Chapter 10 - Northgate’s Board Removes Travis
Northgate’s independent directors convened an emergency meeting.
Travis was not immediately declared guilty of everything alleged.
He was placed on leave pending investigation.
Martin was terminated after internal findings regarding badge duplication and unauthorized document manipulation, subject to the separate legal process.
Victor’s firm withdrew from the development partnership.
The $3.4 million transfer never completed.
The land remained at Northgate.
Most importantly, records were frozen.
Forensic specialists imaged servers.
Audit logs were preserved.
Old board minutes were compared with originals.
My signature appeared on more documents.
Some were genuine.
Some were not.
Document examiners did not rely on appearance alone.
They compared source files, metadata, signing workflows, email transmission, and version history.
The pattern stretched back nearly five years.
Around the time Travis first started telling me:
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“The kids need you. Let me handle Northgate.”
The sentence looked different now.
