It was none of those.

It was strategy, and it was closure.

A criminal trial would have dragged on for years, would have kept me chained to them through depositions and hearings and appeals, would have made my company’s name a headline attached to a family scandal instead of a medical breakthrough.

The signed confession did everything a conviction would have done and nothing it would have cost me.

It made the forgery a matter of permanent record.

It made any future claim against Vireo impossible.