“Don't they have privacy laws in your backwards state?” teased Adams.
Stevens ignored the insult. “Hannah is the goose that lays the golden eggs for Miss Virginia at the club. But Miss Virginia has a thing for subservience. She and Coombs informed the taxing authorities, taking advantage of the reward for fraud disclosure. They succeeded in keeping Hannah in a state of dependency upon them. They actually intended that Hannah fall upon hard times so they could continue to take advantage of her dancing talents. If that's not engineered dependency, than I never saw it.”
“It does sound like exploitation to me,” said Walker.
“We call it 'playing some shitty dirty pool' up here, man,” offered Adams.
“My chief just also me that the man on tape at the disembarkation pier also visited the
