The audit uncovered another unsettling detail.

The disputed factory transfer had not been entered into the official shareholder ledger.

Instead, Eastgate had relied on a separate certificate that purported to grant voting rights after a future default event.

It bore Thomas’s apparent signature and a second signature in a witness box.

The second name belonged to a former Whitcomb Capital employee, Adrian Moss, who had left shortly after Vivian.

Adrian’s employment file indicated he had been working in Singapore during the week the certificate was supposedly signed in Greensboro.