Chapter 17 - The Wall Street Sting
The extraction helicopter touched down just in time, lifting Victoria and Marcus safely away from the burning Chicago skyscraper.
By morning, news of the Chicago hotel fire dominated national headlines, sparking intense federal investigations into corporate terrorism.
Victoria refused to go into hiding; instead, she traveled directly to Wall Street to target the Apex Syndicate's financial heartbeat.
Working alongside federal intelligence analysts, she traced the syndicate's funding to a rogue hedge fund based in Manhattan.
"The fund is managed by a man named Victor Vance—Dr. Arthur Vance's older brother," Marcus revealed during their tactical briefing.
"Victor uses dark-pool trading accounts to short Sterling stock before every attack his mercenaries execute," Victoria realized with sharp clarity.
She organized an emergency meeting with top Wall Street regulators, laying out bulletproof evidence of market manipulation and treason.
At 9:30 AM, as the stock market bell rang, federal agents raided the hedge fund's penthouse office on Wall Street.
Victor Vance was arrested live on the trading floor, his computer servers seized before he could execute a twenty-million-dollar sell order.
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Victoria stood outside the New York Stock Exchange, making a national broadcast declaration that Sterling Global would never surrender to terror.
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