All Chapters of The Hidden Billionaire : Chapter 151
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CHAPTER 151
“Nanny Louis, I know you said you wouldn't participate in our alliance plans, but I'm asking you to participate in this meeting.”“Your experience with Lord Xander's organization, your years of investigation, make you uniquely qualified to spot whether this woman shows any signs of connection to his network." He immediately said as he looked at Victor Langston West."Master West, you'll conduct the primary conversation, but I'll be present to ask follow-up questions and to help steer the discussion if I see it heading in dangerous directions.”“We'll establish some ground rules before she comes in: we share no information about our own plans or operations, we commit to nothing during this initial meeting, we verify everything she tells us before acting on it, and we maintain the option to terminate the conversation at any point if we become uncomfortable."Mr Freeman's voice became firmer."And most importantly, we all agree right now that no matter what she tells us, no matter how co
CHAPTER 152
The whole thing was happening so fast, Vera Hartwell's family, that is the family of Victor Langston West, had been running some shady deals for a very long time.After Vera Hartwell left Victor Langston West, she had remarried to a guy from a wealthy family called Albert Lucas.Nanny Louis and Mr Freeman immediately took a deep breath, they were not really sold on how Abigail Clark was portraying to be at the moment.Victor Langeston West immediately took a deep breath and asked, “So Abigail…”“Clark…Abigail Clark.” She immediately added.“Yes, so how exactly do you know Vera Hartwell and how do you intend to help me get my revenge on them?” Victor Langeston West immediately asked, his voice was laced with a mixture of curiosity and bewilderment.As much as he wanted to destroy the Vandel's family for everything that they have done against them, he still wanted to have his revenge on the Lord Hartwell family,this ex-wife's family, for making Vera Hartwell divorce him and ruin his lif
CHAPTER 153
Abigail Clark immediately stopped gazing at Nanny Louis and stared at Victor Langston West, who he still called Master West at the moment. “Master West…Mr Freeman, Nanny Louis…” “My paychecks came from the newspaper subsidiary. My office was in a building three blocks away from the main Hartwell headquarters.” “Everything about my employment was designed to create distance, plausible deniability, separation between what I actually did and what the Hartwell family could be held accountable for." Mr. Freeman's expression hardened. "And what exactly did you actually do, Ms. Clark?" Abigail's hands tightened around her messenger bag, her knuckles going white with the pressure. "I dug up dirt. That's the crude way to put it, but it's accurate. The Hartwell family, specifically Lord Hartwell and his son Marcus Hartwell, would give me targets, people they wanted leverage over, people they wanted to destroy, people they wanted to control.” “My job was to find their secrets, docume
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Abigail Clark immediately took a deep breath before continuing."I went back to my office, wrote up my resignation letter, planned to submit it the next morning and walk away from the whole sordid business. But that night, I couldn't sleep.”“I kept thinking about all the other targets I'd investigated over the years, all the people whose lives I'd helped destroy or compromise or manipulate. I thought about Emily Bradshaw, about the fact that if I quit, they would just assign her case to someone else, someone who might not have the same moral qualms I did." She immediately said, as she took a deep breath.She immediately opened her messenger bag, carefully pulling out a thick manila folder that had clearly been handled many times, its edges worn and its surface covered with coffee stains and handwritten notes. "So instead of just quitting, I spent the next two weeks copying everything I could get my hands on. Every file I'd ever created, every report I'd submitted, every piece of evi
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Abigail Clark immediately took a sip of her cold juice."You keep talking about this information, these files, this evidence," Mr. Freeman interjected."But you haven't actually told us what's in them. You've given us vague descriptions of crimes and wrongdoing, but nothing specific, nothing we can actually evaluate. If you want us to take you seriously, Ms. Clark, you need to be more concrete. What exactly do you have?"This was the moment of truth, the point where Abigail Clark would either prove herself legitimate or reveal herself as something else entirely. Victor found himself holding his breath, waiting for her response.Abigail nodded slowly, clearly having anticipated this demand. "You're right. You need specifics. You need to know exactly what I'm bringing to the table before you can decide whether to trust me or work with me or even continue this conversation." She reached into her messenger bag again, this time pulling out a small notebook, worn and filled with handwritten
