The woman's name was Renata Duarte and she had driven four hours to sit in a room she clearly did not want to be in.
"I want to say first that I don't have documents," she said. "I want that clear before anybody gets excited. I have a memory and a bank statement and a very good idea of what happened to me, and I've been told by three lawyers over eleven years that it isn't enough."
Marcus had the door closed and a legal pad he wasn't writing on. Priya Nandan sat at the end of the table because the DA's office had wanted a civilian attorney present and because Maya had asked.
"Tell it however you want," Marcus said.
"My husband supplied packaging to Vance Holdings. Eleven years. Good margins, no complaints." Renata's hands were folded. "In 2018 we had a dispute — they'd changed a specif
