
Then, Xu Cheng left with Lin Dong.
Saar and the other mafia leaders were all very embarrassed.