Chapter 7 - The Ohio Patent Secret
Evelyn Dupont’s jaw dropped, her silver-clad body freezing as she stared at the government documents spread across the table.
“What are you talking about?” Evelyn stammered, her manipulative confidence beginning to crack under the weight of the revelation.
“My father’s company developed that turbine technology in house twenty years ago! It’s the backbone of our government defense contracts!”
“Your father stole that design from Thomas Vance in 1984, Evelyn,” Claire spoke up, her voice ringing with newfound clarity and power.
“My father was an engineer for the military in Dayton. He built the prototype in his garage before your family’s lawyers filed a false claim.”
“When Marcus and I got married two years ago, I had no idea who his family was doing business with.”
“But when your mother found out my maiden name was Vance, she realized that our marriage gave Marcus legal access to my father’s original records.”
Eleanor Sterling stood frozen near the window, her hands trembling slightly as she realized her long-buried corporate theft was unraveling.
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If the Vance patent was validated by a federal court, Dupont Aerospace would lose its four-hundred-million-dollar military contract overnight.
And Sterling Logistics would be named as a co-conspirator in a thirty-year international patent fraud scheme.
