Vivienne Bramhall was not prosecuted and was not barred from anything.

She stepped down on the eleventh of May, fifteen months after the piece ran, and the company’s press release said that she was stepping back to focus on her recovery, and thanked her for eleven years of extraordinary service.

Stepping back to focus on health.

She had said that phrase to me in an office in the November of the first year, as an example of the thing that happens to executives who disclose, and she had been exactly right about it, and it was the phrase used about her anyway, in a release approved by lawyers, at the end of a fraud committed to avoid it.

I have never been able to get past that and I do not think I am supposed to.