Harold Weiss's signature dried on the sworn statement at 4:17 p.m. on a Thursday, notarized in a small law office two blocks from his retirement community.
Marcus Reyes stood as witness alongside an attorney Maya had insisted on hiring separately from anyone Julian had ever recommended — someone with no connection to Vance Holdings and no connection to her own three-year campaign, whose only loyalty was to the paperwork itself.
Maya read the final document three times before she let herself believe it was real.
Six pages. Methodical and precise. Dates. Account numbers. The specific mechanism by which Harold had been instructed to alter Ellison Dynamics' books to manufacture the appearance of an embezzlement that had never occurred.
A direct line, drawn in a dying man's careful accounti
