JP Morgan Chase. New York.
Whitlock read the article once, set his phone face down, and sat with it.
Then he picked it up and read it again.
The equity positions. The real estate. The aviation assets. The two vehicles manufacturers had publicly stated could not exist. The $735 billion figure sitting at the top of a verification process Bloomberg had described as exhaustive, which had produced no origin for any of the capital behind it.
He had known about the Bellemere Family Office and that it was not a standard operation.
But he had not known the full number and he had to sit with it for a moment.
Then his phone rang. It was a Senior counsel from the Senate Banking Committee. He looked at the number and let it ring.
Twenty minutes later, he got a call from Treasury.
He understood immediately what the next seventy-two hours looked like.
JP Morgan was sitting at the intersection of two separate things that the government had just noticed in the same night.
