Chapter 75 Section 25

Jane said that after deducting the US$1.5 million already paid by the United First Uniform Factory, there are still US$2.6 million in expenses for this case.The firm decided to reduce the 40% commission written in the original contract to 28%, or 2.2 million.Thus, according to W. R. Glass's installment payment plan, each family can get $375,000 now and $80,000 in five years. No one objected at the time, but on the drive back to Woburn, Anne Anderson complained to Donna Carnon that Jane's personal commission was too high. "I don't think there's anything inappropriate about it," Donna said. "He does all the work, and we just go to the meeting."

"But he didn't lose the baby!" said Annie. Annie's dissatisfaction with Jane is growing.She said Jane spoke to them as if a teacher were talking to children.She said that if it hadn't been for her hard work and travel, there would never have been the Warburn case, and Jane went out of her way to exclude her from important decisions.Whenever they had a disagreement, Jane would always say, "Trust me, Anne, trust me." So if she cares about money, she should care too.Anne is more and more convinced that Jane never really cared about them, he just wants to use them and their pain to make capital, realize his ambitions, and earn wealth and prestige for himself.

Annie began to lobby each house.She couldn't say anything about Jane's personal commission, because there was a contract in black and white.It was the millions of dollars that made her suspicious.When Anne and the Zonas—the only allies Anne could find—raised the issue to Jane, Jane suggested that they hire an accountant to audit the books. The accountant checked thousands of invoices, receipts, etc., and found that some of them may have discrepancies in copying fees, overtime pay, and interest (in the last month, the interest on all bank loans and credit card arrears added up to 10000 yuan per day. Ten thousand U.S. dollars).The accountant ended up with a difference of about $80,000.Jian En immediately took out the check book and said that there was no need to check it again, and he accepted all these accounts.

But except for Anne and the Zona couple, the other six families are determined not to accept Jane's check. James Gordon paid off all the debts owed by the firm, sent their shares to the Lawyers Association, and took back everyone's house deeds, car deeds, life insurance, etc., office equipment and Supplies have also been brought back one after another.For Christmas, Kevin Conway bought his wife a mink coat and a home video camera.Everyone's life and work began to get back on track. Jane Hilleman also paid off all the debts, but there was only less than thirty thousand dollars left on the books, not enough to redeem his Porsche sports car.He felt like he was just recovering from a serious illness, his body was lazy, and he couldn't do anything, so he took a long vacation and went to Hawaii for a winter.

Back in Boston, Jane and Kevin teamed up on a misdiagnosis case. They spent months running around and lost.Jane began telling people that he found himself unfit to be a lawyer.This is not as his father imagined, as long as he has good eloquence and can explain his point of view to persuade others.Recalling how sacred and solemn the court used to be in my mind when I was watching the Congressional hearings of the Watergate incident on TV.But it's not until you're inside that you realize that there will be dastardly tricks and sinister plots. There are tricks, Kevin said kindly, but there may not be any real conspiracy.Kevin persuaded Jane to start a family quickly. He said that although being a bachelor is free, it also lacks motivation.If you have a wife and children to support like me, you won't have those weird ideas.

Jane says his girlfriend just moved out. Kevin said that was it. Jane still took the bus to the office every day, but he didn't take any cases, just wandered around, or sat listlessly in a daze.A year after the Warburn case, one day in September, James Gordon returned from an errand at the EPA's Boston area office, threw a stack of papers on Jane's desk, and asked, "Did you ever see this something?" Jane's eyes lit up immediately, like a hungry wolf finding its prey.He grabbed the material, and saw "J. J. Riller Tannery Hydrogeological Survey Report" written on the title page, signed Yankee Environmental Engineering Company at the bottom, and dated: 1983.

That fall, hired by Jack Riller, Yankee engineers drilled six test wells on the tannery's 15 hectares of land, and they found that, like Professor George Pindel, groundwater flowing through the tannery Through the loose stratum at the bottom of the river, they entered wells G and H.The article also mentions that on the 15 hectares near the factory building, there are several piles of "peat-like black garbage", which is very similar to the Z sample collected by Dr. John Zobinski there, a kind of soil that is heavily polluted by chemical solvents. mixture of soil and litter. In October, Jane submitted to Judge Walter Skinner a Motion to Investigate the Beechose Group and Its Defense Counsel Withholding and Concealing Key Evidence in the Warburn Case.Judge Skinner seemed very reluctant to see Jane and his Warburn case again, and it took only one day to send Jello Fisher to court.

Yes, Gero said, he did see the Yankee report, which was shown to him by Jack Riller's personal attorney, Mary Laine, before a "finding session."He flipped through it in a hurry, and it took only a minute or two. He thought it was nothing important, so he handed it back to Mary. Jane asked to subpoena Mary Rhine to testify in court, but Judge Skinner refused.The reasoning was that the document could not materially alter the jury's verdict because the jury had already learned of similar content in court through other means.Moreover, Jane himself also has an inescapable responsibility.Before the trial, Jero proposed to postpone the trial twice so as to have more time to prepare, but it was Jane who insisted on the trial being held as scheduled.