Outside counsel had to confirm any incapacity-based transition.
Thomas joked:
“You’re building a fortress.”
“No.”
I said.
“I’m building doors with locks.”
There is a difference.
Paige eventually left Vanguard.
The company did not announce accusations.
We issued a short internal statement that she was no longer employed and
that leadership responsibilities had been reassigned.
Employees did not need gossip.
Clients did not need my medical details.
Privacy became another form of control I reclaimed.
The criminal case developed over months.
Laboratory evidence, medical records, digital communications, financial
documents and witness statements were examined together.
Gregory’s recorded hospital comments became one part of a larger
evidentiary picture.
The thermos became another.
The management documents another.
The messages another.
No single object carried the entire case.
That mattered to me.
I had spent my career designing buildings.
Structures fail when too much weight rests on one unsupported point.
