This was different from the last time when Luke had caught the two boys as decorators.
It was just a verbal agreement, and they would be paid in cash on a daily basis. Luke wasn't afraid that the two boys would sue him.
Foggy thought for a moment, but was still a little hesitant. "Will … that work?"
Luke took another sip of beer and said unhurriedly, "Charlie and Raqael were responsible for transporting the trash and building materials during the last renovation. I only paid them twenty dollars an hour."
Foggy and Matt were speechless.
Of course they knew about this. Temple had mentioned it to them.
If it were a regular maintenance company, even if they didn't have any skills, the hourly wage for a worker wouldn't be less than fifty dollars.
The workers themselves wouldn't earn that much money, and most of it would be taken by the maintenance company.
Thinking that, the two of them felt that the suggestion was a little interesting.
Luke said with a smile, "Also, Foggy, didn't you say that you know a friend who works as a maintenance worker? You learned how to fix Elena's plumbing from him. You can find a few suitable workers to save those families some money. "
Foggy scratched his head. "Is that so? That's worth considering. "
Luke continued, "Charlie and Raqael will be the odd-job workers for now. Oh, right, I saw them with seven or eight friends last time. The leader seems to be called Hudson! These kids don't seem to have anything to do. Why don't you contact their elders directly? Maybe they need this part-time job too. "
Foggy and Matt were both stunned and speechless.
At this point, the two of them completely understood.
What did Charlie, Raqael, and Hudson's friends have in common?
Firstly, they were all underage or had just reached adulthood in the Clinton area.
Secondly, they had all set their sights on Luke's new home.
A certain person's heart was really "big"! Foggy and Matt couldn't help but curse inwardly.
But Luke's suggestion was indeed feasible. If it succeeded, no one would lose out. At most, those idle kids would get a taste of labor education.
Also, this was a serious job that had to be paid.
Was this a bad thing for those kids? Definitely not.
Most kids didn't like to read, but was reading a bad thing? Many people only realized when they grew up that reading really was a good thing; it was just that kids didn't really enjoy it.
Luke didn't mind if Foggy and Matt knew what he was thinking.
This was an open scheme.
In any case … he had already paid!
He did not feel guilty at all for spending money to hire people to work for him.
The charity fund and 2.3 million yuan were created by him using his real identity.
Luke had already used the police's missing person information to get a lot of these unimportant aliases.
Every alias would be abandoned after one or two uses, so he was not afraid of being investigated at all. Therefore, he directly went to the casino to launder a small amount of black money for future use.
To put it simply, all these sockpuppets had to do was exchange their cash for chips, lose a few rounds, and then exchange it back for money, and it would become gambling income.
As long as tax is paid, it is legal income.
This kind of method was not suitable for the main body to use, and it was also not suitable for a large number of identities to be cashed out, as it would attract too much attention.
However, using a large number of real identities to launder some money for backup was not a problem.
The accounts of these real accounts did not have much money, ranging from a million to a hundred thousand, and even ten thousand. The last type of account had the most accounts.
Luke had been using these aliases to rent a car, rent a house, and book a plane ticket when he was out on his own, which made it very easy to cover his tracks.
And this donation was an idea that he had come up with on the spur of the moment.
He had also donated money to the California earthquake using his aliases before. In any case, he probably wouldn't be able to use up the black money he had donated in this lifetime.
But after seeing Foggy and Matt, he felt that he could use this indirect method to do good.
In America, he could definitely find lawyers to provide legal aid to the poor, but he couldn't guarantee how professional those lawyers would be.
In fact, America itself had this kind of pro bono legal aid.
The line "If you can't afford a lawyer, the government can assign you a lawyer for free" in movies and TV shows was the legal aid work that the court forced the various law firms to assign.
Depending on the number of lawyers, the number of public legal aid cases would increase or decrease.
Law firms, on the other hand, would hand over most legal aid cases to interns to save the time of the real lawyers.
The real lawyers' time was very precious — starting from five hundred dollars an hour, which was definitely expensive.
Interns weren't good enough. Secondly, this kind of legal aid only required the number of cases they took on, and didn't test whether the lawyers had done their best.
It wasn't uncommon for people who didn't need to go to jail to end up in jail for years or decades because of irresponsible public lawyers.
Compared to that, lawyers like Foggy and Matt who were willing to provide pro bono legal aid and did their best were really rare.
Luke didn't mind spending some money to see how long they could last.
Even if they changed their ways in a year or two, they would still help a lot of people in the meantime.
As long as they could stick to their original intentions, Lawyer Matt would be a teammate worth investing in.
Thinking that, Luke said, "How about this? Since it's to solve the problems of the neighbors in Clinton, I'll do my part. For every child who contributes to the reconstruction of Clinton, I'll give their family a living allowance of 1,000 to 10,000 dollars. "
Foggy, Matt and Karen all turned their heads in surprise. "Huh?"
Selina interjected at the right time, "Count me in."
Luke nodded with a smile. "Okay. This donation will start at 100,000 dollars. You can draft a donation agreement tomorrow and get a check from us. "
Karen couldn't help but ask, "That's a lot of money. Aren't you going to consider it?"
Even with the minimum donation, Luke and Selina each had to fork out 50,000 dollars.
Most families in America didn't have 50,000 dollars in savings, let alone young people like Luke and Selina.
Karen was worried that they were putting on airs.
Luke was amused. "Don't worry. In fact, it's not a problem for each of us to fork out 100,000 dollars. It depends on how many children are willing to contribute to the reconstruction of the community."
Hearing that, Matt's heart skipped a beat, and he couldn't help but shake his head with a bitter smile. This guy really held a grudge.
It was obvious that they were throwing money at Charlie, Raqael, and Hudson, these black kids, to be forced to do hard labor.
But it was still the same thing: this wasn't a bad thing for those kids.
In the lives of these kids, only their "brothers" would use money to lure them into gangs and sell illegal drugs.
Spending money to make them do volunteer work was something that only a philanthropist would do.
Thinking that, Matt nodded decisively. "Okay. I'll draft a donation agreement for you to look over tomorrow."
Luke and Selina nodded, and everyone started discussing the plan for the renovation team.
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