There was no disclosure.

His own brother’s company had taken eighty-six thousand dollars from his employer, and nowhere in the file was the relationship declared.

That alone would have ended him.

But there was something worse, and I found it at two in the morning with a cold, clear feeling in my chest: two of the payments to Redpoint had been routed through project budgets that Damon personally controlled.

He hadn’t just failed to disclose the conflict.