The Famous Black Book

Jennifer Desai was five feet eleven inches tall and a gorgeous girl. Jennifer held the Miss Washington DC title in 2018. A law student in her third year in 2020 at Georgetown University. She was married in 2015 to CEO Jayant Desai of Desai Cleaning Services LLC. Jayant was six feet four inches tall and a very handsome man too. A Punjabi Hindu from New Delhi, India, with humble beginnings. His parents were lower middle class. Bought up in poverty was always making quick schemes to become rich since childhood. He was the only son and had five younger sisters. Jayant's parents wanted him to go abroad and make a life for himself, with a good education. So they send him to Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, USA, to study. His parents mortgaged their ancestral home to get a student loan from the HDFC bank in India for Jayant's studies in the US. Jayant's parents, whatever they had, invested in Jayant's education. So they were in a lot of debt. Jayant got admission to Johns Hopkins University as he was brilliant and had good grades back in India.

All his sisters were medical doctors and were practicing medicine in New Delhi. Since childhood, sisters worked and earned money that they saved for their education. Sisters were all married to high-earning doctors in New Delhi, India. They pooled cash and bought a house for their parents in Greater Kailash, a very posh area in New Delhi, India. Jayant's sisters took good care of their parents. They also made their parents debt-free. So Jayant sisters made the parents very proud. They paved the way for them to live in luxury.

Jayant and Jennifer fell in love when they were undergraduate students at Johns Hopkins University majoring in Biochemistry in 2009. Jayant was very greedy and ambitious. He married Jennifer only for American citizenship. His sisters had sent $20,000 to their brother Jayant and Jennifer in the US as their wedding gift. Jennifer and Jayant thanked the sisters for their generous contribution. They also asked them to visit the US and spend some time with them. Another reason to live in the US, Jayant did not want to support his family back in New Delhi. He always blamed Jennifer for not coming to live in India. Although, Jennifer was a charming girl. After her law school graduation, she was ready to live in India, willing to work online with a Washington DC law firm Moyer and Groover LLP and develop their practice in India for FDA law from New Delhi. India has many biotechnology companies who wanted to bring their pharmaceuticals to American Market. Jennifer saw the scope of that part of American law in India.

After his undergraduate graduation in 2011, Jayant opened the cleaning business and became very successful. He had a lot of clients. The company was doing very well. On the other hand, Jennifer took student loans and went to study law at Georgetown University in Washington DC in 2017. With a profit of $500,000 and 100 employees, he had contracts of cleaning all the big law firms on K street. Even his company had contracts to clean 50 apartment buildings in the Washington DC Metro area. He was again doing handyman work for many of his clients. As Jennifer was late studying in the library and very busy, she was not aware of what Jayant was doing. How much was the company making? Jayant had 100% ownership of his company.

Jennifer and Jayant had rented an apartment in Georgetown's posh locality, tastefully decorated it with chandeliers and carpets. Whoever visited them admired their taste. Jennifer used to leave the house at 6 AM and was back by 11 PM in the night. By that time, she was so exhausted that she went to sleep immediately without keeping tabs on Jayant's activities. She was sweet but very naïve and believed whatever Jayant told him. Jennifer was also giving tuitions to other law students to make some extra cash.

Jayant's greediness was increasing every day. Doll James was also a pretty girl six feet tall with green eyes and a model-like figure. She met Jayant in a Starbucks coffee shop on K street in Washington DC in 2015. She told Jayant that she is looking for a job as she recently got laid off from work and is an American citizen. At first instance, Jayant started liking her and made Doll his executive assistant. Doll posed an undergraduate degree from the Bahamas in history and has worked with big corporations both in the Bahamas and the US as Executive Assistant. When Jayant checked her references, they all had great words to say about her. Jayant felt a lot of attraction towards Doll.

Jayant ventured into the money laundering business also with his assistant Doll. Jayant and Doll were not only working together, but they were even sleeping, partners. Jennifer was not aware of their relationship. Jayant was not ready to abandon Jennifer, but Doll was also blackmailing him as she made some tapes of both of them sleeping together. Doll wanted Jayant to marry him, and that's why she taped their intimate moments. Doll convinced Jayant to transfer all his money to the Bahamas to avoid the USA's taxes. Jayant moved all his money to the Bahamas via underground channels dictated by Doll. Jayant had convinced Jennifer that his company was at a loss and not doing good. Jennifer believed whatever Jayant said.

