The Week Before

 The next three days ,Bee Bee and Sofia represented the young ladies, all parolees,including Ms. Virginia , all assigned to the late, Stanley Walker in court... (All of them had been blackmailed by him saying their last urinalysis test they took was ''Hot" , positive for marijuana..Since there was no physical proof of this,( it all went up in smoke when his houseboat exploded and burned to a crisp)...There was no proof whether this was true or not.

All of these women,(numbering as many as 60) had been propositioned for sex and money by him and had been pimped out to his friends...(Some of them other male Parole Officers) with the threat that failure to comply could land them back in prison to finish out their sentences. He had been doing this  for up to five years, it turned out.

The scandal caught the news media's attention...

The Dead Stanley Walker's smarmy double life was exposed for the city to see... His history with women on the police force and even at his office was also made public..

Lt. Sissy Van Buren and the detectives of the Criminal Investigation Division as well as detectives from Special Victims Unit arrested 52 men involved in the scandal...They all testified that this was true and that they had taken advantage of several young ladies provided for them by Stanley Walker and paid him for their services.

 They thanked Jade for her investigation and her help with their investigation. This story took on a life of it's own.....

B.L. Benz had Beatrice and Sofia on his show, HARD BOTTOM to discuss the Landmark case and scandal.

At Curley's Bar...Lt. Tragg fumed with anger, watching it on the Television monitor there....

My Father ruled that none of these girls had to take another urinalysis until next year.....Letting them all off the hook completely, Reversing Lt. Tragg's actions and deal with the Parole Office.....He also ordered a complete investigation, by the D.A.'s office of the Parole Office.

Ms. Yvette's husband, D.A. Investigator, Gary Lockwood headed the investigation.

A Nice Victory...

TWO DAYS LATER-

In another courtroom... Kahlil and I successfully got a Judge, 

Our good friend, Judge Elise Cummings to lift the suspension of Cierra's Private Investigator license and restore it....allowing her to work as an investigator at the Women's Law Center until her trial.

B.L. Benz had Cierra Rodriguez on his show..She was accused of murdering sleazeball Stanley Walker..

Public opinion was now on her side.. She maintained her innocence..

He had Kahlil and I on his show also... Part of her defense team...

Lt. Tragg was livid when he heard the news of both of our victories in court... He wouldn't be seeing any of the parolee's going back to prison, and his murder suspect had gotten her P.I. License restored..as well as being free on bail....

Once again, He went to our old building looking for us...Loaded for bear, Angry and fuming...

Once again...He discovered our old suite locked, the lights off ...Empty!

He wanted Jade more than any of us.....He wanted to pull her license for some silly made up term, "Interfering with an investigation."  He'd have a hard time proving that! Her investigation had nothing to do with his murder case at all...At least not yet. 

He also " wanted" Kahlil, Sofia, Bee Bee and myself...though I wondered what he was going to do if he found us?...We had broken no law...We had merely done our jobs as attorneys and check mated him.. He probably wanted to vent and yell...Not today!  

We were miles away, halfway across town...In our new building..

.at our own conference room celebrating. Safe from him!

"Congratulations to my great team...Jobs well done." said a very happy Ms. Yvette...

She had Champaigne and several glasses for all of us..

She popped the bottle and we began to drink...

''All we have to do is get these murder charges dropped." I said.

"Yeah, now for the hard part."said Bee Bee.

''All these victories this week mean nothing if we fail in that."said Sofia.

"Don't worry , we'll get her off..." said Kahlil.

"I have faith in you....If you guys take on my case the way you argued these two cases this week..I'm a cinch to get off."said a Jubilant Cierra.

"I'm still investigating." said Jade..

''Always good to know, Always good to know Jade."said a happy and relieved Ms. Virginia.

we had a sandwich tray with all kinds of meats and cheeses, mayo, mustard and hard rolls for sandwiches..

and condiments...

II-

CURLEY'S BAR- FRIDAY NIGHT

Detective Sgt. Lenny Brice was having his fourth beer..... He had been listening to Lt. Tragg whine and complain all night long...

