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understand.”
“I’ll call you back as soon as I get done reviewing the tape,” responded Jeff. “Your points are well taken in terms of what will most likely need to be done with this story. Although Ms. Cogswell is a headstrong woman, and this type of subject hits home heavy with women, she highly values her job here at ABO. I’m sure we will be able to convince her to understand our decision not to run with it.”
“I hope so,” replied Christos in a somewhat threatening tone. “Assuming she does, make sure she is well compensated at her next performance review. Stress that her bringing forth important information such as this, and being a team player, is greatly appreciated by both me and the Board of Directors.”
As soon as he ended his phone conversation with Kolosky, Christos Grivas dialed another local number. This issue was going to require the assistance of someone who was not directly associated with ABO. Someone who could be discrete, and that had a certain skill set. It was imperative that he find out who the original source of the video was.
Chapter 17 (March 3, Monday 6:30pm Eastern Daylight Savings Time)
It was early evening when Jeff finally finished up his last conference call meeting and opened the door to his office. As he stepped out of his office, he saw his administrative assistant still seated at her desk. Normally she would have already left for the day, however, based upon the urgency in Dana Cogswell’s voice when she dropped off the large manila envelope, the assistant felt compelled to personally hand it over to Mr. Kolosky before leaving.
“Dana Cogswell came by a while ago and asked me to make sure you got this,” said the assistant, as she handed over the large manila envelope to Jeff.
“Thank you. I was hoping to get a chance to review this information tonight before I left the office,” responded Jeff, as he anxiously looked at the package. “I appreciate the fact that you hung around here waiting for me, but go home now and enjoy the rest of your evening. I won’t need any additional help tonight.”
The administrative assistant privately beamed over Mr. Kolosky’s appreciation of her efforts as she shut down her computer and put on her winter coat to leave. As she walked out of her office, and Jeff returned to his, the two said goodbye.
With his office door closed he opened the manila envelope and poured out the contents. A small and innocuous single DVD was all that fell out of it. He quickly inserted it into his computer’s DVD drive. A few seconds later a video window popped up on his computer screen and a high definition video started playing. Both the video and sound were clear and crisp, and featured in it was none other than the United States’ Vice President Houlton and a young beautiful South American girl.
“Dana was right,” thought Jeff. “There’s no doubt that this is the Vice President of the United States. Unfortunately, this wasn’t a video recording that had the quality of a Sasquatch sighting. Moreover, there were no breaks in the filming. Just one long continuous recording of a despicable person performing a despicable act on a defenseless person. There was no need to have the video authenticated by the IT guys. It was clearly legitimate and the fewer people that saw it the better for all.”
Jeff knew he had to call Christos Grivas back and report what he had observed on the video. However, thirty minutes after the video had finished playing he was still just staring vacantly at his computer screen. The brutality of what he had just witnessed by the Vice President touched a raw nerve in him. A nerve that he had thought he had buried a long time ago when working his way
“I’ll call you back as soon as I get done reviewing the tape,” responded Jeff. “Your points are well taken in terms of what will most likely need to be done with this story. Although Ms. Cogswell is a headstrong woman, and this type of subject hits home heavy with women, she highly values her job here at ABO. I’m sure we will be able to convince her to understand our decision not to run with it.”
“I hope so,” replied Christos in a somewhat threatening tone. “Assuming she does, make sure she is well compensated at her next performance review. Stress that her bringing forth important information such as this, and being a team player, is greatly appreciated by both me and the Board of Directors.”
As soon as he ended his phone conversation with Kolosky, Christos Grivas dialed another local number. This issue was going to require the assistance of someone who was not directly associated with ABO. Someone who could be discrete, and that had a certain skill set. It was imperative that he find out who the original source of the video was.
Chapter 17 (March 3, Monday 6:30pm Eastern Daylight Savings Time)
It was early evening when Jeff finally finished up his last conference call meeting and opened the door to his office. As he stepped out of his office, he saw his administrative assistant still seated at her desk. Normally she would have already left for the day, however, based upon the urgency in Dana Cogswell’s voice when she dropped off the large manila envelope, the assistant felt compelled to personally hand it over to Mr. Kolosky before leaving.
“Dana Cogswell came by a while ago and asked me to make sure you got this,” said the assistant, as she handed over the large manila envelope to Jeff.
“Thank you. I was hoping to get a chance to review this information tonight before I left the office,” responded Jeff, as he anxiously looked at the package. “I appreciate the fact that you hung around here waiting for me, but go home now and enjoy the rest of your evening. I won’t need any additional help tonight.”
The administrative assistant privately beamed over Mr. Kolosky’s appreciation of her efforts as she shut down her computer and put on her winter coat to leave. As she walked out of her office, and Jeff returned to his, the two said goodbye.
With his office door closed he opened the manila envelope and poured out the contents. A small and innocuous single DVD was all that fell out of it. He quickly inserted it into his computer’s DVD drive. A few seconds later a video window popped up on his computer screen and a high definition video started playing. Both the video and sound were clear and crisp, and featured in it was none other than the United States’ Vice President Houlton and a young beautiful South American girl.
“Dana was right,” thought Jeff. “There’s no doubt that this is the Vice President of the United States. Unfortunately, this wasn’t a video recording that had the quality of a Sasquatch sighting. Moreover, there were no breaks in the filming. Just one long continuous recording of a despicable person performing a despicable act on a defenseless person. There was no need to have the video authenticated by the IT guys. It was clearly legitimate and the fewer people that saw it the better for all.”
Jeff knew he had to call Christos Grivas back and report what he had observed on the video. However, thirty minutes after the video had finished playing he was still just staring vacantly at his computer screen. The brutality of what he had just witnessed by the Vice President touched a raw nerve in him. A nerve that he had thought he had buried a long time ago when working his way
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