I asked for what was legally mine, and I asked that the assets recovered from the fraud be used first to repay the people Gavin had actually harmed: the employees who’d been lied to, the small creditors, the ordinary investors who’d believed him.

Mason eventually turned on Gavin completely, handing prosecutors the internal records that proved Gavin had personally ordered the manipulation, in exchange for a lighter sentence.

It bought Mason a little mercy and destroyed whatever defense Gavin had left.

Gavin was convicted of financial fraud, criminal coercion, and felony domestic assault.

He went to a federal prison, and he was permanently barred from ever serving as an officer of any public company again.

Mason went to prison too, for embezzlement and fraudulent reporting.