# THOMPSON-HAYES: THE INSIDE OUT
## Chapter Seventeen — The Contingency
Vance came to the apartment on Friday morning.
She came alone, which she did not always do, and she had the folder she brought when the information was specific rather than exploratory. She sat at the kitchen table across from Mia and Nathan and opened it.
"Ethan Reed's statement corroborates three documents," she said. "I want to walk you through what those documents say and what the corroboration means for the federal case."
"Go ahead," Mia said.
"Fourteen months before the equity ruling was issued," Vance said, "the Meridian Foundation's internal planning files show a document titled: Contingency Response — TH Operations." She set a printed page on the table. "TH for Thompson-Hayes. The document was created by
