Dale Raines made his first real move on a Thursday night.
He sent the story to a journalist. Not a blogger, not a gossip site. A journalist at a serious financial publication who had covered Carter Group before and had a readership that included every board member and institutional investor the company had.
The story was constructed carefully. It painted me as a calculated pursuer who had targeted Kade Carter systematically over years, using his brother as a way in, leveraging my position at the firm once the buyout happened. It framed the Killian situation not as a mistake but as a strategy. It used Clover's edited recording, which Dale had apparently obtained somehow, as its central exhibit.
The journalist called Carter Group's PR team for comment at five on Thursday afternoon. Kade's
