Dennis’s lawyers continued to contest his personal involvement.

He said he had trusted subordinates.

The independent reviewers, however, found repeated instances in which he had been warned about the absence of adequate documentation and had authorized exceptions anyway.

I didn’t attend every hearing or read every filing.

The spectacle had once seemed like the natural conclusion to my six years of evidence gathering.

Now I knew the scandal was only one part of my life.

The company restructured its leadership.