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Planning the Defense

“The DA will be pressing charges against them.” Sutton said as he walked into the room. The news was not a surprise, Katrina and the others had expected it for a while.

She had built up the Organization through any means possible. However, something had gone wrong and three of her best men were now being indicted on corruption, embezzlement, and murder charges.

“Thank you James.” she replied. The others in the room were starting to worry. She didn’t blame them. Because of their line of ‘work’, criminal charges were the last thing you needed. Even though everyone knew they crossed the line, the ‘Rules’ had kept them safe, until now.

“First off, we will not provide any sort of bail for them. They will have to come up with it themselves. I don’t want to lose any money should they skip town. Second, we will provide the lawyers.” she said. Having a plan should help settle them she thought.

“We next need to ..” now, she had to word this carefully, ”.. plug the source of our problem. Dane, take care of it.”

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