I did not forget them.

I made it my personal mission, through the court-supervised sale, to ring-fence those jobs: we purged the executive suite, overhauled the internal audit controls, and folded the technology into Rhodes Capital’s fintech division.

A year later, I visited the newly renovated engineering floor, and a young lead developer, a woman who had nearly resigned in despair during the federal investigation, stopped me near the conference room.

“Mrs.