The people whose meals, treatments, or housing depended on those charities still needed help.

I would not have Hannah’s recovery celebrated by pretending everyone connected to the Vance name deserved to suffer.

A few of the firm’s employees contacted authorities.

Others said nothing publicly and retained their own counsel.

I did not know who was protecting themselves, who had relevant information, and who had simply discovered that their employer was under investigation.

I left those distinctions to the people examining the evidence.

After weeks of interviews and record collection, warrants were issued in the assault case.