Chapter 8 - Corporate Board Members Panic In Silence
Among the stunned guests standing near the rear exits were three executive board members of Vance Global Technologies.
They turned silently toward the service doors, attempting to slip away into the rainy New York night before federal warrants reached them.
“Don't bother checking your flight reservations to Zurich, gentlemen,” Agent Miller called out without turning around.
Six additional tactical officers blocked the exit doors, their arms crossed over their olive-drab windbreakers with absolute finality.
“Your corporate laptops and offshore servers were seized by the FBI cybercrime division twenty minutes before this gala began,” Miller added.
The executives stopped dead in their tracks, their briefcases slipping from their trembling fingers onto the carpeted floor.
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They realized that Arthur and Eleanor were not the only ones going down; the entire corporate apparatus was collapsing in real time.
Maren watched them with quiet satisfaction, knowing that systemic corruption could no longer hide behind expensive suits and charity galas.
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