And I was, in a forty-two-page submission to the federal government, a personal circumstance about which accurate statements had been made.

Part Thirty-One: The Agreement

Dupont Enterprise Group was not debarred.

I want to say that clearly and early because it is the outcome, and because for about two months I experienced it as a defeat, and because I no longer do.

What happened instead is the ordinary thing, and it took seven months of negotiation between lawyers and a suspension and debarment official named Priscilla Trant, and it produced a document called an administrative agreement, which runs to twenty-six pages and is public.

Under it: