Chapter 12 - A Federal Investigation Expands Into the Restaurant
The local police department handed the case over to federal prosecutors when financial audits uncovered interstate wire fraud. Federal marshals descended on Diane's restaurant, seizing computers, accounting ledgers, and safety deposit boxes from the basement.
Investigators discovered that Diane had used stolen identities and fake social security numbers to hire undocumented staff under exploitative conditions. The restaurant was immediately shut down by health and labor inspectors, its reputation permanently destroyed.
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Local news vans parked outside the shuttered building, broadcasting the shocking scandal to viewers across the entire state.
The community that once praised Diane as a successful businesswoman now recoiled in collective disgust at her crimes.
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