His business partners wanted those patents, and rather than buy them, they chose to take them.

They framed him, elaborately and ruthlessly, in a massive corporate fraud scheme, manufacturing evidence that made him look guilty of crimes they themselves had committed.”

“When Julian fought back,” Mr.

Vance continued, “the threats began, and the threats were not idle.

When it became clear these were men who would hurt anyone in their way, your mother took you, still unborn, and disappeared, to keep the two of you safe.

And Julian made a choice that I have never, in all my years, seen another man make.