The Wolf of Los Angeles.

Chapter 161 Active Exposure
Ocean Parkway, Twitter office building.

In the conference room, Hawke, who was watching Jada Smith and Nate Dogg having sex in the yard, had his two cell phones vibrate one after another.

He took it out and took a look, and saw that the phone had received the same text message.

"Anyone who gets my stuff tonight at Lake Balboa Park, please contact CAA, $100 million reward!"

At the end of the text message, it was signed by Will Smith and included several contact numbers of CAA.

Hawke put his phone away and noticed that Caroline, Edward and Frank were all reading text messages.

He asked, "Did you receive it too?"

Edward wondered, "We were discovered so soon?"

"Your stupid head is not fit to pick cotton!" Frank said sarcastically, "You can't even understand such a simple thing. Go find a place to jump off the building."

Caroline licked her slightly dry lips and said, "They are so bold that they actually paid a telecommunications company to send group text messages."

Hawke said, "Ask."

Caroline was very conscious and immediately picked up her phone to call her friends in different areas.

Edward also called Deborah.

After a moment, Carolyn said, "I asked seven people, from the Sacred Valley to Malibu to East Los Angeles to Long Beach, and they all received text messages."

Edward added: "And Deborah got it, too."

Hawke is absolutely certain: "Will Smith's side should send a group text message throughout Los Angeles."

"That's not the point." Frank is the oldest and knows people's hearts very well: "You should think about the $100 million first!"

He raised his voice and emphasized: "This is $100 million! Not to mention selling out people, I can even pull out a gun and kill people."

Hawke was already thinking about it.

The phone vibrated again at this time. The four people took out their phones to check the text messages and found that it was still the same text message.

Hawke knew very well that in order to shoot these videos of Will Smith and his wife, Campos mobilized a lot of people.

Normally, these people are more reliable.

But when it comes to $100 million, reliability is an extremely rare quality.

Will Smith undoubtedly gave him a difficult problem.

How can you test people's hearts in this way?
Frank is an experienced man, and he seems to have guessed Hawke's thoughts: "Few people can withstand this kind of test. It's only a matter of time before we are exposed to Will Smith."

His eyes suddenly turned to Edward: "Cotton grower, can you stand it?"

Edward said dismissively: "It's only $100 million. Who are you looking down on?"

Hawke raised his hand to stop the guys from arguing any further.

Will Smith's agency is CAA, and those bastards at CAA have given him a difficult problem.

If this matter is not handled properly, the people in Campos will lose confidence.

What Frank said makes sense. In the face of huge sums of money, it is only a matter of time before Twitter is exposed to Will Smith.

But Hawke was not too worried about this. He had originally intended to post these videos on Twitter.

It's just that the exposure time is brought forward.

Hawke immediately made a decision, turning from passive to active, and said: "Since exposure is unavoidable, we will take the initiative to expose ourselves."

Caroline, the little lamb leg, knew her boss's thoughts too well, and immediately responded: "I'll make the call, let me make the call!"

Frank looked at the woman and asked, "You want a $100 million reward?"

Caroline raised her chin slightly: "I earn this money for the company."

Hawke said, "Will Smith is a black man who started out as a rapper and hip-hop artist. Although there have been few reports about him in recent years, he may be involved with gangs. Are you sure?"

"Uh..." Caroline shrank her raised chin back: "Let the savior go."

Hawke didn't think about them, picked up his phone and called Campos, "Did you see the text message?"

Campos replied: "I saw it. I immediately called a meeting of all the people who knew about it after receiving the text message. People's hearts...are a little unsettled. At present, there is no problem, but it is hard to say if people leave here."

Hawke had already thought about it, and said directly: "Find someone you trust to call CAA and tell them that the video was resold to Twitter in the normal way, and ask them to come to Twitter."

He added: "How to ensure safety, how to get the money and how to distribute it, these are up to you to handle."

Most of the people on Campos' side had escaped from the pursuit of Mexican traffickers, so they were not ordinary people. He said, "If they dare to use shady means, Los Angeles will have another hot news."

Hawke said, "Please pay attention to your safety."

On the other side, at the Butterfly Company.

In addition to Campos, there were eight other people sitting in the conference room.

Carlos and Garcia were guarding the door on either side.

Campos looked at Juan, the youngest, and said, "In five minutes, you call CAA and tell them the actual situation. Tell them that we sold the video at a high price and want to know which company it was sold to. Let them fulfill their promise."

