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Mike had never built a reverse campaign before but Carlo, Marko, and Tommaso Giovanni made such easy targets. All three brothers should be high profile, but weren’t. Nothing on them in the press. Not members of any business organizations, even the Chamber of Commerce.
Violetta fed him company names, a whole array of them, and he laid in. She wanted to put the squeeze on, then let them know it was her doing, and she wasn’t going to stop until they backed off trying to take over her businesses.
He’d started it small. A rumor out in Sacramento about a deal gone south. An ad placement on the Dark Web for a hit man—by one brother on another. The contact led nowhere of course. An attack ad from a political organization that no one had never heard of and had only existed long enough to launc