"And all the guys at the Parole Office are angry at me.. THEY SAY IT'S MY FAULT...MY FAULT THAT THEY ARE BEING INVESTIGATED BECAUSE I PUSHED TO HAVE ALL OF STANLEY'S FEMALE PAROLEES RETESTED... I HAD NO IDEA STANLEY WAS BLACKMAILING THE GIRLS AND PIMPING THEM OUT ......THAT'S NOT ON ME!!!!   THEY SHOULD BE ANGRY AT BEATRICE EVANS AND SOFIA GARCIA....

THE TWO LAWYERS WHO GOT THE ORDER RESCINDED AND BROUGHT ALL THOSE GIRLS INTO THE COURT TO TESTIFY....THEY ARE THE ONES WHO BLEW THE DOOR OPEN ON ALL OF THOSE GOINGS ON!!!  YET THEY ARE ANGRY AT ME!!" bellowed Lt. Tragg.

"I told you, I had interviewed all of those girls and cleared them...It was in my report...There was no need for you to reinterview them and then shang hai them like you did and order them to be retested..That was none of your business.... Naturally they went to lawyers...What did you expect?" said Sgt. Brice, who was glad he was no longer a part of it.

Talking to Lt. Tragg was like talking to a brick wall....He didn't see any wrong doing on his part....It was all the two young lawyers fault..

"AND FURTHER MORE... THOSE OTHER TWO, KEITH JONES AND KAHLIL WHAT EVER HIS LAST NAME IS..

"THEY GOT THAT GIRL HER P.I. LICENSE BACK AFTER I HAD PULLED IT.... I DON'T BELIEVE IT...." he bellowed.

"Looks like Yvette's team have had quite a good week." said Sgt. Brice....

"YEAH, AT MY EXPENSE!" said Lt. Tragg. He plunked a few dollars on the counter to pay for their drinks..

"I'll see ya later Lenny." he said and got up and left.

"Yeah, See ya Artie." he said.  He looked at Curley... "He really needs to get laid." he said.

"You think that'll help?" said Curley as both men laughed...

He might not have been getting laid... 

but Bee Bee and I were at home "celebrating" our successful week..

"Wow...A Friday Night and we are all cozy and warm in our home eh Hot Stuff?" said Bee Bee.

"We must be getting old...Normally we'd be out at a club or at the movies or something." I said.

"Nah, everybody is home tonight.." Jazzy and Dabnis said they were staying in...So did Kayla And Ray and Jessie and Chip...Olivia, Donnie Ray, Beverly, Nelson, Josie ,Paris, Bree and Tony all said they were staying in tonight too..I know Ms. Alfreda and Rockland are home."said Bee Bee.

"Plus.It's kinda cold. " said Bee Bee.

"I imagine they're all doing the same thing we are doing....Let me warm you up." I said.

"Ummmmmmmmm yesss.." she moaned as we kissed up against our bedroom wall... Gone were the days when we were in our apartment and we had to make sure the door was locked and closed...

I slipped her panties down...and she stepped out of them.....

we continued to kiss and I continued squeezing her nice round butt...The things dreams were made of..

She stroked me softly...

"OUUUUUUUUUUUU LOOK AT YOU HOT STUFF....ALL LARGE AND HARD..UMMM" she cooed.

I lifted her up and slowly entered her..

"OH MY GOD!! OUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!" she yelled out startling me..

She giggled...

I placed her on the dresser and entered her again ,slowly and softly....I was glad it was Friday Night...we didn't have to get up early tomorrow morning..

Our bed was rumbling as we began making sweet love on top of it..

And finally in it for the next NINE TO TEN HOURS!!!...

And next door... Sofia and Kahlil were wasting no time either..

''What a great night...We should of went out to celebrate...but we can do that another night.. Maybe tomorrow."said Sofia.

"Yeah......practically everybody said they were staying in tonight anyway...I heard the all talking on the train." said Kahlil.

''And Anyway...I'd rather be here, alone , with you.."said Kahlil..taking Sofia in his arms and kissing her.

"AWWWWWWWWW PAPI!" she said.

He slipped her panties down....

And lifted her up and entered Sofia slowly...

"AYYYYYE MIOS DIOS PAPI!" she yelled out... "OUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!" she screamed.

"SHE IS SOOO LOUD!" said Bee Bee..laughing.. We could hear her next door..

As we continued to make sweet love....

Kahlil had Sofia on the counter in their bedroom really putting it to her...

