Yukon Audit: A C.E. Brody Novel by Ken Baird

Author:Ken Baird [Baird, Ken]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2015-07-01T20:00:00+00:00

Thirty Two

I didn’t want to believe him but Special Agent David Owen seemed very sure of himself. He said that in the past year I’d been flying millions of dollars of U.S. cash from Alaska to the Yukon. Bundles and bundles of it – stacks of twenty, fifty, and one hundred dollar bills – shrink-wrapped in clear plastic, packed in styrofoam boxes, with salmon and crabs and ice.

It took him some time, but Owen eventually convinced me it was true. Then he convinced me to keep flying those styrofoam boxes from Alaska to the Yukon. He made me an offer I couldn’t refuse. We made a deal. Special Agent David Owen of the FBI was a very convincing guy.

Owen explained how he knew there was more than just fish and crabs in those styrofoam boxes ‘in the back of my plane’. For almost two years he and a team of FBI agents had been investigating a man named Wei Lee. Owen said that Lee was the boss of a major human trafficking organization based out of Los Angeles. Lee was sending the cash he made in California up to Alaska, and he’d been using me and my plane to then smuggle it into Canada.

Owen described the man the FBI was after. He showed me two photos of him, the same two photos he’d shown me yesterday. One was a telephoto shot of a short Asian man getting into a limousine, the other a driver’s license photo. Lee looked like any other Asian business man, and other than his strange dark eyes, could have been anyone at all. But this particular business man was evil. Owen said Lee was a sociopath who treated the people he was importing in shipping containers as nothing more than a commodity, nothing more than commercial cargo to be sold to the highest bidder.

Owen said that based solely on their age and gender, Lee would sort, sell and exploit the people he was smuggling according to their economic utility. He’d send the adults and teenage boys to employers that needed ‘temporary’ labor. That made him some money. But most of the money he made was in prostitution. He used the adolescent girls he brought in to populate a large staff of prostitutes, putting them to work in one of the fifty or so massage parlors he owned in LA and San Francisco. Prostitution was an incredibly lucrative business for Lee. Not only did ‘his girls’ earn him a lot of money, but most of what they earned they had to give back to him, to pay for the heroin they were addicted to. The remainder of Lee’s ‘container cargo’ – the pre-adolescent girls and boys – were simply disposed of as ‘surplus goods’, sold to a clandestine network of evil sickos who do whatever evil sickos do to kids in the depraved world of kiddy porn. My skin crawled when Owen told me that. I thought about what might have become of Bobby Larabie. It was easy to despise a man like Wei Lee.

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