Chapter 12

The SEC moved faster than anyone expected. Within two weeks, Victor Marchand was formally charged with securities fraud, conspiracy, and corporate sabotage. His assets remained frozen. Marchand Capital Partners' investors began pulling out en masse. The man who'd spent forty years building an empire of intimidation watched it crumble from his lawyer's office. He tried one last play. A letter, hand-delivered to my loft, on cream-colored stationery with the Marchand family crest embossed in...