“Vardan’s firm was already under SEC investigation — a Ponzi scheme, a big one, collapsing under him.

When he reached into Niko’s server looking for money to bail himself out, he handed the prosecutors the key to the whole thing.

He didn’t just get caught stealing from you.

He got caught stealing from everyone, all at once.” As the car pulled off the tarmac he gave me a secure tablet, and I scrolled.

“Your father,” Ivo said, with grim quiet, “has spent the morning calling every politician whose campaign he ever wrote a check to.

None of them are picking up.