And to avoid federal indictment for bank fraud and corporate forgery, Arthur was forced to surrender his remaining equity, resign as chairman, and sell his personal fortune to satisfy the creditors he had defrauded.

I want to be clear that I did not destroy Arthur Vance, though it may look that way.

I did not forge anything, or plant anything, or invent a single fact.

Every crime that brought him down was his own, committed years before I ever met his son, sitting in the company’s records waiting to be found.

All I did was find them, and hand the truth to the people whose job it was to act on it.

The law destroyed Arthur Vance.