PART 3 — The Woman With the Flash Drive

Vanguard had an independent committee capable of acting when an executive or his relatives were implicated.

By late afternoon, that committee had retained outside counsel and directed preservation of the relevant systems and access records.

The five-o’clock board meeting went ahead without me.

I was not entitled to walk into it because I owned eighteen percent of a lender.

Nor could Douglas obtain security footage by asking a friend at reception to email it.

The people responsible for the records had to authorize the review and keep track of what was supplied.