Chapter 8 - Unmasking the Corporate FraudGrant stepped down from the stage, his face flushed with anger as he intercepted them in the middle of the ballroom.
“What is the meaning of this?” Grant snapped in a low, furious voice. “Audrey, you were not invited onto the VIP floor. And you—” he glared at Adam “—you don’t belong in this building.”
Adam looked down at Grant, completely unfazed by the billionaire’s rage. “I’m here as the legal custodian of the Matthew Holloway Estate Trust, Whitmore.”
“You’re a glorified plumber in a rented suit!” Grant sneered, signaling his security guards. “Guards, escort these people out of the building immediately!”
“Touch them, and you’ll be committing federal obstruction of justice, Mister Whitmore,” a commanding voice boomed from the back of the room.
Pete Marsh stepped forward, accompanied by two uniformed officers from the State Financial Crimes Unit and three federal prosecutors.
The entire ballroom went dead silent.
Pete walked up to the main podium, unzipping a leather portfolio and placing the original oilskin-bound ledger onto the glass presentation screen.
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Through the high-resolution projection system, Matthew Holloway’s handwritten entries, the original 1994 land deeds, and the bank records documenting Arthur Whitmore’s two-hundred-million-dollar fraud were displayed on the massive forty-foot screen behind the stage.
Gasps of horror and disbelief echoed through the crowd of investors.
