Chapter 292

With 30 minutes to spare, I spent it looking at emails, and I was getting a ton of them. All the emails that originated from the college division were coded. I only looked at those starred important and responded if needed. Cindy handled the rest or added notes and then sent them to me.

Then there was the shocker in the form of a folder from Amy Lockerman. The folder contained a link to the State Department email server, instructions with using my old military ID number as login and a temporary password.

At midnight last night I started getting copied on all emails between State and corporate Black Water and all emails between Black Water corporate and their employees at the eighty sites that we were taking over. They were in that folder.

Black Water was being served by Federal Agents from multiple agencies at 4PM today. Today was the forced end of their contracts with all agencies. At the same time all clearances at the corporate level were cancelled and all communication directed to Black Water from all federal agencies was redirected to JBG.

There were copies of court orders from the federal courts and the bankruptcy court handling the end of Black Water. I clicked the forward tab to send the legal documents to Howard, Fine and Howard, our corporate legal team. They had been handling that part of this venture for us.

I printed off the sections of the legal crap to give to Jenny. There were court orders to the Norfolk Bank awarding JGB the ownership of vehicles and choppers. The bank had turned down the initial offer that Marcy had made. The bank elected to have a mediator place a value on the equipment for them.

That had been a mistake as a result of being greedy. The final result was a price much lower than the one Marcy offered that they now were forced to accept from the mediator. The mediator had written off the choppers that were out of service as total losses and factored recovery cost so high on the other vehicles that many of the older ones were better off to be abandoned in place.

The mediator had reduced the value of the equipment by the cost to move it to a central location. The cost to do that was a tremendous deduction on the value and was counter to our plans to leave it in place and use it.

I was sure the agency had influenced the mediator, either way the Norfolk Bank and its insurers were left holding the bag. I was sure glad we were not using Norfolk National Bank for anything.

All this, even though expected to happen sooner than the official date, to happen this soon required more immediate action on our part. That was another topic for our meeting tonight.

The final e-mail from Amy was to watch the evening national news. There would be announcements and file footage from the contract signing. I was interrupted from my thoughts by the entrance of Duke, Clarence and Graham York. Graham was the new director of the EMS division for the County.

Duke started off the meeting by suggesting that we have a public access open house for Morton Field now that it was completed and operational. Lorrie countered that one was already in the planning stages for the spring or early summer.

"The county has been approached by a commuter air service that wants to fly a route with stops at local county airports, Ocean City, Salisbury, Dorchester, Easton, and Queen Anne, landing at BWI or Reagan. The county thought we should pass the information on to you. Morton Field is more centrally located and far better equipped," Duke said as he handed the information over to Lorrie.

"You offered to make Morton Field available for EMS Aviation. We have had several close calls that warrant we (The County) take another look at the offer. One was a fuel contamination problem, the other was a drone flown by the tax assessment division that got out of range of its controller," Gram said.

"They are next to the EMS hangar and test fly the thing every day before they leave. One of our pilots noticed that Morton Field is in a restricted no-fly area for drones. How did you pull that off?" Graham asked.