I did a work up on him...He was two years my senior..Born in New York City ,Had graduated from William and Mary College, had studied law at Penn Law School and had gone to work in the private sector for awhile before entering the world of Politics...Had married a well to do woman , 15 years his senior who had died of cancer and left him well, pretty financially sound...He was the President of City Council and according to his bank accounts and stocks, getting wealthier everyday...Seemed odd for a so called lowly public servant...
William "Fish" Bates on the other hand was a neighborhood guy ,who like me had entered the Marine Corps and had gone to college on the G.I. Bill..Had gotten his bachelors and masters from Temple and had gone on to Law school at night before getting his J.D. Had been active in neighborhood and grass roots organizing before he got himself a job as an aide to the President of City Council.
It seemed odd to me that being a lawyer himself he would take such a lowly job unless he suspected something and was trying to get close enough to find it. I suspected that this was the only way he could get close enough to find whatever it was he was looking for.
II-
Using a friend of mine who worked in the chambers where City Council was...Peeping Tom, Lockpick Johnson and I slipped inside one night ,disabled the alarm system and the cameras and bugged the telephones inside the chambers...We were breaking all kinds of laws...Getting caught was not an option...getting caught would land all of my guys a nice stay in jail and possibly have me losing my license..This was big time...Not bugging some criminal...but City Council...
We were in and out in record time and had the alarm system back up before anyone was the wiser..Then ,Clerow, Owen Todd,Sean Jackson, Peeping Tom and Lockpick Johnson watched and listened to hours of boring sessions and phone calls in the video room of the basement of my building...The Media Arts center, where my company ,Morris Communications was headquartered. The basement was also the headquarters of Morris Investigations.
It took a few nights but we finally began to hear and see what it was Fish Bates might have been talking about...
Biddle was taking pay offs and kick backs from certain officials and swaying votes certain ways in the council...
Not only that, but we uncovered a couple of lawyers and a few other public officials involved... I had them on tape, both audio and video... I had photos of numerous meetings and the results of several votes on everything from zoning to property taxes...What I had compiled was a huge case of corruption and graft...
But this wasn't the half of it... One night...We got this call...To My friend, Phillip Butler.
"Mr. Butler..."said Biddle
''Yeah?"
''Did you ever locate Kevin Morris?"he asked.
''Yeah..Bates didn't tell him nothin." said Phillip Butler
"And you know this how?" asked Biddle.
"After me and the boys had a little talk with him...we were uh certain that he didn't know nothin." laughed Butler.
"Do you think I'm a fool? I heard that Morris and his wife beat the crap out of you five big strong so called tough gangsters...One of you had to go to the hospital for a head wound and a concussion and another of your guys had his jaw broken..While a third had some hurt ribs...So I'll ask you again...Have you at least found that file?" asked Biddle.
"Morris didn't know nothing about no file." said Butler.
"If he did , he certainly didn't have to tell you..." said Biddle.
''Hey my brother is in jail charged with murder...a murder YOU ordered." screamed Butler.
''It's his own damn fault...He could have killed Thomas somewhere else...Why kill him in a crowded building with security cameras? and why didn't he get rid of the murder weapon...Your brother is a fool..He made his own bed and he must lie in it...He won't talk will he?" asked Biddle.
There was quiet then..
"No..He won't talk..but you gotta get him a good lawyer , plead it down, show him you're in his corner or somethin." said Butler.
"He doesn't know me..He doesn't know my name...He is your problem and I expect you to handle it." said Biddle.
"Why did you go outside of me to hit Fish Bates anyway?" asked Butler.
"Kut-Kut came cheap....I had a relationship with his parole officer.....I didn't know that Bates had a damaging file on me until after the order to kill him was set in motion...He had killed him before I could stop it...I had your brother silence him to tie up any loose ends.." said Biddle.
"That's you in a nut shell aint it..Tie up loose ends..." said Butler sarcastically.
