American Tax Officer

Chapter 836: Chapter 419: The Great Purge of New York

“Stop right there, what do you think you’re doing!”

The guard at the entrance of City Hall, seeing that the people from the Internal Revenue Service had arrived with such hostility, quickly shouted out in admonition.

The Chief Tax Officer leading the group from Manhattan also flashed their badge and said, “We’re from the IRS, here to ask your Mayor Andre to come back with us for an investigation!”

“This…”

Upon hearing this, the guard seemed at a loss.

Meanwhile, David ignored them and walked straight into the hall.

At that moment, the Chief Tax Officer from the Manhattan Branch, who had received a signal from David, arrogantly shouted, “We’re from the IRS! Where is your Mayor Andre now?”

The City Hall was busy with many people working, and upon hearing this, they all turned their heads to look.

A man dressed in a black suit and black tie walked over and said with displeasure, “This is the City Government. What do you mean by this, IRS?”

“We now suspect that your Mayor Andre is involved in tax evasion, so we’ve come to ask him to return with us for an investigation!”

“What did you say, our mayor is suspected of tax evasion?”

“Don’t make baseless accusations here; our City Hall’s taxes are paid by a dedicated department. How could there be tax evasion?”

“Not long ago you took away our Chief of Police, and now you’ve come to our City Hall to cause a commotion. Do you really not take us seriously?”

With these words, the scene turned chaotic.

The recent incident of the Chief of Police being taken away by the IRS was known to all the public officials present.

Now they had stormed into their City Government and were even trying to take away their globally renowned mayor. What was the meaning of this?

This wasn’t just a slap in the face to the police; now they wanted to slap the face of their City Government, too!

How could they endure this?

“You IRS are really going too far!”

“Trying to take away our mayor, do you understand the consequences??”

“Does the IRS have any evidence? If you have no evidence and you mess with such an important city’s mayor, it could cause international turmoil!!”

“…”

Although David had also come, the public officials rallied to defend their City Hall’s dignity, forming an intimidating group.

It has to be said that the show of force somewhat intimidated the inspectors, causing them to step back a few paces.

But then, David pushed through the crowd with a supremely calm demeanor, facing the group of public officials head-on.

Those public officials, relying on their numbers, had managed to maintain their stance against Manhattan’s inspectors.

But upon seeing David coming fiercely forward, realizing he was one of the most infamous figures in America, the public officials began to panic.

Many even subconsciously retreated, afraid of being singled out.

[Name: Butler Kyle.]

[Occupation: City Construction Supervisor.]

[Monthly income: Eighteen Thousand US dollars.]

[Monthly under-the-table income: Two Hundred Thousand US dollars.]

[Detailed income details: On December 6th, received a red envelope from Xiaoying Construction Company, profiting Sixty Thousand US dollars; on December 13th, accepted a benefit fee of Eighty Thousand US dollars from Noke Stone; on December 21st…]

“Mr. Butler, were you the one asking for evidence just now?”

David walked up to the suit-and-tie man who had been the first to confront him upon their entrance and stopped right in front of him, staring straight at him.

“I… What do you mean ‘I want evidence’? How can we all be convinced without any evidence? You can’t just say anyone is suspected of tax evasion and then assume they’ve evaded it, right, everyone?”

Having been singled out by David like this, Butler was certainly panicking. He shouted loudly, hoping for some support from the crowd behind him.

But remembering David’s reputation and methods, they really couldn’t muster the courage to step forward, and one by one, they lowered their heads, playing dead.

“You…”

Seeing everyone behind him remain indifferent, Butler panicked even more. He suddenly regretted being the one to step forward!

“Mr. Butler, was the Sixty Thousand US dollars from Xiaoying Construction Company easy to collect?”

Hearing these words from David, Butler felt his soul was about to leap out. He immediately tried to deny it: “What do you mean? What Xiaoying Construction Company? I don’t know what you’re talking about!”

“You don’t know, do you? Then you certainly know about Noke Stone. Those Eighty Thousand dollars were transferred into your brother’s account, should we at the IRS take a good look into its source?”

If it were the benefits from Xiaoying Construction Company, Butler could still adamantly deny and argue.

But he had no rebuttal for Noke Stone.

With the accounting capabilities of the IRS, if they wanted to investigate, there was basically no income source that couldn’t be uncovered.

But what Butler couldn’t understand was why, after just meeting with David, he knew all his secrets so clearly.

Could it be that they had already been investigating him before coming here?

If that was the case, then they really were well-prepared.

He was finished!

“Now, may we go and invite Mayor Andre?”

In utter disarray, Butler, upon hearing these words, suddenly snapped back to reality.

Right, when David and the others had entered, they had directly asked for Mayor Andre, not for him.

This meant that the IRS’s target this time was probably Andre, not him.

If he could just behave well, then perhaps Chief Inspector David might spare him!

With this thought, Butler, seemingly grasping at straws, dismissed any other concerns and quickly responded, “Chief Inspector David, please wait; I will go and invite Mayor Andre over right now!”