Law & Order
Blood Money
Series 8, episode 25
"A man is found dead in the back of a taxi. The investigation leads to All Atlantic Insurance and a scam dating back to the holocaust."
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Opens with a taxi. The driver turns round to find his passenger dead. He had been stabbed and shot. The driver tells the cops the passenger was helped into the car by a young black guy.
They have several leads which finally take them to a bank where the victim, Peter Gromondi, has a safe deposit box. They pick up four people from partial matches of fingerprints on the cab door handle, one of which is a young black man. They go to arrest him and he runs for it but gets caught. He denies it all and they are unable to get a positive ID from a witness.
They interview Gromoldi’s son and daughter. They pass them on to a woman who was Gromoldi’s girlfriend after his wife died. After many more contacts they discover he was running an insurance scam for holocaust victims, so there are thousands of people who would want him dead.
They speak to All Atlantic Insurance as Gromoldi worked for them. They were suspects as if they were found to be accountable for the life insurance polices they would be liable for millions. They are lead back to the black guy, Ronald Dell who admits to stabling Gromoldi but doesn’t know about the shooting.
They arrest Peter’s brother, Jordan. They judge tells them they’d don’t have a case without a book that Gromoldi supposedly kept a record of all the life insurance polices he had sold in. Later in court, one of the victims of the scam testified against Jordan and the companies though did not link them directly to Gromoldi. Jordan admits to the shooting of his father.
In the end they get the head of All Atlantic Insurance to hand over the book in exchange for a plea bargin.
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