Chapter 10 - The Fall of Carter Systems
Three weeks later, federal agents arrested Richard Blake.
The charges connected him to financial fraud, conspiracy, obstruction, and the decades-old attack on my father. The evidence spread far beyond one company.
Alexander voluntarily surrendered internal records documenting his father’s crimes and his own failure to disclose them. He resigned as chief executive before the board could remove him.
Then he did something I never expected. He transferred the disputed shares into a court-controlled trust pending ownership proceedings.
No fight. No delay. No army of lawyers trying to bury me in paperwork.
When reporters asked why, Alexander gave only one answer outside the courthouse.
“Because they were never mine.”
But none of that mattered when I packed my car. The bank accounts, the news alerts, the frantic calls from wealth managers—it was all noise.
I buckled Sofie into her car seat. I placed the black metal puzzle box in the passenger seat.
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We drove north.
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