Chapter 6 - The Federal Grand Jury Indicts The Vandermark Family
By Monday morning, news channels across the United States broadcast Victoria's mugshot alongside headlines of the ruined society wedding. Federal prosecutors filed a thirty-page indictment charging Victoria and her father with systematic racketeering and securities fraud.
In the federal courthouse on Foley Square, Judge Martinez set bail at fifty million dollars, citing extreme flight risks. Victoria sat at the defense table in orange institutional scrubs, her high-society glamour replaced by absolute terror and isolation.
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Her high-powered attorneys argued frantically for house arrest, but the prosecutor presented video footage of her packing passport binders. The judge slammed her gavel down with authority, remanding Victoria to the Metropolitan Detention Center pending trial.
Her reign over Manhattan's elite social circles had come to a permanent, humiliating halt.
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