115 Suppression, Control, Resistance
After returning to New York, in order to convince Sarah that Hannah was a bodyguard invited by Uncle Tony, Bai Quinn simply had a fight with Hannah, and then went to the shooting range to shoot.
After all this trouble, everyone recognized Hannah's strength.
However, Bai Quinn hired two tall and strong male bodyguards introduced by CAA. Hannah, who seemed to have no deterrence, was placed by her as an assistant as the last layer of protection.
Bai Quinn has another young and beautiful "assistant" around him. Lina has no sense of crisis that she wants to be replaced, but instead has some thoughts.
But Lina quickly put out her little thoughts.
Because during the training, Hannah failed to stop her movements for a while and bleeded Bai Quinn's nose.
Lina feels that she still prefers gentle and mature women.
...
On the third day back to New York, the manager of an investment company came to him. Because he reported O'Brien's name, Bai Quinn immediately received him in person.
The guy who claims to be an investment consultant came up with a regular investment plan that seemed unreliable, and the funds invested will be used to buy shares in a small fishing company.
The amount of investment happened to be the $200,000 a year agreed by Bai Quinn and O'Brien.
"Can I talk to him on the phone? There's something I want to say to him."
Before signing, Bai Quinn made a request.
The investment consultant walked aside, called the phone, muttered for a while, and handed the phone to Bai Quinn.
Opposite was O'Brien's voice, "Do you have something to come to me?"
Bai Quinn replied, “Yes, is it convenient to speak?”
A sneer came from the opposite side, "Tell me!"
Bai Quinn had no choice but to say, "You have already brought your words, and the reply over there is still the same."
The opposite side was silent for a few seconds, and when he spoke again, he no longer had the condescending tone: "You are the messenger of peace, QB... By the way, don't worry, your trouble is no longer trouble."
Haha, take credit for others’ credit.
"Thank you, Mr. O'Brien... Wait a moment, about that money... I mean I can sign such an investment agreement, but why do I have to ask for cash? It's inconvenient to prepare."
"Are you not ready?" the person across the phone questioned.
"It's ready! I just think..."
"Do you think you're smarter than others?"
“I mean…”
"Okay! We're just in contact, I can give you some time to adapt to my style of doing things. I don't like being questioned. Don't do this again in the future. Do you understand?"
Bai Quinn suddenly woke up.
Suppress, control!
This is a common trick used by the team's new coaches. In most cases, the coaches will test the boundaries at the beginning, suppress the players to the critical point, and then the assistant coach will come out to play the role of good people.
From then on, as long as the boundary is not exceeded, the coach can do whatever he wants within the scope.
Bai Quinn thinks he is still a formal player, not the kind of handyman who can be kicked away by a coach with just one word. Maybe he can try to draw a boundary.
So he pretended to be a stammering young man with his neck and said, "But at least you have to give me some reasonable explanations, right? Are you sure this will not make us all targeted by your FBI's internal investigation?"
Bai Quinn thought to himself that at most, the conversation would collapse and go to cry and beg Victor, and even ask "Don" Philip for mediation. Wademark was looking at helping the Gambino family make money, and no one wanted to see a problem with the money-making machine.
The opposite of the phone was quiet for a long time, at least in Bai Quinn's feeling, it was a very difficult period of peace.
Finally, O'Brien said: "We should have some trust between each other, QB, I can explain this time, but I don't want you to question me every time in the future... Sometimes, you need to reveal some flaws to those self-righteous guys, such as an investment contract that is paid in cash, and not even the certificates received.
But what are you wrong? The wrong thing is that the investment company that is poorly managed is not operating properly when collecting money, but does not carefully review it when borrowing money. It has a lot of bad debts and goes bankrupt within two years.
It's the abscess that is damaged on the surface, and once it is checked, we can all cut it cleanly with it.
Don't worry, this money will not enter my pocket, and I will not touch any money during my term. You can trust me, just like trusting Lynn.
They were prepared for my brothers, and their salaries were too low, and sometimes they had to borrow money from microfinance companies, but no one was asking for debts.
Are you satisfied with my explanation now?”
you?
Bai Quinn immediately understood that O'Brien was not as calm and composed as he showed. He was also worried that he could not take over the "legacy" left by Lynn in a stable manner, thinking that Bai Quinn's doubts were tempting each other.
