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Raj? It beca at an invest Wakefield how they were putting together a buyout offer for Lancer Inc, a large supplier of transponders to the military with a forty percent premium over the market value of the stock The buyout would be announced publicly in teeks Hart ended the conversation assuring Raj he would get his usual share of the after-tax profits

They watched Hart punch off his cell, slip it in his pants pocket, and leave his study, s

"What does it al, but what does it mean?"

"Itfro and his insider at Bowerman and Hayes was this Raj" At Melissa’s blank look, she added, "When one company buys out another publicly traded coh to all the coher price per share in the h of thes at Mr Hart’s broker showing he bought up a whole lot of shares on Lancer Inc before the buyout was announced He probably made millions off this one trade It sounds like he and this Raj have pulled this off before"

Savich said, "It also s, phone records, and especially this video, that Mr Wakefield Hart would be prosecuted by the Justice Department and spend the next twenty years of his life in prison I’ to avoid that"

Savich’s cell belted out "Wild Thing"

"Savich here"

"Agent Hiller here, Savich Sorry to call you this late, but I thought you’d want to knoe’ve got a screa on at the Hart house"

"We’ll be there as soon as we can Are the daughters there?"

"No, they left earlier with a woman, Mrs Hart’s sister, I believe There’s only Mr and Mrs Hart in there, flailing at each other"

Hart hoe oak tree in the front yard of the Hart ho lazily around the at him that he killed his own son, yelled so rooo"

Savich nodded "Thanks Keep an eye on things out here, all right? If there’s any trouble, call in backup and come in after us"

Savich pressed on the doorbell

There was no "Who’s there?"--only Hart, heaving and red-faced, jerking open the door and staring at the here? It’s one o’clock in the frigging !"

"We want you to tell us about Raj, Mr Hart," Sherlock said pleasantly, and she stepped forward He took a step back into the large entry hall automatically, his face for an instant confused, then frozen with shock

"That’s right, Mr Hart," Savich said, stepping forward and sending hi back He held up the disk "We saw this video of you speaking on your cell to your buddy Raj about the Bowerman and Hayes buyout of Lancer Inc Turns out Peter left a copy with his girlfriend, Melissa Ivy"

Hart was shaking his head now "I don’t knohat you’re talking about I want both of you to leave" But he didn’t move, as if he couldn’t, only stood there, his hands fisted at his sides, struggling with the panic showing on his face

"Peterto let you kill him like you did Tommy, didn’t he? Told you he’d secreted the disk someplace safe? Didn’t you believe hi roos Sheroom a little while before She crossed her ar? White-collar crime is your specialty, isn’t it, Wake? Butyou had toyou?"

"Shut up, Carolyn, shut up! You don’t knohat you’re talking about I didn’tabout that darabbed Hart’s ar room, Mr Hart You can tell us all about it"

Carolyn Hart yelled at her husband, "It’s over, you bastard!"