Meaning Adrien may have been recruited, Victoria said. Or at minimum operating with knowledge that there were players above him who wanted the technology specifically and were prepared to move it into a structure that goes significantly beyond what we've prosecuted. He sat down. He thought about 14 months of documentation, about the forensic architecture his team had built, about Sandra Park's 20 years in financial crimes, and the specific expression she'd had when she said the case was more complete than anything she'd received in a decade. He had thought he had the full picture.
He had the picture Adrienne had allowed him to have. Send everything to Sandra Park, he said. Today, don't filter it. Don't summarize it. Send the raw communication already done.
Victoria said she called me an hour ago. She's briefing the task force this afternoon. Is Adrien in physical custody? Federal detention. Has been since the arrest.
Then we wait. Damian said there's something else. Victoria said. He waited. His attorney in the communication with my legal team mentioned your name specifically.
Her voice had the quality of someone delivering information they find personally distasteful. He suggested that Adrien has documentation related to the Northbridge acquisition process. That could be the word his attorney used was problematic. Damen was absolutely still. What kind of documentation?
He said he didn't specify. It was a gesture, an opening move. She paused. It may be nothing. It may be the analyst in the broker network.
The one your team found. Adrienne may have been tracking that connection as potential leverage or Damian said or Adrienne found something else. Victoria said something in the 14 months that we don't know about yet. He sat with that 14 months of work conducted through four broker networks, three law firms, 11 analysts and two forensic accounting firms. Confidentiality agreements on every one of them.
Electronic security protocols his tech team had spent six weeks designing specifically to prevent the kind of monitoring Adrien had used on previous targets. He had been careful. He had been thorough. But so had Adrien et Sandra handle it, he said. If there's something there, she'll find it before we do.