But it was true, and believing it was the difference between walking out of that year as a victim and walking out of it as myself.

Chapter 23 — What I Didn’t Do

Here is the thing I want to be clearest about, because it’s the choice I’m proudest of and the one that would have been easiest to make differently.

When Whitby Capital fell, I had opportunities.

A person with my knowledge and my access, in those chaotic weeks, could have done what people in my position have always done — quietly moved the clean assets out a side door before the receivers arrived, spun the legitimate holdings into some private trust, walked away rich while the shell burned for the cameras.

I knew how.