''Yes sir..That would be me..Now I need you to pay Mr. Morris another visit..and get that information for me...If he doesn't have it...Kill him....The world could use one less nosy Private Investigator anyway.." said Biddle.
"What about my brother?" asked Butler.
"He'll be taken care of." said Biddle.
Peeping Tom, Lockpick Johnson, Owen Todd, Sean Jackson and Clerow looked at me.....
"He put a contract on you boss."said Clerow.
"I aint lettin you out of my sight." said Owen Todd.
"Relax...I can handle Phillip Butler...What we have here gentleman is probably more damaging than whatever Fish Bates had on him...Let's get this ready to ship to the cops when I give the word..Good job guys." I said and we all toasted with bottles of Corona.
III-
When I arrived...She was there with the lovely Dr. Hazel Hunter, Young detective Antonio Hopkins and his new partner, a woman I did not know...
''Heyy Kevin." they all said in unison.
"Kevin...This is our newest Detective, Detective Sirena Pile..." said Sissy.
"Pile...Sirena Pile...Are you Tyriq Pile's wife?" I asked.
"Guilty as charged.." she laughed. "Tyriq ,Carlotta and Sissy have told me so much about you I feel as though I know you." she said.
I smiled....Damn, between Sissy herself and Carlotta and Dr. Hunter and now, Sirena Pile..Some of the finest women on the force were in Sissy's unit...Oh my God...I wouldn't be able to concentrate with all of these fine women in my office...I wondered how Tyriq and Duke got any work done...
"I think we found your client in the river...His body washed up this morning." said Sissy...
Dr. Hunter opened the body bag and I took a look...
"Yes...that's him...That's William "Fish" Bates...aide to City Council President Warren Biddle." I said.
''Wow...his throat was slashed and he was sliced and diced up." said Sirena.
''ADA Wallace is going to want this case closed and quick." said Hop.
"This case is closed....Your killer's body is in the M.E.'s office...Kut Kut Thomas killed him..That's his M.O. , That's the guy who was rooting around in his apartment and tried to cut me up a few nights ago when Mr. Bates didn't show up." I said.
"Carlotta's victim? The one who was shot to death by Lucky Johnny Butler?" asked Sirena.
"Exactly....You might want to question John Butler...though I doubt he's going to tell you anything." I said.
"And who is that?" I asked.
"Patricia Porterhouse.....Known on the street as "Big Nasty." laughed Sissy.
''Huh?..What?" I said.
"Patricia Porterhouse is Bates niece. She won't talk to the cops...But she'll talk to you... Find her Kevin...Find out if Fish Bates told her anything or gave her something that so many people are winding up dead for."said Sissy.
"I give you two closed murder cases and you guys still want more?" I joked.
"Pretty please Kevin?" cooed Sissy.
Sissy hugged me...That warm, good smelling body of hers feeling so good...
"But, how can I tell you no?" I said.
"Awww, thank you Kevin."said Sissy, Hazel and Sirena in unison.
Sissy laughed, So did Hazel, Sirena and Hop..
IV-
''So this is biger than what it seemed?" asked my wife Sepia.
"I've got evidence that could put several people behind bars for a long time...Corruption, Bribery, Wire Fraud, You name it...If Fish Bates uncovered all of this... No wonder someone is going to such great lengths to cover it up...Two people have been murdered behind this already. I've got to find Big Nasty and get that file."I said.
"You haven't seen her in months, Do you even know where she lives?" asked Sepia.
"No...but I think I know how to get in contact with her if I have to." I said.
"Yeah..I'm betting he is...But I can't worry about him now..." I said rubbing her legs and running my hands up her nightie and on her nice round buttocks..
"Watch those hands buster." she joked.
"I am watching them." I laughed...
"You are soooo nasty." she said and turned over on her back...I leaned over and gave Sepia a nice sloppy and wet kiss..
(TO BE CONTINUED..)
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