He looked around at everyone in the meeting room and said, "If they can get the money they promised, half will be used as the company's development fund, and the other half will be available to every participant."

The others looked at each other, and soon someone said, "Boss, we listen to you." Everyone present was able to escape from Mexico to Los Angeles, so they were not stupid and knew that one person's power was limited.

Based on our experience in Mexico, we might even lose our lives.

Campos said with a serious expression: "Let me make it clear, if anyone wants to quit, they can leave now."

No one moved.

"Juan, get ready to make a phone call." Campos also made other preparations: "Get your weapons ready."

That night, the attention of those attending the Oscars and those watching the Oscars in Los Angeles was suddenly diverted by two text messages received one after another.

What exactly happened to Will Smith became the focus of their discussion.

Harvey Weinstein was very unhappy, even though he was supposed to be the center of attention tonight.

The films he directed won the Best Actress and Best Picture awards at the four most prestigious awards ceremony at the Academy Awards.

But the limelight was suddenly stolen by Will.

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In Century City, several phones at CAA kept ringing.

The million-dollar reward attracted many people to call in and try their luck, but no one could get the correct answer.

In the conference room, Will Smith paced back and forth anxiously, looking at his watch from time to time.

James Locke and Maha Dakhil are still calling around to make contacts.

Most media outlets still prefer CAA.

Suddenly, the phone on the desk rang.

James went over quickly, said a few words after answering the call, then had someone transfer the call back to him. He asked a few questions himself, and the other party hung up the phone.

Without waiting for the agent to hang up the phone, Will asked anxiously, "Any news?"

James said: "I just received a call from someone who claimed to have taken a video of you in Lake Balboa Park. He also said that the video was taken from the park's water tower and there were two black men in it."

Will slammed the table and interrupted, "Yeah, those are the bastards!"

James continued: "They have sold the video, but they will not tell us which media it was sold to until we pay the promised bonus."

Maha sneered: "After eating the previous one, they want to eat the next one? They are dreaming."

Will's dark face didn't show any trace of a comedian: "Give me their phone numbers, I'll find someone to deal with them!"

Compared to these two people, James, a senior partner of CAA, was calmer: "Will, you finally got rid of those garbage in the quagmire, and you still want to get entangled with gangs? Once you get entangled, there will be countless troubles."

The pay phone they used there had a completely useless number.

James is very clear about what to prioritize now: "Anything that can be solved with this little money is not a problem!"

He stressed, “Will, let’s spend the money to get the video done first, and then we can talk about other things.”

Will was able to achieve what he has today as a black man. Luck was certainly important, but he was also smart. He calmed down a little and agreed: "I'll follow your arrangements."

The two sides got in touch again, and then Bilal and two CAA assistants set off with a cash check.

Within twenty minutes, Bilal called and said a name - Twitter.

Not to mention Will Smith, neither James nor Maha had ever heard of this company.

But with the company name, it will be much easier to look up other information.

Not long after, Twitter's public information was transmitted and placed in front of Will, James and others.

"This company was registered less than two months ago," James said simply. "The largest shareholder is an investment company from the Cayman Islands, the second largest shareholder is West Coast Media Entertainment Studio, and the third largest shareholder is Pacific Investment Group."

Maha was well-informed: "The Ferguson family's Pacific Investment Group?"

James glanced at the information: "It should be."

Maha frowned: "Things are a bit troublesome." She asked again: "Pacific Group only made investments?"

"I know something about this investment company. CAA executive Richard Lovett is an old acquaintance of Mary Ferguson." James is a senior partner and has heard some of the details: "Richard was one of the actual organizers of the beauty pageant that Mary Ferguson won."

He put this aside for the moment: "Let's take a look at this first. The actual controller of Twitter is Hawke Osment, the founder of West Coast Media Entertainment Studios, the daughter of Mary Ferguson, and the boyfriend of Los Angeles female detective Erica Ferguson."

Hearing this, Maha automatically came to a conclusion: "Contact them and resolve it through proper channels."

Will Smith suddenly remembered someone and said, "A friend of mine, Steve Nutter, has worked with Hawke Osment and he said they have a very good relationship."

Saint Steve Nutter, as everyone knows, is a pioneer of the black movement.

Maha thought for a moment and said, "Hawk Osment has also worked with the LAPD. I have helped Susie from the LAPD. I can try to find her."

CAA has the strength and confidence to become the top agency in Hollywood.

James said: "Okay, let's keep in touch."

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(End of this chapter)