"OUUUUUUUUUUUU...UMMMMMMMMMMMMMM PAPI, I LOVE YOU!" she screamed out..

"I LOVE YOU TOOO MAMASITA!" he yelled out.....

Soon they were on the bedroom floor going at it..

"AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!! UMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM! OHHHHHH MY GOD MAMASITA!!! OUUUUUUUUUUU!" he moaned.

"PAPI!" said Sofia , softly....

They sat on the side of the bed, staring into each others eyes and kissing quietly as Sofia moved up and down on Kahlil...which was driving him to near delirium.

She rode him like a surfer rides the waves....Kahlil's eyes were rolling into the back of his head he felt so good...

and like us... They made sweet love for the next EIGHT TO NINE HOURS, into the early morning!

III-

MONDAY MORNING!~

Monday Morning... Ms. Yvette had picked up some nice cuts of New York Strip Steak and given it to the cook here in our building's cafeteria and had it cooked up just for us...We had steak and eggs with hash browns, orange juice and Champaigne..

"OHHH WOWWWW! This is great.."said Bee Bee.

"Steak and Eggs..." I said.

" This is incredible.."said Sofia.

"Thank You Ms. Yvette.."said Kahlil.

''Thank You...all of you..Best staff a girl could have...You all did great in court last week...I appreciate it...It gave me time to work on the trial...The murder trial defense..I missed you all...It was quiet, but I appreciate the extra work you guys did..All of you...Saturday, Gary drove me up here to that meat store that Jetty shops at and I bought these ..I gave these to the cook early this morning and he prepared them just right."said a smiling Ms. Yvette.

"Thank Youuuuuu.Thank you soo much."said Jade.

"Yessssss..I am starving..."said Ms. Virginia as we all chowed down....

Attorney Nina Rios and her investigator, our client, Cierra Rodriguez 

walked into our cafeteria and joined us...

They brought their food over to our table and joined us..

"Good Morning Yvette... I had a court appearence this morning and I took Cierra with me.. We were going to have breakfast at Sam Mothers afterwords...but that butthead, Lt. Tragg was there.

"Before we could sit down he was bellowing and whining about how as a former Assistant District Attorney I was a traitor for going against him and get this allowing you guys to stop those girls from having a second test and having Cierra's license restored. I tried to reason with him...I told him I am no longer an Assistant District Attorney and that my loyalty is to victimized women, including my investigator, who he had hindered from doing her duties to me...It was useless, talking to him is always useless unless he wants to run his grubby hands up under your dress....Rather than argue with him...I took Cierra with me and we got on the train...I don't think he knows where the Women's Law Center is and I know he doesn't know about this place.. So here we are."said Nina..

Our friends, Jazzy, Dabnis, Kayla, Ray,Tony ,Jessie and Chip all walked in and got their breakfasts and sat down near us....

All of us, safe and secure here.

Sometime Later in our conference room...

"Nia...I am so sorry about your run in with Lt. Tragg..Here, both of you take these...We don't need em anymore since we work here....They are building passes....This gets you inside our building and into our cafeteria and our gym....You can eat here or work out at our gym whenever you like..We love it here...The cook staff is super friendly and they can really burn in the kitchen and the gym is super 
modern and comes in handy with all that good food.." said Ms. Yvette.

''We all love Sam Mother's...but let's face it. When Lt. Tragg is around it is unbearable...Impossible to enjoy a meal in there....Nobody wants to eat and have him bearing down on you, whining, complaining, threatening...Here you can eat in peace....Here we are far far away from his haranging..." I said.

"Thank You..." said Nia.

"Olivia, Beverly and their entire crew have building passes too, They eat here, rather than go to Sam's after court for the same reasons." explained Sofia.

"This is a Portal....Keep a low profile Cierra , We will keep you abreast of the status of your case..."said Bee Bee, handing her the Portal.

"And this is a burner phone...Write this number down...Call us on this...and this only...Not our personal numbers and not our business numbers.."said Kahlil.

"Thank Youuuuu, you guys are the best..."said Cierra.

"Thank you guys...Cierra, we are going by your place after we leave here....Pack an overnight bag...You're staying with me.."said Nina..

Yvette smiled....

