Found Money by James Grippando

Author:James Grippando
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Physicians, Suspense, Wealth, Single mothers, General, Romance, Mystery fiction, Thrillers, Suspense fiction, Fiction, Colorado
ISBN: 9780061097621
Publisher: Avon
Published: 2000-04-19T18:47:56+00:00

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Ryan’s flight landed at Denver International Airport at 11:50 P.M. He hadn’t bothered to retrieve his garment bag from the hotel room in Panama, so he had no checked baggage, just the small carry-on he had purchased to replace his stolen bag. He’d already passed through customs at the plane change in Houston. Norm met him out front, near the curbside check-in at the United Airlines terminal. The motor was running in the Range Rover as the passenger door flew open. Ryan jumped inside, laid his bag gently at his feet. After a day that included a run through the streets from Panamanian police, a run-in with the FBI, and nine hours of international travel, he nearly melted into the leather upholstery.

“Man, am I glad to see you,” he said as he slammed the door.

Norm checked his disheveled appearance. “You look like Steve McQueen in that old movie about Devil’s Island.”

“Papillon?”

“Yeah. What did you do, float in from Panama on a sack of coconuts?”

“Shut up and drive, Norm.”

A whistle blew, startling them. The DIA traffic gestapo was about to issue a parking citation, as if they expected passengers to catch their rides on the run. Norm hit the gas and quickly pulled back into traffic. They spoke as the truck weaved between car rental buses and stopped cars on the way to the airport exit and Pena Boulevard.

“You made it out smoothly, I presume,” said Norm.

“I told them exactly what you told me to say. Got their business cards, too. Forsyth is a field agent here in Denver. The other guy isn’t FBI. He’s from Washington. The criminal tax division of the IRS.”

“I figured it was only a matter of time before they showed up.” Norm steered onto the express-way ramp. “I’ve been doing a little legwork myself while you were traveling. Called a friend over at the U.S. attorney’s office.”

“What would they know about this?”

“In any investigation, the FBI’s legal counsel is an AUSA—an assistant U.S. attorney. A routine subpoena for documents, for example, would be handled at a ministerial level by a junior AUSA. But if your case was assigned to an AUSA who specializes in money laundering, for example, that would tell us something about the focus of the investigation.”

“What did you find out?”

“Your case is under the major crimes section.”

“Major?” he asked with concern.

“Don’t let the name fool you. Everything is major. It’s a slush pile for cases that are too new to be routed to a more defined area of specialization.”

“Where do you think it’s headed?”

“Could be strictly a tax investigation. You said your old man didn’t pay taxes on the money. Or if the FBI gets wind of the extortion, it could go to the public corruption section. If it’s money laundering they smell, it could go to economic crimes. Too early to tell.”

“All this because I pissed off a stupid bank officer at Banco del Istmo.”

“Actually, it wasn’t just him who brought in the FBI. From what I gathered from the AUSA, your wife’s lawyer is also behind it.

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