Where the bejesus is Demoses !

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''Hello and welcome, please take your places so we can start. In a few minutes mister Jack Hammerson will do his announcement. There will not be time for any questions afterwards.''
A man said through the public address system while all the journalists entered the conference room. After a couple of minutes Chief Security Officer Jack Hammerson entered the conference room and took his place behind the microphone.
''Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for coming at this short notice.'' He said while doing his final preparations.
Jack Hammerson takes one last deep breath. ''Yesterday we were alerted by an alarm going off in docking bay five of Trenton Outpost. Upon arrival we discovered that mister John Portalen, who was a recruit in our department of security, struggling with mister Jeffrey Adams, our retired ex-Chief Security Officer. '
Jack Hammerson pauses to take a sip of his glass of water and then continues.
"The fact that mister Adams was so aware of the layout of Trenton Outpost gave him to realise that mister Portalen should not have been working in the area where he was found. So he confronted mister Portalen to assertain what he was doing. Mister Portalen tried to bluff his way out at first but soon realised he was not going to succeed and resorted to violence. Mister Adams soon got the better of him and fearing that he may have been planting a bomb, forced him to reveal his purpose. Upon arrival myself and several other security officers, immediately separated the two men and took them both to a different rooms for interrogation. It became clear that mister Portalen was tampering with the internal communications equipment of Trenton Outpost. Once we gained this information from mister Jeffrey Adams and confronted mister Portalen with it, he immediately confessed.''
Jack Hammerson takes another deep breath.
''We subsequently were informed that mister John Portalen was a member of the Hellfire Legion before he wiped his status clean and became a employee of Universal Shipping Incorporated. We have come to understand that the Phantom Empire were capable of manipulating mister Portalen. They managed to extricate mister Portalen from the Hellfire Legion and to force him to fulfill assignments they give to him. The first assignment they had given mister Portalen was to clear his records, join Universal Shipping Incorporated and find out the whereabouts of the then President, Mister Erik T. Demoses.''
Jack Hammerson pauses in respect for Erik T. Demoses.
''Once mister Portalen managed to obtain this valuable information he was forced to pass this information to the Lane Hackers, who not long after, kidnapped mister Demoses from his meeting on Planet Curacao. However it seemed that the Phantom Empire was not done using John Portalen, they gave him another assignment.''
Jack Hammerson takes another sip from his glass to clear his throat.
''This assignment was to place a device within the internal communications equipment of bay five on Trenton Outpost. This would grant the Phantom Empire the ability to track all traffic in the Manhattan orbit. However before John Portalen was capable of placing the device he got interrupted by Jeffrey Adams, to whom we are indebted.''



The huge screen behind Jack Hammerson is filled with an image of a man in a USI uniform,he is not restrained but two burley security gaurds stand behind and to the side of him.
''The man you see on the screen here is mister John Portalen, it's not a live feed. This is his confession.'' Hammerson said and pressed a button on a remote control
''M-my..'' John Portalen takes a deep breath. ''M-my name is J-john Portalen. I was being manipulated by the Phantom Empire, they had given me the first part of a two part poison. They insisted I hack my own ID, leave the Hellfire Legion and apply for a job at Universal Shipping Incorporated. John Portalen takes a moment to think what he's going to say next. ''I complied and did as I was told. Once I was inside Universal Shipping as a security officer I received my first assignment. I was told to find out the exact location of President Erik T. Demoses and pass the information to a contact in the Lane Hackers. I-I-I did what they demanded but they weren't satisfied and had me place that device in Trenton Outpost comms system. 'Till that Adams flew in it went well.. Damn him they will kill me now. The Bas"
At this point the image freezes and mister Hammerson swallows and then continues.
"Needless to say mister Portalen is no longer in our employment and will be helping the Liberty Security Force with their enquiries. Thank you for attending."
Jack Hammerson gathers his papers from the lecturn and exits with a nod, the screen cuts to show Portalens ID information and DNA profile neural net links.