Chapter 7 - Travis Realizes Claire Has Turned
The preservation order reached Northgate Friday morning.
Travis called me eleven times.
I did not answer.
Then he called Claire.
She recorded nothing secretly.
Instead, she had counsel present and documented the conversation afterward.
Travis demanded to know who had disclosed the transfer.
Claire replied:
“I complied with a court preservation order.”
He threatened her job.
That became another issue for counsel.
By afternoon, Northgate placed Claire on paid administrative leave.
Martin Voss vanished from the office.
He did not disappear far.
Investigators later located him at his brother’s house.
Martin’s laptop contained the isolated image of my signature.
It also contained badge-cloning software supplied by Northgate’s security vendor for legitimate administrative purposes.
Tools were not the crime.
Use mattered.
Martin initially blamed Travis.
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Travis blamed Martin.
The metadata blamed both in different ways.
