A lawyer across the table asked, “Isn’t it convenient to blame an executive who no longer works for you?”

“It would be,” Vincent answered.

“That’s why I’m not asking anyone to take my word for anything.

The documents should determine what happened.”

Warren’s counsel disputed the interpretation of several emails and said the maintenance decisions involved multiple departments.

The investigators noted those objections.

The inquiry continued, and Vincent found the lack of immediate resolution strangely fitting.

There would be no single dramatic speech that made nine years of decisions disappear.