And Bruno Briggs. The muscle, built like a vault door, with one directive: stand the watch. If the Sterlings tried kinetic force, they’d meet a brick wall.

Within three days the cabin’s interior looked like the inside of a beautiful madman’s skull. We had a forensic blueprint of the Sterling empire.

The operation was breathtakingly predatory.

Sterling Valley Finance targeted the mill’s vulnerable workers with subprime, high-interest loans. When the mill’s unsafe machinery inevitably maimed someone, Sheriff Landry altered the emergency response logs and buried the violation.

Stripped of income and denied workers’ comp, the employee defaulted. The Sterling-owned real estate firm swooped in and seized the ancestral land through fraudulent foreclosure.

A perfectly insulated machine of human suffering.