Chapter 775 Conspiracy
"Hey, come with us," one of the officers said, stepping up to Nathaniel with handcuffs ready.
Nathaniel was floored.
He hadn't done anything wrong, so why were these cops at his door?
And they wanted to cuff him.
Instinctively, he took a step back. "You must have the wrong guy."
"Are you Nathaniel? We matched your photo. It's you. Stop resisting and come quietly. Don't make this harder than it has to be," one of the officers barked.
If they were here to arrest Nathaniel, they must have some solid evidence. They couldn't have made a mistake.
"If you're taking me, you need to tell me why," Nathaniel demanded, still confused.
To the officers, his reaction seemed like he was trying to dodge the situation, making things worse.
The officer said, "Don't you know what you've done? You're a lawyer, dealing with the law every day, yet you break it yourself!"
He added, "Think carefully. Confess, and you'll get leniency; resist, and you'll face harsher punishment. Don't obstruct justice!"
Nathaniel had no choice but to go with them.
At the police station, they took him straight to the interrogation room, where the police chief himself would handle the case.
Chief Hugo, a man in his fifties with sharp eyes behind his glasses, looked at Nathaniel. "Nathaniel, what's your relationship with Herschel?"
"We were college classmates and have been good friends since graduation," Nathaniel replied, still not understanding why Hugo was asking these questions.
But now that he was here, he had to answer whatever was asked.
Hugo said, "You two are pretty close. Is that why you thought you could get him to help you, working together from the inside?"
"I never thought of that, and I never did such a thing," Nathaniel said, his face changing.
They were just good friends, purely platonic, with no ulterior motives.
But Hugo didn't believe Nathaniel and kept firing more questions.
Nathaniel answered each one.
Hugo's expression darkened, and he finally slammed his hand on the table. "You have a strong psychological defense, lying straight to my face, but we have evidence of your crime. Just look at these photos."
In the photos, Nathaniel and Herschel were sitting together with several bottles of alcohol and stacks of cash in front of them.
"You're accusing me of bribing a judge based on this photo?" Nathaniel found the situation absurd.
He continued, "That money was a loan. He needed a hundred thousand dollars to visit his grandmother, and I withdrew an extra twenty thousand. How can this be bribery? If you don't believe me, ask Herschel."
Hugo stared at him for a long moment before speaking. "It seems you've prepared your story well, but Herschel himself reported you for bribery, trying to sway his judgment in a case. Whose word should I trust?"
Nathaniel was stunned.At first, Nathaniel thought Hugo was bluffing until Hugo showed him a video of Herschel making the accusation.
Nathaniel watched it over and over, confirming there were no signs of tampering.
For a moment, he wondered if he was still drunk from the night before.
Why would Herschel do this?
"And the recent case you handled, where the client was suspected of laundering money for a multinational group, and the evidence you submitted," Hugo said, his brow furrowing.
He pulled out a folder and placed the documents in front of Nathaniel. "Look at what you submitted."
The contents were full of sophistry, and crucially, there was a check slipped between the pages.
With so much evidence against him, even as a lawyer, Nathaniel couldn't clear his name.
He didn't even know how things had come to this.
He had personally prepared the evidence, but what was submitted was completely different.
Someone had swapped his documents.
But who?
Nathaniel did everything himself, except for having his assistant print the documents. Where had it gone wrong?
"Nathaniel, the evidence is overwhelming. You should think about how to prove your innocence," Hugo said, standing up and looking at Nathaniel with disgust and disappointment.
Such a young, promising lawyer, and a member of the Egan family, with a bright future ahead.
But he had thrown it all away.
Bribing a judge, betraying national interests—any one of these charges could end his legal career.
At the same time, Jade learned about Nathaniel's detention.
Her first reaction was to bail him out, but after understanding the details, she was distraught. "How could it be this serious?"
"Jade, I understand your feelings, but I'm personally handling this case. I can't let him go," Hugo said when he met with her. "You know how serious this is. Please leave."
Jade didn't know how she left the police station.
After getting in her car, she didn't go home but drove to another location.
A masked man was waiting for her.
"Are you crazy?" Jade stormed over as soon as she saw his silhouette.
She shouted, "I wanted to revoke my son's law license so he could come back and take over the family business, not send him to jail. Don't you understand? We had an agreement! You promised me, and I thought you were reliable. But now my son is detained. Get him out immediately."
The masked man turned to face her.
Though Jade couldn't see his face or expression through the mask, she felt he was mocking her.
The masked man remarked, "Jade, haven't you heard the saying 'Look before you leap'? We're not related. Why should I help you? I'm not a philanthropist."
"Then you should have refused from the start. Why did you set up my son? Why?" Jade's emotions were escalating.
If this got out, Nathaniel would be ruined, and the Egan family would suffer too, with their company's image and stock prices taking a hit.
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