Vachon told me what the old files told him.
The plant had been under federal investigation for manufacturing tainted medications with contaminated ingredients and falsifying its safety records.
My mother had worked in accounting there.
And she had, quietly, copied the internal ledgers, the chemical manifests, the fraudulent transfers — she had gathered the evidence of what they were doing.
Braddock had been fired right after she raised the alarm to management.
But the case had collapsed — paperwork gone missing — and the company had dissolved, and everyone had scattered.