Chapter 6 - Linda Had Found Something Else
Sarah expected the investigation to remain about safety retaliation.
Linda told her it was bigger.
Before the rack fell, she had been checking inventory.
Food deliveries did not match invoices.
The cafeteria was receiving less product than the government was paying
for.
At first Linda assumed clerical mistakes.
Then she found repeated shortages.
Meat.
Coffee.
Cleaning supplies.
Disposable service items.
The missing goods totaled hundreds of thousands of dollars over eighteen
months.
Linda reported it to Dennis Shaw.
The next day, he told her to stop reviewing invoices.
A week later, she complained about the rack again.
Then it fell.
Sarah asked:
“Do you think someone caused it to fall?”
Linda shook her head.
“I don’t know.”
That distinction mattered.
There was evidence officials ignored a known hazard.
There was not yet evidence they deliberately caused the collapse.
Sarah refused to turn suspicion into fact.
Then Linda revealed she had copied one invoice before losing access.
The vendor was Patriot Field Services.
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Captain Ryan recognized the name immediately.
The company belonged to Major Collins’s brother.
