The Signal in the Dark
She filled the screen above it instead, bald and unbeatable, and the vote was decided in the first ten seconds, before Simone ever opened the binder.
Then Simone Whitlock walked in with a leather binder, and for twenty minutes laid out the audit trail — the leaked medical records, the coercion, the illegal contacts with short-selling hedge funds to drive the stock down.
The board’s counsel rose, grim.
“Dissemination of confidential executive medical records, and market manipulation, carry severe criminal liability.”
Chapter 24 — The Signal in the Dark
Every eye turned to Obadiah.