Tax Day

Chapter 29 starts out on tax day, April 15^th.  Since Bendini, Lambert & Locke specializes in tax law, they were super busy trying to get all their clients taxes prepared and filed before the day was over.  Since Abby supposedly left Mitch for a cooling off period, Mitch worked almost twenty-four seven.  Mitch’s mentor, Avery, had a client that was extremely upset over having to pay a very large sum in taxes so Avery had to fly out to smooth things over.  After driving Avery to the airport, Mitch went back to the office and carefully got into Avery’s office.  He was curious about some file cabinets that were off to the side.  He took a key that was made by Tammy posing as a cleaning lady in the firm and opened the cabinets.  He found a bunch of files that looked suspicious and started copying them.  He was a little worried about copying so many files because you have to load a client access code in before copying so each client is charge right.  He faked the system and punched in bogus access codes so no one would get suspicious.  The firm always shut down the day after tax day to give everyone a break.

Tarrance, the FBI agent, tracks Mitch down to see if he was ready to make a deal to help infiltrate the firm and dig up enough evidence to allow the FBI to take the firm down.  Mitch reminder him that until all his demands were agree on, there was no deal.  The toughest demand was getting his brother, Ray, out of prison.  Mitch seemed to be in power and control now with the FBI.  Probably because the FBI new that Mitch was the closest ticket they had in getting the evidence on the firm.

DeVasher is very suspicious of Abby and Mitch’s separation.  He doesn’t believe it’s real.  He is also suspicious of all the copies ran on the 15^th and based on everyone else being out of the building and the location of the copier, it had to be Mitch.  The partners decide to run prints on the files in Avery’s office.  It’s getting very evident that the firm doesn’t trust Mitch and eventually the mob boss orders DeVasher to start the process of taking Mitch out, killing him.