Chapter 7 - The Final Audit
The digital forensic audit of Aegis Holdings Group and its interlocking subsidiaries took exactly forty-eight hours to complete. Marcus Vance walked into my office just as the sun was beginning to dip below the Manhattan skyline, carrying a leather-bound folio that smelled faintly of freshly printed paper and machine toner.
"The federal investigators finished cross-referencing the offshore accounts in the Cayman Islands with the corporate routing numbers," Marcus said, laying the folio flat on my glass desk. "Every single dollar that Daniel Mercer and Sienna Blake diverted has been traced, accounted for, and subjected to emergency freeze orders by the federal banking commission."
I leaned back in my ergonomic leather chair, rubbing my temples where a dull, persistent ache had lived for weeks. "How much total?"
"Eighty-four million dollars," Marcus replied evenly. "Spread across forty-two shell entities, real estate holdings in Miami and London, and high-yield private equity funds. The vast majority of it came from the liquidation of assets belonging to elderly beneficiaries who were coerced into signing predatory guardianship transfers."
My jaw tightened. "And the victims?"
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"Restitution notices are already being dispatched by the Department of Justice," Marcus said. "Every family whose trust was looted will receive full compensation plus statutory interest, funded directly by the seized assets of Aegis Holdings and Daniel's personal accounts."
"Good," I murmured, staring out the window at the flashing lights of the city. "Make sure our legal team assists the federal prosecutors in any way possible to ensure neither of them sees daylight for a very long time."
