The courtroom feels smaller than I remember from Calloway's trial, though the weight of what's happening today carries just as much significance.
Seven families sit together in the gallery, the surviving relatives of Vantage's original pilot program, finally gathered for formal sentencing against the remaining architects Reyes's investigation eventually traced back to the system's true beginning. Two men I've never met stand before the judge, former Vantage executives who designed the scoring criteria decades before Voss ever inherited and expanded their original blueprint.
"Given clear evidence of deliberate, premeditated targeting of vulnerable families for financial exploitation, resulting in documented harm including wrongful death," the judge states, voice carrying formal weight acr
