The government’s first witness was Clayton Kolde, a government employee who not only failed to do his job, but accepted hundreds of thousands of dol...ars in bribes to make sure the paperwork was in order for shipping containers of the Astro Trading Company to move off-shore without actually being inspected. He testified that he did not know what was in these shipping containers, and said that, since they were going out of the country, he wasn’t worried about it. When the prosecutor asked him. Michael ducked into an open space against the wall. He scanned the room, eyeing elegant suits of armor and classical busts. On the wall closest to was a large, finely framed oil painting of a woman. She was topless, wearing only a long dark skirt and a Victorian style choker around her neck. She held a riding crop primly in one hand. An inscription at the base of the painting read: Victoria Marplecroft. Founder. Circa 1845. Michael looked back up at the woman’s face. Her cold gray eyes gazed. I put my arms up with my hands behind my head and swirled my hips around like a hola hoop dancer laughing and teasing him saying, “yeah. So I look ****able then Josh” he shook his head and said “fuck yeah, I’m fighting the temptation here myself s*s” I immediately said, “what, you would like to **** me would you”? he replied “fuck yeah” I replied, “And you would love to slap me around and give it to me really hard then” he said, “ FUCKING Oath I WOULD’” as he laughed a bit. I couldn’t resist. Yolande, see to it.’ ‘Yes, Master.’) ‘Now, then,’ said Charles, taking his first sip of the Sherry, ‘I take it we can talk after dinner. I would, however, before we sit down to dinner, like to tell you that I spoke to George Falstaf on a secure landline, and we have agreed on the terms of the transaction Valerie proposed. Logistics will be a problem, and the damned money-laundering laws make it a real pain, but after all I am used to managing pain, it’s rather a speciality of mine. My.