Chapter 17
That evening, after little Lily had fallen asleep upstairs, Steven sat at his mahogany desk working on his laptop.
He contacted his old military intelligence contacts to bypass the security encryption on the accountant's file.
The computer screen flashed with cascading green code as the firewall slowly unraveled layer by layer.
Elizabeth stood behind him, resting her hands on his shoulders as the final document loaded onto the display.
A high-resolution corporate organizational chart appeared, tracing the illicit funds all the way to an anonymous shell company in New York.
"Vanguard Global Holdings," Elizabeth read the company name aloud. "I've never heard of them."
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"They aren't just a holding company," Steven said, his voice dropping into a cold whisper.
"They are a shadow private equity firm that controls over three hundred billion dollars in defense contracts."
