Methods had no distinction between good and bad.
They were like tools. When tools were created, they were not labeled as just or evil—including weapons meant to take lives.
Methods were the same.
As the Jerry & Dice Group faced the greatest crisis in its history, Lin Qi's other methods began to appear as well.
The first to come knocking was the Revenue Service. Someone had anonymously reported that several important subsidiaries of the Jerry & Dice Group had been evading taxes.
According to the Federal Government's standards for whistleblower reports, anonymous reports did not necessarily have to be acted on immediately.
They could be put off until there were enough personnel available to sort through the anonymous reports.
Any investigation and evidence-gathering arranged by a government agency came at a cost.
It was wrong to assume that government agencies had no costs simply because they were government agencies.
When manpower was tight, investigating anonymous reports increased labor costs.
For example, agencies might have to create temporary positions or borrow personnel from other organizations. All of that required resources.
Because anonymous reports were filed without revealing the reporter's identity, carried no legal liability, and made it impossible to locate the reporter, they were given very little weight.
Only when an agency had idle personnel would it selectively choose some anonymous reports to investigate and gather evidence on.
In fact, it had been proven that most anonymous reports were motivated by retaliation. They were not genuine reports at all, but merely attempts to cause trouble for others.
Therefore, logically speaking, the anonymous reports targeting the Jerry & Dice Group should not have received much attention.
Besides, this was not a period when government agencies had idle personnel. Yet the Federal Revenue Service had launched a tax investigation into several key subsidiaries