After the recess, I called my partner Marcus Hale and said, “Activate withdrawal immediately,” and when we resumed the meeting the notifications hit one after another until the CFO confirmed that the entire two point one billion had been pulled.
Victor called it unacceptable, but legality and reality are not the same thing when documentation exists, and within hours he was removed and the company began unraveling.
The story went public quickly, and while analysts debated whether I had overreacted, I knew the truth was simpler because culture had already broken long before the capital moved.
Then my sister Emily Reeves called me from inside Ironcrest, telling me they were blaming her and that she had discovered irregular financial patterns that looked intentional rather than accidental.
She handed evidence to federal investigators, and the situation escalated from governance failure to potential fraud, while my brother reappeared as legal counsel threatening litigation on behalf of the very people causing the damage.