IV-

MONDAY NIGHT-

Ms Yvette and her husband, Gary, Ms. Jade and her husband, Lt. Danny Ho met for drinks at the Aqua Rooftop Bar... It was a nice peaceful fall night...The bar supplied heaters for those who were sitting on the rooftop,looking out at the city...

They were all enjoying Martinis...

"The state doesn't have much of a case against this girl... She has a motive...Like the other girls ,she was threatened with being violated....sent back to prison because of allegedly "hot urine."  Like the other girls she was forced to sleep with Walker and a few of his cronies... I realize she doesn't have much of an alibi... She went to work and then went home....Alone...Maybe if we can find one person that saw her that night....We might have something."said Yvette.

"Tragg is becoming sloppier and sloppier in his need to be on Television..I'm a former Homicide detective,,,He has nothing...He doesn't even have enough to make an arrest... There were sixty other young women, including Ms. Virginia , who all had better motives ." said Gary.

"They all had air tight alibis...They were seen , they had people vouch for them.... Sgt Brice did a thorough investigation and I saw his notes...He said that in his opinion, Cierra Rodriguez was NOT a person of interest....Yet Lt. Tragg arrested her because she appears to have no alibi."said Jade.

Her husband, Lt. Danny Ho sighed.. "He used to chair the monthly comstat meetings in which he would spend an hour berating Sgt's and Lieutenants about their performances and unclosed cases...We all hated to go to these meetings..It was a wasted hour.. He has disgraced and embarrassed himself so much lately, that we haven't had one in oh about 8 months." he said.

They all laughed and enjoyed their Martini's..

"This definitely isn't her....Think about it... His Houseboat was bombed almost simultaneously with his murder.... Cierra doesn't own a firearm...As a recently paroled person she can't have one...Not yet...I don't think she has a knowledge of bombs.... The ATF said his boat was laced with very crude plastic explosives... This was way above her pay grade....The heat generated by these explosives incinerated everything on that boat...This may have been two people.....Walker was shot by the Marina and his boat went up in smoke almost immediately." said Jade.

"That means this was a professional job."said Yvette.

"Oh Most definitely...Everything about this says Professional Hit...."said Yvette's husband, Gary.

Jade put a glossy on the table...

"This guy is very interesting... His name is Donald Wickersham....He's a High powered attorney.. His brother was one of the Judges that Ms. Virginia sent to prison in that corruption case... His brother was disbarred and convicted, did 5 years and was released...Couldn't find a job , even as a consultant and is living in Florida now.

He's important because he represents a major Hedge Fund.....Here of late he's been under investigation...over one million dollars or more has vanished in the past year.... He's a good friend with the dead Stanley Walker , who by the way has an account in the Caymen Islands...under his name... I'm thinking he didn't even know that his name is on a dummy account...I'm thinking that that is where the missing Hedge Fund Money is."said Jade.

"What has this got to do with Stanley Walker? I mean other than they were friends?" asked Ms. Yvette.

''Stanley Walker was extorting small sums of money from these girls.. but look at his bank account, over $400K....He wasn't making that kind of money from these poor girls...No somebody was paying him big money, Extortion money.....Which brings me to this girl..

"Society girl, Marla Staples... She's Donald Wickersham's little kept woman... He has her in a Penthouse Apartment downtown..It goes for $3000.00 a month... His wife would uh probably like to know this...

I found out that Donald's buddy, sleazy Stanley Walker was a constant late night visitor... He obviously had something on her... She was a constant visitor of his houseboat too!  Donald would like to know that. In the month before the murder and boathouse explosion...She made a phone call..a couple of Phone calls to Detroit, to a guy known to the underworld as the Nephew and heir apparent to the Late Great "BIG TUNA"... Next thing you know...The Houseboat is blown to smithereens and Stanley Walker is shot to death." said Jade.

"WOW!! This was a great investigation."said her husband, Lt. Danny Ho of Robbery-Homicide.

"This is a fantastic story Jade...but can we prove it?" said Ms. Yvette.

"I have phone records, Bank statements and a few photographs...It's worth making an argument.. An argument that should show reasonable doubt at least."said Jade.

"It's all we have... Keep digging...I'm going with it...This girl is innocent.. This is obviously something else and I'm going to show it."said Ms. Yvette.

(CONCLUSION NEXT)