American Tax Officer

Chapter 643: Chapter 324: Human Rights Organization, It’s Your Turn to Act!
 

According to his usual routine, Murdoch would arrive at the company in the morning and, after dealing with a series of matters, generally stay no longer than six hours.

But today, he had been at the company since 9 AM and stayed until midnight. Despite his efforts, he still couldn’t reverse the downward trend in the stock market.

Following yesterday, the market value of the media company had evaporated another 9 percentage points throughout the day, totaling a 17 percentage point drop over two days, surpassing the 15 percentage point drop when the last incident broke.

However, whether it was Murdoch or those paying attention to this incident, they were all too aware that as long as the FBI didn’t release the people in custody or declare the case closed, the stock price of the media company would continue to plummet, and its market value would continue to evaporate.

Sure enough, right after the stock market opened the next day, the media company’s stock price continued to drop uncontrollably.

While the entire America watched the drama unfold, the FBI made a new move by releasing a tape, which, upon release, directly shocked America.

The content was a conversation between a 9/11 victim’s family member and a friend, filled with words of sadness and complaint, stirring sympathy in anyone who listened.

But it didn’t take long for the public to become enraged.

According to the statement released by the FBI investigation team, they had obtained the tape from an employee in the media company’s wiretapping department.

Didn’t this further confirm the existence of the media company’s wiretapping activities?

“Damn media company, didn’t they just hold a press conference yesterday clarifying that they didn’t wiretap 9/11 victims’ families? What now?”

“Yesterday was just an ambiguous document, but today, it’s a real tape. Media company, how will you explain this?”

“Damn media company! Their only reason for wiretapping the calls of 9/11 victims’ families was to capitalize on this hot issue and gain massive amounts of traffic and attention, greedy capitalists!”

“That’s right, these blood-sucking capitalists should be dealt with by Director David, making them pay a heavy price!”

“…”

Upon the release of the tape, the entire internet was immediately filled with curses.

Many people also saw the purpose behind the media company wiretapping the 9/11 victims’ families—it was because 9/11 was drawing a lot of attention.

Even the smallest actions and statements of these family members, once published, could attract tremendous public interest and response.

And the media company wiretapped them just to gain massive traffic and benefits.

Thus, while condemning the media company, many in America also launched broadsides against all capitalists, hoping Director David would handle these people as he had with the Sackler family and the Disney family previously.

…

“Fake Yau, Fake Yau, Fake Yau!”

In the media company’s office, Murdoch roared furiously three times upon learning about the tape the FBI had just released.

Today, as the stock market opened, he tried everything he could to stabilize it, but it was of little effect, and while he was already overwhelmed, the FBI had stabbed him in the back.

At his advanced age of 90, facing such multiple blows, he was truly struggling to cope.

But thinking that if he didn’t handle the situation well, not only would he lose his current position, but he might also be utterly disgraced, he forced himself to calm down.

After some thought, he said to the secretary standing in front of him, “There are thousands of 9/11 victims. Isn’t it normal for us to have obtained a few recordings of the victims’ families? Have Marion prepare to clarify this matter. We got this recording from other channels, not from wiretapping!”

Although the release of this tape did indeed increase the public attack on their media company, and the stock market’s confidence in them continued to decline,

But just this tape alone was still not enough to pin the crime of wiretapping on their media company.

After all, the number of 9/11 victims was too large, and for their media company, a leading global media group, obtaining one, ten, or even twenty recordings was normal.

So, he felt somewhat confident about holding a press conference to clarify.

Half an hour later, following Murdoch’s instructions, the media company’s board members held a press conference to clarify the recording.

But despite his vigorous denials at the press conference, as more and more evidence of the media company’s wiretapping surfaced, the online attack did not diminish much.

As for the stock market, the media company continued to be downtrodden, with numerous individual investors desperately selling off their stocks to avoid further losses.

Time passed quickly, and three days went by in a blink.

In the last two days, the FBI investigation team had released a new recording daily, continually attacking the media company, and today, they had directly released a document.

This document implicated the media company in bribing officials, manipulating public opinion, false advertising, and several other charges.

In these days, guided by so many pieces of evidence and recordings, the public had already grown extremely discontent with the media company, and the release of this document involving more than a dozen charges was like adding fuel to the fire, further increasing the public’s rage by threefold.@@novelbin@@