“Really? How so?” Mike was surprised that Rafe had intel about him. Pierre had been busy in the city since he’d arrived.

“He met with two men at the airport yesterday. They’re Chinese, a couple of big deal types we know about and keep an eye on when they come through. These two are involved with gambling in Macao. I’m pretty sure they’re involved in drugs too, but they’re careful when they come here. They came in yesterday and flew to Venezuela. They had a long layover, and de Vaumont met with them at one of the airport restaurants. I have no idea what the meeting was about, and we had no reason to question them. We had them under full surveillance. I had two of my men out of uniform sitting nearby. They spoke Chinese the whole time, and de Vaumont did too. He spent about an hour with them, and then he left. We filmed them, nothing was exchanged, no one passed anything. No money changed hands. It appeared to be strictly social, although they didn’t look like de Vaumont’s type. He’s pretty fancy, and these are both rough guys. I’m glad they flew through and didn’t stick around. I’m sure they’re up to no good.”

“There’s no way of telling why de Vaumont met with them,” Mike told him. “He seems to be all over the map with the people he meets and connections he makes. It could have been anything, as long as there’s a commission in it for him.”

“I tried to get one of my Chinese-speaking agents in to sit near them. But by the time he got there, they were leaving, and he speaks Cantonese, while they were speaking Mandarin. I just thought you’d like to know that he had a meeting out here, and who he was with.”

“He’s a hell of a busy guy,” Mike commented, wondering what the meeting was about.

“I think it’s safe to say it was either about gambling or drugs. What they wanted from de Vaumont, and how they connected with him, I don’t know,” Rafe said.

“Send me their names, and I’ll check them out. I want to see if we have them in our system. Or maybe Interpol does.”

“They keep their noses pretty clean in the States. We’ve never had anything on them we could prosecute them for. They don’t want to get arrested here. But we know who they are, so we keep an eye on them when they come to New York.”