Chapter 6 - The Secret Partner
The decrypted files painted a horrifying picture of absolute greed and betrayal.
The money had not stayed in the offshore account registered under my stolen identity.
It had been immediately routed to a private holding company owned entirely by a federal judge.
This corrupt judge was the exact same man assigned to preside over the Vales' upcoming bankruptcy case.
They were paying him off to completely wipe their debts clean and send me to prison.
I knew that standard law enforcement would never dare to touch a sitting federal judge.
We needed undeniable leverage that could destroy them all in the court of public opinion.
I used the server farm to hack directly into Caroline Vale's private cloud storage.
I bypassed her weak security questions and downloaded her entire personal photo gallery.
I found exactly what I was hoping for hidden in a folder labeled with a fake charity name.
There were dozens of scanned, handwritten ledgers detailing decades of political bribes.
Caroline had kept meticulous blackmail records on every corrupt official in the state.
I copied the massive files onto a secure, encrypted flash drive.
Suddenly, the massive warehouse plunged into complete darkness.
The heavy steel doors at the front of the building groaned open.
Flashlights pierced the darkness as heavily armed private security contractors stormed the server farm.
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A familiar voice echoed through the massive space, ordering the men to find us.
It was my former boss, and he was holding a silenced pistol.
