I look at all the documents in front of me. I just transferred to the Public Attorney’s Office months ago and this is my second workplace after I stayed at a company I had last time after graduation. I realized working in a public office has a different sense. Poor people need my help and more people have really experienced injustice by the system. I flipped through it. But as I read, the pieces started falling into place—transactions involving ghost NGOs, government funds that vanished into shell corporations, signatures that didn’t match, and people who had lost everything because the system bled them dry. And at the center of it all: Senator Mauro Vicente Ramirez. I grew up hearing his name—on posters, on television, during election seasons. He was untouchable and now... sitting i

