Chapter 6: The Secondary Audit
By 2:00 p.m., the main executive center of LeChance Holdings downtown was under a total physical lockdown.
Four plainclothes compliance officers from the financial crimes task force stood rigidly by the glass security turnstiles.
The corporate employees were being systematically escorted out of the building, their internal access badges deactivated.
I walked straight into the central server room, flanked by Naomi Pierce and three independent federal receivers.
The air inside the terminal bay was freezing, humming with the sound of data drives processing the final liquidation.
"They didn't just try to move the Delaware liquidity reserve, Lorie," Naomi stated, pointing to her screen.
"Brooke spent the last three weeks constructing a fraudulent supply line to siphoning our core manufacturing patents."
The grand digital monitors along the concrete wall lit up, flashing bright red warning blocks across the grid.
The unredacted file summaries showed forty separate attempts to register my private designs under a shell nameplate.
They wanted to leave me with an empty corporate shell while they rebuilt the empire under a hidden offshore proxy.
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"They thought your quiet presence in the workshop meant you weren't auditing the digital certificates," Naomi added.
"But the moment Brooke initialized the transfer code, she triggered the permanent foreclosure sequence on her own block."
