America 1982-Chapter 598 - 131: Transferring Money in the Name of Freedom
At first, Congressman Mike Bradley couldn’t understand why, as a Black man who intended to be a voice for his Black brethren, he was being resisted, cursed, and viciously criticized by them.
Those angry Black folks showed up near his home, near his child’s school, hurling racial insults at him and his family, the kind of slurs that not even white people had ever directed at them. They even questioned why he was trying to deprive them of their right to be exploited by predatory lenders.
The preliminary investigation report submitted to the committee by the FBI was shocking. Many Black people taking out loans ended up engaging in illegal business, which too often resulted in their bodies lying dead in the streets. Moreover, the FBI reported encountering resistance when investigating the senior executives of KeyBank, who displayed quite severe opposition.
Faced with such gruesome news, Mike Bradley requested that the FBI continue its thorough investigation and, if necessary, apply for search warrants to formally initiate a judicial investigation into KeyBank.
In hindsight, it was at that moment he stepped into a damned trap.
The very next day after giving his response, KeyBank announced, under the pressure of the investigation, that they would cooperate with the inquiry and consider suspending their small community entrepreneurship loan operations, and they made all KeyBank-related information available to the public.
Moreover, the recent incident where four undercover Black investigators looking into KeyBank were murdered by a Black street gang after appearing on television for an interview, was causing widespread anger among the poorer Black population. They saw things simply, the four damn white reporters, now employed by the news conglomerate The Washington Post and New York Post, were responsible for the death of Black people, implying that the news conglomerate had killed Black people.
And Mike Bradley, by preventing them from getting money from KeyBank, became a traitor in the eyes of the Black community.
As for why Fox Television Network, which should bear the main responsibility, was not hassled by the Black community? It’s because its recently reinstated boss, John Kruger, acted swiftly. He appeared to be furious over the incident, promptly announcing the dismissal of all staff from that news talk show program in a massive purge and stated that a new news talk show would be established, guaranteeing a hiring preference for people of color.
Most importantly, Fox Television Network announced a donation to a civil rights foundation for people of color and a sum of money for the families of the deceased Black individuals.
By comparison, the arrogant News Corporation, which pressured KeyBank to stop lending to low-income Blacks and the perceived self-righteous Congressman Mike Bradley, became the primary villains in the eyes of these impoverished Blacks.
At this point, KeyBank promptly disclosed its executive information, which was entirely different from the facts investigative reporters had claimed. KeyBank was not established by Jim Manzi, Tommy Hawk, and Stephen Binn as reporters had confidently announced. It was founded by the chiefs of five Indigenous tribes, with Tommy Hawk and Stephen Binn merely as investors, and Jim Manzi, who held an extremely small stake, was employed by the tribes to manage KeyBank’s daily operations as the CEO.
Seeing photographs of the five chiefs adorned with feather decorations, the FBI immediately contacted Mike Bradley to inquire whether he wished to proceed with the investigation. If Bradley gave an official response, the FBI was willing to go through fire and water for him to bring the leaders of the five Indigenous tribes to justice.
The moment Mike Bradley saw the information voluntarily disclosed by KeyBank, he realized that things were taking a turn for the worse. Had he known that Indigenous peoples had established KeyBank, not only would he have refrained from investigating, but the four reporters would not have bothered either. It was clear that both he and the reporters had been played, led maliciously into this investigation by someone.
Who would dare to investigate the assets of Indigenous tribes? No one, at least not until the capitalists found a more suitable pawn than the Indigenous tribes.
This was a much more sensitive issue than that of the Black people. All affairs of the Indigenous people were the sole responsibility of the Federal Office of Indigenous Affairs, established by the Federal Government. To investigate Indigenous people, one had to start with the only Office of Indigenous Affairs. This meant that all the dirty deeds white capitalists had done in the name of Indigenous people would be exposed – oil fields, mineral resources, factories, casinos, banks, ranches...
Even if Bradley announced publicly that he would only investigate KeyBank and not trouble anyone else, would those owners who utilized Indigenous people’s names to hold massive oil fields, mines, and casinos really believe it?
Indigenous people were the lenders, Black people were the borrowers, and he, along with four self-righteous investigative reporters, turned out to be fools, having offended both groups. The FBI could not possibly have lacked this information in their initial investigation, but they chose not to report it to him immediately, opting instead to put him on the spot.
Mike Bradley was no fool. He knew his political career was over. Someone was displeased with him and wanted to oust him from Congress. It was only a matter of time before his scandals were leaked.
Soon enough, Er Rash, a Democratic Party member from California, a Black lawyer, and the CEO of BT Television Network, exposed through the network that Mike Bradley had previously visited South Africa and met in private with a leader designated as a terrorist by the United States Government, accepting a gift valued at two thousand nine hundred US Dollars without reporting it to the government.
Moreover, while he constantly claimed to be a voice for Black people, in reality, the two Black maids in his household were illegal immigrants from Peru. With Bradley being a member of the United States Congress and hiring illegal immigrants, he violated Federal law. Worse still, he had even failed to pay the so-called nanny tax, the Social Security tax for the two illegal immigrants, despite his vociferous advocacy on behalf of Black people.
