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L.A. IS FINE, THE SUN SHINES…
NEW HORIZONS…
OFF ROUTE 59…
‘NEATH THE ELMS…
SEPARATE PATHS…
COLLECTION MAN…
UNPLEASANT REUNION…
MOGUL …
THE FEDS…
UNHOLY ALLIANCE…
JOINING THE ELITE…
FEELIN’ GUILTY…
THE LAST HURRAH…
EPILOGUE…
Ruthlessly loyal, she had accompanied him over from UBS in his last move to the bigger time. Three years, signing bonus, higher payout, and a much higher guarantee moved him and the vast majority of his twenty five hundred accounts. More importantly, all his key clients, some ninety in number, had made the move with him. And Shauna came with him, closer to home with a forty percent raise and a small piece of the action. A single mom, with her own mother at home, she nearly always left promptly at 1:00 p.m. to pick up her child from school. As he hit “the 10” freeway it was news from KABC with the death of Spiro Agnew and reflections from the ‘96 Altanta Olympics, which was an economic success but not without their problems. And some group called the Taliban had captured Kabul, Afganistan.
“What’s my day?” he demanded.
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“The authorities are all over me like a cheap suit on Blueacre Partners. That’s not a problem. I’ve taken two fingers to their hard-ons time and time again on these deals. Even if it calls for recapture, it’s a fine, not a crime. But this is different in two ways. First, the call came from Washington. That’s new. But my friend in the LA office also gave me a stange return after-hours call. All he said was, ‘Keep the blue bird from singing,’ and hung up with a ‘gotta go.’ Curious and unusual. Is there anything you know about this deal that I don’t know?”
“Hell, Mare, I’ll be damned if I know. It was three plus years ago, before I hit LA. It looked from the description page like a simple oil deal with an aggressive, but legal, write-off. But let me check with my old UBS friends. They might know something.”
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