Chapter 4 - THE BOARDROOM MASSACRE
Monday morning arrived with lethal precision. Daniel walked into his tech startup, desperate to project authority and stop the bleeding. Instead, he found my father’s corporate auditors dismantling his entire operation. As a shadow investor, I had let Daniel play CEO, but the capital was strictly Ashford money. When Daniel tried to order the auditors out, Martin Hale walked into the glass-walled conference room and dropped a forensic accounting report on the table. It detailed every dollar Daniel had secretly siphoned to pay his sister Melissa’s debts and fund Elaine’s country club lifestyle. He wasn't just bankrupt; he was facing felony embezzlement charges.
