A large force of FBI agents broke down the door and detained an underworld boss who had already begun keeping a low profile, charging him with more than twenty offenses.
The same thing happened throughout Hell's Kitchen.
For a time, all of Hell's Kitchen was on edge.
Matt should have been delighted by this, but his sharp instincts told him something was wrong.
After taking down a low-level member of one of Hell's Kitchen's gangs, Matt pinned him down and questioned him.
"I don't know. We shut down our business a while ago, but they still found us."
Those were the gang member's exact words.
Some people, emboldened by their own abilities, had tried to expand their operations during the lull following the Battle of New York.
Others had chosen to lie low, hoping to get through this sensitive period unscathed.
Yet it was precisely those people who were being arrested in droves.
Every television news report lavished praise on the FBI.
Matt tracked down several more gang members who had escaped arrest and questioned them, receiving remarkably similar answers.
His keen instincts as a lawyer told him something was off.
He continued investigating in Hell's Kitchen, but the gangs that had been arrested had few connections to one another.
Some had even worked under Kingpin before, only to build up their own operations and gradually slip out of his control after he went to prison.
Matt could not make sense of it, but he could feel an undercurrent stirring beneath Hell's Kitchen.
As a lawyer, though, he lacked the authority to make the FBI cooperate with him.
With no other options left, he thought of John.
He was the most powerful person Matt knew. As a wealthy man, John was beyond even the District Attorney's reach.
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