CHAPTER 156
At this moment, the weight of what Abigail was describing was crushing. These weren't just business crimes or even violent crimes. These were acts of calculated evil, decisions made by people who valued profit over human life, who saw murder as just another business expense, who operated with complete impunity because their wealth and influence placed them beyond accountability. Victor Langeston West immediately found himself thinking about Vera, about the woman he'd once loved and thought he'd known. Had she known about any of this? Had she been aware that her family, her father and brother, were capable of such atrocities? Or had she been kept in the dark, sheltered from the family business the way many wealthy families sheltered their women from the brutal realities of how their fortunes were made and maintained? Abigail Clark kept talking, her voice steady despite the horrific nature of what she was describing. "Fourth item, the judge bribery scandal from 2022. Judge Patri
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Victor Langeston West's hands clenched into fists on the table. Each revelation was stoking the fire of his anger, transforming his personal grievance against the Hartwells into something much larger, much more righteous. This wasn't just about revenge for a failed marriage anymore. This was about justice for hundreds of victims, accountability for years of unchecked criminality. "Eighth item," Abigail Clark immediately continued, her voice taking on a mechanical quality as if distancing herself from the horror of what she was describing was the only way to get through it all. "The medical insurance fraud from the past years. The Hartwells invested in a network of medical clinics that primarily served low-income patients covered by Medicaid. These clinics systematically billed for procedures that were never performed, medications that were never prescribed, tests that were never conducted. They also performed unnecessary procedures on patients just to generate billable services
CHAPTER 158
“I'm really doing well, Nanny Louis I'm just shocked at what my in-laws are actually doing.” Victor Langeston West immediately said."Fifteenth item," Abigail Clark immediately pressed on relentlessly, "the construction bid-rigging operation from the previous years to present.”“The Hartwells own Hartwell Construction, one of the largest construction companies in the state. For years, they've been coordinating with other construction companies to rig bids on public construction projects. They take turns submitting the lowest bids, with the other companies submitting artificially high bids to make the designated winner look competitive.""Collusion on government contracts," Nanny Louis said. "That's defrauding taxpayers.""Exactly. The rigged bids cost taxpayers an estimated one hundred million dollars over six years, money that went into the pockets of the Hartwells and their co-conspirators instead of being saved or used for additional public projects.”“I have records of the coordin
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At this point, Victor Langston West was already getting angry at the whole, but he immediately noticed something, as he stared at the face of Abigail Clark, he immediately noticed that Abigail Clark had more information about his in-laws and their heinous activities.“Nanny Louis, Master West, Mr Freeman…” Abigail Clark immediately called out.“I have records of payments totaling over three million dollars to various university officials over five years, documentation of the fraudulent applications, even emails discussing which family members needed to be admitted and what it would cost.""Twenty-second item, the real estate appraisal fraud. When the Hartwells want to buy properties, they coordinate with appraisers to undervalue them, then purchase them at artificially low prices. When they want to refinance properties they own, they coordinate with appraisers to overvalue them, allowing them to extract more equity than the properties are actually worth.""That's bank fraud," Mr. Free
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Mr Freeman was completely shocked at the moment.Nanny Louis immediately agreed with Victor Langston West, “This is really big, I had thought that I actually knew the Hartwell's family but I had been believing a big lie all these years.” Nanny Louis immediately slowly muttered to herself.“Master West, I actually forgot to mention this one, the affordable housing fraud. When Hartwell Development builds residential projects, they often receive subsidies or tax incentives by promising to include affordable housing units.”“They take the subsidies, then find ways to minimize the actual affordable housing, using loopholes to reduce the number of units, making the application process so difficult that eligible tenants can't access them, or placing the affordable units in the least desirable parts of developments.""So they get public money meant to address housing affordability while doing everything they can to avoid actually providing affordable housing," Victor summarized."Exactly. I h