Chapter 14 - THE EUROPEAN CONNECTION
Clara spread the documents across the conference table, her mind racing as she pieced together the international plot.
"Eleanor wasn't just gambling her trust fund away, David," Clara pointed out, highlighting specific wire transfers.
"She was funneling Vanderbilt corporate assets into a money-laundering network operating out of Zurich," Clara revealed.
David Vance leaned over the table, examining the signatures at the bottom of the international banking contracts.
"My God... this signature belongs to Lord Julian Sterling, the head of Sterling Global Holdings in London," David gasped.
"Lord Sterling is Eleanor's older brother," Clara noted, her sharp mind connecting the final piece of the puzzle.
"This entire assault at the gala was a distraction to prevent us from auditing the Zurich accounts before midnight," Clara realized.
She picked up her black smartphone, dialing the chief prosecutor for the Southern District of New York.
"Prosecutor Miller, this is Clara Vance. I have ironclad evidence of international money laundering involving European nobility."
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"Mobilize a federal grand jury immediately. We are going after the entire network."
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