Mr.

Marcus assumed sole interim direction of the company this morning.”

That told me how fast Marcus was moving, and it told me I had to move faster.

I called Mark’s corporate attorney, who arrived forty-five minutes later with a copy of the partnership agreement in hand, and made it clear that Marcus had no legal authority to unilaterally block a controlling partner’s spouse from corporate records under these circumstances.

And with that legal backing, we pulled the server logs directly, and they told the whole story in cold, timestamped data.