Chapter 15 - The Corporate Purge
"This is absurd!" a board member on the left shouted, slamming his hand onto the glass table. "A mother cannot simply override thirty years of corporate governance!"
"I can when thirty years of corporate governance consisted of illegal offshore wire transfers," Clara fired back, her voice echoing across the high-ceilinged room.
She pointed to page four of the dossier lying open before them.
"Every person sitting at this table received annual 'consulting fees' from an unregistered account in the Cayman Islands," Clara revealed.
The boardroom fell dead quiet, the air turning suffocatingly heavy as the executives stared at the evidence before them.
"You have two choices today," Clara offered, leaning both hands onto the glass surface.
"Resign immediately and surrender your stock options to the child's trust... or face federal indictments by four o'clock this afternoon."
The senior chairman looked at Mark, his eyes begging for intervention.
Mark looked down at his polished shoes, completely silent, offering no lifeline to the men who had served his mother for decades.
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One by one, the board members pulled out their gold fountain pens and began signing the resignation documents attached to the back of the folders.
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