And then a lawyer in Delaware, working through a list of the chief executive’s travel from expense records obtained in a books-and-records action, subpoenaed the hotel.

Part Thirteen: The Reporter

Nora Halberstam called my mobile at ten past seven on a Tuesday evening in the January, fourteen months after Cleveland, while I was making pasta.

She was extremely good and I did not realize how good until afterward.

She did not ambush me.

She said her name, said the publication, said that she was working on a piece about governance at Bramhall Industrial, and said that she was recording, and asked whether that was all right.

I said I could not comment and that she would need to go through corporate communications.