As he transferred money through underground channels, the FBI kept a constant eye on his activities. When Jayant moved all the money he had in the bank to the Bahamas, Doll came in the next morning with a black book she pretended to have found in the office mailbox. Jayant went through the black book, which was of Moleskine brand. Jayant loved black diaries and was always buying that brand black book. Every American loves this Moleskine brand and has acknowledged this brand many times in their lifetime. The journal had some names of people in Russia, and there was a number to contact in Moscow. Just contacting one would get $100,000 and some work to do in America for that Russian oligarch. Doll convinced Jayant to reach that number. They both called that number and left a message in Dec 2017. By Feb 2018, they received the call back with $100,000 and redeemed it with instructions. Jayant was so mesmerized by Doll James that he did whatever she said. Jayant and Doll planned a luxurious vacation in the Bahamas. They were boarding a plane at Dulles Airport in Washington DC at 6 PM on March 25, 2019. Ms. James had talked to her partners in Russia that they would incorporate him in their organization KGB once Jayant reaches the Bahamas. If he refuses, they will kill him. As soon as they boarded, the FBI came and arrested both of them. Mr. Oliver Ferry was the lawyer of Jayant's company. The moment Jayant and Doll were apprehended, he asked authorities not to give any statement until and unless he met Mr. Ferry. Mr. Ferry filed an appeal for bail the next day in court, but their bail was not approved.

FBI informed Jennifer about her husband's arrest and charges against him. Jennifer was shocked to find all this and her husband's involvement with a woman. Jennifer took her teachers' help at Georgetown University to talk to the FBI as all her teachers were practicing lawyers. FBI gave Jennifer as well as Jayant's family in India protection. The media was buzzing with all kinds of reports. Jennifer was so scared that she was shivering and having panic attacks. She was admitted to a hospital in WashingtonDC, away from everyone's eyes. Her life was in danger.

Doll James was a Russian spy, and the FBI did raids at many places in the US and rounded off all the Russian spies in Doll James network all at once. While all spies caught were put in prison in different areas. Their trial was about to start in May 2019 for sentencing. Doll James was not cooperating with the FBI, and Jayant wanted a way out. Jayant and his attorney Mr. Ferry wanted a deal to help the FBI uncover who Doll was. Ms.James was quiet, and Jayant did not know much about her except that she and all her references were also Russian spies working in America. FBI told Jayant that she was a Russian spy and worked not only for KGB but also for Russian SVR. She was assigned the task to hire spies in America. Jayant did not know who she was until the FBI talked to him and his lawyer, Mr.Ferry. The moment Doll James came into Jayant's life, whatever she was saying, Jayant was doing exactly like that. Jayant received thirty years of imprisonment because he laundered money to the Bahamas through underground channels knowingly and getting $100,000 from the Russian spies network in America. Jayant was moved to a prison in New Jersey from Washington DC. Doll James was sentenced to hundred years imprisonment and moved to a Mississipi prison. Russia wanted her back, but America refused it. Jayant's family disowned him. Jennifer filed for divorce.

With her team of hundred FBI agents comprising both male and female agents, FBI Special Agent Dorothy Charles did a wonderful job-saving America from these dangerous spies. Dorothy and all the other hundred agents got a promotion by their director Mr. Robert Walker for the excellent work they had demonstrated. All these agents and Director Walker were invited by the United States President, the Honorable Tom Cooke, for a special felicitation evening at the White House. Jennifer graduated with excellent grades from law school in 2021 and was practicing FDA law as a partner in a boutique law firm Greenberg and Cohen LLP, and was very happy and content in life. Jennifer met a guy named Mr. Anthony Green, founder of Green Media LLC, who was very decent and never married. She fell in love with Anthony and married him in Jan 2022.

The moral of the story is one should never indulge in illegal activities. Honesty and Integrity are the most significant assertions a person can have.

Cheers and Happy Reading!

Dr.Afshan Hashmi

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Disclaimer: This story is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are products of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

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