Chapter 10 - National News Exposes Corporate Fraud
By noon on Christmas Day, every major news network in the Midwest interrupted their holiday programming with breaking investigative reports.
“Federal agents raid Stanford Development headquarters amid allegations of multi-million dollar wire fraud and domestic asset stripping.”
Television screens across the country displayed live helicopter footage of federal marshals hauling sealed boxes of evidence out of the corporate lobby.
Neighbors and business associates who had spent years flattering Roman at charity galas suddenly deleted his contact information from their phones.
Claire watched the broadcast from the living room of the empty penthouse, realizing she was now legally linked to a sinking criminal ship.
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She packed her designer luggage in record time, slipping out the service elevator before the media trucks could surround the building.
Roman was entirely alone in the wreckage of his own making, facing a hostile public, furious investors, and a wife who had outsmarted him.
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