# THOMPSON-HAYES: BLOOD MONEY
## Chapter Thirty-One — Victor Sloane's Arrest
She was in period four when the notification hit Patricia's phone.
She found out forty minutes later, in the parking lot, when she checked her messages between the end of the school day and a board call she had scheduled for four. Patricia had sent a single text at 2:14 p.m.:
*Sloane arrested. Conspiracy and fraud charges. Apex Learning Group placed under federal receivership. Call me when you're out of class.*
She stood in the February parking lot and read it twice.
Then she called Patricia.
"He agreed to cooperate," Patricia said. "The voluntarily produced communication logs — his attorneys framed it as proactive cooperation with the federal investigation. He was still arrested because cooperation doesn't
