Chapter 26
Chapter 27: Boutique Karma
By noon, the financial news networks were entirely consumed by the collapse of Vanguard Holdings.
Without the capital from his primary investors, Victor Sterling could not hide the massive, gaping holes in his own supply chain. The federal indictments that Elena had warned Arthur about—indictments she had personally helped quietly expedite through her legal philanthropy network—were unsealed.
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It was boutique karma in its purest form. Victor had tried to steal an ethical empire to save his corrupt one, and in doing so, he had drawn the blinding spotlight of the entire financial world directly onto his own crimes.
He was stripped of his CEO title by 2:00 PM. His assets were frozen. The very workers he had exploited and silenced were now being legally protected and funded by The Vanguard Initiative to testify against him. The betrayal narrative he had tried to write for Elena had been entirely rewritten into a story of absolute social justice.
