Then he went back to his chair against the wall. He did not sit down. He stood because some moments require you to stay on your feet. What you now have, Victoria said, is a complete independently verified financial record. A's Innovations operating history for the past four years.
Certified by Harmon Forensic Group, whose credentials are on the cover page. This record was produced from the company's raw system data, cross-referenced against original transaction records, and verified with no access to the document Mr. Voss just distributed. She paused. When you compare the two documents, you will find that they describe two completely different realities.
And I want to be very clear about what that means. She picked up her own copy of Voss's document and set it next to the counter record. This document, Mr. Voss's document, was constructed by Nathan Cross, Hayes, Innovations director of strategic finance using a fabricated parallel data set built on top of legitimate reporting infrastructure. Mr.
Cross has been constructing this shadow record for 8 months. He delivered it to Mr. Voss on Tuesday of this week. She let that land. Then the delivery was logged.
The access was timestamped. The communication between Mr. Cross and Mr. Voss's organization over the past 8 months is documented in the appendex of the forensic report. Starting on page 31, every person in that room turned to page 31.
Every person except Richard Voss, who sat very still and looked at Victoria Hayes with the expression of a man who has just discovered that the game he thought he was winning was a different game entirely. Mr. Voss, Victoria said quietly. I would like to know for the record whether you were aware that the financial review your office commissioned was built on fabricated data. Silence.
Voss's lawyer leaned toward him and said something in a voice too low to hear. Voss held up one hand, stopping the lawyer and looked at Victoria. "This is a dramatic presentation," he said, "but the credibility of an outside firm hired by the CEO herself. " Harmon Forensic Group was engaged by outside legal counsel with no prior relationship with this company, James Whitfield said from the far side of the room, and several board members looked startled to see him there. Because James had the gift of being present and invisible simultaneously until he chose not to be. The engagement is documented on page two.
The methodology is on pages 3 through 7. They had access to raw system data that your documents creator never accessed. A pause because he didn't need to. He was building a fiction. We were documenting the truth.
The board member nearest to Voss, a man named Howard Pressman, who had always been Voss's closest ally on the board, turned to page three and began reading with the focused attention of a man recalculating everything. It took 12 minutes. 12 minutes of the board reading in near silence while Svas sat at the end of the table with his composed expression becoming something more careful and contained while his lawyers exchanged looks while Victoria stood at the head of the table and let the truth do its work without embellishment. At the end of 12 minutes, Eleanor Marsh looked up from the report. She looked at Victoria.