Chapter 5

On the big screen, my pre-recorded video started playing.

I said, "Hi, everyone, sorry to show up like this. Richard Lane secretly mortgaged the company's shares and siphoned off a ton of company money to buy Melissa a fancy apartment, a car, and all kinds of luxury stuff.

"Now the company is flat broke, so there's no money left for your year-end bonuses."

The crowd erupted in an uproar.

Plenty of folks were counting on those bonuses to get through the holidays.

The execs who'd been buttering Richard up just a minute ago now swarmed him, their faces full of…