Page 124 of The Rules Of Attraction
They were all his accounts!
“Holy shit!” I ran my hand through my hair and pressed my lips together. “That’s more like it.” Marc rolled his eyes.
“Marc this is twenty off-shore accounts.”
“And there’s more, I couldn’t get access and a few of my sources couldn’t either.” Marc could hack into anything, and for him to mention sources suggested that Devon had some serious firewalls set up to keep all this stuff hidden.
“Marc. Jesus, what the hell?”
“I found fifty personal accounts. I was only able to get around the firewalls because they were written in an old code I remembered back in college, and I couldn’t get into the account itself.Thatsuggests he’s paying for extra protection to remain off grid. Alex no one can justify having that many accounts. It’s obvious that he’s doing something illegal. I suggest money laundering and embezzlement. You’ve seen the figures.”
I sank back down into my chair. “Fuck, this could all come out in court.”
“No, this is high tech shit the feds would have to pay a high level hacker buckets for. This stuff is completely off,offgrid. However, if they suspect him enough for something they’ll do it. I know they will.”
I thought of what would happen if I took this to my father. He would most probably be so furious he’d fire me. He’d ask me what relevance this was to the case and be pissed at me for digging around.
I would never take on a client that had this many off shore accounts and I doubted that my dad knew about this.
“I don’t know what to do.”
“Alex, this is enough for you to refuse to do the case. It’s enough for Sullivan’s as a company to refuse working with Devon and report his ass to the feds.”
“My father would kill me if I did that.”
“But I found it, he can’t blame you.” Marc narrowed his eyes.
“He won’t care. He’ll think I put you up to it. None of this is relevant to the case.”
“Well I’ll find something relevant.” He insisted.
“Marc, I’m not sure.” I couldn’t believe I just said that.
“I’m going to pretend I didn’t hear that because your mind is taken up with the damn senior partnership.”
“It is. Marc,” fuck, of course it was. I wouldn’t have been on this damn case if my career wasn’t involved. “I’m hoping that when we go to court we don’t get subpoenaed to provide company records.” I worked out that it had to be that, that Devon wanted to keep hidden. Although I was certain the man would have started to take measures to hide things.
It crossed my mind yesterday after the meeting.
“Jude would have to bring specific allegations for that to be requested, do you think he suspects anything shady happened?”
I nodded. “Yeah, he does.” I remembered what he said yesterday and I knew the man was no fool. Jude was a good attorney and looked at all angles of the box, the inside and out before he was happy.
“I’m thinking of the future here. Let’s say you win this case, and you probably will with the evidence you have so far. Those people who invested in those other companies could bring a class action against Devon. This is where he would definitely have to provide records and no one could hide everything. There’s always a trace of something. Always. We get caught up in that and we’re screwed. Just like that.”
This had gone several levels beyond me.
I never imagined that I’d stumble across anything that could put Sullivan’s at risk. That wasn’t in the cards.
But like Marc said, this was stuff that couldn’t get found out unless the feds were looking.
So what should I do?
Take the risk that it would all be okay for the moment, get the senior partnership and then remove all dealings of Sullivan’s with Devon and his company?
Could I do that?
What if it didn’t work that way? I had no idea what would happen when we went to court. Jude could be cooking up anything.
