The entire state of California had been deliberately "set ablaze"...
A "list" from a bank vault had left the corrupt bastards of the Greater Los Angeles area on edge.
Johnny and the enraged Los Angeles SWAT had spread "fear" rapidly throughout the Greater Los Angeles area.
The FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation), USNCB (the U.S. branch of Interpol), ATF (Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives), DEA (Drug Enforcement Administration), USCG (Coast Guard), LAPD (Los Angeles Police Department), CBP (Customs and Border Protection)...
The people on the bank's list came from every one of these law enforcement agencies. It was a protective umbrella Anthony had spent decades building!
Of course, he didn't control these agencies. He wasn't in a position to.
He had simply paid off certain people inside them, so they would let him off the hook when necessary or turn a blind eye to some of his illegal activities.
Now that the "list" had been exposed by the media, these law enforcement agencies were going crazy.
A "tidal wave of investigations" was about to sweep in and drown them all—not just the "bad" ones, but even the good ones...
The media was practically celebrating. They opened hotlines at their TV stations, encouraging everyone to report the misdeeds of these corrupt bastards. Then they even pointed Johnny and the others toward their targets.
The judge whom Ryan the agent had persuaded eventually went to the TV station and worked on-site, signing arrest warrants in front of the cameras.
The corrupt politicians couldn't even put up a last-ditch fight, because the people they could call on hadn't even come to work yet.
Corrupt cops and law enforcement agents began to fight back, because they knew what awaited them in prison.
The "flames of war" began to spread through Los Angeles,