The whole scheme was transparent once you stripped it down. These people had produced Sheldon Nash as their sacrificial offering, a man willing to shoulder every accusation, and there was only one reason they would do that. They wanted the Joint Investigation Task Force to declare the inquiry complete and leave the Lakeport Development Zone for good.
The frustrating part was that the strategy actually worked.
Whether you measured by rank or position within the hierarchy, Sheldon Nash checked every box for a prime offender. Factor in the number of officials from the Park already swept up in the investigation, and wrapping things up now would look like a genuine victory on paper, a clean close worth celebrating.
But Sheldon Nash was no ringleader. He was the fall guy, a prop shoved onto c