"I understand, thank you for your patience!" Bai Quinn instantly switched back to her well-behaved image.
"Okay, goodbye."
O'Brien hung up the phone.
Bai Quinn picked up the pen and signed.
The investment consultant took away the cash that Bai Quinn had worked hard and left behind a worthless investment contract, without even a receipt for Bai Quinn.
Legally speaking, this operation is not compliant at all. If you really want to check it, it is all loopholes, but it is not a big mistake. This is just a deliberate flaw.
As for money, it will be injected into a microfinance company that will be poorly managed in the future.
Some FBI agents who encounter personal financial problems will happen to borrow money from a micro-loan company. When they have to pay back the money, they find that the creditor has gone bankrupt and liquidated, and they don’t have to pay back the money.
There may be some small loopholes in this, but O'Brien deliberately stayed to use it as a check and balance subordinate. After all, such people can only feel at ease when using it.
Bai Quinn won a game in the air showdown with O'Brien, suppressing the opponent's expectations so that he could communicate in a more equal way in the future, which made him secretly happy, but unfortunately no one could share this joy.
However, Bai Quinn had to find a way to settle the accounts for the 200,000 yuan cash expenses.
At worst, I just want to say that I have a party every night, and all kinds of service expenses are recorded as cash. As a rock star, it is reasonable.
No, no, no, let professionals do professional things!
It's time to hire an accountant.
Speaking of accountants, Bai Quinn really needs a private financial advisor.
Over the past year, the money he has been in and out of his hands has been several million. If the tens of millions of royalties and dividends that will be received after the New Year, if he does not have a powerful and trustworthy accountant, the IRS will come to his house to cause trouble sooner or later, and the next thing is to pay taxes and fines, and the money he has in his hands is snatched away by the IRS.
The IRS has very strict supervision of tax payments for celebrities and their logic is very simple. It is a biting the celebrity's tax evasion. The incident is highly contagious and can establish the reputation of the IRS. Moreover, many celebrities suddenly become rich and are confused and confident, thinking that they can avoid IRS with their cleverness, especially rock stars, hip-hop singers, and athletes are all the hardest hit areas.
Generally speaking, such celebrities will eventually get a loophole by the IRS, and they will bite it hard, take out several times the amount of the taxes they should pay from their pockets, otherwise they will go to jail.
However, some truly savvy stars will hire well-known accountants in the industry to assist in filing taxes. Those famous accountants generally serve the stars as financial consultants, have their endorsed tax returns, and have the ability to get the IRS back.
Because there is no need to check the accounts they have made, and unless a lot of manpower and material resources are invested, there will be no clue at all.
With such low cost performance, why waste time there?
Bai Quinn planned to find such a person. Although CAA happened to cooperate with many such celebrity financial consultants and could recommend one to Bai Quinn, out of the concern that the existing partners could possibly grasp their true wealth, Bai Quinn did not intend to use the people and companies recommended by CAA.
For the same reason, he would not use Deloitte, which is serving Big Machine Records, nor would he consider David Geffen's recommendation. Bai Quinn intends to ask Goldman Sachs' Donovan to help introduce a veteran.
Finally, Goldman’s Donovan recommended him a financial consulting expert, Mark Orland, who was his classmate at Harvard Law School.
Mark Orland has a financial consulting company based in California, TaxResources, which also has a branch in New York, which specializes in helping high-income individuals like Bai Quinn file taxes.
As a customer introduced by Goldman Sachs Donovan, Bai Quinn received a VIP service from Mark Orland, and personally analyzed his financial situation and gave suggestions for "rationalizing" assets allocation.
December is always short, several days shorter than other months.
It was Christmas as soon as he turned around. Bai Quinn, who often ran announcements and band performances, barely made necessary financial adjustments before the deadline and completed the declaration work.
It has made up for one of my flaws and can have Christmas with peace of mind.
At the end of December, the cumulative revenue of "The Legend of the Wicked" reached 146 million yuan, entering the long-term screening stage. According to Harvey's plan, it will be delayed until the announcement of the nomination for the Oscars. If the registration of the Best Director and Best Screenplay are nominated, a wave of viewers who enter the theater to "make up lessons".
Chapter completed!